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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 According to Seeds of Terror most of the Taliban’s religious fanatics have been replaced by organized gangs of big-time […]
