4 fast-paced crime thrillers packed with serial killers, Italian crime families, shady cult leaders, chaos, mayhem, and lots of laughs. What did you expect from Dexter and John?

With over 700 pages of action adventure and crime thrills, these individual books have sold thousands of copies and have garnered many positive reviews.

MEET DEXTER O'KANE.

Antique collector turned hitman living in small town Missouri. Dexter O'Kane is full of contradictions and inner demons. A man who wants to do right for justice but often gets in his own way. Add in his sidekick and best friend, John Wood, and well, you have two unlikely crime fighters with chaos and laughs around every corner.

HIRED GUN #1

The debut rip-roaring, high-octane, and Missouri-sized crime series from Ryan J. Pelton, featuring newbie assassins Dexter O'Kane and John Wood.

Six months earlier, Dexter O'Kane buries his wife and child after a tragic car accident. While he mourns the loss of his family and hangs onto the threads of a failing antique collecting business. Dexter and his best friend John Wood witness a murder in their hometown of LeClaire, Missouri.

The local police of LeClaire aren't able to stop the serial killer as bodies pile up. In a chance encounter with a mysterious woman, Dexter and John are offered a business opportunity, which requires taking matters into their own hands.

Amidst losing his reason for living, Dexter must discover a new normal. He must find a part of himself laying dormant. Will Dexter be able to walk the line of love, loss, and suffering, while stopping a killer... or die trying?

STRANGER DANGER #2

The boys are in for another wild adventure when Dexter's father gets out of prison. When an Italian crime family comes looking for a gambling debt owed from years earlier. Things get interesting.

Dexter's father is a stranger after being locked up for thirty years. But Dexter can't imagine an evil crime family destroying the potential of a happy family reunion.

Things get heated when a string of murders pop up in the small town of LeClaire, Missouri. Murders that don't appear related to Dexter's dad, and the debts he owes.

COLOR BLIND #3

Dexter and John investigate a racially motivated group called American Renaissance that threatens to rip apart their Missouri town.

While Dexter O'Kane, an antique dealer and owner of Antique Adventures, is looking for a website designer, he encounters Nelson Darby who needs the work.

John Wood, Dexter's partner in crime, has reservations about Nelson, and the baggage he brings to the shop. When the boys find out about Nelson's family and the evil that lurks beneath the easy-go-lucky facade of this college student.

Well, let's say, in Dexter and John fashion... chaos ensues.

FIRST BLOOD #4

Dexter O'Kane never fit the small town culture of LeClaire Missouri. Believed he was made for something more. Finding the "more" a different story.

In a search for meaning and purpose outside the confines of small town living. Dexter finds himself forced to choose between family and dreams. The only person standing in the way is himself.

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