Adam Walsh's kidnapping and murder in 1981 are very well known, in large part because John Walsh later went on to become rather famous as host of America's Most Wanted and an advocate for missing children. He's also the reason why parents today are much more fearful about stranger abduction than ...
I really liked this book. It is a limited biography of Charles Dickens and the events surrounding his writing of A Christmas Carol. I enjoyed the story of how that came to be - but it is much broader than just that. I only gave this book three stars because at times it reads a bit like a term pap...
Perhaps this is unfair, but I wanted this book to be more than what it was. I guess I wanted more of the invention of the Christmas holiday than about Dickens finances and legal battles over copyright. If I had let the book be what it was intended to be, I might have liked it more. For what it...
Frankly, I have no idea how I ran across this very interesting book. Henry Flagler, one of the last great industrialists and oil barons, built a railroad across the Florida Keys, a feat that had been considered impossible, in order to capitalize on the proximity of Cuba to the nascent Panama Cana...
Brand-new stories by: James W. Hall, Barbara Parker, John Dufresne, Paul Levine, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Tom Corcoran, Christine Kling, George Tucker, Kevin Allen, Anthony Dale Gagliano, David Beaty, Vicki Hendricks, John Bond, Preston Allen, Lynne Barrett, and Jeffrey Wehr.From the introductio...
John Deal has spent much of his adult life trying to rebuild the Miami construction firm that his late father ruined. When the possibility of a major project in post-normalized Cuba arises, he can't help but be intrigued-only to find that he's been lured to Havana for another, far more dangerous ...
Attempting to resurrect the Miami building firm that his late father ruined, John Deal is elated to be awarded part of a major project, only to find that the project has strings. Deal never knew that, under duress, his father had been working secretly for a government agency to catch money-launde...
This is another fun John Deal story by Les Standiford. To start, I am a big Les Standiford fan. In fiction and non-fiction. This is the first book of his I would say is a disappointment.In 'Deal on Ice' there's lots of action and another heavy handed punch to religious faith by an author. When I ...
This book is about John Deal, a small-time Miami contractor. In an unlikely series of events he ends up in a ceremony that goes awry. Both he and the first lady are kidnapped by shadowy crooks and taken to a Caribbean island. Meanwhile his friend, Vernon Driscoll, an ex-cop, searches for him. Dir...
Done Deal is the first in the series featuring reluctant sleuth John Deal, a South Florida building contractor who has a penchant for stepping into the path of the wrong people. Here, Deal is struggling to rebuild the once formidable DealCo, a development company once headed by his flamboyant fat...
Small-time building contractor John Deal's life is unraveling faster than a film reel spinning off a projector. His best friend Barbara Cooper takes her own life--but does she? Unconvinced that Barbara's death is a suicide, Deal begins an investigation that pulls him into the vortex of a scheme o...
Run them over with a car. Strangled them with stockings, skip ropes, phone cords. You name it.Q: And shot them?A: Oh yeah, shot ’em. Sure. In the head. In the chest. In the back. In the stomach.Q: And sometimes in the top of the head . . .A: . . . sometimes, if somebody’s been going down on you. ...
Deal swiveled in his seat to find Annie Dodds standing in a hall doorway, clad in a lime-green version of the previous night’s floor-length gown. She’d been attractive enough then, but here, in such disparate surroundings, she looked positively stunning. When s...
The hordes who hated him for his success, gone. The hordes who toadied up to him wanting to feast off his success, also gone. Here, in this dream, he could simply be and be valued for his essence, or so it seemed. Specifically, he had discovered that he’d written a n...
It felt substantial, promising everything that its language professed. He scanned the title page, noticed the official seal embossed in the lower corner: an eagle, a clutch of arrows in one talon, the familiar Latin inscribed across the ribbon in its hooked beak. That’s what it was, he deci...
Camps for workmen were laid out along the Upper Keys, from Key Largo to Long Key (proximate to today’s MM 68), a distance of about forty miles, but while supplies could be trundled by rail to the work site at Lake Surprise, everything necessary for the preponderance of the workforce quartered far...