CASEY BARRETT – The Tower of Songs
He’s a Canadian Olympian and the co-founder / co-CEO of Imagine Swimming, New York City’s largest learn-to-swim school.
As a provocative voice in the swimming and Olympic community, he has won three Emmy awards and one Peabody award for his work on NBC’s broadcasts of the Olympic Games. He’s also written a column for Swimming World magazine and was the author of the popular swimming blog, Cap & Goggles.
He’s currently 3 volumes deep into a series of books built around the exploits of a former rich kid, felon, and swimmer, who now works in the shadows, of the streets of New York City.
Together with his partner, dominatrix Cassandra Kimball, Lawrence Darley, Jr., known to his friends as “Duck” has become a highly sought-after ‘finder’ for wealthy Manhattan families in need of assistance with their darkest secrets.
Today, we’re going to peel open the pages of Book 3 in the Duck Darley series, The Tower of Songs, with our guest…. Casey Barrett…
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Book #3 in the Duck Darley Series
Unlicensed Private Investigator, Duck Darley, has embraced an improbable stretch of sobriety when Layla, a sharpe-tongued Park Avenue teenager with a family as screwed up as Darley’s own, presents a twisted missing-persons case he finds he can’t refuse. Layla has seen video of her billionaire father being abducted from their penthouse home at the top of one of the tallest residential towers in Manhattan. She suspects her grandmother, a Chinese social climber who’s currently on husband number three…
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Book #2 in the Duck Darley Series
Settling into an airy penthouse above the corrupt streets of Manhattan, unlicensed P.I. Duck Darley is growing accustomed to an unlikely domestic routine with a wealthy divorcée and her eight-year-old son. Just as things seem to be going in the right direction, old nightmares arise through a desperate text from Cass Kimball, the former partner Duck once took a bullet to protect. Cass needs help and Duck can’t turn her away, even if he knows the call will lead him back into sworn-off vices and the sinister world of professional sports…
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Book #1 in the Duck Darley Series
Former competitive swimmer, who at one time seemed destined for Olympic gold, Duck Darley is now barely scraping by as an unlicensed Private Investigator, chasing down cheating spouses for the same Manhattan elite who once viewed him as their “golden boy” equal. Duck’s lost glory days resurface when he’s hired to track down the teenaged sister of a former teammate turned Olympic champion. Duck senses that he’s hunting for a self-destructive runaway, then Madeline’s film student ex is savagely murdered and the media identifies her as the psycho who killed him.
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What is a goal? It’s been defined in many ways, most of them so complex that things get fuzzy and complicated. Put simply, a goal is something you want to do. PUSH is designed to help readers think about things more simply. Identify your goals and put forth the simple, dedicated effort to achieve them. Having acheived one goal, it becomes easier to pursue others. We tend to make it complex. PUSH seeks to make it simple.
PUSH is designed to help each reader find their own personal pathway of identity and, having found it, pursue their dreams in a simple, attainable fashion that leads to achievement. Broken into a handful of easy-to-read essays, PUSH mixes humor, common sense, and thought-provoking insight in an effort to give each reader the opportunity to see for themselves why they have absolutely no shot at ever being ordinary.
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You’re being watched… You may not realize it, and the person watching you may never clue you in, but you’re being watched. It happens each day in the most undetectable way. Somewhere, someone is watching.
You touch more lives and topple more dominoes than you could ever imagine. For someone, you are the light in their darkness or the example to which they aspire. Completely disconnecting from the society in which we live is impossible. Even in death, our lives continue to touch others, both in the moment and as time slowly passes.
Don’t Forget Your Cape doesn’t dance off into the fancy world of who each person can be. I’ve always left that “think your way to wonderful” philosophy to other writers. It just doesn’t suit me and I’d bet that it doesn’t really suit you either. I’d rather be a part of a face-to-face journey that cuts through the fog and connects me with who I am. That’s where my value can be found and that’s where this journey takes each reader.
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“Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” There’s a brilliant irony in that quote; no one claims authorship and no one seems to be able to identify its true origin. Although the world is very familiar with this song and dance, no one knows the singer or the dancer.
Why do you do what you do? It’s a useful question to ponder. If you knew that no one would hear your song, would you still sing? Knowing that the chairs in the auditorium will be empty, will you still take the stage and dance just as enthusiastically?
HELLO… Is This On? explores why we do what we do and speaks to our ability to develop self-trust and quiet confidence, even in the face of daunting circumstances or, in some cases, no measurable response at all.
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What is a goal? It’s been defined in many ways, most of them so complex that things get fuzzy and complicated. Put simply, a goal is something you want to do. PUSH is designed to help readers think about things more simply. Identify your goals and put forth the simple, dedicated effort to achieve them.
You may not realize it, but you’re being watched. It happens each day in the most undetectable way. Somewhere, someone is watching. You touch more lives and topple more dominoes than you could ever imagine. For someone, you are the light in their darkness or the example to which they aspire.
Why do you do what you do? It’s a useful question to ponder. If you knew that no one would hear your song, would you still sing? Knowing that the chairs in the auditorium will be empty, will you still take the stage and dance just as enthusiastically? Explore why you do what you do and develop self-trust and quiet confidence.