Asphalt Warrior Series

Introducing Denverite Brendan Murphy, or "Murph" as he is known to the rest of the world. He lives alone in his crow's nest apartment, fries a hamburger for every meal, does his dish, then channel surfs for reruns of Gilligans Island. He is a radical minimalist. He strives to earn no more money as a driver for Rocky Mountain Taxi Company than his needs require. He is determined to stay out of the lives of those he transports. He struggles with one issue and is spectacularly bad with the other.

In Ticket to Hollywood, the second of 11 comic novels based on cab driver Brendan Murphy, a.k.a "Murph," a young woman on the way to a showing of The Great Gatsby leaves her purse behind in Murph's Rocky Mountain Taxi Cab #127 - and then goes missing. Murph finds himself confronted by police and loses his job. He becomes entangled with filmmakers and makes his way to Los Angeles in search of the lost woman and in desperate need to restore his reputation and regain normalcy, which in Murph's case means doing as little as possible.

Denver cabbie, Brendan Murphy, known to all as Murph, has two goals in life. First, to earn no more than it takes to keep his bohemian lifestyle afloat. Second, to never, under any circumstances, get involved in the lives of his passengers. In The Heart of Darkness Club, the third in novelist Gary Reilly's Asphalt Warrior series, Murph once again fails spectacularly at his second goal the minute he picks up a mover named Trowbridge. Movers in Murph's world are not to be confused with movers and shakers. Trowbridge pays his fare with a crisp five-dollar bill.

It’s Christmas time, and Denver taxi driver Brendan Murphy, a.k.a. "Murph", leaves his cab behind to visit his family in Wichita, where he finds himself reluctantly reconnecting with his siblings. Murph takes it upon himself to save an old friend from making the biggest mistake of his life - accepting a job where suits and ties are everyday attire.

In Doctor Lovebeads, Denver taxi driver Brendan Murphy, a.k.a "Murph", ignores the little voice in the back of his head that says to stay out of the lives of his passengers. Instead, he goes undercover as a hippie - muslin, sandals, VW van and all - to rescue two girls he believes have been brainwashed by a cult leader.