Best Selling Books by Brian Shaw

Joining a fraternity seems to be a right of passage for many young men and women entering into college. But in recent years the act of hazing has cost many young people their lives. Matt and Zach two best friends and roommates decide that they are going to pledge a fraternity. They already considered themselves brothers so to walk through this experience together they thought would be fun. It is not long into the process that these two young men realize that there is no price on brotherhood and that sometimes the best way to build a bond is to hold on tight to the people you already trust and consider to be family. In a performance that plays out like an episode a great courtroom drama we see the experience through the eyes of the boys that lived it. As one testifies the other watches as his friend, his brother, tells the world of the day that he took a stand against a room full of bullies and risked his life to save the one person who always had his back, always made him laugh and never left him alone to fail. That is the true definition of friendship and family. In A Haze presents the challenges of college life and the dangers of hazing while addressing the very real determination that young people have to belong, be accepted and participate in something that makes them relevant and important. By the time Zach leaves the witness stand he can hold his head hi, he told the truth and his best friend Matt, though only there in spirit would be very proud of him.

Jack Disparo is still hunting after The Ghost, the Crimson Cartel''s lead hitman. After obtaining a laptop belonging to one of the cartel''s men, Jack and his crew find out that their main hideout is a place called The Ranch. The team attacks the Ranch with brute force and The Ghost manages to slip through their fingers once again. Jack also receives some disturbing news about the local police and the city''s mayor. How will Disparo and his friends manage to survive the onslaught?

Death and fortune hunting in the jungles of New Guinea.There is gold hidden somewhere in the jungle, gold which aircraft salvage expert, Dave Stark, is determined to find. But others are equally determined and they are willing to resort to sabotage and murder to get to it first.Surrounded by the harsh beauty of the jungles and jagged peaks of New Guinea, Stark must survive plane crashes, aerial dog-fights, cannibalistic tribes and fierce gun battles as he follows an obscure trail of clues from the past in a deadly race to find the lost wartime treasure. Finding the gold is oneproblem-keeping it is another...

Jack Disparo is a distraught man on a warpath...The Crimson cartel has killed his family in cold blood and now it is time for revenge. His plan is to cripple the cartel financially and make them pay for what they have done. With the help of his friends (and former colleagues), all skilled in combat tactics, Jack plans the Spanish Job - a dangerous but cunning operation to outsmart the enemy.Join him in this action-packed first installment of the Jack Disparo series.

Ethan is a high-spirited teenage boy who is painting in a room when Riley, an angry teenage girl enters and watches him work. She talks to him about what he¿s doing and he tells her it is a painting of home. She tells him she doesn¿t have a home and it is revealed that they are both foster children in a foster home. The scene progresses and Ethan gives her the chance to paint her ¿home¿ on his painting but she refuses. So with a swirl of his paintbrush they are whisked away into the ¿jungle¿ where they meet a family of monkeys and we get to see these two teenagers be kids again. Eventually they find themselves in front of a door. It is the front door of Ethan¿s childhood home. He enters and we see his mother who is smoking a cigarette and taking pills. This is a moment in time that shows the kind of life he had before he made his way to the foster care system. Riley tries to comfort him but before they find their way home they transition onto a stage that both of them decide would be a great place to sing and dance right into the next door, Riley¿s childhood home. They enter and we see her as a child playing with her dolls until her father enters and takes her hand leading her into another room for their time. They both transition back to the home and Riley is angry that he took them there. She doesn¿t understand what he¿s doing. He explains to her that she has to get past what brought her into the foster care system in order to ever find a home again. Eventually Riley crushes his painting out of anger. Finally they go back to their childhood homes again so we see how those moments in their lives ended, then back to the foster home. A new canvas is presented and Riley begins to paint her home.

Paisley Jane Johnson might as well be dead. At least that''s how it felt to Paisley. She was a pretty young woman that graduated from college with a degree in art and education.And now, she sat on the bed in the strange room that was now hers in what the cops called a ''safe house''. They said she''d be protected here, hidden away from the bad guys who really wanted her dead.But she didn''t feel safe. She felt lost...

Jack Disparo finds out who murdered his family: a hitman only known as El Fantasma, The Ghost.The only way to find the Ghost is to go through the cartel''s boss, Marlowe Crimson, but Jack doesn''t know where he is. He calls in the expertise of his trusted friends to not only find Marlowe, but also destroy the man''s corrupt business enterprise for good.Another Disparo roller-coaster ride which will have you glued to your seat until the very last page.

Gunrunning, intrigue, tribal cults and lost gold amid the erupting volcanic islands of New Guinea.Dave Stark is salvaging a crashed jetliner while Fang Mitchell is gunrunning in a revamped warplane. They are recruited by two suspicious Japanese to search for their lost father''s remains... or a fortune in stolen gold dust. In a race to find the gold, they trek through the jungled river gorges and primitive tribes of the Finisterre Ranges, following an elusive trail of ancient clues.There is only one man who can help, Ted, a tormented old soldier haunted by horrific nightmares of Japanese atrocities, fanatical cults and erupting volcanoes. The minute Ted steps onto the trail he embarks on a tortuous journey of self-discovery. Their quest climaxes violently amid volcanic eruptions on an exotic island controlled by a demonic chief and his fire-worshipping cult. Planes, helicopters and boats clash in a final deadly pursuit across the Bismarck Sea.