Jack Hammer

"I tried to write a story about honesty in Washington, but my typewriter jammed. Must’ve sensed the lie before I did. Around here, truth’s an endangered species—spotted once a decade, stuffed, mounted, and trotted out for campaign season."

Yours Truly,
Jack Hammer.

Black and white noir image of Jack Hammer with daughter Jackie Angel and wife Angela at a table with birthday cake

Blood Loyalty and Paradise: Earned

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The Cost of Paradise The new memories are already in my head, side by side with the memories of the blood and loyalty I’d given to Uncle Frank. The

Noir.Black and white of a gloved finger about to press a yellow, lighted door buzzer

Blood Loyalty and Paradise: Lost

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Part 1: Blood and Loyalty Vengeance is a cold, hard stone in your gut. Love, grief, paradise, loss… they’re all just fuel for the furnace. The

Black and white, pulp-noir style image of a happy family birthday scene. Private investigator Jack Hammer sits at a square table in a country kitchen, with a beautiful woman on his left and an 8-year-old girl on his right, who is blowing out the candles on her birthday cake.

Jack Hammer-A Rip in Time Part 2: December’s Birthday

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Noir Detective Jack Hammer begins living the shocking revelations he learned about himself in A Rip in Time Part 1. If you’d like to read that book first,

Noir Detective Jack Hammer finds the First Lady in a foggy Ljubljana, Slovenia

The Case of the Missing First Lady: W-HAM-ER TV

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The Case of the Missing First Lady Ace reporter Jack Hammer is on the case of a missing First Lady. Was she deported? Did she finally file for divorce? Get

Black and white double exposure of Jack Hammer's distressed face reflected in a broken, analog clock.

A Rip in Time: by Jack Hammer

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The complete “A Rip in Time” saga. In Part 1, P.I. Jack Hammer’s world fractures. A glitch in the system and a message from the mysterious

Noir black and white of Jack Hammer standing by the headstone of Jackie Angel Bennett

An Inheritance of Grief: A Debt Paid in Ash

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After December’s Debt, I thought the ledger was closed. I was wrong. The smoke had barely cleared from December’s Debt when a new ghost and an

The Broadcast

Jack Hammer’s Pulp Noir Audiobooks: W-HAM-ER

The Library

NewzHammer Publishing: Jack Hammer’s Memoir Noir Collection

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

The Case of the Missing First Lady

An Evening at the Local Playhouse

The Saga

Full Jack Hammer Saga: The Architecture of Awareness

Hammer Op-Eds

THE MAXWELL PARDON: A Web of Political Power