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Zaibatsu: The Big Money Conspiracy That Brought Down The Global Economy To Make Billions In Profits

The research behind Zaibatsu suggests that the financial collapse was part of a diabolical plan and that it was no accident that the same megabanks, billionaires and financial manipulators who caused the disaster were the first to recover and are now bigger, fatter and greedier than ever before.

A Journalist With A Nose For Lies: Vaccines & Random House

I first learned how dogged Mnookin could be when he wrote his Vanity Fair article about The Da Vinci Code’s plagiarism of my books. He managed to see through Random House’s high-priced flackery and hacked through all the legal chicanery to produce his piece. And now, Mnookin has written The Panic Virus has prompted worldwide […]

Stieg Larsson, Outliers, Black Swan Events and Bestsellers

My good friend Billy Ethridge got me to thinking about the following question: Q: What do Stieg Larsson, and John (A Confederacy of Dunces) Kennedy have in common? A: Nobody gave a damn about their books until after they were dead. Obviously, being dead is no guarantee of writing a bestseller. All the forgotten dead […]

500+ “Moderate” Muslim Scholars Support Blasphemer Assassination

If there were any doubt that insanity reigns among the world Islamic community’s leadership, the article, below,  should erase any doubts (along with other things like murder plots over cartoons and death decrees for those who question the inerrancy of every word in the Qur’an.) LAHORE, Pakistan (Associated Press) — More than 500 Muslim scholars […]

Why I Couldn’t Write Perfect Killer Before My Mother Died

Perfect Killer is a substantial departure for me and a book that had to wait for my mother to die before I could write it. My mother, Anabel Bradford Perdue Ellis was one of the last of the “Steel Magnolias,” born on one of her her father’s two cotton plantations in the Mississippi Delta (Saints’ […]

The Original Matrix

Long before The Matrix, long before scientists began to believe that the universe is a giant two-dimensional hologram, there was Simulacron-3: a science-fiction, suspense thriller about a computer scientist who has created a simulated world, only to discover that he is a simulation in some higher power’s computer simulation. I read this book when it […]

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 […]