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Este es el segundo de la serie de Clyde Thomas que tiene lugar en el sudeste asiático en el invierno y la primavera de 1967-1968. Clyde después de dejar Moonbeam en Haight Ashbury, vuelve a alistarse en el ejército y regresa a Vietnam como parte de la 716ª Policía Militar en Saigón. Regresa un mes antes de la Ofensiva Tet, con la esperanza de eliminar los demonios de su alma. Pero lentamente cae en un mundo más oscuro que el que había dejado. Una novela sorprendente y que invita a la reflexión y captura la política y la cruda realidad de la guerra, en un lugar que a nadie en ...

Teherán, 1969. Una ciudad de embriagadora belleza y agitación latente. Clyde Thomas no es un agente de la CIA común y corriente. Atormentado por una tragedia pasada, lo impulsa una sed inquebrantable de justicia en un mundo donde la línea entre el bien y el mal se difumina a cada paso. Cuando la bella y joven Safie es secuestrada por un grupo militante siniestro, la búsqueda de Clyde se convierte en una lucha desesperada contra el tiempo. Desde palacios opulentos hasta callejones sombríos, la búsqueda de Safie por parte de Clyde lo lleva a un peligroso viaje a través del Irán de ...

63 Dias El 4 de abril de 1968, la historia rugió con el chasquido de un disparo. Un chico de 16 años, encerrado en una prisión, vio su oportunidad y huyó. Escapó de un reformatorio de Nevada por posesión de drogas. Saltó de un tren de carga, ajeno a los ecos de los disparos que estaban cambiando la nación. Un enganche en una carretera desolada, un Mustang que pasa y un extraño que se convierte en su salvavidas... y su maldición. Con promesas de una nueva vida. Su huida de la prisión se transforma en un viaje retorcido alimentado por mentiras y manipulación cuando el joven es ...

El verdadero Bernie Madoff Ralph Griffith escribió un libro que nadie más podría haber escrito. Sara Stratso 9 de noviembre de 2020 No han faltado libros escritos sobre Bernie Madoff, pero el libro de Ralph Griffith se destaca por encima de todos los demás porque el autor y Madoff estuvieron encarcelados juntos durante siete años. Bernard Lawrence Madoff, una figura prominente de Wall Street, estaba cumpliendo condena en el Centro Médico Federal de Carolina del Norte en FCI Butner. Madoff, el ex presidente de NASDAQ (Asociación Nacional de Corredores de Cotizaciones Automatizadas de ...

The Weasel--a name that perfectly captured the man. Skinny, with a complexion like sunbaked earth, this Hawaiian in his 40s was a fixture of Waikiki’s underbelly. He lived a transient life, his van doubling as his home when the waves weren't calling. Tourists were his bread and butter, easy marks for the pot he peddled on the sun-drenched beaches. Nights found him smoking ice, mesmerized by Bonnie Lim, a Chinese girl who danced on a stage bathed in colored lights. I’ve known the Weasel for over 20 years, and he has never changed since the day that I met him. A couple of days ago, the ...

Senator Barnes, pillar of Canberra's polished facade, found his final thrill at Sydney's hottest after-hours den, Lady Chatterley’s. While getting a lap dance the senator suddenly dropped dead. To make matters worse, the club manager just thought the senator had a heart attack and sent for an ambulance. It wasn’t until he was taken to ER that they realized that it was not natural causes. But by then, the private room that the senator had been using was sanitized leaving little in the way of forensic evidence. The motive? Tangled in a web of political intrigue and illicit desires; as ...

It’s not easy growing up in lower Alabama tall and ugly with kids picking on you just because you prefer being a girl. Too-Sweet learned early on that the only way to keep kids from picking on her and chucking rocks and shit was to knock fire from their asses. If Too-Sweet hadn't liked being a girl so much, he could of boxed like his older brothers and maybe of turned pro. Tired of lower Alabama Too-Sweet decided to head out to San Francisco and make her fame and fortune. One day while whoring and taking a worthless check, Too-Sweet inadvertently robs a bank and a star is born. Divas is a...

Too-Sweet's adventures continue in this outrageous fourth installment of the Too-Sweet Saga. Our heroine, Too-Sweet, along with Speedy Gonzales, have fled London by train to Liverpool. They take a ferry to Belfast, in Northern Ireland, along with ten kilos of cocaine that Speedy had stashed in a storage locker back in Soho. Upon arriving they rent a nasty old, boarded up bar, built out on a wharf called The Black Irish. They get help from their IRA friends to get things going. Too-Sweet decides to build a big mud pit in the center of the bar and feature nude wrestling with four fierce ...

Too-Sweet's adventures continue in English Rose, the third installment of the Too-Sweet Saga. After narrowly escaping Tijuana, she finds herself in the heart of London, where she establishes the Gay Paddy, a unique Irish Leather Bar and Spank Emporium. But chaos follows her, as Speedy Gonzales smuggles a massive cocaine shipment hidden in frozen burritos. Join Too-Sweet and her quirky new crew for a hilarious and action-packed journey through London's vibrant underworld. Fans of DIVAS and Tijuana Taxi won't want to miss this outrageous installment!

It's 1970 in the glamorous heart of Paris. Moonlight, music, and murder collide in smoky backstreets, shimmering on champagne flutes like a soft, French kiss tainted with danger. Clyde thought he'd finally escaped his violent past, building a sanctuary with his love, Moonbeam--their jazz club a beacon fueled by the rhythm of a new life, not the echoes of old bloodshed. Paris was meant to be Clyde's escape, a chance to build a new life. But enemies resurface like ghosts, shattering the fragile peace. As the Red Liberation Front unleashes its deadly agenda, the man who craves the quiet melody...

