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In Lead Like Ike, business journalist and communications guru Geoff Loftus explores 10 essential business strategies leaders can glean from Ike's role as a commander overseeing the Normandy invasion. Weaving a fly on-the-wall narrative from Ike's perspective, Loftus sweeps listeners into a gripping story that honors the sacrifice of all who fought and died on D-Day and explores the prevailing significance of fundamental leadership principles often forgotten by managers, like listen to your people, set your vision, be consistent about your message, and let your managers manage.

Fifteen kidnapped girls have been enslaved as prostitutes, trapped in a whore house on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. One rainy night, Jack Tyrrell, former Green Beret and Deputy U.S. Marshal, goes to the rescue and finds himself confronting neo-Nazis plotting mass murder. Now Tyrell's fighting his way through illegal drug labs, corrupt cops, and bank robberies in a race to stop a terrorist disaster. The swift action moves throughout New York and its suburbs, as Tyrrell continues to examine his calling as a “righter of wrongs,” giving this latest Tyrrell thriller its spiritual ...

Summertime, and the living is easy.… Unfortunately, when a psychopathic killer and his devilish companion are vacationing on Block Island, dying can be surprisingly easy. Not to mention grisly. Jack Tyrrell, Special Forces veteran and former Deputy U.S. Marshal, brings his fiancée, Kim Gannon, to the island for all the usual ingredients of a summer vacation. Surf. Sand. Sun. Lobster. New England clam chowder. But on Tyrrell and Kim's very first night on island, a young couple are found brutally murdered. And the killings have many of the hallmarks of the Dark Saint, a serial killer who ...

“Angst is not the human condition, it's the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can't get,” Miguel Syjuco wrote. Jack Tyrrell, former Green Beret and Deputy U.S. Marshal, righter of wrongs, has grown tired of the fights, chases, and gun battles. He wants to lead a nice, safe existence as a white-collar security consultant. But his latest client is stealing millions and has an army of international mercenaries as accomplices. While Tyrrell confronts his deadly adversaries, he's also stuck in the emotional wasteland of wanting what he can't have: The love of his life, Kim ...

Someone once said, “Bad artists copy; great artists steal.” The combination of art and theft might have inspired a different form of criminal activity: Money laundering through art galleries. Jack Tyrrell, former Green Beret and Deputy Marshal, is about to depart for a winter weekend with his fiancée when he crosses paths with the general manager of an art gallery―fleeing for her life from two men with murderous intentions. Before Tyrrell can get a cappuccino, he's plunged into the world of art, money laundering, sex trafficking, and weapons dealing. The story twists and turns from ...

Jack Tyrrell, former Green Beret and U.S. Marshal, jumps in to rescue a damsel in distress. The distress: a large, drunk lawyer who doesn’t like it when women reject him. The damsel? None other than Tyrrell’s first love, twenty-four years after they parted. The early love becomes Tyrrell’s latest client, and the two of them uncover a violent international money laundering scheme while they explore their renewed feelings for each other. Unfortunately for Tyrrell, another person from his past appears to haunt him: Daryl Hawkins. The man who could be Tyrrell's evil twin. Former military,...

ENGAGED TO KILL starts: "If my best friend hadn't killed his mistress, I wouldn't have had a chance with his fiancee. Funny how things turn out." The story is a Hitchcockian thriller about the deadly competition between two men. Set in New York City; it's filled with sex, money, lies, violence, and murder. All the things that make life worth living. GEOFF LOFTUS is the author of the thrillers DOUBLE BLIND and THE DARK SAINT. He also wrote "LEAD LIKE IKE: Ten Business Strategies from the CEO of D-Day" and is a regular contributor on FORBES.com.

Jack Tyrrell, former Green Beret and U.S. Marshal, is in the fight of his life against a group of spies for hire―former Green Berets, Navy SEALS, CIA, Mossad, and MI6. The toughest of the tough who will stop at nothing to pull off an attack on European Union offices in Paris and undermine international financial markets. Tyrrell and Harry Mitchum, Tyrrell's guardian angel, will do whatever they can to stop the rogue spies from sabotaging, kidnapping, and killing all the way from Brooklyn to San Francisco to Washington and to Paris. International action, millions of dollars, and Tyrrell's ...

Just weeks before Christmas, Marissa Carvajal wakes up naked and soaked in blood, a billionaire's corpse next to her in bed. She has no memory of the night before, no memory of his murder. And she’s agonizing over the horrible possibility that she killed the man. Jack Tyrrell, former Green Beret and U.S. Marshal, and Harry Mitchum, Tyrrell's guardian angel, will do whatever they can to save her, racing against the NYPD, a private security force the size of a small army, and a group of lethal, Chinese spies ― all of whom want to catch Marissa and send her to prison. Or worse. A gorgeous,...

Jack Tyrrell was a burn out. A former Green Beret and U.S. Marshal, he’s become a drunken loser who, once upon a time, accepted a bribe and was shot by the people who bribed him. Tyrrell survived the shooting. His wife, Maggie, did not. Five years after her death, Maggie appears to him as a ghost and offers him a chance to make things right. She introduces Tyrrell to Harry, who may literally be heaven-sent. Tyrrell, with Harry working as his case manager, sets out to help a veteran who’s suffering from PTSD and has assassinated a pair of Wall Street CEOs. Action, murdered Wall Street ...

On a beautiful Saturday afternoon in May, a professional assassin targets a newlywed couple as they emerge from church. It's a perfect shooting solution, but Jack Tyrrell, former Green Beret and U.S. Marshal, happens to stroll by just as the shooter prepares to fire. Tyrrell saves the bride and groom, but the assassin escapes to resume his serial killings of newlyweds. Why would a professional hitman target couples as they exit their wedding ceremonies? And why, six years earlier, was his first-known target Tyrrell's wife Maggie? Was she part of the serial murders? Tyrrell, with the help of...

Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. But what Jack Tyrrell, former Green Beret and Deputy U.S. Marshal, discovers is that unhappy families can be dangerous in their own ways. Violence, greed, gambling, sex, and broken romances combine in a lethal mix as Tyrrell tries to save three different families from their own demons. And stop a serial killer. The non-stop action flows through Manhattan north to the scenic Hudson Valley. All the while, Tyrrell contemplates his future as a “righter of wrongs,” giving this latest Tyrrell ...

Double Blind: Two beautiful women. Two deadly secrets. A New Yorker goes on blind dates with two women and finds himself lost in a maze of Mafia thugs, Federal agents, violence, sex, betrayal, and murder. Just what you'd expect on a couple of blind dates. GEOFF LOFTUS is the author of the thrillers ENGAGED TO KILL and THE DARK SAINT (both from Saugatuck Books). He also wrote "LEAD LIKE IKE: Ten Business Strategies from the CEO of D-Day" and is a regular contributor on FORBES.com.

THE DARK SAINT . . . No Mercy. No Absolution. A legendary serial killer terrorizes Block Island, killing Catholics. His opponent: the recovering alcoholic police chief of the tiny New England community. A deadly villain, a desperate hero, a lovely woman, a beautiful beach location, and grotesque murders make this the perfect summer read. Geoff Loftus is also the author of the thrillers DOUBLE BLIND and ENGAGED TO KILL, as well as the non-fiction business/history book: LEAD LIKE IKE: TEN BUSINESS STRATEGIES FROM THE CEO OF D-DAY. He is a regular contributor on Forbes.com.