Murder, foreign intrigue, action, humor, mystery, romance -- you will find it all in two good books by Robert Perrin

Keeping in Practice is "jam-packed with fast-paced action and exotic adventure, quickly grabbing your attention," according to the Lansing State Journal. Kevin Mackenzie is a disillusioned former CIA operative now peacefully teaching at a Midwest university. But when the CIA summons him to Washington, it reopens bad memories and apprehension.
The mission request is simple: Go to Nogana in Africa and tell your former student, who now leads an uprising against a military junta, that the CIA will support him with covert arms. Then come home. Mackenzie at first refuses, knowing that these ill-planned ventures usually self-destruct, leaving debris and bodies all over the place. Then he remembers his Noganian student, Ibrahim Mbola, and their long talks about liberty and democracy.
Reluctantly agreeing to go, Mackenzie's predictions begin to come true when someone tries to kill him during a London stopover. And when his cover is blown in Nogana,

he is plunged into a tangled web of guerrilla war, betrayal, and ominous signs that others besides the U.S. are also interested in Nogana's fate. Mackenzie's attraction to the exotically beautiful Fiona Lasaday is another complication: isn't she committed to Mbola? Then there is the mysterious Terrel Lyme, who pops up in unexpected places; President-General Oko and his vicious security chief, Col. Matabi; Lumba, the cheerful young taxi driver; Dennis Kaladi, the suspicious guerrilla fighter; and the smug U.S. diplomat, Geoffrey Lord Wingspread.
When Mackenzie sets off an international incident as he and Mbola blow up a Russian-financed oil refinery, the U.S. president angrily orders the CIA to bring him home. He refuses and vows to finish the job. Captured with Mbola and Fiona, he leads a daring prison escape and joins the guerrillas in storming the presidential palace. Does everything turn out like the CIA script said? Not exactly, but that's how it goes when you're only Keeping in Practice.

ISBN #: 0-7388-6849-3 Softcover 358 pages $19.54

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Piggy's Luck and More Tales of Evildoing, published in 1998, was praised by the Lansing State Journal as "an entertaining collection of memorable short stories ... (Perrin) offers a solid, satisfying collection that has a tendency to grow on the reader." The Dragonwings Book store in Wisconsin said: "Cops, robbers, gangsters, revenge, murder and missing persons all reported with style and sly humor. A little Damon Runyon, a little Elmore Leonard, a little Donald Westlake and a lot of originality from author Robert Perrin in these short, perfect mysteries."
The 12 stories begin with the title yarn in which Piggy, the diminutive pool shark, finds a lot of pictures of Benjamin Franklin but is knocked off before he can spend them. An erstwhile drinking buddy takes over the loot, but finds himself in the cross-hairs of both the mob and a crooked cop.

     Several stories feature the feisty Mary-Ellen Rafferty, detective sergeant for the Valleyport, NY, police, who hates to be called an "affirmative action" cop.
   Or take a trip to the Baja Peninsula where Walter Murdoch thinks the bad guys might forget his whistle-blowing (he was wrong), or to Bonaire, where Webster and Joyce Bolton's snorkeling vacation is rudely interrupted. And Marie Trainor has seen many thunderstorms from her Lake Michigan marina, but this one was a killer. Pity Brian Kinsella, a three-time loser (he wrote three bad checks), who is sent to the island prison for incorrigibles, from which no one is supposed to return. For Damon Forsythe getting shot in 'Nam was the luck of the draw, but why was he shot at in his own driveway?
   These and other stories make Piggy's Luck and More Tales of Evildoing an entertaining read.

ISBN #: 0-9668151-0-6 Softcover 244 pages

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Author Robert Perrin turned to fiction writing after careers as a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist; 11 years as chief aide to a U.S. senator; deputy director of the federal anti-poverty program; vice president of Michigan State University; vice-chancellor of the State University of New York system; executive vice president of TIAA-CREF, the world's largest private pension system, and a U.S. State Department consultant. He is a native of Ann Arbor, MI, and a Navy veteran of World War II. He now lives in East Lansing, MI.

Murder, foreign intrigue, action, humor, mystery, romance:

find it all in two good books by Robert Perrin