When I read a techno-thriller, I expect a clever plot built around some whiz-bang technology. The device or process in question might either be currently operational or a reasonable projection into the near future. Runaway AI, for example. Genetic engineering, maybe. Or nanotechnology. The...
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On June 20, 1947, someone using a .30 caliber military M1 carbine pumped several bullets into the notorious mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel through a window of his palatial Beverly Hills home. So died the man who has come down through history as the founder of modern Las...
Read MoreToday, the CIA lies at the center of a vast complex of eighteen intelligence agencies. The so-called “intelligence community” boasts a combined budget of more than $100 billion annually. That’s one million dollars 100,000 times over. And though the Central Intelligence Agency...
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Corruption plagues all authoritarian systems no matter how idealistic their origins may be. The absence of checks on the supreme ruler radiates downward throughout the system. Opportunities open for officials high and low to abuse their authority for personal gain. And by the 1990s that pattern...
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Her name is Jasmine Bashara, but she hates it. Everyone calls her Jazz. She’s a Saudi National who has grown up since the age of seven in Artemis, the first city on the Moon. And there Jazz has built a thriving business as a smuggler with Kelvin Otieno, her partner who works in Kenya for the...
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Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review,
with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review,
with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.
Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review, with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review, with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.