The Beckett Cypher Series – Book 4 – The Prophet, is well on its way to the final draft, before editing. Picking up where Book 3 – The Politicians left the investigation, a shadowy criminal known as The Prophet presents a deadly new twist to Shane and his investigative team. After the damage The Beckett Cypher and team inflicted on him and his Committee, The Prophet is bent on destroying Shane, Kate, their team and their family, if he can identify them by tracking and capturing The Beckett Cypher. His devious plan has taken months to perfect.

Immediately following their dream wedding and two-week honeymoon, Shane and Kate find themselves as accidental targets in the midst of a serial killer contest. While the Prophet uses all his team’s powers to identify the Beckett team and Cypher, Shane, Kate and their team must quickly investigate and stop a serial murder contest organized to pit some of the most prolific murderers in the world against each other, as the gruesome killers compete for more than $10,000,000 in cash and other prizes.

Vastly outnumbered, the Beckett team is forced to act quickly and take dangerous risks to save scores of innocent people, even as The Prophet, the powerful cyber-foe central to The Committee, a powerful drug cartel, and the corrupt United States shadow government, uses his vast resources in an attempt to identify and capture them.

Shane and his team work tirelessly to fend off multiple threats during the investigation, eventually finding they must join with both trusted and questionable allies in order to give them a fighting chance. The action is fast-paced and riddled with twists and turns the reader will not see coming.

The Beckett Cypher Series – Book 4 – The Prophet will be released in early 2020.

At a book signing a lady asked me to explain my writing style. Specifically, she asked, “Why do your construct your characters with so many layers, and your plots with so many twists and turns?”

As a prolific reader, I had become bored with the action figure who sweeps in and saves the day, always successfully navigating through a barrage of gunfire, explosions and failed attempted assassinations. He or she ususally has the quick romance during the process and rides off into the sunset with or without the newfound love. You can only tell that story so many times without it losing the reader’s interest and appreciation.

Life is full of love, disappointment, heartbreak, triumph and defeat, involving black and white choices tainted with all shades of grey. To me, the tale is more interesting when characters have depth and flaws, and when they lose a few battles as they fight through life’s struggles. But the depth of many characters requires time and space to build, and thus I chose a series.

In the novels that comprise The Beckettt Cypher Series, I weave in real life experiences, blending crimes and problems we currently face in the modern world. Although the series is not political, people with rigid, politically constructed mind-sets may not appreciate truthful depictions involving drug and human trafficking, gangs, corrupt politicians or shadow governments, even though all those problems truly exist and diminish everyone’s quality of life. I tell it like I saw it, see it, and know it to exist.

Similarly, I build complex characters often seeking passionately committed relationships, who occassionally deal with betrayal and love that goes wrong. This is the reality of the life we all know. But once again, a reader with a mindset seeking a more superficial and fast-paced action read may not appreciate space spent in developing a romance or saving family members from themselves.

In short, I build both the plot and my characters, the good and the bad, much like stories and people I have known in life. My fictional people and circumstances usually have some roots in reality. My heroic figures may lose loves and be injured, unable to always avoid the pain of life. My stories are plausible, as much of the plot has happened, is happening now, or can happen in the near future.

I try to design a fictional reality that will tug at the strings of your heart and conscience, urging you to confront life to decide what you believe is good or bad, honourable or immoral. If I am successful the end product will entertain and stretch me and many of my readers. Such readers share my appreciation for the real side of life, amidst all the intrigue, action and adventure.

But still, others may not appreciate the detail and depth in my people, the plot or the romance. And I respect their decisions to move on to faster-paced, less complex, more superficial, quickly entertaining reads. We all should read what we enjoy!

I hope you enjoy my series. Several murder mysteries will be included in the next books in the series, as The Beckett team navigates through their challenges. The first of these murders, based on an actual case, is chilling, as it looks into the heart and mind of a prolific serial killer. The murders, like the plots that contain them, will have unexpected twists and turns, packed with surprises.

