David Samuels, like the lead character and narrator of "I Was a Pilot for the Mob", is a decorated veteran and winner of the Silver Star and numerous other medals for courage under fire. The author draws on his own experience as a... Read More

“You work for the good of all,” Winston Jones, lead character of Bob Zeidman’s political satire, chides a sidewalk rabble-rouser who demands the government lower taxes, cut social programs, and allow people to “keep the loots of... Read More

“Americans are being duped” is one of the central messages of We the People: Servants of Deception; Reconsidering Social Reality, a sociology title by Christopher M. Dawson, a retired insurance executive who previously taught at two... Read More

“You should not judge harshly the poor, unfortunate soul I chose to pen this manuscript,” cautions Satan, the supposed author-behind-the-author of The Parallax From Hell. “Thomas Aquinas he is not,” adds the Lord of the... Read More

As a labor of love, Lincoln’s Story: The Wayfarer is worthy of five stars. As a work of literature, however, it rates much lower. While the passion and admiration the author feels for Abraham Lincoln—the man and the president—is... Read More

Although Igor Ilić is called a “fuckin’ foreigner” only once in his memoir of a Croatian immigrant’s life in California, the title is less about that insult than it is a description of how Ilić spent most of his time in... Read More

“Welcome to Dubai, the dream city of every jobseeker from the subcontinent.” That is the greeting delivered to one of the key characters of this novel, which the author says “commingles” the facts of his personal experiences with... Read More

“History without legend would be pretty drab stuff,” or so the marine archaeologist and heroine in Ray M. Schultze’s Decatur’s Dig tells the president of Portugal after uncovering a priceless artifact on the Lisbon waterfront.... Read More