


Books in series

#1
Superbia
2012
The Most Dangerous Police Book Ever Written...
After Frank O'Ryan gets shot, his first assignment is working with the most disliked man in his police department, Detective Vic Ajax. Ajax isn't like the other cops. He doesn't like them and they don't like him. He hunts drug dealers and pedophiles.
Now, Frank will enter a world where being real police means laying so much of your soul on the line, you might not make it out. But as Vic explains, if it keeps a little girl from having to testify about what some monster did to her, it's worth it.
Together, they'll resort to any means necessary to take down the scumbags, even if it means employing the interrogative services of a man in a six-foot bunny costume called The Truth Rabbit.
Readers the world over have called Superbia's author the 21st Century Ed McBain novel and the successor to Joseph Wambaugh. Both a best-selling author and career police officer, Bernard Schaffer's experience in patrol, narcotics, and investigations has filled the pages with a degree of accuracy and bold, raw, truth that cannot be found in any other work of literature. Often compared to The Wire, the Superbia books have been called the "Most subversive" account of law enforcement since Serpico.

#2
Superbia 2
2012
Police Officer Frank O'Ryan's life hasn't gotten any easier since becoming his department's only Not-Even-Promoted Detective. His mentor Vic is dead and gone, and yet still insists on harassing Frank to settle the score with their nemesis, the sadistic Chief Erinnyes.
The clock is ticking until Frank's final showdown, but first there are drug dealers to pursue, a beautiful new CI with grabby hands to avoid, and a violent murderer to apprehend.
Superbia 2 picks up where the first best-selling entry in the series left off and continues the groundbreaking series about what it's like to wear the badge. Not the fancy places you always hear about like New York and LA. The down and dirty suburbs where there's no back up and only the suck-ups survive.

#3
Superbia 3
2013
Everything Comes to an End.
In the third and penultimate volume of what has been called "The Most Dangerous Police Book Ever Written," the epic journey of Detective Frank O'Ryan comes to a heart-stopping conclusion. Frank has made a career out of fighting the corruption that plagues police work, but now the rules have changed and it will be all he can do to survive his last few days on The Job.
Over one hundred thousand readers around the world have declared Bernard Schaffer the successor to Joseph Wambaugh, Ed McBain, and Michael Connelly, but the Superbia series stands alone. It is the funniest, rawest, most penetrating look at what life is really like for the cops who put their souls on the line just to get the job done.

#5
Snake Wine
2015
They've come for Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels before. Serial killers, maniacs, rapists, all have come to her front door looking for revenge. It didn't turn out well for any of them. Now, in the middle of a high-profile trial against one of Chicago's top drug lords, it's happened again. Except this time, Jack isn't the target.
Someone, or something, has taken her partner, Herb Benedict, and the fate that awaits him is worse than anything they've ever faced before. Now, Jack must team with former Detective Frank O'Ryan, in a white knuckle race to the finish that will leave readers looking over their shoulders in terror.
SNAKE WINE is a full length (55k+ novel) written by Bernard Schaffer and edited by J.A. Konrath. The two previously collaborated on CHEESE WRESTLING, a work so twisted, readers refuse to reveal what "cheese wrestling" is to anyone who hasn't read it. Fusing the worlds of Konrath's bestselling Lt. Jack Daniels Thrillers and Schaffer's acclaimed Superbia series, SNAKE WINE is bottled literary venom.

#5
Down to Zero
2014
Vic is back!
In the first Superbia, readers clung to the doomed, yet captivating, persona of Vic Ajax. His loss would set the ground rules for the entire series. Justice comes at a cost, one that gets paid by the people who serve it best.
Now, Vic has returned to delight and terrify those willing to walk down the back alleys of Superbia with her finest Not-Even-Promoted Detective, the one who set the stage for all that would come.
In Down to Zero, a bank robbery has gone horribly wrong, and Vic will stop at nothing to settle up with the powers that be. Plus, the mysterious Jonas Antenor makes his first appearance on the scene as Vic's mentor, and possible nemesis.
This specially-priced novella is approximately half the size of a full length novel, and a third of the price.