El Salvador: America’s great Cold War success story and the model for Iraq’s fledgling democracy–if one ignores the grinding poverty, the corruption, the spiraling crime, and a murder rate ranked near the top in the hemisphere. This is where Jude McManus works as an executive protection specialis...
It’s 1980 and amateur photographer Dan Abatangelo “…blew into Las Vegas the first week of spring, primed to hit the tables, sniff the wildlife, maybe cat around a bit. Given his focus was pleasure, not business, he saw no need for an alias.” This is the introduction to David Corbett’s debut nove...
Turning to glance over his shoulder, Lattimore spotted the strange man enter timidly under the indifferent eye of the bailiff, who sat perched on a stool at the back, thumbing through last month’s Ebony. The newcomer had a wonkish dishevelment, bristling salt-and-pepper hair, a close-cropped bear...
The girl’s mother, Marcellyne Pathon, sat on the sofa, reviewing the faces in Hennessey’s Polaroids as, in the background, a song titled “Ain’t Got Time to Die” played softly on the radio, turned to KDYA: “Gospel by the Bay.” “Like I told you, these here are Mr. and Mrs. Toomey. They all lived up...