Meet the Author!
Visit us on Friday, August 9, 2024 at Studio Moonfall from 4pm to 7pm to meet Author, Peter O’Keefe.
Hang out at the shop and take a peek inside their book, Counted with the Dead:
Jack Killeen is done killing. The Detroit hitman has grown disgusted with his job and wants to turn his life around. Unfortunately for him, it’s too late: A mad surgeon has created a monster from the bodies of Killeen’s victims and the creature is animated by the damaged brain of Jack’s final target, Victor Moravian.
Now the Mob wants him dead, the cops want a piece of him, and his hard-nosed parish priest refuses to grant him absolution until he atones for his crimes. Complicating matters, Jack is in love with Marlene, Moravian’s widow, who wants him to use his particular set of skills to find her “missing” husband.
Jack’s only ally is his closeted factory worker brother Marty, whose homosexuality has strained their once close relationship and complicated the hitman’s relationship with his Mob bosses. Together they navigate the city’s underbelly and bitter racial divisions as they track the beast through the post-apocalyptic ruins of late ’90s Detroit.
It’s remorseless killing machine vs. ruthless professional killer as Jack struggles to protect his family, destroy the monster, and somehow achieve absolution for his crimes.
Get a sneak peek at Counted with the Dead at https://bookshop.org/a/9574/9781960534118
Peter started out writing for George Romero’s Tales From the Darkside and has since worked as a Hollywood screenwriter, optioned numerous original screenplays, and written TV movies for German networks. His narrative short films have screened at a variety of film festivals and Peter’s documentary about visual artists in the Midwest, Dreaming In Public, Making Art In the Real World was awarded a Chicago Regional Emmy. His short stories have appeared in various literary and online journals. Along the way he has worked as a video writer/producer, commercial director, bartender, office temp, road worker, night janitor, postal clerk, loading dock worker, warehouse grunt, store clerk, busboy, parking attendant, zoo train conductor, production assistant, copywriter, journalist, and grant writer.
See you from 4pm to 7pm on Friday, August 9, 2024 at Studio Moonfall, 5031 7th Avenue with Peter O’Keefe!