Please enjoy whatever you choose to read. And please contact me on my website with feedback!

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  The Beckett Cypher Series – Book 3 – The Politicians follows undercover operative Shane Beckett’s criminal investigation, begun in The Beckett Cypher Series – Book 1 – The Case, and continued in The Beckett Cypher Series – Book 2 – The Committee.  Shane, Kate and the rest of the cypher team encounter new threats from The Committee while they battle nefarious corrupt characters inside American’s shadow government, as well as foreign government agents intent on destroying the United States of America.

  But it isn’t until Shane’s cyber-team develops their cypher into a powerful artificial intelligence spy system, that they begin to uncover the most serious threat to human freedoms – The Politicians. Whether politicians are foreign or domestic, the Beckett team discovers they are too often motivated by greed, money, power, sex and the ongoing struggle to remain in political office. And in order to remain in office, the team learns that The Politicians make themselves seem indispensable to voter’s perceived needs, by controlling public opinion through choreographed dramatic propaganda.

  The cypher spy system discovers how government, social media, and mainstream media indoctrinate people through coordinated talking points, designed to keep Americans agitated, divided and angry. As Shane and his group fight their battles to expose the truth, they find the world is smaller than they think, as Chinese, Russian, North Korean and Iranian enemy agents work together with groups inside America to discover and capture The Beckett Cypher team, or destroy them. 

  Shane and his allies struggle to expose coordinated attacks on personal freedoms that Americans currently face, as they wind through an investigation filled with intrigue, suspense, danger, and mystery in The Beckett Cypher Series – Book 3 – The Politicians. Characters the reader has come to know, love or despise keep the reader engaged, as romance blooms for some, while it withers for others. Relationships forged through loyalty and betrayal direct the paths Shane’s team members must choose as they fight to survive, investigate, and expose evil. 

  The Beckett Cypher Series – Book 3 – The Politicians may be the most spell-binding novel in the series yet, as events and dangers track well ahead of current day news releases, leading toward the final conflict Americans will face, with Shane and his team. 

  Friends of Lee Cunningham Novels :  The Beckett Cypher The Committee – Book 2 is undergoing the final edit as three exciting themes were finalized! 

  First, canine guest stars are introduced in this novel, guaranteeing both smiles and tears of joy, as you read about their exploits, challenges and loves.  Next, the shadow government we constantly hear about in current news events, takes form clearly for the reader…as Hector attends training with The Committee, and begins to understand the purpose and objectives driving the power behind government.  Lastly, as new romance blooms for one of our main characters, romantic and emotional conflicts burst forth as our warrior struggles with the confusion and problems presented by loving more than one person, at the same time.  

  The pre-release feedback from first draft reviewers is that The Beckett Cypher The Committee – Book 2, ramps up the romance, drama, intrigue, and surprise twists and turns to a new exciting level, that will leave the reader wanting another chapter and anxious for Book 3. 

  The Beckett Cypher The Committee – Book 2 is being edited as I write this post.  The team takes cryptography to a new level as they work to understand the Cypher, and take advantage of the secrets it will reveal.  They add two more cryptography experts, both versed in encryption and decryption, charged with identifying the secret Cypher text that will  allow decryption of the Beckett Case files.         

  Twists and turns in the plot leave the reader anxious to turn the page and stumble in to a new love story, or a development in the search for the Cypher, or the identity of members of The Committee.  As a reader, you will grow to love the canine friends added to the team in Book 2, each with their own distinct personality and entertaining traits. 

  The team will also make maximum use of resources in the country as they travel from coast to coast pursuing leads, while they attempt to stay one step ahead of drug cartels and the shadow government trying to intercept them.

  You won’t want to miss the continuing saga, as Shane, Kate, Walter, Juanita, Pete, Tasha, Heath, Hector and the rest of the cast struggle to stay alive, as they balance love, life and criminal investigation in the search for truth about the connections between drug cartels and The Committee!