Gary Reilly

• Jun-2012
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Introducing Denverite Brendan Murphyor Murph as he s known to the rest of the world. He lives alone in his crow s nest apartment, fries a hamburger for every meal, does his dish, then channel surfs for reruns of Gilligans Island. He is a radical mini...

• Dec-2012
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In Ticket to Hollywood, the second of 11 comic novels based on cab driver Brendan Murphy, a.k.a "Murph," a young woman on the way to a showing of The Great Gatsby leaves her purse behind in Murph's Rocky Mountain Taxi Cab #127--and then goes mi...

• May-2013
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Denver cabbie, Brendan Murphy--known to all as Murph--has two goals in life. First, to earn no more than it takes to keep his bohemian lifestyle afloat. Second, to never, under any circumstances, get involved in the lives of his passengers.

In...

• Nov-2013
• / Mystery
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In Doctor Lovebeads, the fifth in novelist Gary Reilly's Asphalt Warrior series, Murph must go undercover to accomplish his mission. He lets his hair go untamed, dresses in muslin and sandals and arrives on the scene in a beat-up VW van called the Co...

• Nov-2013
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Taxi driver, Brendan Murphy, abandons his cab and the mean streets of Denver for his hometown, his dear ol' Maw, and an Irish Catholic clan the size of County Cork. It's Christmastime in Wichita.
The fourth book in the Asphalt Warrior series has ...

• May-2014
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This book is the first of a trilogy of stories about military life by the late Gary Reilly, based on his experiences in Vietnam. Private Palmer is stationed at San Francisco's army base at The Presidio, awaiting orders. He's trying to find his place ...

• Oct-2014
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The utopian world carefully created by Denver cab driver Brendan Murphy is about to be shattered. In fact, it's about to be the worst day of his cab driving career. There's the Land That Forward Motion Forgot. There's a guy Murph comes to think of as...

• Jun-2015
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On a rainy night in Denver, cab driver Murph picks up a shady character at Union Station. His name is Zelner and he's worried that the police might be following him. When Murph reaches his passenger's destination, Zelner is dead. Now it's not just th...

• Feb-2016
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The Detachment is the second novel in a trilogy about military life by the late Gary Reilly, based on his own experiences as an MP in Vietnam. In The Detachment, Private Palmer flies to Vietnam where is assigned to Qui Nhon. The scenery changes fr...

• Sep-2016
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In Devil's Night, Denver cab driver, Brendan Murphy, a.k.a. "Murph," drops off four costumed teens at a Halloween-themed haunted house party. Later, worried about whether the kids made it home safely, he is pulled into the vortex of an eerie con g...

• May-2017
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The Discharge is the third novel in a trilogy about military life and its aftermath by the late writer Gary Reilly. The novels are based on Reilly's service as an MP in Vietnam and his experiences before and after the war. Private Palmer, Reilly's...

• Apr-2018
• / Mystery
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All he wanted to do that day was drive into town to look for a job. But when Pete Larkey turns the ignition key, his car won't start. He decides to walk to town. He'll have a morning beer at the Lemon Tree Lounge and buy a new battery for his car. He...

• Jun-2019
• / General Fiction
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Carl Draco is the dead-calm center of a maelstrom of violence.

The Legend of Carl Draco tells the story of a quietly fearless young man whose existence is consumed in ruthlessly dispatching nameless enemies who dog his every move. He doesn't...

• Jun-2020
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In Varmint Rumble, the final installment of The Asphalt Warrior series, we pick up with cabbie Brendan Murphy--better known as Murph--right where he usually leaves off: minding his own business and heading home to his crow's nest in anticipation of b...

• Jul-2021
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Meet Jeremy Bannister. His is a humble, simply told coming-of-age tale that spans the terribly serious and comically trivial decades of the Vietnam and disco eras, respectively. The singular ambition of Jeremy's life is to become a big-shot novelist....

• Sep-2022
• / Literary
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Charley Quinn teaches creative writing at a free university in Denver. His specialty is plotting. He doesn't care for lyricism or poetry in the prose cranked out by his students, much to their chagrin. Charley has rules about writing and he has rules...