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Kurt Lederer’s study grant to observe Patas Monkeys in the Central African Republic has been approved. His grant also includes his friend Ted Simmons, an artist who will provide illustrations of the field study. They drive to the Metropolitan Airport in Sacramento. There they board a private jet that will take them to Washington, D.C. where Kurt hopes to meet with National Science representatives and obtain the necessary items to make their field study successful. A surprise awaits them as they are driven to Langley, Virginia where they meet Hector Guajalva, a CIA agent. After a ...

Jim Garrett and Andy Grimes are ready to graduate from the University of Santa Clara. They have completed four years of R.O.T.C. and, along with their diplomas, will be commissioned as officers in the United States Army. The first order they receive is to report to the Letterman Army Hospital in the Presidio to undergo a physical check. Reporting to the hospital early, both are given quarters in the B.O.Q. Andy parks his graduation present, a 1950 Chevrolet two-door sedan, in front of his quarters. A night visiting San Francisco’s night life on the 4th of July appears to be a good way to ...

Los Angeles and its nemesis, the San Andreas fault provide the setting for this sci-fi adventure. A probe lands in 2500 B.C. The alien occupant is trapped until the San Andreas fault rumbles to life. Angelinos wonder whether their usual way of life will be destroyed by the determined and dangerous alien. Only a desperate gamble can eliminate the threat.

Fred Ball, the American Secretary of State, is kidnapped in Belize. American Special Forces attempt a rescue. The small but elite group of highly trained soldiers must overcome the difficulties of terrain, politics, mercenaries, and a nefarious plot hatched by various individuals in the governments of Mexico and Guatemala. A very powerful drug lord complicates the rescue by enlisting the services of a Belizean bandit, who, in turn, is set upon by both Mexican and Guatemalan soldiers. Washington and its politics are drawn into the maelstrom that Latin America becomes as a result of the ...

Josh Colum appears as normal as any one of us but he has a deep subconscious memory of how his mother treated his father. Josh has layered that early part of his life onto all females in Sacramento and he formulates a plan to eliminate their seemingly inescapable hold over him. Coincidentally, Janet Slade returns to California’s capital. After seven years away from her original job as a public information officer with the Sacramento PD she has returned with political help from her father’s friend to the higher status of homicide detective.

Frank Berg, rescued from Kerguelen Archipelago, receives another commission in the US Navy with the express task of seeking out one of the aces of the German submarine command with a newly commissioned Liberty ship with improved anti-submarine capability. Kurt Stein, a U-boat ace follows Admiral Doenitz' orders to lie in wait for American merchant ships on the East coast. When these intrepid captains meet what will be the outcome? Only extreme skill and luck will determine the victor.

Jack Rhodes leads his payroll detail back from Reno, Nevada to the small town of Susanville, California. The time is 1864. The Civil War in the East is as bloody as ever. The detail is nearly wiped out as they near the town of Janesville. Jack Rhodes is the only one left and the killers take him and the gold leaving the bodies of the fallen where they lay. Five years later Jack Rhodes' mother Belle Jean Rhodes hires Peter Dawes to find out what happened to her son and clear her name in the process.

Two ships. Two captains. One part of a desire to conquer the world. The other with a desire to conquer himself. When the captains and their ships meet it will be a duel at sea of monumental proportions. A female spy has the ability to change the course of the duel between the ships. Which captain will she favor? A bleak, rocky island named Kerguelen will see the emergence of one captain as the victor and the other as his prisoner.

Noah and Taylor write for a group that wages war, in a manner of speaking, with the urban madness plaguing the cities and towns of America. After completing an assignment on the first look at the causes of the madness, Taylor and Noah receive an assignment to fit Climate Change and Global warming into the magazine’s point of view. While working on the Climate Change piece, their editor assigns a piece on the recent murders in Midtown. The assignment to write a piece on the Midtown murders embroils Noah and Taylor in the hunt for the killer that has left multiple clues. The clues in the ...

A play in one act. One day in the life of William Tecumseh Sherman.

