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In Darwin, Australia in the Northwest Territories, crocodiles aren't the only predators lurking about. Inspector Harry Chin, and his partner, Ash Friday, a fierce Aboriginal detective with dark brooding eyes, are sent from Canberra to investigate the murder of an Australian Federal Police Officer, Peter Riggs. Riggs had been working undercover on an international heroin ring that seems to be coming in through the Port of Darwin. The officer had been found in his car dead from an overdose of heroin--the very drug that he had been investigating. Everything seems to be pointing to a heroin ...

The year is 1967. The Summer of Love explodes in San Francisco, a siren song for dreamers and idealistic runaways. Haunted by his Vietnam War experiences, disillusioned Clyde Thomas returns home to Tennessee, only to find that his sister has vanished. Naturally his parents want him to go and find her. Clyde reluctantly ventures into Haight Ashbury's intoxicating swirl of psychedelic music, antiwar protests, and newfound freedoms. Amidst the flower children and civil unrest, Clyde's path collides with the mesmerizing Moonbeam. Their undeniable romance offers a lifeline in a world Clyde no ...

The ancient Indian Sanskrit epic the Rāmāyana was composed some time between the first and fifth centuries BCE. As is the case with most ancient literature firmly rooted in the oral tradition, precise dating is problematic. Traditionally attributed to the sage Valmīki, and composed in rhyming couplets, it is one of the two great Indian epics (the other being the Mahābhārata); consequently it is known and revered not just throughout the Indian subcontinent but also in South-East Asian countries as well, indeed wherever Hindu culture became established.

Its not easy growing up in lower Alabama tall and ugly with kids picking on you just because you prefer being a girl. Too-Sweet learned early on that the only way to keep kids from picking on her and chucking rocks and shit was to knock fire from their asses. If Too-Sweet hadn't liked being a girl so much, he could of boxed like his older brothers and maybe of turned pro. Tired of lower Alabama Too-Sweet decided to head out to San Francisco and make her fame and fortune. One day while whoring and taking a worthless check, Too-Sweet inadvertently robs a bank and a star is born. Divas is a ...

Ralph Griffith's Monkey House is a memoir of his time served at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) Butner in North Carolina. He spent the last seven years of his sentence with Bernie Madoff, Jonathan Pollard, Nicky Scarfo, Carmine Persico, and other well-known criminals. FMC Butner is a high-security prison that houses inmates with serious medical conditions and mental health issues. The prison also has a designation for high-profile criminals. Griffith describes the prison as a "giant Monkey House for the criminally insane." Monkey House is a fascinating and often humorous account of prison ...

Beneath the sun-drenched opulence of Cairns' French consulate, where gossip bubbles like champagne and secrets swim deeper than the Great Coral Sea, a shocking tableau unfolds. Madame Monet, the captivating Honorary Consul, lies strangled in her silk-swathed bedroom, a pair of Givenchy stockings twisted around her elegant throat. Canberra dispatches their finest: Inspectors, Harry Chin a whirlwind of Savile Row tailoring and razor-sharp deductions, and at his side stands Ash Friday, an aboriginal tracker whose eyes can pierce through the darkest shadows lurking beneath. As they navigate the...

The Real Bernie Madoff Ralph Griffith wrote a book that no one else could have! Sara Stratso November 9, 2020 There has been no shortage of books written about Bernie Madoff, but Ralph Griffith’s book stands out above all the rest because the author and Madoff were incarcerated together for seven years. Bernard Lawrence Madoff, a prominent Wall Street figure, was serving time in North Carolina’s Federal Medical Center in FCI Butner. Madoff, the former chairman of NASDAQ (National Association of Securities Automated Quotations Dealers) had been sentenced for 150 years for an elaborate ...

Johnny Walker retires from the Portland Police Bureau and moves to L.A. to work as a private investigator with the music industry. A rapper known as Mr. Big hires Johnny to find his younger stepbrother and he does. A short time later the rapper is charged with killing his stepbrother, and Johnny is rehired by the rapper's defense attorney to prove Mr. Big didn't do it. A great read into the entertainment industry and a splendid tale. The second in the Johnny Walker Series, Rock & Roll Detective.

Haunted by the ghosts of San Francisco's Summer of Love and the blonde-haired, blue-eyed beauty he left behind, Clyde Thomas reenlists in the army and goes back to Vietnam as part of the 716th Military Police in Saigon. He arrives back a month before the Tet Offensive, hoping to clear the demons from his soul. But as the Tet Offensive explodes and Saigon crumbles into fiery chaos, he discovers a different kind of darkness—a war spiraling out of control, staining the soul of a nation. Drawn into Saigon's intoxicating underbelly, haunted by visions of Moonbeam and a new, forbidden love with...

History roared with the crack of a gunshot on April 4th, 1968. Locked away, a 16-year-old boy saw his chance and ran. Escaping a Nevada reformatory for possession of drugs. He jumped a freight train, oblivious to the echoes of gunfire changing the nation. One hitch on a desolate highway, a passing Mustang, and a stranger who becomes his lifeline... and his curse. With promises of a new life. His flight from prison is transformed into a twisted journey fueled by lies and manipulation as the young man is lured across the border into Mexico, then back to Los Angeles. His destination: the ...

