Michael Nicholas Series

If you haven't met Michael and Alex Nicholas you are in for an adventure. After Alex is murdered his brother Michael is determined to find the killer – with his brother's help. From the streets of New York City to the avenues of Paris and the sunny beaches of the South of France, the hunt goes on.   "E. J. Simon is a master of nerve-wracking turns." - Kirkus Reviews   Death Never Sleeps: Michael and Alex Nicholas are brothers, but as different as night and day. Michael is CEO of a Fortune 500 company, living a comfortable life in suburban Connecticut. Alex, his older brother, heads up one of the leading loan shark and betting syndicates on the east coast. They don't have a lot in common except a blood line, but that changes when Alex is gunned down at a restaurant in Queens. At Alex's funeral, surrounded by family, friends and colleagues, Michael receives a startling text. The text is from his dead brother Alex. Michael is now forced to question where his brother really is. And if Alex isn't dead, who's lying in the coffin? Death Never Sleeps is an action-packed story of murder, betrayal and love.   Death Logs In: Some of the most powerful people in the world want to kill Michael Nicholas, and only his brother Alex can save him. The problem is Alex is dead.   It's been a year since crime boss Alex Nicholas was murdered while dining on his home turf of Queens, NY. His straight-arrow brother Michael inherits Alex's illegal loan sharking and betting business. Unfortunately for Michael, he also inherits Alex's enemies – and there are many.   As Michael learns to navigate a world he once shunned and feared, he's both helped and hindered by his friends, his wife Samantha, and his bodyguard Sindy Steele, who's every bit as lethal as she is stunning. But he's also aided by his brother Alex, who may not be as dead as everyone thinks …   It's time for Michael Nicholas to go from hunted to hunter.   Death Logs Out: Since crime boss Alex Nicholas was murdered, he and his brother Michael are still on the trail of the people behind the scenes of Alex's murder. Their search uncovers more than they expected, including a poisoned pope, a rogue cardinal preparing for the ascension to power of a neo-Nazi party and a stash of gold bricks hidden in the basement of an old Berlin mannequin shop – just blocks from the site of Hitler's bunker.   Memories and secrets from World War II which were meant to be hidden from the world resurface as Michael, Sindy Steele and Alex discover that what was stolen cannot be kept from the world any longer. A haunting, fast-paced story that takes Michael and the reader around the globe.

Michael and Samantha Nicholas live a quiet, upscale life in Westport, Connecticut. Michael is the very successful CEO of a New York City based financial services company. He and Samantha have one daughter.   Michael's older brother, Alex, and his wife, Donna, live a hectic life in Queens. Alex owns one of the largest illegal bookmaking and loansharking operations on the East Coast. He has a son and two ex-wives.   When Alex is murdered at his favorite Queens restaurant, the lives of the Nicholas families are turned upside down. At Alex's funeral—with his body lying just twenty feet away—Michael's world is further upended when he receives a text purporting to be from Alex.   From the streets of New York City to Paris, Saint-Tropez, Rome, and Florence, Michael begins a world-wide journey to find Alex's killer. As his search progresses, he becomes more and more immersed in his brother's world, a world he'd always feared.   Even as Michael begins to find answers, one question remains: Is Alex really dead?

Some of the most powerful people in the world want to kill Michael Nicholas, and only his brother Alex can save him. The problem is Alex is dead.   It's been almost a year since crime boss Alex Nicholas was killed on his home turf in Queens, and his straight-arrow brother Michael inherited the elder Nicholas's loan sharking and betting business. Unfortunately for Michael, he also inherited Alex's enemies—and there seem to be a lot of them.   As Michael learns to navigate a world he once shunned and feared, he's both helped and hindered by his friends, his wife Samantha, his bodyguard Sindy Steele, who's every bit as lethal as she is stunning, and his brother Alex, who may not be as dead as everyone thinks …   It's time for Michael Nicholas to go from hunted to hunter.

A commercial airliner departing Moscow is missing over France. Two days later, with world tensions at an all-time high, that same plane is headed for the White House.    Soon after, following a mysterious breach of the launch codes, US nuclear missiles aimed at Russia are poised for attack. A reciprocal attack is readied by Russia's president, Vladimir Putin. The world is on the edge of a nuclear apocalypse.   Since his murder in a Queens restaurant, Alex Nicholas has been living a virtual life in cyberspace. Suddenly he finds himself on the big screen in the White House's underground bunker, facing the President of the United States. He may be the only one who can save the world from mutual mass destruction. But to do so, he will have to allow himself to be "deleted"— this time permanently.   This latest addition to the Michael & Alex Nicholas series—which also includes Death Never Sleeps, Death Logs In, and Death Logs Out—features all the mystery, artificial intelligence, humor, food, and travel that fans have come to expect, but with even more twists and turns. Buckle up!

It's been two years since Alex Nicholas, underworld boss, was gunned down in Queens. And for all that time, his brother Michael, a respected CEO, has struggled with a secret: Alex has been communicating with him via laptop from beyond the grave. This "virtual" Alex can foresee dangers in Michael's path and appears to be trying to help him by tapping into surveillance systems and all the powers of the World Wide Web.   Meanwhile, trouble is stirring in the historic capital cities of Rome, Berlin and Paris. Inside the Vatican, Monsignor Kurt Schlegelberger has designs to build his power and prepare for the sudden ascension of the Free Forces Party, a throwback to the Nazis.   Schlegelberger will stop at nothing, but first he must deal with a new threat: someone appears to know the true story behind a series of murders in the US, committed by clergy to cover their tracks of child abuse within the Church—and the information is coming from Alex Nicholas.  Dead or alive, the way to finish off Alex for good is through Michael.   At the same time, Michael, racing from the United States to Europe on the trail of his brother's killers, is faced with a new mystery: did Alex really create a new breakthrough in AI technology, or is his death just another lie?   This fast-paced third instalment of E.J. Simon's Michael Nicholas series will keep readers guessing to the very end.