Background
Burns, Rex Sehler was born on June 13, 1935 in San Diego, California, United States. Son of Cecil Thomas Sehler and Janice Hazel (Heinrich) Burns.
( Once, Denver's small-time pushers sold nothing harder t...)
Once, Denver's small-time pushers sold nothing harder than dime bags of bad California grass. But in the last year, heroin has appeared on the streets of the Mile High City. Detective Gabe Wager and his rookie partner spend their nights trailing dealers, making buys, and acquiring informants. After months picking up scraps, a stray piece of information is about to put Wager on to the biggest bust of his career. A letter from the Seattle DEA puts him on the hunt for nearly a thousand pounds of smuggled marijuana. The case could make Wager's career--if the smugglers don't kill him first.
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( A forcibly retired marine investigates the disappearanc...)
A forcibly retired marine investigates the disappearance of a young girl. Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Steele is too honest for Washington. If any other Marine Corps investigator had noticed a congressman's corruption, he might have kept his mouth shut. But Steele knows his ultimate duty and blows the whistle on a treasonous lawmaker, earning himself a pat on the back and a swift kick out the door. Steele returns to his hometown of San Diego, hoping for a quiet retirement. Instead he finds a chilling mystery that will make him question everything about the country he spent so long trying to protect. While helping a friend search for his missing granddaughter, Steele makes his way to Colorado. There he uncovers a sinister satanic cult, whose acolytes relish sacrificial death, and who won't think twice about trying to take out an honorable ex-marine.
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( To get his agency off the ground, security expert Devli...)
To get his agency off the ground, security expert Devlin Kirk takes a dangerous case Sabotage threatens the profits of industrial giant McAllister Enterprises. Twice already, accounting errors have forced the company to drop out of $100 million deals, and both times a competing firm, the Aegis Group, swooped in to take over. The CEO suspects industrial espionage, and the obvious suspect is division director Austin Haas, who declined a job offer from Aegis six months ago but may be working for them from the inside. Before firing Haas, the CEO wants to be sure. In this industry, when you want to be sure, you call Devlin Kirk. Kirk, an ex-Secret Service agent, is struggling to establish his new private security agency. He doesn't like McAllister and he doesn't like the case, but debts are mounting against his small firm, and his client list is too short to say no. When Haas is found shot in an apparent suicide, things move from legal to lethal.
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( The seemingly motiveless and unconnected slayings of tw...)
The seemingly motiveless and unconnected slayings of two strip-tease dancers lead Gabe Wager into the seedy underworld of the city where topless bars, all-night restaurants, and a furtive street life are the rule. Gabe decides to tackle the case on his own and disguises himself as a drug dealer to penetrate this underworld and its secrets. As Wager becomes immersed in the subculture, he finds he has also become a target for the murderer.
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(Asked by an old rodeo rider to look into the activities o...)
Asked by an old rodeo rider to look into the activities of his sons, Denver homicide detective Gabe Wager and his girl friend Jo Fabrizio take a vacation in Western Colorado. The resulting investigation leads them to discover modern crimes lurking in the beautiful landscape, and death waiting on the river.
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(Homicide Detective Gabe Wager is faced with a murder that...)
Homicide Detective Gabe Wager is faced with a murder that leads him from Denver to southwest Colorado and into the tangled and secretive relationships of polygamist cults. This novel was the basis of the Charles Bronson movie, "Messenger of Death."
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( A tip about a murdered mob boss forces Gabe Wager to re...)
A tip about a murdered mob boss forces Gabe Wager to reopen a cold case A year ago, Marco Scorvelli was murdered while picking up his morning paper. A sawed-off shotgun put a hole in his stomach, and streaked the inside of his sports coat with the mob boss' innards. As Scorvelli crawled toward his front door, the killer left the shotgun angled neatly on the sidewalk. No prints were recovered, and no headway was ever made on the case. Now a reliable underworld source passes a message to homicide detective Gabe Wager. The killing wasn't ordered by a rival family, but by Scorvelli's brother, in an attempt to take control of the organization. After a year of peace, a war is about to erupt between Denver's Italian and Hispanic crime syndicates, and Gabe Wager will be in the middle, trying to keep the city from burning to the ground.
