A DAY LATE

Yesterday was the Fourth of July. I spent the day in a very non celebratory fashion, doing yardwork and editing. Last week we had a tornado touch down in my neighborhood. My friends who live in Tornado Alley would scoff. “An EF-1, bah, that’s nothing.” They might say. Trees and limbs came down, power went…

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Happy Birthday U.S. Army!

You Say it’s your Birthday… I have a lot of friends who are Marines. They are understandably proud and needless to say there is a lot of good-natured, inter-service, ribbing. And while I would never admit this to any of their faces, because I would never hear the end of it, there are a lot…

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The Devil’s in the Details

I am militant about research. It sounds funny because I write “tough guy” detective novels, not works of great historic or social importance. Nope, I am a guy trying to entertain his readership. I want you to take my books to the beach or to help you pass a couple-hour layover in a busy airport.…

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