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Over the course of his lengthy legal career, the combined antics of the government tax offices and the Ontario Law Society had forced attorney Ron Rodent into an impoverished and unhappy early retirement. When the tax office reverses a previous ruling and snatches away Ron's last bit of savings, the enraged attorney vows to make the bureaucrats pay for tormenting him. Nobody extracts diabolical revenge better than a bitter old lawyer. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a Canadian real estate lawyer who took up fiction writing as a retirement hobby in 2009. Always a proponent of ...

Tyler Stevens is a 22 year old who works in a call center in Medina, New York. When he is abruptly fired for refusing to lie to the customers, Tyler decides to fight back. That choice throws Tyler into a series of intriguing events which propel him into travel adventures and bizarre accusations. Tyler begins to wonder if gratitude has gone AWOL in America. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who usually writes about older attorneys toiling in that legal profession that everyone loves to loathe. Breaking out of his normal writing mold, "YOUNG BUT NOT STUPID" ...

This is the 1st novel in the TY WARD ADVENTURE SERIES, now comprising seven books in all. Ty Ward wakes up on his 50th birthday disgusted with the violent life he has led for the past 30 years in South America. He returns to the USA intending to slowly drink himself to death as a fitting punishment for all the mayhem he had foisted on the world because of his horrid career choice. Fate has other plans. On his first day in New York City, Ty's immense size once again acts as a sleaze magnet for thugs looking for trouble. A minor dispute over a damage deposit mushrooms into a major war with ...

Scumbag attorney Slymon "Slimy" Robichaud begins this story suddenly out of work and forced to vacate his apartment. A chance meeting at a bar with another lawyer hands Slimy the opportunity to look after that colleague's legal practice and reside free in his townhouse. Slimy should know better than to trust a fellow attorney. As if that situation doesn't turn out bad enough, Slimy gets called to testify as a witness against some members of the terrorist car heist gang which had tried to murder Slimy twice before. Despite all odds being against his survival, the wily old lawyer concocts a ...

Tom Kennedy is a retired Canadian lawyer with only one friend, fellow retiree Jim Corbett, and they bicker and insult each other like a couple of teenage brothers. When a budding romance with two sisters goes well for Jim but badly for Tom, depressed Tom heads off alone on a trip to Las Vegas. Instead of enjoying a pleasant holiday getting slowly hammered while playing the slots, Tom winds up in the wrong place at the wrong time and is dragged into the world of intrusive government surveillance in the guise of preventing terrorism and fighting ISIS. The extent to which the US government ...

Pervin Mann, age 67, is a retired lawyer who lives in a luxury waterfront condominium with his twin brother, Mervin who is a retired school principal. Both men are divorced and fanatically frugal. They compete over everything but especially about which one can spend less money in any given year. The prospect of romance unexpectedly enters each of their lives and provides them with one last chance at love. Will the thrifty old gentlemen finally learn that women abhor cheapskates? Or is it simply too late for them to change? Donald W. Desaulniers is a Canadian lawyer who retired in 2009. He ...

Dirk Landriviuk is a 34 year old loner who dislikes being around people. He is startled one afternoon at the isolated farmhouse he rents when the Syracuse cops show up looking for dead bodies. The media wrongly names Dirk as the prime suspect so he leaves New York State to start a new life. With such an unusual name, the notoriety stalks Dirk via the Internet and he becomes a pariah no matter where he lands. But then he meets Astrid. She too is a victim in a different type of mess.ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who has written more than sixty novels. ...

Guys should learn to keep their mouths shut. Young attorney Paul Charbonneau failed to learn that lesson and is in for a nasty surprise. Word got back to his ex-girlfriend that Paul had joked to his drinking buddies that he was glad to be rid of Brenda because she was destined to be obese like her 250 pound mother. Revenge takes no prisoners. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a Canadian lawyer who has penned more than 100 novels since his retirement in 2009, His books are available as E-Books or in Paperback form exclusively on Amazon and at delectably low prices.

Durward works as a server in a high-end restaurant in the financial district of New York City. When a wealthy customer gets nasty and insulting, Durward can't keep his mouth shut and is immediately fired in a humiliating way. The rich patron still isn't finished teaching Durward the lesson that little nobodies shouldn't mess with the upper crust of society and concocts a revenge scheme that is truly malicious. Look out, Durward. Your life is about to enter a world of turmoil. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who resides in the picturesque small city of ...

This is an uplifting Christmas story about two rival small town lawyers who loathe each other. Raymond Collins is a totally honest guy but a financial failure as an attorney. Parker Jones is the complete opposite, a rich, greedy and shady lawyer. Both run their legal practices in the tiny town of Lakeport, Ontario and they shower each other with caustic insults whenever they meet. When Jones concocts a brilliant scheme to ruin Collins, a series of complex events unfold which ultimately give rise to unexpected payback in the form of The Christmas Lawyer. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. ...