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(Denver homicide detective Gabe Wager is confronted with t...)
Denver homicide detective Gabe Wager is confronted with the murder of a Black city councilman. When he learns that the victim has been stepping out with a white lady, Wager is under pressure to solve the delicate case before riot erupts.
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("Detective Gabriel Wager . . . was going undercover as Ga...)
"Detective Gabriel Wager . . . was going undercover as Gabriel Villanueva, dealer-on-the-make. He would be issued a driving licence in that name, a new Social Security Card, and everything else he needed, including a past as an ex-Texas ranch hand, and an ex-wife. . . . He needed clothes, too--especially a hat, an expensive one. . . . All this to help Wagher close in on a man named Farnsworth: a dealer, so big he thought no-one could touch him. Wager was tough, and he knew he way around. But he didn't realize how much trouble lay ahead."
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( A botched coke bust forces Wager to go undercover for t...)
A botched coke bust forces Wager to go undercover for the first time in years. For six months, the Denver narcotics team and the DEA have built a case against a cocaine-dealing heavy named Farnsworth. When Detective Reitman makes the final buy, he runs a field test to make sure the package of powder he's just purchased is really cocaine. The test is positive, and the bust goes down. Afterwards, the DEA's lab says that Reitman was wrong - he'd just bought two and a half pounds of harmless, legal lactose. The case is thrown out, Reitman is busted down to uniform work, and Gabe Wager has to pick up the pieces. The department asks Detective Wager to go undercover and build a new case against Farnsworth. It has been years since Wager impersonated a drug addict, and undercover work's heady mix of lies and fear has ceased to hold any appeal. Reluctantly, he dons his new identity, and hopes that his colleague's screw-up doesn't cost him his life.
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Burns, Rex Sehler was born on June 13, 1935 in San Diego, California, United States. Son of Cecil Thomas Sehler and Janice Hazel (Heinrich) Burns.
Burns graduated from Stanford University with a degree in English and Creative Writing. He went on to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy in American Studies at the University of Minnesota, but his studies were temporarily interrupted by a term in the United States Marine Corps, where he rose to the rank of Captain.
He has published numerous books, stories, articles, and reviews. Until 2000, when he retired, Burns was a professor of American literature at the University of Colorado. At the age of 45, Burns began writing novels.
The book introduced Gabriel Wager, a hard-drinking Mexican-American detective with the Denver police force.
The Wager series lasted for ten more books, one of which (The Avenging Angel) was adapted into the 1988 film Messenger of Death, starring Charles Bronson.
( The seemingly motiveless and unconnected slayings of tw...)
(The seemingly motiveless and unconnected slayings of two ...)
( Devlin investigates a missing Salvadoran’s gruesome fat...)
(Asked by an old rodeo rider to look into the activities o...)
(Homicide Detective Gabe Wager is faced with a murder that...)
(Homicide Detective Gabe Wager is faced with a murder that...)
( To get his agency off the ground, security expert Devli...)
( A tip about a murdered mob boss forces Gabe Wager to re...)
( A tip about a murdered mob boss forces Gabe Wager to re...)
(The first in the "Devlin Kirk" private eye series finds 2...)
(Denver homicide detective Gabe Wager is confronted with t...)
( Once, Denver's small-time pushers sold nothing harder t...)
( Once, Denver's small-time pushers sold nothing harder t...)
( A botched coke bust forces Wager to go undercover for t...)
( A forcibly retired marine investigates the disappearanc...)
( A forcibly retired marine investigates the disappearanc...)
( Now working homicide, Wager lands a gruesome case in th...)
("Detective Gabriel Wager . . . was going undercover as Ga...)
President Colorado Authors League, Denver, 1980-1981. First lieutenant United States Marine Corps Reserve, 1958-1961. Member Bouchercon, Mystery Writers American (regional vice president 1978-1981, Edgar award 1976), Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Torch Club, Private Eye Writers American, International Association Crime Writers.
Married Emily Anne Sweitzer, January 30, 1959 (divorced March 1984). Children: Christopher, Erik, Andrew. Married Terry Deane Fostvedt, April 10, 1987.
Children: Michael, Eric, Anakija, Kari Lea.