Thomas A. Phelan Penned a Top Secret Diary of a Private Eye

April 5, 2011 - PRLog -- In his new controversial, tell-all memoir, Man in the Shadows: Diary of a Private Eye (published by AuthorHouse), award-winning author Thomas A. Phelan finally reveals his true, death-defying experiences traveling to various countries throughout the world as a security consultant, along with his sometimes dangerous dealings as a private investigator in New York.

A former New York City police officer, Mr. Phelan is no stranger to danger. In fact, he has been shot, stabbed, bitten, dragged by a stolen car and crushed by another. Little did he know that his gig as a private detective would turn out to be just as life-threatening, protecting men like Jimmy Hoffa, the Rolling Stones and even the security advisor to the U.S. delegate to the Middle East. His name has definitely appeared on many hit lists in his lifetime.

Man in the Shadows shares Mr. Phelan's incredible stories of saving a delegate from three Arabs who were believed to have assassinated the CIA Chief of Station in Athens, Greece, how his plane from Madrid, Spain, was sabotaged at 39,000 feet and how unknown assailants tried to blow up his car back in the Big Apple. Follow bodyguard Mr. Phelan and millionaire Howard Saft into secret meetings with Wilbur Mills, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee as well as other well-known people when Mr. Phelan is assigned to protect three cases containing more than $2 million in cash.

As the only investigator in his book who is still alive, only Mr. Phelan can document these true stories and relive the fierce action that he has constantly encountered (and narrowly escaped with his life) in his thrilling new memoir, Man in the Shadows.

Born and raised in New York City, Thomas A. Phelan served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II and the Korean War. Later, after he studied modem criminal investigation and forensic techniques, he joined the NYC Police Department in 1955, where he made more than 1,200 arrests. In 1960, he left the NYCPD and opened his own detective agency, The Hunters, Inc. In addition, Mr. Phelan has been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies throughout the world.

He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry and has won seven Golden Poet Awards and three Poet of the Year Awards from the International Library of Poetry. He has also been listed in Writers, Editors and Poets as "Who's Who” and was featured in the New York Times "On Books” column. In addition to Man in the Shadows, Mr. Phelan has also published Cornucopia of Life, Love, Myth and Dreams, Modem Haiku and A Point beyond Silence, a collection of award-winning poems that has received the prestigious Author's Award from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is presently editing his new books: Jukaido, Cusp of Aquarius and Indian Lore. Mr. Phelan has won the New York Poetry Foundation Award, Poetry Press Award, numerous honorable mentions and first place in the Teaneck Foundation for Bergen Countywide Poetry Contest. He has read his poetry at WOR-TV Channel 9, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Festivals, Poets in Schools Program for Lodi Board of Education, Bergen Poets Readings, Kenneth R. Balter Foundation Poetry Series and the University of Illinois. He is a Grand Master 10th Band Black Belt instructor of Taekwondo Budokwan and 1974 International Gold Cup Open Middleweight Champion fighting Kumite. Mr. Phelan was a talk show host of "That's The Way It Is" broadcast on JUKE BOX Radio, NJ and WNWR NJ. He has appeared on various television specials and formerly wrote a poetry column for New Jersey’s Twin Boro News. Currently semiretired, Mr. Phelan has four married children, six grandchildren and two great-granddaughters.

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