Take a 26-year-old divorced Vietnam veteran with a roving eye. Put him on the streets of New Orleans' historic French Quarter in the spring of 1973-with the war and "the 60s" winding down, and Watergate and the women's movement winding up. Give him a uniform and a gun. And stand back.

Help! Murder! Police! Is a cop's cop novel. It zeroes in on the day-to-day mission of an average patrolman on the streets of one of America's most intriguing cities at a critical moment in the history of the American psyche.

It is the story of a man of his times trying to come to terms with violence, racism, corruption-and women.

In its reflection of the everydayness of the policing business and its concern for the growth of its brash "hero," the novel strives to "tell it like it is." Often surprising, sometimes sobering it is never without a wry sense of the comedy of the human condition. Names have been changed to protect the innocent-and the guilty.

The Aquarius Conspiracy is a history lesson of turbulent political years of the early 1970's, particularly in New Orleans, where at Southern University in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, political rising was shaped.

Evidently, public opinion was such that no political significance was given to blacks in New Orleans.

The facts tell us that there was evidence of such a revolutionary movement, which in the story, is called the Black Liberation Front (BLF).

Detective Danny Cocchiara and his new black partner discover that they share a common culture, and then, with candor and humor, they learn how to work together in a period of racial tension.

This suspenseful story ends only when Major Cocchiara confronts the Archbishop of New Orleans, who then unravels the mystery.

Freeze! A Guide to Safe Travel in the United States, was conceived by Dr. Wade Schindler when he was called as an expert witness in a notorious trial involving the death of a young Japanese exchange student in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The young student, Yoshi Hattori, looking for directions to a party, approached a home and was killed by the homeowner, Rodney Peairs, who mistakenly thought the youth was attempting to enter his home. Because of the language barrier and not being familiar with U.S. customs, Yoshi Hattori did not understand when Mr. Peairs shouted out the commonly used American term, "Freeze!"

Dr. Schindler developed the idea of a guidebook for the foreign traveler to the United States-a guidebook that would go beyond the ordinary travel guide to give visitors to this country insight into ways of protecting themselves from the all too common criminal attacks in the United States. The book discusses every aspect of safety from living arrangements to travel by automobiles, planes and trains, as well as how to sightsee and shop safely.

Dr. Schindler has been involved in law enforcement and private security for many years. A professor of criminal justice and criminology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, Dr. Schindler is a nationally recognized expert witness incases involving self-defense, law enforcement and security matters.