Browsing all posts in September, 2011.

Expert Says Perfect Killer Exposes A Secret Military Program With Horrible Consequences

This is the Afterword to my book, Perfect Killer. Dr. Gabriel thinks Perfect Killer exposes an important, but very secretive, U.S. military program that could have horrible consequences … in fact, making the average soldier into a perfect killer who becomes the worst weapon of mass destruction. Government documents on this program can be accessed […]

Michael Hart – The Father of E-Books, R.I.P.

A belated send-off for Michael Hart who created and sent the world’s first e-book, way back in the mainframe computing days of 1971 and went on to found Project Gutenberg. He died September 6 at the relatively young age of 64. A full obituary is here in the Economist.

“Governments do not rule the world Goldman Sachs does” – Trader Echoes Zaibatsu Thriller

Trader Alessio Rastani’s wildly popular BBC interview on YouTube shocks the world and echoes the central points in two of my financial thrillers, Zaibatsu which was the sequel of The Delphi Betrayal (The really good parts of this video begin about 38 seconds in) Those points are: That corporations control most of the world’s cash, […]

Kudzu Madness & A Drive Up Hwy 49 To The Delta – The Uncut Chapter

The following is the complete chapter I wrote for Perfect Killer. Most of this was cut by the publisher who felt that nobody really cared about “all that Southern stuff.” In fairness, the publisher wanted a straight-forward thriller without “all that Southern stuff” as well as the ethics, science and faith around free will, good […]

More Than “The Help”: Ed Kingston, Negro — Landowner and his 42 tenants

The phenomenal writing in The Help along with its powerful story has had me going back through the research I did for Perfect Killer and digging even farther into my family history than I did for that book. Several days ago, I ran across this undated photo among a number of papers, letters and other […]

How Lena Gray & Al Thomas Saved My Life

I am reading The Help right now which is set in Jackson Mississippi where I grew up. Much of the film was shot there and in parts of the Mississippi Delta, and especially Greenwood Mississippi where I was born. Every page in The Help — indeed almost every paragraph — evokes a memory, many of which […]