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1947 - The Mob establishes the Flamingo casino creating the famous Vegas strip. The Federal Bureau of Narcotics, controlled by a dodgy Harry Anslinger, is given massive funding to initiate the failed War on Drugs. Senators Thomas and Rankin start their communist witch hunt against a Hollywood where Jack Warner is at war with his writers as the long established Studio System begins to crumble.All this while the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn...

They say everything comes in threes. Here's three rib tickling tales featuring three characters in three very different time periods and situations.Kelly's Full House is a great short story collection that will lift your spirits and help get you through your day by dealing with some of the most taboo subjects - The Press, death and politics.1. 127 Alden RoadIt's July 1st, 2017 in Provincetown Massachusetts, original landing place of the Pilgri...

From the author of Operation Underworld, The American Way, The Wolves of Calabria, Children of the Nuclear Gods and other more serious political-historical novels comes a second collection of short stories and essays dealing with science, religion and of course, politics.There's An App for That Two! Chronicles yet more short stories, anecdotes and opinions espousing common sense in lieu of political correctness. In a tongue-in-cheek style, the...

From the author of the political, historical novels Operation Underworld, The American Way and The Wolves of Calabria comes a tongue-in-cheek look, punctuated with serious overtones, at some of the main events of the past which have strained, shaped and directed the course of Western culture of the Sixties and Seventies. This collection of short stories and essays takes a private and personal POV at various events which, although experienced b...

February, 1942: Free China is lost, the Battle of Britain has been fought and Hitler dines in Paris. World War II is nearly three years old and, with an invitation from the Imperial Japanese Navy at Pearl Harbor via air mail, the United States has joined the party. Only 60 days into it and the U.S. Navy has lost nearly 100 ships to the Wolf Packs, the retooling of Her factories is estimated to take at least a year, and even before that is comp...

On January 12th, 1912 at 12 noon, 57, 000 European immigrants comprised of 25 nationalities, 45 languages, (less than 10% of which spoke English), struck against one of the richest men in the world. To add to the drama, they faced a hostile governor and U. S. president, a racially motivated police force backed by the U. S. Army and the worst New England Winter on record.Against a backdrop of wars raging in the Far East, The Balkans and North A...

In 1971 there were only three ways out of the soul-crushing, abject poverty of the Jersey City shithole of a slum they called the Duncan Avenue Federal Housing Project, prison, the military or the likely end to both - death.In the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Billy Chance had a dream: to become a doctor. All he'd have to do is finish high school, (something no one else in his family had ever done before), find a shit load of money, (s...

Through shear dint of effort, Ronald Lump the third, now in his fourth and last term as president, had with tireless campaigning and unprecedented cooperation in both the House and the Senate, been able to whittle away at the 3% who controlled 97% of the wealth. He got it down to 1%. Worse yet, of the 47 candidates who intend to run for office to replace him none are qualified.America was in trouble. Again.However it is in Central Middleville,...

In 1999 several billion internationally are invested in counter measures to combat the much anticipated, widely dreaded world-wide Y2K computer virus. Amidst these counter measures several banks in New York and London take the daring precaution of secretly stashing several billion in cash in armored cars in secret locations around the cities in anticipation of their computers collapsing at midnight on New Year's Eve.When the virus doesn't mate...

The Italian Wolf, also known as the Apennine Wolf, was originally described in 1921 as subspecies Canis lupus italicus by Italian zoologist Joseph Atobello. However, following WWII it was believed to be extinct. It was not.After the war the wolves spread west from Sicily to the island of Corsica and then on to Southern France and finally across the Atlantic and into the United States through New York City.By 1946 the wolves, led by a cunning a...

This is a novel revealing the astonishing underground partnership that changed the course of history. As the Hindenberg dramatically burned, the US government realised its ports were under grave threat from German attack as the Second World War approached its zenith. If the Pentagon and Navy couldn't get the information required, they would risk an unthinkable loss. Facing such danger, the authorities made a decision that would never have been...

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This is a novel revealing the astonishing underground partnership that changed the course of history. Facing such danger, the authorities made a decision that would never have been sanctioned at any other time - it sought to solicit the help of the country's most high profile and criminal mafia bosses.

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