{"id":927,"date":"2022-03-30T13:22:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T19:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/?page_id=927"},"modified":"2022-06-23T12:18:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T18:18:16","slug":"927-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Books &#038; Series by Gary Reilly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"page col-full\" style=\"padding-top: 0px; margin-top: -60px;\">\n<div id=\"main\" class=\"fullwidth\">\n<div class=\"post\">\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<div id=\"home\" class=\"col-full\">\n<div id=\"introduction\">\n<div class=\"home-blurb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/pf\/jeremy-bannister\/\"><br \/>\n<img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-786\" src=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/paradise.jpg\" alt=\"The Paradise That Lurks in Female Smiles\" width=\"200\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: -65px; font-size:90%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/pf\/the-paradise-that-lurks-in-female-smiles\/\">The Paradise That Lurks in Female Smiles<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>A stand-alone book by Gary Reilly<br \/>\nCharley Quinn has rules about writing and he has rules about his life. But a new female student is about to challenge everything he thinks he knows.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/pf\/the-paradise-that-lurks-in-female-smiles\/\">Read More\u2026<\/a><br \/>\nComing Soon<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"home-blurb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/pf\/jeremy-bannister\/\"><br \/>\n<img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-786\" src=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/JB-COVER-June-11-2021.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremy Bannister\" width=\"200\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: -65px; font-size:90%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/pf\/jeremy-bannister\/\">Jeremy Bannister<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>A stand-alone book by Gary Reilly<br \/>\nMeet Jeremy Bannister. His is a humble, simply told coming-of-age tale that spans the terribly serious and comically trivial decades of the Vietnam and disco eras, respectively.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/pf\/jeremy-bannister\/\">Read More\u2026<\/a><br \/>\nPublished July 2021<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"home-blurb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/pf\/the-legend-of-carl-draco\/\"><br \/>\n<img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-786\" src=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DRACO-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Legend of Carl Draco\" width=\"200\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: -65px; font-size:90%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/pf\/the-legend-of-carl-draco\/\">The Legend of Carl Draco<br \/>\n<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>A stand-alone book by Gary Reilly<br \/>\nThe story of a quietly fearless young man whose existence is consumed in ruthlessly dispatching nameless enemies who dog his every move<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/pf\/the-legend-of-carl-draco\">Read More\u2026<\/a><br \/>\nPublished June 2019<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"home-blurb\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/pf\/the-circumstantial-man\/\"><br \/>\n<img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-786\" src=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/CMCover-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Circumstantial Man\" width=\"200\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: -65px; font-size:90%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/pf\/the-circumstantial-man\/\"><br \/>\nThe Circumstantial Man<br \/>\n<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>A stand-alone book and brilliant departure from the two published Gary Reilly series.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a stolen car, a hit-and-run accident, mistaken identity, a body in Pete Larkey\u2019s bathroom and a deadly encounter with a condescending con man named Benny.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/pf\/the-circumstantial-man\">Read More\u2026<\/a><br \/>\nPublished April 2018<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"home-blurb\">\n<h2 style=\"font-size:90%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/about\/the-biography-man\/\">The Biography Man<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Now available as an Amazon Kindle Single.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/about\/the-biography-man\/\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"home-blurb\">\n<h2 style=\"font-size:90%;\">Two Great Series by Novelist Gary Reilly<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"home-blurb\" style=\"width: 48%; height: 1200px; float: left; font-size: 90%;\">\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/asphalt-warrior-200.jpg\" alt=\"The Asphalt Warrior Cover\" width=\"200\"><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size:95%;\">The Asphalt Warrior Series<\/h2>\n<p>Featuring Denver Cab Driver Brendan Murphy, a.k.a. \u201cMurph\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 90%;\" href=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/the-asphalt-warrior-series\/\">Read More\u2026.<\/a><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">Gary Reilly highlighted on National Public Radio\u2019s weekend edition with Scott Simon<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px; margin-top: 10px;\">December 2015: Pick Up at Union Station<br \/>\n<em>\u201c\u2026 a rattling good yarn.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/459464324\/459464325\" width=\"99%\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px; margin-top: 10px;\">December 2014: The Asphalt Warrior Series\u2026<br \/>\n<em>\u201cHuge Fun.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/372070487\/372070488\" width=\"99%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"home-blurb\" style=\"width: 48%; height: 1200px; float: right; font-size: 90%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The-DIscharge-464-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Discharge by Gary Reilly\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 90%;margin-top:-35px;\">The Vietnam Series<\/h2>\n<p>Stories of one young man\u2019s search for his place within the ranks and his place in the world.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 90%;\" href=\"https:\/\/theasphaltwarrior.com\/index.php\/vietnam-series\/\">Read More\u2026.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">\u201cHonest and artfully told \u2026 highly recommended.\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 90%;\">~ Tim Bazzett, author of the Cold War memoir, SOLDIER BOY: AT PLAY IN THE ASA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201d \u2018What good are MPs?\u2019 Gary Reilly\u2019s Private Palmer wonders. Like Michael Casey\u2019s Obscenities, The Detachment answers by following one military policeman across his absurd tour of duty in Vietnam. The character trajectory and treatment are classic as so is The Detachment.\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;\">~Stewart O\u2019Nan, author of&nbsp;<strong>The Names of the Dead;&nbsp;<\/strong>editor of<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;\"><strong>The Vietnam Reader<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a novel like The Detachment sensibly illuminates every process of a vast crazy enterprise, such as the war in Vietnam, it is invariably \u2014 and appropriately \u2014 compared to the masterpiece Catch 22. Gary Reilly has measured every action through soldier Palmer\u2019s time in the service, every duty, in prose which is clean and careful and he brings us scene by scene the aggregate of one man\u2019s experience. It\u2019s a powerful and convincing book, Catch 23 or 24, vivid, considered, and real.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;\"><br \/>\n~ Ron Carlson, author of&nbsp;<strong>Return to Oakpine&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Five Skies<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n\u201cThere has never been a war novel quite like this, a minute-by-minute, stream-of-consciousness, unerring accurate portrait of army life.\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;\">~ John Mort, author of<br \/>\n<strong>Solider in Paradise<\/strong><br \/>\nand<br \/>\n<strong>DONT MEAN NOTHIN, Vietnam War Stories<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGary Reilly is the G.I. 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