ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND HIS WORKS
Jon Gegenheimer, a New Orleans native, is an attorney, elected court oficial, and writer of serious literary fiction.
Jon Gegenheimer's Works
Churchill vs Hitler - An Alternative History Novel
Churchill vs. Hitler is Jon Gegenheimer's fourth published novel - an intriguing account of the interesting lives of, among other historical figures, Winston Churchill, Adolph Hitler, Sigmund Freud, and Ian Fleming - as they play their real-life World War II roles.
The story revolves around a golf match in Sweden on June 5th, 1939 between Churchill and Hitler, and it tells us how that classic encounter determined the War's outcome and thus the fate of Western civilization.
In 1929, Winston Churchill is introduced by his closest friend and confidante, F.E. Smith, Lord Birkenhead , to Bernard Darwin who causes Churchill to question his celebrated aversion to golf. Darwin is an accomplished amateur player and renowned golf journalist. His influence on Churchill will prove to be a crucial factor in the outcome of World War II.
The Canon Code
The Canon Code, Jon Gegenheimer's third novel, is a first-of-its-kind literary effort: a new art form-unprecedented in the annals of literature. The reader at some point will wonder: Has Mr. Gegenheimer blurred the line between fiction and fact, as Dickens invariably did; or, is there no line at all? Has he altogether eliminated fiction from the equation? The devoted Dickensian, not to mention all the other avid readers of Western literature, will surely consider a trip to Rochester, Gad's Hill, and London to seek the answers.
The Griffin Murders
Although The Griffin Murders, Jon Gegenheimer's second novel, is predominantly a straight murder mystery, it is of the same genre as The Second Hill. Beyond a spellbinding surface plot, it features deep character development and strikingly relevant themes. Its pace is lively; its prose is rich and finely crafted; and there are plenty of twists and turns along the way.
The Griffin Murders is reminiscent of the Sherlock Holmes adventures. Its protagonists, Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Steve Wyndham and U.S. Attorney Rod West, are Holmes and Watson reincarnated. They follow myriad clues throughout New Orleans’ French Quarter in pursuit of an unusually cunning serial killer who leaves at each murder scene the likeness of a gryphon: the mythical creature that is half eagle and half lion.
Four years after the initial murder, Justice Wyndham, in Holmes-like fashion, unmasks the murderer during a Mardi Gras party at his stately French Quarter residence. The disclosure most certainly will astonish the reader.
Without question, this story will appeal to the devoted whodunit audience. Moreover, it is fine Dickensian writing that informs as much as it entertains. Like The Second Hill, it is a story for the times - written to awaken, delight, educate, and spark conversation. In writing this unique detective adventure, Gegenheimer drew upon his vast experience as a trial lawyer. He believes in the axiom “Write what you know.”
The Second Hill
The Second Hill is a historical, "futuristic" novel that takes the reader from September 11, 2001 to June 7, 2043. The settings are Washington, D.C. London, San Francisco, New Orleans, Manhattan, and Paris. The unusual tale begins on that infamous day when terrorism reached America's shore and ends almost forty-two years later with a startling revelation about the Creator's reaction to (1) the carnage of "9/11" and (2) the evil that caused it. The Second Hill examines the eternal conflicts between good and evil, theism and atheism, moral absolutism and moral relativism, individualism and collectivism, capitalism and socialism, and honesty and deceit - conflicts that, in the final analysis, are about the same thing. The main characters speak and behave much unlike ordinary people. That is as it should be; extraordinary individuals do not carry on in ordinary fashion. Hopefully, it will cause most of those who peruse its pages to think deeply about where the world is and where it most certainly will wind up if it continues down the slippery slope of relativism. Many will see this compelling novel as a conservative manifesto. That is what it is.