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Stupid

Steve Powell

Claret Press

Paperback

248pp

ISBN: 9781910461860

Fiction

Publication date: 25 September 2025

Rights: WorldWorld EnglishUK & CommonwealthAudioTranslationUK & Ireland

£12.99

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Phil Osgood has it all. The wonderful wife, the fabulous kids, the lucrative career. He really only has one problem. He’s bored.

Quietly, Phil steps out of his lane and moonlights with a local detective. It’s a good compromise.

What starts as a diversion turns into a hunt for missing friends. When the hunt leads to bodies and Phil is implicated, the diversion gets personal – and deadly.

For the first time, Phil isn’t sure he’s going to win. And if he loses, he loses everything.

Praise for Steve Powell’s Term Limits:

“Brilliant and timely political who-done-it.”

Alan Steele-Nicholson, press officer for former US Senator Jacob Javits

“Mr. Powell is one h*** of a storyteller.”

D. W. Hawk, Amazon reviewer

“A real page turner, this psychological thriller holds many truths – both spoken and unspoken – about America’s current political problems. Term Limits is dark, violent, but also very passionate about how political corruption damages the live of ordinary Americans. This novel could be required reading for all readers no matter what their political views.”

Amazon Review

“Steve Powell has walked a literary tightrope that skillfully balances him between a fast paced whodunit and a concise, well reasoned political dissertation on term limits. As a thriller, the plot will pull you into a rollercoaster ride with twists and turns that will keep you turning pages long into the night. As a political OpEd, the book persuasively and poignantly argues for term limits in a way that should cause both Democrats and Republicans to finally agree on something. Powell does all of this while bringing us into the heart and mind of the killer. Fun, thought provoking and scary, all at the same time. 5 Stars.”

Amazon Review

Steve Powell

Steve Powell is a retired bond trader. He has degrees in finance from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He spent the first half of his career at Bankers Trust Company in New York and London. In 1994, he founded his own firm, Smith Point Investments. He ran Smith Point for fifteen years. Steve is an avid runner and a struggling but optimistic golfer. He is married with four grown sons and lives in Connecticut, where he owns a small gym and writes.