Peter W Holub

Peter W. Holub retired as an NYPD lieutenant. He received the New York City Police Foundation Award when he graduated Suma Cum Laude from John Jay College of Criminal Justice with a degree in English Literature.

Holub is enjoying retirement in his condo on Florida's west coast.

His first novel, Cody's Obsession, is a police procedural, suspense thriller, with a little romance thrown in.

Pete's second novel, New Washington, is an initiation into manhood, contains a bit of erotica while investigating morals,religon, politics, and love. Set a hundred years after a nuclear war the descendants of the surviving Washington politicians have created an agrarian society of nobles and peasants. Fated to succeed his father as the ruler, twenty-year old Michael Kavanaugh fully believes the necessity of the harsh laws and the religion which justifies them. But when he falls in love with a peasant, he gradually begins to question both the laws and the religion. Relationships between the classes is punishable by death and Michael risks everything including both their lives by continuing their relationship. When enemies emerge wishing to assume Michael’s place as the future leader by exposing their relationship, the two lovers must fight to stay ahead of persistent plots and attacks.

The Murder of Professor Magic, is a first person narative in which sixteen-year-old Arthur Riordan and seventeen-year-old Gale Flanagan stumble from one adventure to another in an attempt to find the killer of Arthur's mentor.

Half a Donut contains four short stories each of which relate to crime or police in some fashion.

Besides writing, Holub spends is time playing tennis,golf and his guitar..