A brilliant courtroom drama. Simple as that. Actually the story follows one attorney as he comes back from a conduct suspension and takes on two cases which eventually cross paths. Sometimes courtroom dramas can drag due to the boring details that court actually entails. This story leaves out all...
Just finished this excellent historical novel about Pancho Villa and the Mexican Revolution. It was written from the perspective of Tom Mix, the silent movie actor, who may have actually fought with Villa during the revolution before going to Hollywood to become a film star. The novel was full of...
I'm pretty sure I read one of Clifford Irving's novels many, many years ago, although for the life of me I don't recall which one. Then, when he got embroiled in the great hoax - writing a fake autobiography of the reclusive Howard Hughes - I pretty much lost interest in the guy. Even after doing...
This book is dedicated to my dear friend Bernie Wohl, a hero of the city Justice, like lasting love, is rare but not impossible. Both depend on the courage and diligence of one enlightened person. Jean le Malchanceux A Crusader's Journal In Houston, Texas, in the early winter of 1985, a pe...
One afternoon a farmer’s dog wandered in and picked Iphigenia up between her teeth. When Iphigenia shrieked, the dog, perhaps equally frightened, dropped her and bounded away. No physical damage was done, but Iphigenia had a long memory. Outside Carter’s truck she began to...
Candelario waited for me in Chihuahua City at the Hotel Fermont. He wore a sheepskin coat and dusty trail clothes, and he was polite enough not to comment on the starched newness of my uniform. He had received Hipólito’s wire only ten minutes ago. He explained that the military situation was chan...
IT WAS AROUND this time that I bought into something called Multicolor. I had used the Technicolor process for the ballroom scene in Hell’s Angels. I looked into the future and could see that one day nearly all movies would be made in color. I was dead right, but I was pre...
For Queenie O’Hare’s visit the previous day, she baked chocolate chip cookies. For dinner with her husband, daughter, and son-in-law she went straight to her shelves of cookbooks above the cast-iron stove and with no hesitation brought down The Food Lover’s Guide to France. Three hours later she ...
To Raiford again, and to death row. Sneakers squeaked where black men played basketball on cracked concrete. Bodies glistened and iron clanged where others lifted weights. Angry voices drifted through sunlight. At the main building of the prison, I ...