Tiebreak

by Howard Gimple

Jay Marks is a world class tennis pro. The Lone Ranger is the code name for the CIA's deadliest assassin. Only three people in the world know that they are the same person. One is a Vietnam War hero and military contractor who thinks Marks killed his wife. The other two are his CIA handlers. Now Marks wants out and all three want him dead...something he'll have to deal with as soon as he finishes playing in the U.S. Open final.

322 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 2009

About the author

Howard Gimple has been a penslinger for most of his adult life. He was a writer at Newsday, the editor of a newsletter for the New York Giants football team and a copywriter and creative director for several New York ad agencies. He has written English dialogue for the American releases of Japanese anime cartoons, reviewed books for the Long Island History Journal and movies for a pay-per-view television network.
Howard was Chief Creative Officer at TajMania Entertainment, a film and TV production company dedicated to creating socially conscious programming. He wrote ’The Garbageman,’ an award-winning documentary about a waste management executive who helped save the lives of more than 50,000 children with congenital heart disease.
He was a writer and sports editor for the Stony Brook University alumni magazine. He also taught two seminars at the university, ‘Rock & Relevance,’ about the political influence of 60’s rock & roll and ‘Filthy Shakespeare,’ exploring the dramatic use of sexual puns and innuendos in the Bard's plays and poems.
Unable to hold a job for any length of time, Howard turned to writing novels, where his chances of getting fired are minimal.
Howard grew up in Brooklyn, which became cool shortly after he departed. He now lives in Glendora, California.