THE LESSON PLAN

Times are tough in L.A. and Robert Klayman, substitute teacher, attempts to solve his money woes along with a mid-life crisis by trying on a new career as a private detective. His efforts to solve the murder of a fellow teacher puts him up against a cabal of corrupt school administrators siphoning money from state and federal coffers. Klayman’s spine-tingling journey into the violent world of private detection captures the noir spirit of the L.A. detective story.

G.J. Prager–Author

Crime Series

LOSERS GALLERY

LOSERS GALLERY – Robert Klayman is out of prison after doing time for gunplay on his last P.I. job. Blacklisted and broke, he falls in with a gangster and travels to Odessa, Ukraine, to move stolen art out of the country under the eyes of the Russian mob. Sought out by thugs on both sides of the world, Klayman takes on the laws of the jungle when he finds himself a pawn in his employer’s murderous scheme.

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G.J. Prager–Author

Crime Series

G.J. Prager–Author

Crime Series

NOT FOR HIRE

NOT FOR HIRE – Employed by a Bel-Air real-estate mogul to track down a former business partner who swindled the company out of ten-million dollars, Bob Klayman heads off to Arizona in search of his mark. He’s soon run out of town, pursued by a double-crossing lawyer and the Arizona State Police. Klayman seeks refuge with a militia encampment holed up in the mountains outside Tucson, who’s leader, an infamous ex-Marine Colonel, is leading a violent secessionist movement. To save himself, Klayman works to further the Colonel’s cause while secretly engaged by the CIA and still under contract to finish the mogul’s hit job.

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DEADLY HABITS

DEADLY HABITS – Back at work as a private detective, Robert Klayman is hired to solve a murder in a twenty-year old cold case. He’s holed up in Spring Dunes, a chic desert town a hundred miles east of L.A., where the jet set and casino moguls hobnob, and meth labs proliferate. Sinister parties have taken an interest in the case, including a drug dealing casino manager who deposits his victims in acid vats. Klayman’s attempt to bring closure for his client soon finds him confronting the ghosts of his own past.

G.J. Prager–Author

Crime Series

4.5

About
The Author

G.J. Prager is originally from New York City and now resides in Southern California. His first novel, The Lesson Plan, was published in 2011. As a former teacher and actor living in Los Angeles, Prager knows his turf well, and his worldly travels add an even wider berth to ply his stories with foreign intrigue and private detection.

AWARDS

2016 – Runner up FirstWriter.com short story awards for ‘The Getaway.’
2020 – Best leading actor in a comedy, ‘Rumors,’ Desert Theaterworks.

Not For Hire – Produced in 2024, narrated by award winning voice-over artist, Dave Maresca.

AUDIOBOOKS

Losers Gallery – Produced in 2020, narrated by award winning voice-over artist, Brian Callanan.

All Books

THE LESSON PLAN

4.5

Times are tough in L.A. and Robert Klayman, substitute teacher, attempts to solve his money woes along…

LOSERS GALLERY

4.5

Robert Klayman is out of prison after doing time for gunplay on his last P.I. job. Blacklisted and broke, he falls in…

Not For Hire

4.5

Employed by a Bel-Air real-estate mogul to track down a former business partner who swindled the company out of…

Deadly Habits

4.5

Back at work as a private detective, Robert Klayman is hired to solve a murder in a twenty-year old cold case…

What People Say

“Author Prager imbues Klayman with pitch-perfect sarcasm. His first-person narrative is laced with metaphors and similes that tumble as melodiously as a Lionel Hampton solo. He dispatches bad guys and beds broads with the best of classic gumshoes of yore, yet still manages to avoid outright imitation. Witty, ironic, smart, and sassy, this is a crime thriller from an author that knows how to make guilty pleasures truly pleasurable.”

G.J. Prager–Author

About
The Author

AWARDS

AUDIOBOOKS