About the Book
Downsized With Extreme Prejudice
By David Hanrahan
Genre: Adult Crime/ Suspense
Bradford Baxton III, is the CEO of Amalgamated Worldwide Enterprises. His ruthless acquisition policies earned him the title, "King of Downsizing."
His corrupt corporate empire begins to crumble when his Chief Financial Officer is brutally murdered. What follows is a deadly downsizing campaign at Amalgamated Worldwide Enterprises, leaving its top officers wondering who is next on the killer’s list.
Bill Coine, a retired Massachusetts State Police Detective Lieutenant, is lured out of retirement to investigate and soon solves the case. Or does he? What follows is an exciting and suspenseful story with clever twists and turns, and a surprise ending.
About the Author
David G. Hanrahan was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1936. His Irish work ethic began early. When he was fourteen, Hanrahan started his first business venture selling freshly baked soft pretzels in front of the Graham Avenue and Grand Street movie theaters. By the time he finished college, he had wrapped shirts in a laundry, sold a new German beer entry into the New York market, was a mailman for the Christmas rush in the old Brooklyn Postal Zone 11 and did a stint as an elevator operator in the United States Steel Building on Wall Street. Hanrahan is a graduate of the prestigious Brooklyn Technical High school. During his high school years, Hanrahan was managing editor of his high school newspaper, a soloist with the glee club, and sang in the tenor section of the New York All-City Chorus with four performances in Carnegie Hall.
He graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn with a Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design in 1958. He received the Organization of the Army medal and was designated a Distinguished Military Graduate. While in the Army, Hanrahan graduated from the Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia and the Jungle Warfare School in Fort Sherman, Panama Canal Zone. In 1962, while stationed in the Panama Canal Zone, he was honored by the people of a small Panamanian town for helping them achieve their dream of a new school. The inauguration of the "Lieutenant David G. Hanrahan School.- Amistad -Panama -Estados Unidos" was attended by the President of Panama, the American Ambassador to Panama and the senior army staff. After 5 years in the United States Army, attaining the rank of Captain, he attended Boston University Law School where he received his Juris Doctor Degree in 1966. He served on the Boston University Law Review where he was elected to the position of Note Editor.
Married with two young children while attending law school full time, Hanrahan worked as a reporter for the Quincy Patriot Ledger. He spent one year as an attorney for the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C. before returning to Boston to begin his career as a Boston trial lawyer. Hanrahan, a distinguished trial attorney, is a member of the Boston and Massachusetts Bar Associations and is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Music has always been an important part of Hanrahan's life. He is a member of the Barbershop Harmony Society and for the last 15 years has sung lead in a barbershop quartet “Spindrift." Now, writing suspenseful and riveting court room novels occupies an important part of his life.
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Interview With the Author
How did you come to choose your genre? Why does it appeal to you?
Actually, the genre chose me. I was always enthusiastic about historic fiction. The first book report I wrote as a freshman in Brooklyn Technical High School was for Lewis Wallace’s, “Ben Hur.” That was in 1950. I still have that book; a players’ edition published in conjunction with the opening of the theater production on Broadway. I recall being told over the years that if we were going to write a novel it was best to write about what we know. Not willing to devote an enormous amount of time on pure research, the world I knew as a young man growing up in a Brooklyn working class neighborhood, an officer in a combat branch of the United States Army and later a busy Boston trial lawyer fit the mystery/courtroom genre quite nicely. Besides, I liked the writings of Lehane, Patterson and Grisham. They were entertaining and I was attracted to the challenge of creating characters who were steeped in mystery, keeping the suspense alive as long as possible and finally, giving the reader an exciting courtroom experience.
What do you find most challenging about the writing process, and how do you deal with it?
You should know that my undergraduate field was Industrial Design. I was an artist, creating attractive but useful products. The engineering required may have been complex, but the actual rendering, the artwork itself, was on a two dimensional surface. It was visible in one glance; all of it was there to see. In a three hundred to 400 page novel, all you get to see in one glance is the cover. The problem is obvious. How do you know your character is performing the same on the last 50 pages as he/she did in the first few chapters? The book takes time, so you can’t rely solely on memory. You must re-read constantly to manage your characters and plot line. I like sub plots, so it exacerbates the problem. I discipline myself to take nothing for granted and to check and recheck what has been going on with my story as it progresses. You must have consistency.
When and where do you do your writing?
I write everywhere I can. Busses, trains, planes and in my car as my wife does the driving. I did a lot of writing on my sailboat off the coast of Maine. There was very little boating activity during weekdays in the mouth of the Sheepscot River. I would set my auto pilot for a southeasterly course in gentle winds and a calm sea, trim the sails, sit comfortably in my cockpit and write. Of course, I did have to look up frequently to make sure there was no traffic in my way. A bright blue sky, a gentle rolling sea and a 10 knot breeze was conducive to creating something. In my case, it was at least one chapter.
What have you learned about promoting your books?
I learned that it is not easy. The competition is incredible and there is an army of would be authors out there. Cognizant that I could not do it alone, I enlisted the services of Spotlight Publicity. I am expecting good things from Wendie and Todd. But I realize I must be more proactive myself.
What are you most proud of as a writer?
It is not a question of pride so much as it is an appreciation for having at least some ability to create an entertaining cast of characters and involve them in mysterious, frequently dangerous activities with the all-important surprise ending.
If you could have dinner with any writer, living or dead, who would it be and what would you talk about?
Leon Uris! A literary genius. His list of historic novels is daunting. However, to be able to write Exodus, chronicling the epic struggle of the Jews as they transformed a desert into the jewel that is Israel and then expose the very soul of the Irish and their “troubles” in Trinity is uncanny. To understand this man’s creative genius, I would need several dinners and perhaps even room with him for some time! How did he relate to his parents, how was his childhood, how did a Jewish man create Conor Larkin and the cast of characters in Trinity. Last but not least, did he wear green on St. Patrick’s Day.
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