Chocolate Soup    

“Grab hold New Orleans!  Del Staecker’s Chocolate Soup is an exceptional non-stop action thriller that takes you for a doozy of a ride through a post-Katrina web of crime, deceit, cover-ups, and kinky weirdness.  It is a must read for fans and friends of the Crescent City! I absolutely could not put it down—and neither will you!” 
-  Jeff Crouere, host of Ringside Politics radio and TV show.
“Which psychotic murderer will find him first?  Which law enforcement agency is playing God with innocent lives?  Ledge Trabue is back home in his beloved New Orleans and he is tracking down the evil that has destroyed his perfect world. WARNING!  If you pick up Chocolate Soup you will not be able to put it down until you finish—it’s compelling reading!” 
-- Rollye James, host of satellite radio’s The Rollye James Show
“Del Staecker really knows and understands what he writes about.  I promise that you will not be able to get Chocolate Soup out of your mind!”
– John Steiner, former FBI Special Agent and SWAT Team Leader

Synopsis: Ledge Trabue, Gulf War veteran, unpaid sleuth and part-time adventurer, is finally at home—comfortably ensconced at the Colonnade Hotel—enjoying his peculiarly unique lifestyle and the company of an eclectic group of friends.  All is well, or so he thinks, when his finicky stomach begins its disturbing habit of flip-flopping.  Trabue’s early warning system for an approaching disaster is right-on and soon New Orleans is reeling under an onslaught of greed and deceit greater than any storm it has ever weathered.  Under an avalanche of evil the hoped for chocolate city is reduced to an unsavory Chocolate Soup.