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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 ...

Peter Dawes continues the search for Jack Rhodes by taking stagecoach and steamboat to San Francisco where Rhodes was shanghaied. Even before Dawes returns to San Francisco, Rhodes experiences a shipwreck and rescue by a very literate and murderous captain who commands the Arkadia, bound for San Francisco with a cargo of opium for Oyster Mike, known as an oyster pirate but in reality the man who controls the vice payoffs in the Barbary Coast. One danger that Dawes is unaware of is that the brother of the half-breed he killed in Susanville has returned to the frontier town. When Tug finds ...

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.

Larry Dean loves flying. His love started with building model planes, then graduated to flying magazines and finally to take flying lessons. Larry also loves women. He is unsure about Jennifer and then he meets Brenda, a welfare worker. She is compatible with his desires. At a chance meeting at McDonald’s, Larry meets Monica, a lawyer that he finds very attractive. His last female acquaintance is Ginger, a student at UCD who is a vegetarian and wild when it comes to sex. All the while he is enjoying the company of these women, Larry is undergoing an unexplained transition to early ...

After the terrible experience of surviving the sinking of the ship Pequod, Ishmael goes to sea again in search of Moby Dick. He is Chief Mate aboard Pilgrim, captained by a man who is terrified of small boats and will not emulate Captain Ahab in sinking a harpoon iron into the white whale. Through calms and storms, Ishmael welds the crew into a formidable weapon against what he comes to see as not only an implacable foe but one that may not deserve the fate that he has been tasked to give it. Ishmael finds love from an unusual revelation aboard the ship that also makes the voyage one of ...

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 ...

Sweet Drop in Africa: Charity shows Emily Hobhouse's determination to ameliorate some of the cruelty the army has perpetrated in South Africa. She uses her writing skills to motivate relatives and friends to support the relief effort for the women and children who experience the horrendous living conditions in the concentration camps. The letters she receives from South Africa show the conditions in the camps are deteriorating faster than Emily had imagined. Emily decides to go to the camps. She travels to Cape Town and finds that getting to the camps is extremely difficult. Emily finally ...

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 ...

Sophie Drucker, a career criminal who recently changed from Carl Drucker, opts for transportation to the penal complex Luna on the Moon rather than have her DNA “aligned” to remove all thoughts and images of violence. On Luna inmates are housed in individual pods. There are ten pods to a canister overseen by a warden. The warden reports to a commander who, in turn, reports to a Deputy Director on Earth. Rebecca Fordyce is the warden for Canister 1, a pod of which becomes Sophie’s new residence. Fordyce also becomes romantically involved with the captain of Lunik 2, one of the ...

James Bowan, the first victim, is on the hunt for sexual gratification in 1979. He meets a strange woman in a bar. In his apartment she is quite interested in a scrapbook in which he's collected a variety of memorabilia. Raymond Turko is an inspector with San Francisco PD. He is assigned the Bowan murder even though it's technically his day off. His partner, Dominic Mazuti and he go to the scene of the murder to find out there isn't much there besides Bowan's corpse. As the story progresses we learn how Turko tries to fit information about Bowan into some sort of pattern. We also get a ...

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 ...

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

Susan Fields and her friend Jeffrey Hatton camp out on Skedaddle Mountain, the eastern edge of Honey Lake Valley. Sometime after dark with a camp fire going, they look up at the starry night. Commenting on how many more stars can be seen, Susan sees five lights suddenly appear. Jeffrey looks at them and comments that they must be UFOs. Susan hopes they aren’t going to be taken up into one of the space ships. As soon as she says that the lights dip toward Honey Lake and with incredible speed vanish.

Arthur Tageman returns to Megaworld after the dramatic and bloody shoot-out in his old office. The negotiations to sell Megaworld hang over his head; will he be retained under the new owner or will he be let go? Felicia D’courte still finds Arthur attractive. With all the questions about the sale of the studio, his position and what Sharma Poot proposes, Arthur’s life is full of complications.

Peter Piper and his friends David Duncan and Clarissa Camp are transported to a hidden land named Faunia where they meet the Coyote King. Other animals in Faunia want to be king and think that abducting the three kids will enhance their chances to overthrow the Coyote King.

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 ...