Senator Barnes, pillar of Canberra's polished facade, found his final thrill at Sydney's hottest after-hours den, Lady Chatterley’s. While getting a lap dance the senator suddenly dropped dead. To make matters worse, the club manager just thought the senator had a heart attack and sent for an ambulance. It wasn’t until he was taken to ER that they realized that it was not natural causes. But by then, the private room that the senator had been using was sanitized leaving little in the way of forensic evidence. The motive? Tangled in a web of political intrigue and illicit desires; as ...

In this latest in the Too-Sweet Series, Too-Sweet after fleeing Belfast in Northern Ireland, along with Oki Daddy and Sista Idi DaDa Amin head to Yokohama-Tokyo aboard the Yakuza fishing trawler. When they get there, Too-Sweet decides with Hiro Yamaguchi the Yakuza Oyabun, to open a nightclub featuring Sumo matches with Sista Idi dressed as a four hundred pound black Geisha with a platinum blonde Geisha wig.. The club becomes the hottest thing going and even Too-Sweet gets into the Geisha swing of things.. Both Too-Sweet and Sista Idi DaDa wear custom made kimonos, and matching platinum ...

Too-Sweet after leaving Japan, discovers the perfect place for a southern girl. Queensland north of Cairns where she buys with her Japanese Yakuza partner, a crocodile farm, bar, jungle boat, and a twenty unit motel. Too-Sweet discovers that in Australia dwarf tossing at bars is considered great sport, and names her new bar The Naked Pygmy. Living on her property is a tribe of pygmies from Papua New Guinea who also happen to be cannibals. So although she doesn't have any dwarfs for tossing, her little pygmies will do and Too-Sweet is back in business. This is the 6th in the Too-Sweet Saga ...

In the damp embrace of a Portland night, a confession so vile spills from the shadows of the Grotto that Father Thomas flees the confessional. He asks another priest to take over, but fate, it seems, is a fickle deity. The wrong priest ends up with his throat slit, a victim of mistaken identity. Haunted by his own demons, Detective Johnny Walker takes the case. Battling the insatiable hunger of addiction, he delves into Portland's deceptive heart, unearthing a darkness festering beneath the surface. He’s called upon to navigate the labyrinth of a chilling child serial killer. As Walker ...

It's 1970 in the glamorous heart of Paris. Moonlight, music, and murder collide in smoky backstreets, shimmering on champagne flutes like a soft, French kiss tainted with danger. Clyde thought he'd finally escaped his violent past, building a sanctuary with his love, Moonbeam--their jazz club a beacon fueled by the rhythm of a new life, not the echoes of old bloodshed. Paris was meant to be Clyde's escape, a chance to build a new life. But enemies resurface like ghosts, shattering the fragile peace. As the Red Liberation Front unleashes its deadly agenda, the man who craves the quiet melody...

Johnny Walker is hired by a rock star to find his missing girlfriend, Terri Richardson who happens to be a stunning beauty. With the help of his girlfriend who works homicide for the LAPD, Johnny sets out to find this pretty girl. But the case keeps getting more confusing the deeper he digs into the lives of the various members of the band, who in Johnny's mind could all be guilty in her disappearance. The third in the Johnny Walker Rock & Roll Detective Series and the best yet!

In this fourth in the Too-Sweet Saga, our heroine, Too-Sweet, along with Speedy Gonzales, have fled London by train to Liverpool. They take a ferry to Belfast, in Northern Ireland, along with ten kilos of cocaine that Speedy had stashed in a storage locker back in Soho. Upon arriving they rent a nasty old, boarded up bar, built out on a wharf called The Black Irish. They get help from their IRA friends to get things going. Too-Sweet decides to build a big mud pit in the center of the bar and feature nude wrestling with four female mud honeys, who also serve drinks when not rolling around in...

In this third in the Too-Sweet Saga, Too-Sweet after fleeing Tijuana, Mexico, heads to London where she establishes a new club she calls the Gay Paddy, which is an authentic Irish Leather Bar and Spank Emporium. Along the way you will meet a new cast of crazy characters, along with Speedy Gonzales who has shipped over ten kilos of cocaine hidden inside thousands of frozen burritos. If you enjoyed DIVAS and Tijuana Taxi, you will die laughing to English Rose. This is by far Griffith's best Too-Sweet Saga yet.

The third in the Big Huna Series is the wildest yet. With a cast of characters right out of Oliver Twist. The little bunkers, a gang of ten year old boys, rob a bank wearing black rubber pygmy masks. Now that they have over ten thousand dollars, they want to go to Disneyland but have a problem. How to get on a plane with no ID. They enlist the aid of the Weasel to buy the tickets and accompany them as their uncle and rent their hotel rooms. Meanwhile back in Waikiki there is a serial killer loose and giving Big Huna and Pokey the blues. Outrageously funny! Scott Bayer, Indie Film Reporter

This second in the Big Huna series takes up where Spam Sushi left off. The Bunkers consists of seven, ten-year-old boys who sell dried seaweed as pot to military and tourist in Waikiki. One day while Chewy was pulling Mellon Head on his skateboard while holding on to the back of Chewy's mountain bike, Mellon Head grabbed a purse from an Asian lady on Kohio and away they went. A couple of blocks away they open the purse and find a kilo of Ice inside. The little boys are delighted and share the captured booty with the whole gang. But being only ten years old they have a problem--how to sell ...