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Hellhound: Dedicated To My African American Cousins & To Mississippi Social Justice Advocates
Dedication From The Book For the enormous contributions they have made – and are continuing to make for social justice and education, Hellhound is dedicated to The Mississippi Center for Justice (web link), and the Sunflower County Freedom Project (web link). Also, to my African-American cousins at the George Family Facebook Group who diligently search […]
Author’s Note To Hellhound
In 2005, two-thirds of this book was published in hardcover by Macmillan/Forge titled Perfect Killer. This edition – Hellhound: The Author’s Cut — incorporates the missing third, along with all of the words in the previously published version. I’ve also added several thousand words of supplemental material. Please see “The accidental 3-book novel” (End Paper […]
Hellhound: End Paper #3 – The accidental 3-book novel
Two-thirds of Hellhound was previously published in hardcover by Macmillan/Forge as Perfect Killer. That incomplete version has about 110,000 words. By comparison, the length of the average novel varies widely, but is generally considered to be around 50,000 to 70,000 words. By contrast, Hellhound, contains 174,110 words. That restored third finally completes the book with […]
Hellhound End Paper #2: Write what you know
”What did I know best that I had not written about and lost? ”What did I know about truly and care for the most? ”Ask those questions of yourself, then write whatever story comes to mind.” – Ernest Hemingway: To the best of my ability, I have written what I know and truly care for […]
End Paper #1: Why Did I Write Hellhound?
Hellhound is the result of a long and widely scattered set of my seemingly random life decisions whose order and direction seem inevitable only when taken as a whole. In short, I believe I have been led to this point in my life for specific, solid reasons. Many of those are described below and are […]
Hellhound: Multi-generational saga of racial injustice & redemption wrapped around a true-science thriller
The Core A multi-generational saga of racial injustice and redemption wrapped in a partly autobiographical action thriller that delves into the personal choices that lead to good and evil. Now at Amazon Kindle Unlimited and in paperback. The thriller wrapped around the core UCLA neurosurgeon Brad Stone believes he had long ago escaped his Faulknerian […]
The Townhouse Operation Exposed
Breaking the Townhouse Operation meant that I had to sue the Watergate Special Prosecutor. The legal bills were all min=e Because Congressional News Service was my own company I founded. The bills were in the high tens of thousands of dollars and, if I had not been successful, it would have meant bankruptcy. The now-deceased […]
The Times They Were A-Changin’ — book review
The Times They Were a-Changin’: 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle Lines of Today Were Drawn by Robert S McElvaine Hardcover $28.99 – ISBN13: 9781950994106 My long-time friend Bob McElvaine has crafted a highly original and deeply insightful analysis of events from 1964 and their direct connections to the present day’s […]
Nuclear Radiation Hazards of Burning Coal? (Yep!)
This is an article I wrote shortly after leaving my Washington D.C investigative reporting career and started teaching journalism at UCLA. Ironically, this could be a worse hazard to public health than climate change. Yet, it has been ignored. Read the entire article at this link (pdf): NuclearCoal-Perdue
Investigative Reporting: Breaking Koreagate With Shredded Documents — Busting Up a Betting Ring Run by U.S. Capitol Police
Tongsun Park’s Paper Jigsaw Puzzle Solved Betting Ring Found on Capitol Hill
