Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.

Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.

The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.

Ernest Hemingway was the author I drew inspiration from.

Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.

Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.