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A Cuban family patriarch, late in life, narrates Sour Life, historical fiction surrounding his family’s fight to preserve democracy in that Caribbean island nation; their ultimate loss of their beloved homeland and emigration to the United States; his service as a Green Beret in the Vietnam War; and subsequent medical service in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Underlying these efforts is his struggle to thwart drug trafficking and find the CIA killer of his Laotian wife and unborn child. Revisionist history dominates the first section on Cuba and takes the reader around the world as the ...

Imagine witnessing the greatest devastation mankind had – at that time – ever known: America’s atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. Now imagine, in the midst of such horrific firebombing with unspeakable disintegration and death, a father still mourning the loss of his wife and son under different circumstances, seeing the Shinto deity of fire, Kagutsuchi, laughing as hell spills onto the earth. Imagine once again the father, being tapped by Kagutsuchi’s sister, Suijin, to become transformed and embark on a mission to destroy her brother’s demons and save Japan. In We Walk on Ash, ...

Who was Pontius Pilate and what gave him the notoriety that has endured for thousands of years? In this historical novel, Pablo Zaragoza explores the total man from birth to death. Pontius Pilate was born into an equestrian family, received military training and academic studies at an early age, and grew to become a loyal soldier, fearlessly going into battle and courageously contributing to the expanse of the Roman Empire. Pilate’s roots ran deep in the Italian countryside, and as he aged, he yearned more and more for home and family, for vineyards and barley fields, and for the laughter...

Albert Delacour has always longed to fly. Growing up on a modest farm in the backwoods of north central Florida, his fascination with the sky first takes root when he witnesses the daring stunts of a 1930s flying circus. That passion deepens when his uncle gifts him the pieces of a one-man plane to build—his first real step toward the freedom of the clouds. But dreams come at a cost. Determined to serve and soar, Albert joins the military, enduring grueling hardship and sacrifice as he rises through the ranks. His journey eventually takes him halfway around the world, where he becomes ...

"With each passing page, the twists and turns of the plot keep you hooked. Anyone who loves Buddy cop movies or sleuth stories will find this one entertaining." New York Detectives Matson and Smith, assigned the Chinatown beat, soon find themselves in the midst of mutilations and murders, the nefarious deeds of Ti Chu Cum, leader of a Chinese Mafia-like organization bent on carving out control of NYC Chinatown. With Inspector Han from Hong Kong, whose family had been murdered by the same man, the partners face increasing threats, forcing them to relocate their families out of state. The ...

Pablo Zaragoza looks at another group of people facing persecution by the Nazi regime. In Gypsy Heroine, he weaves World War II history throughout the story of a gypsy grandmother living in self-imposed isolation in England. Her granddaughter – born of her estranged daughter who had distanced herself from her gypsy heritage and married an American – travels to Lancaster to broaden her understanding of her ancestry. In the process, around a campfire in the woods, she listens with rapt attention as her grandmother weaves heroic accounts of her attempts to rescue fellow gypsies from the ...

In Adolf Hitler’s early rise to power, he stirred the souls of impressionable youth in alehouses of Munich and beyond. One such young man, Hans Reinhard Richter, ignored is brother’s warnings about the madman and immersed himself in Hitler’s promise for a greater Germany. “I put on my black shirt and marched.” He joined the Nazi Party and quickly rose in ranks to answer to the likes of Himmler and Göring. As an SS officer himself, Hans was charged with overseeing coal mines, reconfiguring them as gold depositories. He fulfilled his superiors’ orders to steal from banks, museums...

What happened to Rick Blaine, Ilsa Lund, Louis Renault, and Sam after the plane for Portugal took off, leaving moviegoers with those now famous lines that Rick uttered as he and Louis walk into the fog, “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”? The authors have pieced together the history of our brave band of players in a world gone mad in the throes of World War II.Brazzaville is the code name of Pierre Renault’s group of French Resistance fighters based in Morocco. They join the foursome on the first of many missions to rescue their friends being detained by...

In another trip down memory lane, New York Chief of Police Robert Matson remembers the 1980’s case of Oscar Ortiz, a Cuban-born national who arrived with the first wave of the Mariel boatlift people by order of Castro. Some of the boat people arriving with refugees were known criminals and the mentally ill who settled down in Miami, New York, and other American cities. Ortiz’s case hit the headlines when he protested being denied his religious freedom. The New York Times story portrayed him as a victim having been prosecuted because of his Afro-Cuban religious beliefs, with no mention ...

NYC Detectives Matson and Smith receive the case of Mattie James, once a high-end prostitute, retired and peddling on a street corner, murdered and dumped in an alley. Matson’s wife Sissy, whom he had rescued from the street life, says Mattie’s shabby, unkempt appearance doesn’t sound like the Mattie she knew who enjoyed living in luxury. While the detective duo investigates Mattie’s murder, New York City experiences the chaos of the Civil Rights Movement, the murder of Malcolm X, and reverberations of Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination in Memphis, TN. With riots on street ...

