Part Shaft and part Batman sans the costume, Luke Warfield is an expert in various fighting arts and scientific disciplines and maintains a venture capitalist outfit, Essex Ltd. Like a digital age Jay Gatsby, rumors abound as to how he made his wealth — what is known is that if there’s trouble, Luke Warfield will engulf himself in the heat of action.
In 10 Seconds to Death, his first outing in a planned series of novellas, the Essex Man goes on the trail of the villain who killed his foster father and uncovers not only ghosts from his past, but must stop a deadly plan of mass slaughter in his own backyard.