The Concrete River

First Jack Liffey lost his job. Then he lost his wife and daughter. All he has left is his unerring ability to track down missing children. But when a Mexican woman--with only a few words of English--convinces Liffey to search for her daughter in the sun-baked urban nightmare of Los Angeles, he's plunged into a violent world of corrupt developers and local politicos, where nothing is what it seems. Jack Liffey is about to take a journey down The Concrete River.

Her name is Lori Bright. You might remember seeing her in A Week in Palm Springs , lounging enticingly in the bathtub while an aging and flustered Cary Grant tries to find her a suitably revealing towel. Jack Liffey remembers, and even now he can't help but fall for her just a little. The problem is that she's paying him good money to locate her missing daughter--a case that's about to get Jack stuck between the seedy violence of the old City of Angels and the new gleaming bloodlust of today's L.A.... (1999)

The Poison Sky

Jack Liffey goes after a naïve high schooler drawn into the world of L.A.'s cults, but then the real doom merchants unleash a terror that could kill half the city.

THE ORANGE CURTAIN

Jack is drawn deep into Orange County's Vietnamese community where a beautiful young woman has disappeared. The exotic realities and the complex alliances of Little Saigon draw Jack Liffey into danger--but the danger is soon magnified when he faces a trouble young man who believes he has an exotic toadstone in his head and has a chilling fear that everyone is about to laugh at him.

Streets on Fire

A search for a missing boy carries Jack Liffey out of his element into the African-American community of South L.A. just as a new rebellion is about to erupt. His teen-age daughter is forced to come to his rescue.