Haunted by the ghosts of San Francisco's Summer of Love and the blonde-haired, blue-eyed beauty he left behind, Clyde Thomas reenlists in the army and goes back to Vietnam as part of the 716th Military Police in Saigon. He arrives back a month before the Tet Offensive, hoping to clear the demons from his soul. But as the Tet Offensive explodes and Saigon crumbles into fiery chaos, he discovers a different kind of darkness—a war spiraling out of control, staining the soul of a nation. Drawn into Saigon's intoxicating underbelly, haunted by visions of Moonbeam and a new, forbidden love with...

The Bunkers Picking up where Spam Sushi left off, this outrageous crime caper follows the adventures of the Bunkers, a mischievous crew of seven, ten-year-old boys who are back in business. Peddling dried seaweed as pot to tourists in Waikiki is their usual hustle, but when a purse-snatching escapade turns up a kilo of crystal meth instead of cash, their lives take a hilarious and dangerous turn. Selling seaweed as pot is easy, but offloading a kilo of ice? That's a whole other can of worms, especially when you're only ten years old. Enter the Weasel, a colorful forty-year-old surfer with a...

Honolulu Lulu Honolulu Lulu--the third in the Big Huna Series, is outrageously funny and the wildest yet--with a cast of characters right out of Oliver Twist. In the sun-drenched paradise of Waikiki, a darker truth lurks beneath the surface. A serial killer stalks the luxury hotels, leaving investigators baffled by the victims' seemingly random selection and the horrid publicity that is growing exponentially by the day. Meanwhile, as the body count rises, a trio of pint-sized bank robbers, wearing black pygmy masks, pull off a daring heist and get away clean. Enter Big Huna, Chief Inspector...

Too-Sweet, a southern girl with a yen for adventure, flees Japan and lands in the sun-kissed embrace of Queensland, Australia. Ten miles north of Cairns, she stumbles into a wild business venture with her Yakuza partner and an endearingly shady Japanese counterfeiter. Their shopping list? A crocodile farm, a jungle boat, a twenty-unit motel, and—wait a giant bar. But this isn’t just any bar. Too-Sweet christens it, The Naked Pygmy, because apparently, in Australia, dwarf tossing at bars is a national sport. And why not? It’s a land where kangaroos box, wombats moonwalk, and emus have ...

Tijuana Taxi This is the second book in the Too-Sweet Saga Series. Too-Sweet, after escaping from jail in San Francisco, has relocated to Tijuana, Mexico, where she buys a rundown bar, and turns it into a gay nightclub called Tweety Pies. She decides that a change is in order, and gets rid of her blonde wig, and replaces it with a red one--which Too-Sweet feels gives her a striking resemblance to Lucile Ball. Well, okay, maybe if Lucy had been up smoking crack for a week. Unbeknown to Too-Sweet, the serial killer, Lewis Beasom (aka Pee-Baby) has also relocated to Tijuana, and takes up where...

History roared with the crack of a gunshot on April 4th, 1968. Locked away, a 16-year-old boy saw his chance and ran. Escaping a Nevada reformatory for possession of drugs. He jumped a freight train, oblivious to the echoes of gunfire changing the nation. One hitch on a desolate highway, a passing Mustang, and a stranger who becomes his lifeline... and his curse. With promises of a new life. His flight from prison is transformed into a twisted journey fueled by lies and manipulation as the young man is lured across the border into Mexico, then back to Los Angeles. His destination: the ...

Rock & Roll Detective: A Case Gone Platinum (Johnny Walker Novel 2) Ex-homicide inspector Johnny Walker thought he’d left the brutality behind when he retired from the Portland Police. Now a private investigator, Johnny gets pulled back into the dark underbelly of the city when a famous hip-hop artist hires him to find his missing stepbrother. The case takes a sinister turn when the stepbrother is found dead, and all fingers point to the rapper. The stepbrother, it turns out, wasn't just lost--he was holding onto a fortune in stolen cocaine. Framed for murder, Johnny is thrust back into ...

Aloha meets mayhem in this outrageous crime caper! Meet the Weasel: a wiry 40-year-old native Hawaiian surfer. By day, he rides the turquoise waves of Waikiki, and sells primo bud on the beach--with the help of a colorful parrot, Captain Morgan and a majestic white cockatoo named Snowballs. Come nightfall, the salty air of the beach trades places with the smoky ambience of a Waikiki strip club. There, the Weasel loses himself in the seductive glow of the stage, mesmerized by Bonnie Lim, a Chinese dancer with a smile that could melt coconuts and a tongue sharper than a coral reef. One ...

Ralph Griffith comenzó a escribir cuando ingresaba a una prisión federal por tercera vez, hace 14 años. Sintió que tal vez era hora de cambiar de profesión y comenzó a escribir ficción. Pasó sus últimos 7 años en una pequeña prisión federal con Bernie Madoff y Jonathon Pollard en Butner, Carolina del Norte. La pequeña instalación médica fue diseñada para albergar a reclusos notorios o de alto poder que, según la BOP, necesitaban una vigilancia especial. Griffith y Madoff tenían enfermedades cardíacas crónicas y con los años se hicieron amigos. Bueno, cuando dos hombres ...

Tehran, 1969. A city of intoxicating beauty and simmering unrest. Clyde Thomas is no ordinary CIA operative. Haunted by a past tragedy, he's fueled by an unwavering thirst for justice in a world where the line between right and wrong blurs with every step. When the beautiful, young Safie is kidnapped by a shadowy militant group, Clyde's hunt for her becomes a desperate fight against time. From opulent palaces to shadowy alleyways, Clyde's hunt for Safie takes him on a dangerous journey through both 1969 Iran and his own scarred psyche. As he becomes entangled in Safie's fight for survival, ...