Browsing all posts in December, 2010.

Lewis Perdue

Investigative reporter Seth Mnookin (Newsweek, Vanity Fair) was one of the very few people who looked beyond Random House’s spin doctors and high-priced lawyers and into the facts of my verified plagiarism action against Dan Brown and the Da Vinci Code. As Mnookin’s Vanity Fair article points out, the plagiarism was clear and seen by people […]

Book Review: Exit, Allah. Enter, the almighty dollar.

Seeds of Terror: How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda By Gretchen Peters Thomas Dunne Books, May 2009 ISBN: 978-0312379278 Hardcover, 320 pages, $25.95 A shorter version of this review by Lewis Perdue appeared in Barron’s Weekly. According to Seeds of Terror most of the Taliban’s religious fanatics have been replaced by organized gangs of big-time […]