Straight From the Author's Mouth

Frank Pavlicek
Created by Andy Straka

How did I fall into this gig anyway?  All I ever wanted to do was write the world's greatest PI novels and have some gigantic publisher discover me and pay me gazillions of dollars like Robert Parker to live happily ever after.  

Was I a putz or what?

Anyway, A Witness Above, my first novel featuring Charlottesville, Virginia-based P.I. and falconer FRANK PAVLICEK, is soon to be released by Signet as an original mass market paperback (pub date May 8, 2001).

Falcons and privates eyes.  Some kind of original idea, huh?  'Cept these birds are real....and they bite.

EDITOR'S NOTE:

Actually, Andy's selling himself short, here. Frank's an intriguing character, and his debut, A Witness Above, was certainly worth checking out. Frank's a former cop, but he left the NYPD under, as the blurb says, "less than ideal" circumstances. And he's got a teenage daughter, Nicole, the product of a failed marriage, that he's trying to raise on his own. Not always the easiest thing to do. And it doesn't help when she's facing a murder charge. And then there's Armistead. How many private eyes have a bird of prey as a pet? I've always been sort of intrigued by falconry, ever since I was a kid and saw My Side of the Mountain, so I'm looking forward to seeing where Andy takes this series.

UNDER OATH

• "Good writing, an interesting plot, and the unusual aspect of falconry... Straka should be proud."
  (Robert J. Randisi)

NOVELS

• A Witness Above (2001)...Buy this book
• A Killing Sky (2002)..Buy this book
• Cold Quarry (2003)..Buy this book

SHORT STORIES

• "Call It Dead Time" (2001, And the Dying Is Easy)