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Agent Keys Steps Out: A Barry Keys Mare Island Mystery
San Francisco 1944
Barry Keys successfully concludes his espionage case at Mare Island only to find the FBI has branded him a loose cannon. He storms out of his boss’s office leaving his badge and gun behind. It’s time for a new life and back to chasing down bad guys his way.
He and his wife, Mary, open their own detective agency. Business is slow until the commandant of Mare Island Shipyard sends Keys an urgent order to find black marketers who are stealing vital war goods. The commandant wants them rooted out fast.
When Keys discovers the black market gang has stolen a Mark 18 torpedo, the case heats up. Keys realizes a Nazi provocateur heads the gang and has a diabolical plan to destroy the shipyard.
As Keys gets closer, the Nazi grows desperate; bodies pile up and Keys and Mary are next on the Nazi’s death list. It begins to look like nothing can stop his mad plan before he destroys the shipyard.
Barry Keys successfully concludes his espionage case at Mare Island only to find the FBI has branded him a loose cannon. He storms out of his boss’s office leaving his badge and gun behind. It’s time for a new life and back to chasing down bad guys his way.
He and his wife, Mary, open their own detective agency. Business is slow until the commandant of Mare Island Shipyard sends Keys an urgent order to find black marketers who are stealing vital war goods. The commandant wants them rooted out fast.
When Keys discovers the black market gang has stolen a Mark 18 torpedo, the case heats up. Keys realizes a Nazi provocateur heads the gang and has a diabolical plan to destroy the shipyard.
As Keys gets closer, the Nazi grows desperate; bodies pile up and Keys and Mary are next on the Nazi’s death list. It begins to look like nothing can stop his mad plan before he destroys the shipyard.
322 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 22, 2017
About the author
Mike Downs
7 books4 followersWriting is a new passion, and for me, life without passion is dull indeed. Fast sports cars, and racing, have been my life. Writing is a new dimension. Creating characters and stories to showcase them is hard work but very satisfying, passionate work.
I began my working career and love of sports cars at age 10 by sweeping floors at a foreign car parts store in Northern Virginia. At 16, I became a partner in a good little foreign car repair shop in Falls Church Virginia.It was there a few years later I met Bob Tullius from Group44. I did some work on the Group's cars and later joined his famous team as a racing driver. During my tenure with Group 44, the immaculately prepared cars allowed me to win many races and a National Championship.
Moving to California the Mecca of American racing, I was hired to race the new Titan Formula Ford for their West Coast distributor. From there I raced for BRE in the Datsun Trans Am car. Other ventures included Porsche of America Racing Team in the big three American endurance events, Daytona, Sebring, and Watkins Glen.
In the mid seventies I headed up Silverstone Enterprises in Maryland to prepare and drive the Porsche Carreras for IMSA racing, culminating in a class win at the Daytona 24 hour race.
In the late seventies I moved back to California to open Downs Engineering. During the next twenty odd years I raced Formula Atlantic, Trans Am and IMSA GTO. In the new century I won a championship driving my own designed and built Sports Racing Car.
I have worked with the film industry and developed a remote camera mount for car chases and commercials. I've met some interesting blokes there, and there could be the makings of some future novels.
I have written five novels so far dealing with early American racing in the 1920s and 30s. Tales of fabulous cars, Nazi intrigue, and lovely ladies keeps me poking at the keyboard, and hopefully entertaining my readers. I have tons of ideas for future novels and am bursting to get them in ink. Writing is a passion as is racing, a burning desire to do things well.
I began my working career and love of sports cars at age 10 by sweeping floors at a foreign car parts store in Northern Virginia. At 16, I became a partner in a good little foreign car repair shop in Falls Church Virginia.It was there a few years later I met Bob Tullius from Group44. I did some work on the Group's cars and later joined his famous team as a racing driver. During my tenure with Group 44, the immaculately prepared cars allowed me to win many races and a National Championship.
Moving to California the Mecca of American racing, I was hired to race the new Titan Formula Ford for their West Coast distributor. From there I raced for BRE in the Datsun Trans Am car. Other ventures included Porsche of America Racing Team in the big three American endurance events, Daytona, Sebring, and Watkins Glen.
In the mid seventies I headed up Silverstone Enterprises in Maryland to prepare and drive the Porsche Carreras for IMSA racing, culminating in a class win at the Daytona 24 hour race.
In the late seventies I moved back to California to open Downs Engineering. During the next twenty odd years I raced Formula Atlantic, Trans Am and IMSA GTO. In the new century I won a championship driving my own designed and built Sports Racing Car.
I have worked with the film industry and developed a remote camera mount for car chases and commercials. I've met some interesting blokes there, and there could be the makings of some future novels.
I have written five novels so far dealing with early American racing in the 1920s and 30s. Tales of fabulous cars, Nazi intrigue, and lovely ladies keeps me poking at the keyboard, and hopefully entertaining my readers. I have tons of ideas for future novels and am bursting to get them in ink. Writing is a passion as is racing, a burning desire to do things well.
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