“Set in 1950s NYC, the hero fights crime amid racial tension and the rise of Nazism. A fascinating story, packed with suspense and plenty of intrigue.” Matson’s forensic boss, O’Neal, a crusty Scotsman, sends Matson to the crime scene in Manhattan, where he learns that three men, all with the same name, are murder victims, suspiciously in a three-block radius of each other. He hooks up with his former partner, Harvey Smith, and the two cops plug into the world of spies, Nazis, and Operation Paperclip. In their investigation into the three murders, all revealing ties with Hitler, the...

“Zaragoza leads the reader through a horrific murder plot with both speed and efficiency. A good murder mystery but also a good social issues story.” New York City’s Police Chief, Robert Matson, reflects on his first murder case when, as a newly discharged Korean War veteran, he returns home to Harlem to find a color line blocking his admission to the police academy. Matson takes interim work as a janitor, but his skills in the military police come to light when Bumpy Johnson, Harlem’s unofficial mayor, pimp, and drug czar, seeks Matson’s help tracking down the killer of his ...

New York City Detective Robert Matson receives the complex case of an ex-Russian agent walking into a hospital and saying someone had killed him. At first, skeptical of the man’s claim, Matson learns that the Russian is a CIA informant who has been spilling the beans about KGB operations. Matson and his partner, Harvey Smith, have their work cut out for them to shift through the characters that have swirled around the man and the unexpected physical evidence they uncover. They immerse themselves in a community that doesn’t trust the police and is riddled with secrets. The case becomes ...

From an early age in Germany, Kitty Schmidt had lived a life of hardship. Her father had brutally murdered her mother, forcing Kitty to live with her aged grandparents. Her grandfather died and to finance his burial, Kitty had to have sex with the undertaker. This opened the door to her life as a prostitute. It was a journey of poverty, triumph, and evolution; not that of a savvy businesswoman. Her reputation grew. When Kitty attempted to leave Nazi Germany, the Gestapo made a deal with her. Manage a bordello for their hierarchy or go to a concentration camp. They wired her bordello so they...

Lazarus, risen from the dead, faces the dilemma of finding purpose in life until Christ returns. In his quest for peace and solace from the loss of loved ones along the way, he finds great satisfaction in shipbuilding, vineyards, and other enterprises in Cyprus, France, Spain, the New World, New Orleans, Boston, and England. Over his long life, Lazarus marries, has children, watches them grow to adulthood and give him his first grandchildren. They age and die, leaving Lazarus alone, traveling and plying his trades, until he marries again and the story repeats—children, grandchildren, and ...

When a neighbor man molests young Zoe, a pseudohermaphrodite and ugly duckling, she gains the means to build her first laboratory to explore microbes, eventually eliminating the predator and realizing her passion for using her tiny “friends” to murder those that persecute, harm, and threaten her.On a trip to Paris, she meets a man connected to the global underworld, and they create a company that provides terrorists the tools to eliminate their enemies. As a urologist affiliated with a prestigious New York hospital, Zoe privately continues to use her micro-friends to exact ...

When a Cuban couple with two sons opens La Bodeguita in Miami, their intent is to capture the charm of a small market that caters to a diverse customer base, offer a wide range of fresh products, and delivers family-style customer service. What they received is another family besides their own. Loyal customers and employees comprise that other family, complete with back stories that few will ever know. On both sides of the counter, they are faceless people. Neither knows what heartache or heartbreak the other might be suffering. The main difference between the two is that the employees must...

In this historical fiction story, three heroic young women – Freddie Oversteegen, her sister Truus Oversteegen, and Hannie Schaft – show that not only young men heeded the call to join the Dutch Resistance but also idealistic young women. Set before Freddie’s death in 2018, she participates in a documentary for Dutch Television. She relates their struggles and temporary triumphs during their activities in the Dutch Resistance, directed mainly by communists. The interview explores how the sisters were recruited and how Hannie, known as “the girl with the red hair,” became part of ...

Be careful what you wish for… In this 5-part anthology, people seek profound physical change but do not fathom the horrors that await them on the journey to realize their dreams. They seek solace by going to the Excelsior Club, known by Miami locals as the Palace of Wrinkles. Tale #1: A wrinkled woman lures young men to her mansion on a romantic pretext, but she and her ancient servant ritually kill them, drain their blood, and bathe in it to become rejuvenated. Tale #2: The bored wife of an aging couple seeks excitement at the Palace. Her husband holds the only key to a secret locked ...

In this science fiction drama, Dr. Maxwell Silverman, a university-based microbiologist, makes a dreadful discovery in a small Florida lake. During a field trip to research bio-luminescent life forms, he notices an eerie green glow coming off the water and decides to take a small specimen of the organism back to his lab. Max has no idea what he’s found and what is about to be unleashed on the world. Max and his graduate student assistant, Sandra Sanders, test the slime sample and quickly realize it is like nothing they had ever seen before. Their first tests clearly indicate the organism ...