The Hunters, Inc., A NYC Private Detective Agency Award-winning Poet, Private Detective Reveals ...
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March 2, 2010 (MMD Newswire) In his new controversial, tell-all memoir, Man in the Shadows: Diary of a Private Eye (published by Author/House), award winning author Thomas A. Phelan finally reveals his true, death defying experiences traveling to various countries throughout the world as a security consultant, along with his sometimes dangerous dealings as a private investigator in New York. A former New York City police officer, Phelan is no stranger to danger. In fact, he has been shot at, stabbed, bitten, dragged by a stolen car and crushed by another. Little did he know that his gig as aprivate detective would turn out to be as life-threatening, protecting men like Jimmy Hoffa, the Rolling Stones, and even the security advisor to the US delegate to the Mid East. His name has definitely appeared on many hit lists in this life time.
Man in the Shadows shares Phelan's incredible stories of saving a delegate from three Arabs who were believed to have assassinated the CIA Chief of Station in Athens, Greece, how his plane from Madrid, Spain was sabotaged at 39,000 feet and how unknown assailants tried to blow up his car back in the Big Apple. Follow bodyguard Phelan and milliomaire Howard Saft into secret meetings with Wilbur Mills Chairman of the Weighs and Means Committee, as well as other well-known people when Phelan is assigned to protect three cases containing more than $2 million in cash. Only Phelan can document these true stories and relive the fierce action that he has encountered (and narrowly escaped with his life) in his thrilling new memoir, Man in the Shadows. Born and raised in New York City, Thomas A. Phelan eventually served in the US Marine Corps during World War ll and the Korean War. Later, after he studied Modern Criminal Investigation and forensic techniques, he joined the New York City Police Department in 1955, where he made more than 1200 arrests. In 1960, he left the NYCPD and opened his own detective agency, The Hunters, Inc. In addition, Phelan has been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies throughout the world. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry and has won seven Golden Poet Awards and three Poet of the Year award from the International Library of Poetry. He has also been listed in Who's, Who in Writers, Editors and Poets and featured in the New York Times "ON Books Column". In addtion to Man in the Shadows, Phelan has also published Cornucopia of Life, Love, Myth and Dreams, Modern Haiku, American Haiku and a Point Beyond Silence, a collection of award-winning poems that has received the prestigious Authors Award from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is presently editing his new books Jukaido, Cusp of Aquarius and Indian Lore. Phelan has won the New York Poetry Foundation Award, Poetry Press Award, and First Place in the Teaneck Foundation for Bergen Countywide Poetry Contest. He has read his poetry at WORTV Channel 9, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Festivals, Poets in Schools Program for the Lodi Board of Education, Bergen Poets Readings, Kenneth R. Balter Foundation Poetry Series and at the University of Illinois. Currently semi-retired, Phelan has four married children, six grandchildren, and two great-granddaughters. In major book stores.
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