Category Archives: Crime

Burn Berlin Burn

October 24, 2011 – 1:31 pm

This September my benefactor took me to the Monaco Boat Show. We landed at the Nice Airport and I was about to ask him how we were traveling to Monte Carlo, when I saw a Maybach waiting by the curb. Padraic looked over his shoulder and said like he could read my mind, “Our ride.” […]

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FIELD GREY by Philip Kerr

October 24, 2011 – 6:36 am

Philip Kerr has been writing about a pre-WWII Berlin detective for more than a decade. These novels cover Bernard Gunther’s career from policeman to private detective to SS soldier to post-war criminal. The books introduce infamous Nazis at various points of their lives and in FIELD GREY the old veteran is entrapped by the CIA […]

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Okie City Sex Avenger

October 9, 2011 – 5:10 am

Anita Bryant, former Miss America and Orange Juice spokeswoman, campaigned with a vengeance to pass a 1977 anti-gay adoption measure in Florida. Her ceaseless efforts proved successful and the ban went into effect for over 30 years. Encouraged by her triumph Anita nationwided her attacks on gays and lesbians, but met with defeat with even […]

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Same Old Suspects

October 2, 2011 – 3:07 pm

International banks employ hundreds of thousands of highly educated people to invest funds through the global capital markets. These trades are overseered by top executives and governmental inspectors. Computers registered every transaction. Big or small. Two purchases of less than $15 pushed my account into the red and my bank issued a penalty of $35. […]

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Dead Man Walking Dead

September 24, 2011 – 5:17 am

The State of Georgia executed Troy Davis on September 21, 2011. The method of death was injection with lethal dosages of chemicals. His last words protested his innocence. “I’m not the one who personally killed your son, your father, your brother.” Davis paid the ultimate price for the death of an off-duty policeman at a […]

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