Craig Johnson's dream job as a part-time attorney for a Detroit law firm turns into a complete nightmare when his bosses set him up to take the fall in a money laundering scheme. Craig tries to defend himself but things get downright dangerous when his employers get the orders to SHUT THAT LAWYER UP. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer with a quirky sense of humor who has penned more than 110 novels. Please check out his Author Page on Amazon for details about each of these books.

In this 2nd book in the series, Stranger travels to Kansas where he discovers whether he is human or robotic. Later in New Mexico while deep in the Carlsbad caverns Stranger also learns who put him in the Tennessee cave where he first woke up two months earlier and why he was placed there. As Stranger takes this journey of self-awareness, he is also forced to fend off a slew of assassination attempts. Life is definitely not dull for this dude with amnesia and the ability to smell the stench of evil. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who has published more ...

Despite growing up in poverty, Pierre Lachance made it to law school where he developed an intense dislike of money and those snobs who had lots of it. When his government legal job in Northern Ontario is eliminated, Pierre heads south to start a new life. After rescuing a wealthy stranded motorist and his dog in a wicked snowstorm, Pierre is asked to use his real estate expertise and go undercover to investigate some property holdings in Dallas, Texas. That plunges Pierre into an intriguing financial mystery. As luck would have it, Pierre also meets a dazzling but wealthy beauty in Dallas....

In this 4th novel in the UNDERCOVER HILLBILLY MYSTERY SERIES, Billy Hill interrupts a burglary in progress in the apartment next door to his in Linden, Texas. That chance encounter tests Billy's rusty cage-fighting skills and leads him to Pecan Island, Louisiana where he becomes enmeshed in a complex mystery involving a gorgeous girl who is up against the awesome power of the corrupt Biden government. Never underestimate the ingenuity of an honest but stubborn backwoods boy. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a quirky Canadian lawyer who has penned more than 90 novels since his ...

Billy Hill grew up in the north woods of Vermont where he resided with and was home-schooled by his reclusive bachelor uncle. Billy then found a job as a glorified book-keeper in the tiny village of Vergennes, Vermont but also earned pretty good money participating in illegal cage fights. When his boss retired, Billy was offered a temporary job to go undercover in a Tallahassee, Florida landscaping business in order to ascertain why the company was losing so much money. Billy will soon learn that he'll require both his flair for numbers and his top fighting skills to carry out his mission ...

Everyone calls Slymon Robichaud by his nickname "Slimy" and for good reason. He's both a lawyer and a complete scoundrel ready to take advantage of any opportunity to shaft a fellow human being. It's possible that Slimy has finally met his match when he sits beside Georgina Cole on a flight to Las Vegas. Old Slimy is in for a wild ride. This is the first novel in the "Slimy Lawyer Series" about Slimy and his always shady antics. In chronological order, the stories in the six-novel series are "SLIMY LAWYER", "SLIMY SUES AMERICA", "SLIMY GETS SHAFTED", "SLIMY GETS DISBARRED", "SLIMY TASTES ...

Reaching consciousness alone in a dark Tennessee cave with no memory of a previous life but with ample general knowledge, he decides to call himself "Stranger" after being led to civilization by kindly strangers. As Stranger learns about American society, he discovers that he possesses the unique ability to smell both evil people and evil acts about to occur. In this first book of the "STRANGER SERIES" he travels around the southern part of the USA trying to cope with his bizarre situation while he figures out if he is human or robotic and whether he has been created or programmed for any ...

Young accountant Gary Donetsky is shocked to learn on Christmas Eve that his boss has just been murdered in his North Las Vegas office. The police request Gary's assistance in sorting out the financial aspects of the office. He soon discovers that his kindly white-haired employer has somehow misappropriated two million dollars from his trusting clients. Poor Gary feels totally unqualified to unravel this complex financial puzzle. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who took up writing novels as a retirement hobby in 2009. Always a proponent of quantity over ...

This is the 1st novel in the 6-book VANISHING LAWYER SERIES. Retired lawyer John Carverton suddenly finds himself plunked into his own hometown but in a parallel world where he was never born. When he discovers that his wife is unmarried, John assumes that he was placed here in order to bring love and happiness to Alice's remaining years. John expects that it will be a piece of cake swooping Alice off her feet a second time with his bizarre charm. John will soon learn that timing is everything when it comes to love. If love isn't his purpose, why is he now in this parallel realm? This is ...

When he manages to sell his martial arts studio in New York, Gregory Grantham is handed the chance to start a new life. He selects the small city of Poplar Bluff, Missouri as his temporary new home in order to care for his Aunt Vera who needs help after undergoing an operation. Rather than being a sleepy part of the state, southeastern Missouri torments Greg with a series of knife attacks by bank robbers, political activists and insane stalkers. Greg will need every ounce of his fighting skills to survive each violent ordeal. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian ...