“Salvatore is about manhood, friendship, combat and surrender, about facing inner demons and finding a way home. The mythologist Joseph Campbell describes the ‘hero's journey’ as a narrative that touches us most deeply. Salvatore is, bar none, the best such adventure I have read in a very long time.”
— Victor Garlock, Ph. D., author, Your Genius Within
“With the same flowing prose, brilliant description, and outstanding character development as in The Flight of Jimmy Eagleson, Jeff Delbel continues the Jimmy Eagleson series in Salvatore. A must read.”
— James Chamberlain, JR Novels and Books
Winner of the 2018 CNY People's Choice Award
Salvatore Esposito is rich, brilliant, and built like a gladiator, but he battles powerful demons. His past torments him with nightmares. He burns with hatred for his convict brother. The 2008 economic crash and a demented criminal's vendetta take him near the brink. Then an uncanny Labrador retriever and a mysterious stranger show up.
Salvatore is the second novel in the Jimmy Eagleson series and can be read first with equal impact. Old friends meet with new as an odyssey takes Sal from the Tampa Bay and shores of Lake Champlain, to London, Amsterdam, and the jungles and sacred havens of India. As Sal faces his oppressors, everyone in the way is in danger, including himself.
Winner of the 2017 CNY People's Choice Award
Jimmy Eagleson is a high-power, high-living lawyer with more money than he can spend, but life isn't good. His grinding disquiet from empty, stone-cold memories of his father is intensified by the bitterness of divorce and his cynicism toward the American business world he thrives in. Then, a trove of secret letters from World War II turns up.
Jimmy's flight takes him to a brawl in the Adirondacks' backwoods, sailing in the Gulf of Mexico with a much younger woman, a showdown with his unscrupulous New York City adversary, back in time to Second World War Europe, and finally to a multifaceted and thought-provoking end.
“The Flight of Jimmy Eagleson soars into the literary canon on a breath of fresh air, with writing that's genuine and masterful, characters who are unabashedly honest and often delightfully warty, defying standard genre tropes as it tells a unique story that will appeal to readers of both genders who appreciate a great, gripping read. Eagerly awaiting more from this writer!”
– Elizabeth Haydon, Author of The Symphony of Ages series
Reader's choice: Auburn novelist wins book award two years in a row
—Kelly Rocheleau, The Citizen
Cayuga Professor Wins Book Award
—Ted Baker, Finger Lakes Daily News
Familiar names receive recognition: CNY books and authors
—Casey Rose Frank, The Post-Standard
Reading resolutions for a new year: CNY books and authors
—Casey Rose Frank, The Post-Standard
'Eagleson' takes flight: Auburn man releases first in new series of novels
—Greg Mason, The Citizen
“This book has best seller and movie written all over it.”
—JR Novels and Best Seller Books
