"Silver or Lead is an exciting thriller fueled with humor, secrets, and revenge." - Sublime Book Review

SILVER OR LEAD - A regular meeting of two old friends at a café/bookstore turns from the mundane to the mind-boggling when an explosion propels them on a journey inhabited by a drug cartel warlord who loves animals, an eight year old cancer patient with a penchant for C.S. Lewis, a faux Cajun FBI Agent, and a plant manager of a historic hospital who also dabbles in “decorative corpses”…all culminating in a race to save a young woman who just might have to kill them for their trouble.

JAMES COX is a writer, an actor and a twenty year veteran of the United States Navy. SILVER OR LEAD is his first novel. James has written several plays which have been presented at various Los Angeles area theatres.“Love, Madness and Somewhere in Between”, a solo show that James wrote and performed in at the Hudson Theatre,won the Ovation Award at the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival. He is currently working on his second novel, a thriller set in Japan. He dedicates SILVER OR LEAD to his late mother,Lucille. James lives in Pasadena, CA.