This is a new, more extended version of DAMAGE. What if something you'd always yearned for came to fruition. St. Louis Police Detective Al Culver risks it all to find a criminal. Damage was originally written after many of my readers asked questions about Reece Culver's father Al. This new short piece of fiction takes us right up to the beginning of my debut novel VENGEANCE. It is Perma free on Amazon.

Murder - Disappearance - Forensics - FBI - A Possible Link to the Past. Are you ready for a heart-pounding race against the clock? On a cold January morning Reece Culver gets a visit from a woman asking for help in solving the mystery of her mother's disappearance. Intrigued by her story he agrees to help and soon travels to the mid-west to search for clues. Not long after, it becomes obvious that someone doesn't want him snooping where he doesn't belong. One night while visiting his client's childhood home he's jumped, beaten, and left for dead. Several days later he sits chained to a table in the interrogation room of a St. Louis Police station charged with a murder he didn't commit. Then he realizes that the case he's investigating, and an unsolved murder from his past are linked. Reece dodges attempts on his life as he strives to catch a killer before the FBI offers immunity in exchange for testimony against a notorious mob boss. As Reece Culver closes in the stakes rise and the danger increases at nerve shattering intensity. Can he catch the perpetrator before the FBI offers up immunity? Is it true that his father's death is linked? Find out as Reece Culver fights a murder charge and attempts to pull all the pieces together in "Vengeance". Learn more about the author and Vengeance on. http://www.bryankoepke.com

Reece Culver and his friend Haisley travel to Scotland with only one thing on their minds - fishing. After witnessing an automobile accident involving a journalist they quickly realize that something far greater than reckless driving caused the man to crash into the frigid waters of the North Atlantic. After learning that the victim was on his way to the home of Karl and Marie Rhodes, Reece and Haisley visit Marie looking for answers, and find a woman who is in the middle of her own crises as she watches her 20-year marriage crumble. Haisley goes to London at the request of Karl and uses his computer skills to find out who hacked into the man's office computer at Draecon International. As he combs through the chief of strategy’s logs he stumbles upon what looks like funds being embezzled out of Draecon, and an even bigger plot that threatens the national security of the United Kingdom. Reece spends greater amounts of time with Marie Rhodes trying to learn what she knows, and soon finds that he can’t resist the temptation of falling in love with the woman of his dreams. But as things heat up he questions her true motives. When Karl Rhodes’ executive secretary is found dead Reece agrees to protect Marie’s soon to be ex-husband. In a tricky game of cat and mouse Reece travels the globe as he tries to keep Marie, her husband, and Karl’s mistress Candice out of harms way. There's only one problem - someone wants them dead.