Breached (A James Raker Mystery)

Can James Raker solve the mystery before the homeowners around Lake Hannah end up underwater?

Following Deadly Portfolio: A Killing in Hedge Funds, John J. Hohn offers Breached, a suspenseful, fast-paced sequel.

Detective James Raker reconnects with classmate and Vietnam vet Art Nichols in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Their reunion is interrupted by the murder of a state dam inspector with information implicating developer Vernon Brost in a scheme to defraud the homeowners around Lake Hannah.

Searching for the damning evidence, Brost’s thugs break into Raker’s home and seriously injure his girlfriend, Diane, whose subconscious is forced to wrestle with her troubled childhood.

While Diane struggles to recover from her injuries and painful memories, Nichols fights through his PSTD and joins Raker in his race to thwart Brost’s swindle and bring Diane’s attackers to justice.

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John J. Hohn has been writing all of his life. His first story was published in nationally circulated Pilot magazine when he was just 10-years-old. He has won several awards for his poetry of the years. Though he majored in English at St. John University in Minnesota, he did not pursue a career in writing, but chose instead a 40 year career in the financial services industry. Over that time, he held positions with The Travelers, Blue Cross/Blue Shied of Minnesota and Wilson Learning Corporation in Minneapolis. Hohn moved to North Carolina in 1978 where he joined Wachovia Bank and Trust and retired after 16 years from Merrill Lynch in Winston-Salem. While still working full-time, Hohn published a book of poetry in 2000. Once retired, he published his first novel, Deadly Portfolio: A Killing in Hedge Funds in 2011. His sequel Breached came out October, 2014. John Hohn and his wife divide their time each year between a cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains near West Jefferson, NC, and a cottage in the village of Southport NC, on the banks of The Cape Fear River. Between them, Hohn and his wife has six grown children.