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Desert graveyard
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 27/06/2019
» While not as prestigious as Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize awardees are highly regarded in the US. The annual recipients are rewarded for works a giant step above their colleagues.
Dirty money
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 23/09/2016
» Money laundering is an international crime with global authorities hard-put to stop it. Police-thriller novelists find it grist for their mills. Money laundering is largely done through retail shops (honest) and casinos (not so honest). Shoppers are unaware of it, not so gamblers.
The Underground Railroad revisited
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 11/08/2014
» Slavery is as old as man, practised well before the Hebrew slaves in Egypt. The populace of captured cities and defeated countries became slaves. The men were forced to do the most menial labour, the women often sold to slave traders, winding up as a prostitutes. It’s a profitable business.
Tough daughter
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 16/06/2014
» The Collins sisters are from the UK, but made their fame and fortunes in the US — Joan in films, Jackie as an author. Joan hasn’t made a movie for some time, yet Jackie is still turning out novels. Her focus is the jet set. Hollywood and Las Vegas are her venues of choice.
Don’t believe confessions
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 26/05/2014
» Novels about prison are of a kind. An inmate is scheduled to be executed and someone, usually a newspaper reporter, has reason to believe that he’s innocent. Can he bring the evidence to the governor before the electric chair, gallows, gas chamber or needle snuffs out his life? It’s a race against time.
Kinky sex victim
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 05/05/2014
» It is said that the male sex drive is at its strongest in the teenage years, while for the female, it is in her 30s. Throughout years together, couples tend to get bored. This is why they act out fantasies, take lovers, buy special toys or try Viagra.
Punishing the innocent
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 13/08/2012
» Looking at the name of the author of 15 Seconds, I did a double-take. I knew that I hadn't reviewed a book by Andrew Gross before, so why was he familiar to me? The thumbnail sketch of his background provided the answer. Gross is in James Patterson's stable of writers.
Flying machine thrills
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 18/06/2012
» 1911 was an in-between year in aviation. Eight years after the Wright brothers had invented the airplane in the US and three years before the Great War in Europe, improvements in design and performance made preceding models obsolete. Curiously, the US lagged behind the Continent in developing new models. A number of Yankee stalwarts took this to heart, determined to play catch-up.