May 6, 2012
As I mentioned just before Savant Books released my previous novel, MANIFEST INTENT, I had returned to my roots as a lawyer after my first novel, the Hawaiian thriller KANAKA BLUES. My newest work, RULES OF PRIVILEGE, stays in that world, but strays from the environment of the big law firm into the orbit of solo practitioners, who sometimes struggle just to stay afloat.  While the problems of large and small firms often are radically different, all lawyers, no matter the size of their firms, confront ethical issues to which there are often no easy answers. The disciplinary rules of a particular state may offer guidelines, but in the day-to-day affairs of law practice, sometimes there is no bright line test. RULES OF PRIVILEGE takes a behind-the-scenes look at the dilemma a criminal lawyer faces when she knows her client is guilty --
knows, in fact, that he may be a serial killer -- yet she is duty bound to zealously defend him. Complicate that with a family relationship and the line blurs even more. That’s the dilemma Dane Morgan faces in this legal thriller. Mike Farris Author of RULES OF PRIVILEGE (Savant 2012)
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February 28, 2012
In my opinion, an outstanding short story collection is the crowning glory of post-modern
literature, and as proof, I offer my readers BLOOD MONEY - TALES FROM TWO CONTINENTS.
Each story is complete,
but together, transcends individuality to timelessness and immortality. A
dramatic vision of humankind's greatness and shortcomings, BLOOD MONEY takes on Love, Regret, Lust,
Revenge, Hopelessness, Hope, Security, Adventure, Frustration and
Acceptance. In my stories, it's the characters' uniquely ... Continue reading...
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February 15, 2012
Forty years ago, during the height of the anti-Vietnam War movement, a large number of students at the University of California at Santa Barbara rose up in outright rebellion, burning down a branch of the Bank of America and clashing with police in three separate riots. The Isla Vista Crucible takes place at the university and the nearby student community of Isla Vista during that tumultuous 1969-1970 academic year. The story follows three roommates trying to live and enjoy their student liv... Continue reading...
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February 1, 2012
RANDOM VIEWS OF ASIA FROM THE MID-PACIFIC weaves together a series of
analyses focused on contemporary events in the Asia-Pacific region. This book is best seen as a learning
tool to help both the general reader and Asia
specialist to better understand the complexion of the region and true dynamics of
individual events. Newspaper articles, internet commentary, political discussions and debates come excitingly alive, and suddenly relevant, meaningful, and understandable. Of course, that alone ... Continue reading...
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November 10, 2011
An action/adventure novel about global petro-power-greed, THE OIL MAN features John Marx, an offshore oil derrick supervisor who unknowingly holds the keys to that power as well as to his, his family and friends' lives or deaths. An amateur conspiracy theorist, he, his wannabe James Bondish friend, Josh Platur, and his devoted wife, Anne, nonetheless have no idea as to why or what it is all really about. Not until Marx begins uncovers the threads of a real conspiracy, each of which exacts its... Continue reading...
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October 1, 2011
 When Edward Commons left his family - wife Melanie and daughter Gem – to go off to war in Germany during World War II, it was for love of country, patriotism and an overwhelming desire to participate.
Just as being a soldier fulfilled Edward's sense of duty, his wife Melanie set out to fulfill her duty to maintaining their family. Melanie’s talent as an artist helped secure a job in an airplane factory painting icons on the P40’s that rolled off the assembly line. Two years into the wa... Continue reading...
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September 16, 2011
Mail carrier Louise came to Oahu to start over. In the comfortable life she has built for herself, there are no surprises. She likes it that way. One day, while delivering the mail, Louise notices something wrong. One of her elderly customers, Mrs. Santos, is missing. Mrs. Santos lives alone and has no close family or friends. Even after Louise alerts the police,
she can’t stop worrying. Has Mrs. Santos fallen? Is she suffering from amnesia? Was she assaulted while walking to the store? Lou... Continue reading...
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July 2, 2011
AMMON'S HORN (Savant 2011) asks implicitly: When male verses female ego, in a case of love verses lust, which is the greater jackass? When the threat is a sexy little bitch ready to bring the financial world down about the world's ears, and her mentor is the god Apollo (Phoebee) in human guise; when the wager with his sister Didi (Aphrodite) says Phoebee will bed the bitch or, failing, spend a year as lackey in a Hollywood cathouse; when an army of acolytes on either side includes a scienti... Continue reading...
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June 16, 2011
The protagonists in my book, WHO'S KILLING ALL THE LAWYERS? are based on a couple of Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents I met during the cold war in Vienna, Austria, a few months after the end of World War II. My unit had moved from Italy into Austria to augment other units searching for fugitive Nazi’s mingling as Austrians citizens. Several of us were trained by army intelligence to not only seek runaways, but to fraternize with the general population and gather information for coun... Continue reading...
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May 9, 2011
On April 27, 1974, a young mother named Chan Kim is forced into the Killing Fields, where her baby girl dies. Why her child deserved to die remains the question at the center of Chan Kim’s search for love and hope throughout the novel. Who can help her somehow accept the injustice done to her? After surviving the Killing Fields, Chan Kim is summoned by Amery, a powerful spirit who claims that Chan is blessed with the psychic ability to change humanity’s destructive trajectory. Chan Kim is... Continue reading...
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