Unless you're a devoted fan of the genre, you may be unaware of the sheer number of mystery and thriller series. I stumble across a new one about every month or two. Over the past eight years, I've read (or at least started reading) more than eighty such series. Fifty-four of them belong in any list of engaging, well-written stories of crime and intrigue. After all, getting pub [...]

Having spent more than half of my life in business, engaged in founding or leading a number of small companies, it's only natural that I should read a good deal about economic history and the history of business. Here, I've listed 37 of the best books about the history of business that I've read and reviewed in this decade. They're all nonfiction. I've divided them somewhat arb [...]

For good or ill, a fair amount of what I’ve learned about espionage over the years has come from reading spy stories. A few authors are particularly diligent about research and accuracy, so most of what I’ve picked up is probably true. In fact, many of those authors are veterans of the intelligence game and should know what they write about. But, for assurance that what I r [...]

You're gonna love this. Once upon a time, back in the distant reaches of the twentieth century—well, actually it was 1984—one of my clients assigned me to ghostwrite a fundraising letter that Isaac Asimov had agreed to sign. I approached the task with some trepidation, both because I knew Asimov’s reputation as a prolific author and because I had actually met the man o [...]