Robert Rahula

Is Death a person? A force that moves through the world taking lives for sport? It seems thus to Ricardo, as he lies alone in a hospital bed in a foreign country, hoping that his doctors can save his life.

Is Ozempic the answer to your prayers or just another trick by Big Pharma to take your money? Ex-detective Dan Landes follows a trail of corporate greed that leads to murder in WEIGHTLESS. An ambitious doctor opens up a fancy weight-loss vacation resort for the ultra-wealthy in Panama, hoping to...

What happens when AI hits the porn industry? Dan Landes is about to find out in INAUTHENTICITY, a tale of murder among the upper echelon of porn producers who are fighting to control the new world of AI porn. When a top porn producer is found dead of a heart attack in Panama, ex-detective Dan...

Follow ex-detective Dan Landes as he tries to unravel the riddle of thirty-three centuries in the Treasure of the Gran Ventura....

One day, one short day, in the life of Panamaniac and expat Ricardo, a day where nothing - and everything - happens, from a magical talking Giant Fly to lectures on the effect of gravity on love by the old man of the town....

When Ricardo moves into the small apartment complex of expats in Panama, he thinks he’s found paradise. An emotional and sexual sanctuary from all he left behind in the states, until Alison points out how strange some of the residents are....

Dan Landes is “ex” everything: expatriate, ex-detective, and exhausted. He has returned to Panama from a year of recuperation in the United States, ready to resume a quiet life of hunting ayahuasca plants in the mountains. But evil is coming to Panama—or rather, through Panama—as a...

No one would suspect that Dan Landes, an ex-LA cop known for methodically building cases against criminals, was a former ayahuasca user. He thought he had buried his past when he retired to Panama 10 years ago. But a brutal murder forces him to return to the States. Now, to save his soul, he has...

What if, after you die, your life just continues on, in exactly the same manner as when you were alive? In this riveting and often humorous novel by Robert Rahula, an American expat wakes up dead in Toledo, Spain, and discovers that nothing has changed, except that he is dead. He continues to...

Dan Landes is one of many US expats who thought he had escaped the madness of the world when he emigrated to Panama twenty years ago. Panama was his safe haven, his piece of paradise. But international conflicts are spreading, and encroaching on utopia. Outside of Panama, the world is plagued by...

“It has always been my belief that the smallest of quirks can set into motion huge events, or forestall huge events… for example, how stopping to tie your shoe makes you thirty seconds late to the intersection that you normally cross on your way to work, and thus you avoid being mowed down...

What if there was a pill that stopped all addiction? Dr. Disraeli Gaye has developed such a pill, and it’s on its way to FDA approval. The only problem is…someone is trying to kill the good doctor.

Does it feel like people are getting stupider? No, it’s not your imagination. New government data shows that the general intelligence level in the US is plummeting. Investigative reporter Ben Wozniak is trying to uncover why. Is the quality of teachers to blame? Or the increased use of AI? Or...

A dying confession from an old man in a nursing home leads ex-detective Dan Landes and Panamanian Police Chief José Fernando into an amazing and twisting story of real crime.

What if you created the PERFECT meme crypto coin? Not a scam, not a rug pull, not a hoax, but the perfect new crypto token that everybody wanted to buy? Hector Gonzalez, a 15-year-old in Panama, has done exactly that, and people are buying it—by the millions. But while cryptocurrency may be...