What if a Teaching Assistant witnessed a murder in the university cafeteria? What if he were preparing the last session for a class in the Experimental College that dealt with shamans and witchcraft? What if the murderer read the same book the T.A. is going to use for his X-college class? What if the T.A. asked an art student to make an illustration of Astaroth, a demon from the book the T.A. was going to use during his final X-college class? What if the art student hanged himself in the venue the T.A. was going to use for his last X-college class? What if Astaroth's words became a refrain ...

Ishmael, Foley Baha, Flank, “Ned” Hanford and George Washington Black survive the sinking of the ship Pilgrim. For over a week in a whaleboat with limited supplies of food and water, the castaways hope for rescue from a passing ship. Their hopes are dashed before they finally find the British ship Amazon and board her to try to unravel the mystery of why there are no officers or men aboard.

Denise Parker is a successful advertising executive. She has a Porsche, a stock portfolio and an apartment in one of the safe neighborhoods in San Francisco. If it weren't for a recurring nightmare she would look forward to an even better situation. The nightmare leads her to a past lives therapist, a cult leader, an ex-boyfriend and other characters who appear in her past lives. What it all means and who "Algapesh" is requires all of the novel to unravel this psychological Gordian knot.

You've always wanted someone to give you an unbiased review of a book. These blogs will come as close to that ideal as any you might come across. Whatever bias appears is that of the book's author. These 65 "blogs" are short enough so that you can use them as stoplight reading. And the book would make an excellent gift for that friend or relative who is so pressed for time they can't read a book-length book. If you find this book useful please drop me a line via email. My web site is listed on the last page.

Is Goonie's Ghost a study in psychology? A look into anti-war activity? A love story? Yes to all three questions. The time is 1967 and Carl Steadman has returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam.

Action, adventure, mystery are all part of Peter Monocot and the Sea Devils. The action comes from building and flying model airplanes. The adventure comes from building the biggest model airplanes Peter has ever built. The mystery comes from the nefarious plan of a band of terrorists. Peter Monocot is a 12-year-old whose military pilot father taught him how to build model airplanes. His father's death in an Air Force jet crash left Peter's Uncle Jim as the "man of the family," although Peter's mother, Estelle, wields the real power in the household. Peter and his uncle find themselves ...

Jess and his sons Mark and Paul are at war with the people who live in the valley below their cabin. Abner is the leader of the neophytes and is as bent on ruling the valley as Jess is. Abner's friend Caleb is the shaman of the people. Caleb's daughter Ruth is fair skinned and the object of Mark's desire. Abner has a dream in which he sees himself building a machine that will be able to destroy the cabin. He commands the men he leads to build the machine.

What four men and two women had in common was The Antique Bazaar, a historic bar in Sacramento, California. Before the time of the story, Jack Higgins was wounded in Korea and taken to the 8088 MASH; James “Sailor” Fornoy was assigned to the 8088; Mark sat out the Korean War with a student deferment; and Rick was medically unfit for service in Korea. At the time of the story, Addie Booker and Mark were fired from the Welfare Department for striking. Lydia Prentiss continued working, opting not to strike. To get survival money, Jack, Sailor and Mark worked part-time at the ports of ...

In the second Movie World book, Arthur Tageman still works for Charles Searcy at Megaworld Studios. In the first book as he was on a break at Winchell’s Marsha reveals that something strange is going on at Megaworld. Before Arthur can probe further Marsha leaves. Outside, she is run down by a drunk driver. An accident? Or murder because she was helping him? Will he be next? Maizie Briggs, another Megaworld employee, agrees to help. Arthur finds Maizie very attractive. Instead of a wine and dine evening, Arthur wakes up the next morning with blood on his hands and Maizie dead.

Arthur Tageman had few worldly worries: he was able to make the payments on his Mini Cooper, paid his rent on time and only had a touch of gray. His ex-wife wanted more alimony but that wasn’t a must-do. Arthur worked for Charles Searcy at Megaworld, a studio that had produced blockbusters in the past but was going through a drought with concomitant downsizing. Arthur lost his secretary and his office and then had to plunge by himself into the research tasks that Searcy gave him. To compound the loss of his secretary, Charles now tasked Arthur with delivering parcels to various places in ...