The Eagle's Song: a thriller between Newport and the world

The quiet city of Newport, Rhode Island, is thrown into turmoil by the death of Robert Perkins, a young heir to one of the city's prominent families, followed by a series of racially motivated attacks and crimes.

The Plot in Brief

Newport’s tranquility is shattered by the death of Robert Perkins, a young and influential scion of the community. This initial fatality is followed by a chilling sequence of attacks and killings, seemingly racially motivated.

The investigation falls to William Morris, the irascible local police chief—a troubled man haunted by a difficult past. Amid ancient prophecies waiting to be deciphered, relentless threats, and escalating violence, Morris doggedly pursues the case toward a dreadful, unexpected revelation: concealed behind the facade of local crimes lies a lethal conspiracy of global reach.

An Action-Cinema Aesthetic

I wrote this novel about seventeen years ago, driven by the same passions that shaped my other pursuits: comic books, heavy metal, and classic action cinema, notably the James Bond franchise and the films of Clint Eastwood. Their echoes resonate throughout these pages, marked by four primary attributes:

• Relentless pacing and cinematic structure. The prose is concise, stripped of downtime; action sequences and narrative twists unfold with the rhythm of an American thriller screenplay.
• Sharp irony. Even in the darkest moments, incisive wit and acerbic exchanges temper the tension, lending the dialogue fluidity and psychological realism.
• Flawed characters and antiheroes. The protagonists are never immaculate archetypes; they bear difficult temperaments and troubled histories.
• Genre convergence. What begins as a localized procedural expands into a geopolitical thriller, interwoven with the enigma of ancient prophecies.

William Morris: The Tormented Investigator

The narrative's true driving force is Police Chief William Morris, conceived in the tradition of the great antiheroes of American noir and action cinema.
Morris is a grounded protagonist: a hard-boiled antihero governed by intuition, cigarettes, dry irony, and old-school investigative methods, firmly rooted in the realities of contemporary police work.

The Supporting Cast

The novel employs an ensemble structure. Four distinct groups orbit around Morris:

• Robert Perkins, the heir to Newport's high society. Though his life is cut short immediately, his demise serves as the catalyst for the narrative, standing at the center of the town's darkest secrets.
• The local police officers, providing operational support while functioning as a subtle comic counterpoint, easing the grim weight of the crimes through their sharp repartee.
• The conflicting factions. Suspects, witnesses, and community figures divide into rival camps, embodying Newport's social fissures until the scope of the inquiry widens onto the world stage.
• The guardians of the prophecies. Enigmatic figures tied to ancient inscriptions and cryptic texts, who in the second half of the book provide Morris with the historical keys required to thwart the conspiracy.

Conclusion

If you appreciate fast-paced mysteries, gruff investigators, and enigmas that expand into broad geopolitical dimensions, The Song of the Eagle is written for you.