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Amsterdam in Bloom – Flowers To Die For
From the tulip mania of the mid-1600s to today’s vast flower exports from The Netherlands to the world, Amsterdam has been a place marked by blooms and beauty amid intrigue and shenanigans. All but one of my books (Perfect Killer) has had some part of it set in Amsterdam. And almost all of Die By […]
Sgt. Bales’ Lawyer Should Ask If He Was A Secret Drug Guinea Pig
Was Staff Sergeant Robert Bales a secret drug guinea pig in the military’s attempts to chemically enhance warfighter efficiency? The proof that such a program to develop a “brave pill” existed can be found in these Government Freedom Of Information (FOIA) documents from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and in the extensive factual […]
Perfect Killer Succeeds As Fiction AND Fact
I set out to write a non-fiction book on why good people do evil things. Perfect Killer— originally published in 2005 by Forge/Tor — has a lot of current significance in the cases of the: Robert Bales Afghan massacre, Trayvon Martin case and Mohamed Merah assassinations in France. ARE THERE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF EVIL? Clearly, […]
We Are All Staff Sgt Robert Bales
We are all Staff Sergeant Robert Bales. My last post here (From Saint To Devil: A Path Carved By Head Injury), examined a real-life, medically researched case of Phineas Gage, who was transformed by a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) from a fine, upstanding man into a profane, violent thug. I ran across Gage’s case as a […]
From Saint To Devil: A Path Carved By Head Injury
Phineas Gage woke up one day as a saint and went to bed a devil. All thanks to a brain injury. The following comes from Chapter 32 of my fact-based, investigative thriller, Perfect Killer which deals, among other things, about how the ability to act morally and “do the right thing” can be altered by […]
California Poppies Popping In Our Backyard!
March 4 The first California poppies of 2012 blooming in the native plant garden in our back yard. 75 degrees and sunny! Wider view
Matching Military MREs & Wine?
In previous chapters, of DIE BY WIRE, Mira Longbow and Jackson Day have focused on the mission and done their best to ignore their past — the good and the bad. In this chapter, they’re on the run. And as with all battles, there come breaks in the action. And everybody has to eat. The […]
Afghanistan Quran Violence: Strategic Incompetence, Criminal Stupidity
Quran burning: enough ignorance and stupidity to go all around. But we should expect more from Obama and his generals than from extremists who believe their religion that can only be maintained through violence and death I wrote extensively about this and how it relates to Die By Wire several weeks ago in a post: […]
Jackson Day’s “Listen & Destroy” Mission In The Iranian Boondocks
In an earlier post (Die By Wire’s Wounded Warrior Hero: Sleepless Before The Mission), I wrote about the beginning of Jackson Day’s listen-and-destroy mission in the Iranian boonies. It offered you some background about him and his Iraq firefight history with heroine Mira Longbow. CHAPTER FOUR Northeast of Kuleh Sangi, Iran Day struggled through […]
Guardian Sniper Mira Longbow takes on Evil In Amsterdam
DIE BY WIRE – CHAPTER ONE Amsterdam Debate thundered through the black iron gates of the Agnietenkapel and sprawled into the Oudezijds Voorburgwal. Arguments about God, evil and religion shattered the university district’s late-evening calm. Age-old questions with no answers ricocheted among the antique brick facades of lean, tall houses that stood shoulder to-shoulder along […]
