Common Enemy (The Common Denominator, #1) (eBook, ePUB)

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Another young woman has gone missing from one of Camelot Cruise Line's luxury cruise ships and its publicity-adverse billionaire owner is desperate to stop the serial killer who is stalking the decks of the love boatbut without giving Nancy Grace a bone to chew on. Company lawyer Raam (rhymes with bomb) Commoner, just back from a tour of duty in Afghanistan and wanting nothing more than to check out the student body at Commoner College (where beautiful young women go for undergraduate degrees in unrequited love) is coerced into a covert search for the psychopath who is throwing cruise ship passengers overboard and taunting Camelot with convoluted riddles.

Kayman Karl, an independent private investigator struggling with the loss of her Marine Corps husband in Iraq and not at all interested in a replacement part, has been hired by a distraught father to investigate the disappearance of his daughter from a Camelot cruise ship. She and her client would love to have Sixty Minutes on the case.

Raam and Kayman are on a collision course, and their first meeting leads to instant dislike, but a murderous shipboard encounter throws them together in a race to decipher the killer's clues before he kills again. Proximity leads to familiarity, active libidos eventually attract, and Raam is prepared to waive Kayman's entrance exam for Commoner Collegeuntil they realize that Kayman fits the profile of previous victims and they must double their efforts to fend off a common enemy.

COMMON ENEMY is Book #1 in Richard David Bach's Common Denominator Series of erotic thrillers in which recovering lawyer and former womanizer Raam Commoner narrates the captivating stories of love, life and adventure with his partner, the smart, sexy and deadly Kayman Karl.

Praise for Common Enemy:

Portland Book Review says:

"Richard David Bach's Common Enemy is fast-paced and fun. Readers who cruise will no doubt enjoy this mystery on the high seas."

"This thriller is the start of a promising new series. . .Very interesting story with many plot twists."

James A. Anderson, Author, *****Amazon Reviews

"Once I started the book I couldn't put it down. Terrific combo of feisty female, sexy male and a clever villain all folded together in a great plot that keeps you on the edge of your seat."

Barbara, *****Amazon Reviews

". . . a fast paced read that had it all. Action, sex, mystery....I would definitely recommend it."

Laina, *****Amazon Reviews

"It has all the elements of a page-turner thrills, terror, sex, suspense and it's suffused with light-hearted humor."

Summer Vacation Reader, *****Amazon Reviews

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Author Richard David Bach was born in New York City, was raised with a younger brother by a widowed mother on the south shore of Long Island, and sleepwalked his way through an uneventful but stable and happy childhood wondering when life would begin.

For Richard, life began at 17 when, in a post-war America obsessed with modern technology, he left home for Troy, New York, to pursue a Civil Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an ROTC commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. It was the time of the Korean War, and while the mechanical engineers from RPI were building weapons, the civil engineering students were preparing to build targets. College was a hint of freedom from the stifling confines of a structured upbringing, and a two-year active duty tour in the Air Force overseeing design and construction of anti-missile radar sites in the Arctic followed by an uninspiring job as a highway design engineer made him yearn for more adventures.

The Pursuit of Adventure: Oregon or Bust
That pursuit of adventure began unexpectedly during an accidental migration to Portland, Oregon. An old friend asked Richard to drive him from New York to Portland where the frienda recent medical school graduatewas to begin an internship. Richard took his two-week vacation and a week's leave of absence from his job and drove across country camping out and sightseeing along the way, planning to turn around and head back to NY once he had dropped off his friend. That never happened. Richard fell in love with Portland, called to extend his leave of absence (which he may still be on) and kept putting off going home until his family stopped asking when he'd come back. Years of self-introspection and therapy led him to the realization that he had probably never intended to return.

Once in Portland he continued to work as an engineer, first for the Portland Development Commission designing Portland's first urban renewal project, and then for Pacific Power & Light Company as a right-of-way-agent, where one of the power company's attorneys encouraged Richard to try studying law. He enrolled in the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College's night-school program, excelled in his studies, and (despite working full time for the power company and trying to help his wife raise their two small children) loved every minute of law school.

After passing the Oregon Bar, Richard joined Stoel,...