Dive into High-Stakes Thrillers Crafted by Veteran Author Gerard Shirar

Books by Gerard Shirar

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When Rules Don't Apply
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The China Paradox is a timely, relevant, and must-read thriller by Gerard Shirar.
Maira Victoria Beltran
Maira Victoria BeltranReader's Favorit July 2022
This novel needs to be on the New York TImes bestsellers list. When Rules Don't Apply by Gerard Shirar, is one of the best thrillers I have read in a long time.

When the Rules Don’t Apply

In this gripping legal thriller, boyhood friends are drawn together again as adults when the reckless behavior of one of them finds him accused of murder, and he asks the other to defend him.  A principled lawyer must navigate a complex moral web of loyalty, justice, and truth. 

When The Rules Don’t Apply is a winner of the 2024 International Impact Book Award for Crime Fiction, the 2019 Feather Quill Book Award for Adult Fiction category, and the 2019 Mystery & Mayhem Finalist CIBA Not-So Cozy Mysteries Finalist.

Gerard Shirar brings authenticity to this narrative with his background as a lawyer who practiced in the Boston area for many years. 

" After Donny violates the army’s rules, he receives a dishonorable discharge and afterwards begins to work for Percy Dwyer, a notorious Boston crime boss - think Whitey Bulger. When Donny’s poor choices ultimately lead him to be charged with murder, he turns to his boyhood friend, Timmy, to defend him. Timmy is Initially reluctant to take on a murder case, but is cajoled into it by Donny. When evidence is discovered proving Donny’s guilt beyond a doubt, Timmy finds himself trapped between his obligation to a boyhood friendship, the morality of defending a murder and his oath to represent a client with fidelity. But what no one knows is that the case is about to take a surprising turn that will change everything."

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The China Paradox

The China Paradox is a fast-paced geopolitical espionage thriller about a freelance newsman and expatriate, Walter J. Lummis, who uncovers a plot to destroy the US’s democracy from within, eliminate its’ influence in world affairs, and alter the world order by creating a single nation ruled by China.

This unsettling yet plausible piece of fiction is authored by a man who served as an officer in Army Intelligence with South Pacific experience.

The story is fiction. Only time will tell what the United States and the worlds future will be.

" Walter J. Lummis is a freelance newsman, an American expatriate, who has spent his life covering the news in Asia. Now in his later years he has develop information about a plot involving China and North Korea, with Russia and Iran cooperating. A plot to destroy the US’s democracy from within, eliminate its’ influence in world affairs, and alter the world order by creating a single nation, comprised of all the nations of the world ruled by China. His’ journey takes him to a number of Far East countries as he seeks out sources with knowledge of the plot, all the while being pursued by agents of North Korea’s Ministry of State Security, MSS, who are out to kill him, before he can get the story on the front page of a leading US newspaper and earn a Pulitzer prize. Will Lummis reach his objective of publishing the story or will the MSS kill him before he reaches his goal? The fate of Lummis, the United States, and the world order hang in the balance."

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Susan Shirar, the daughter of Gerard Shirar would be happy to meet with book clubs or other interested parties to talk about the writers books.