Down Wind and Out of Sight is award-winning stand-alone thriller in which a “found family” of emotionally-damaged misfits–led by an Aboriginal Australian financial savant–lives secretly on a vast Chesapeake Bay estate, scrambling to evade law enforcement investigations as a young autistic savant’s bizarre experiments spin dangerously out of control. Rich with wry wit, multicultural depth, and psychological insight, this strikingly original novel has earned seven literary honors, including a Literary Titan Gold Award and three American Fiction Awards Finalist citations.

When world-renowned architect Victor Harding is forced into retirement and abruptly faces financial ruin, he reluctantly slides into a life of crime–only to discover that his lakefront Wisconsin estate, once owned by gangster Bugsy Moran, harbors dangerous secrets that draw him ever deeper into a deadly local criminal underworld. Sharp, wry, and propulsive, this 2025 American Fiction Awards Finalist blends psychological suspense with an irresistibly original protagonist who proves that life’s most reckless adventures can begin after seventy.

When retired architect Victor Harding follows sister-in-law’s introduction to her mother Alva–a charming Sri Lankan con artist and money launderer hiding out in extradition-proof Cape Verde–an unlikely alliance forms that leads the mismatched trio onto a sea cruise on a luxury sailboat and straight into a deadly spiral of vengeance, hijacking by a drug-trafficking cartel, and battle for survival. This 2025 American Fiction Awards Finalist blends wry wit, multicultural action , and relentless nautical suspense into an offbeat crime thriller unlike anything in the genre.

In a multi-front war of wits where adversaries seek the ultimate vengeance for past insults, a life-and-death question drives every page of this high-suspense thriller: who will get the best revenge? When a Japanese yakuza boss, a murderous motorcycle gang, and a Venezuelan drug cartel all plot revenge against retired architect Victor Harding and his family at their lakefront Wisconsin homes, the family must shift from defensive survival tactics to offensive globe-spanning retribution.This heart-pounding thriller delivers a feast of multicultural action, late-life romance, moral complexity and plenty of wet work in an explosive conclusion to the Victor Harding Adventures trilogy.

Commissioned and published by the American Bar Association

3 editions published,

155 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Published by John Wiley & Sons

4 editions published

420 WorldCat member libraries worldwide