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,...
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WRETCHED LAND describes the passionate love, intense suffering and the miraculous survival of one family who lived in Ukraine through the hardships of World War One, the Civil War and World War Two including the famines of 1921, 1932-33 and 1947, and the cruel, Stalinist era. The story is fictional, interwoven into the fabric of Ukrainian history.
The love between Dmytro, an impoverished aristocrat turned farmer, and Khrystina, daughter of a wealthy landowner, carries their family through the...
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“Today I Am A Man” is a fictional work based on fact about a 12 year old boy whose family moves from the bleak and wintery climes of Canada to the sizzling hot culture of the fabled paradise of Los Angeles, California, in the early 60’s. The music of The Beach Boys and The Ventures were siren songs beckoning hopefuls...

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