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J.B. Helm has written and published over a thousand
non-fiction articles in newspapers and magazines over his career. The
Valentine Protocol is his first novel, and the first in a series. Signal
To Kill is the second in the Frankie Valentine Series.
His new YouTube page @J.B.HelmNoirStoryteller will be
debuting soon, with more stories.
THE VALENTINE PROTOCOL
In
1977 Delaware, Frankie Valentine is just a talented eighteen-year-old
trying to help trainer Trish Eckstrom turn her racing stable around. But
beneath the helmet, he’s the son of a murdered mobster, running from a
bloody vendetta that began in Montreal and ended in Chicago.
When
his natural gift for racing lands his photo in the trade papers, his cover
is blown. The quiet life he built begins to crumble. Caught between a
rival trainer rigging races and a pair of vindictive and vicious hitmen
closing in, he realizes the racetrack is no longer a sanctuary.
Frankie
knows the odds are against him. To save Trish and himself, he can’t just
drive for the win. He has to stop running and fight back before the
starting gate opens on his final race.
SIGNAL TO KILL
Philadelphia,
1978. The city is cold, the streets are damp, and a nineteen-year-old
student is about to learn that some signals are deadly.
When
Frankie Valentine witnesses a brutal abduction in a rain-soaked alleyway,
he finds more than just a missing girl's silver compact. He finds a symbol
-- a precise geometric mark that shouldn't exist in the grit of the
Philadelphia underworld. To the police, it's just graffiti. To Frankie and
his friend Stu, it's a lead that points straight to the heart of the
university's elite engineering halls. A secret society is using a
terrifying new technology to "purify" the world, one mind at a
time.
As
Frankie dives deeper into the search for Maya Renner, he finds himself
caught between two shadows: a daughter seeking revenge and a global
conspiracy that has marked him for "removal". With the help of a
sharp-eyed archivist and his partner, Stu Singer, Frankie must navigate a
maze of high-tech surveillance and low-life violence. But in a game where
the villains can rewrite your own thoughts, the most dangerous thing you
can be is the only person who sees the truth.
In
the city of brotherly love, the signal is clear: Find the girl. Survive
the system. Don't stop for the noise.
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