Book Preview A longtime burglar breaks into a plush mansion in the Washington D. C. area and is in the process of removing items of enormous wealth from a vault behind a two-way mirror when a limousine and a van pul around the back of the mansion. A man and a woman come into the … Read more
Book Preview CHAPTER 1 THE NINETY-SIX-YEAR-OLD MAN sat in his comfy armchair enjoying a book on Joseph Stalin. No mainstream publisher would touch the delusion-filled manuscript since the author had been unfailingly complimentary about the sadistic Soviet leader. Yet the self-published book’s positive opinion of Stalin appealed greatly to the old man. He’d purchased it … Read more
Book Preview Chapter 1 WITH A NEW DECADE LOOMING, Aloysius Archer was on a creaky bus headed west to California to seek as much of a life as someone like him could reasonably expect. A roof over his head, three squares a day, a pint of decent liquor every now and then, and a steady … Read more