Delighted to learn that my novel Time Fall was chosen as a “Thriller of the Month” by the kind folks at e-thriller.com! And what better month than October for this “thrilling” news? E-Thriller.com is a popular, specialized book review website offering unbiased reviews. I’m very grateful. Here’s an excerpt of the review (by RR Gordon): “…I like war […]
FORSYTH’S THE KILL LIST
Frederick Forsyth says U.S. Government sponsored “Kill Lists” are real. He’s right. Forsyth’s new thriller THE KILL LIST features an agency described this way in the book’s promotional materials: “In Virginia, there is an agency bearing the bland name of Technical Operations Support Activity, or TOSA. Its one mission is to track, find, and kill those so dangerous […]
Chemical Warfare: As Old As History
Chemical weapons have been used for millennia. They are among mankind’s most despicable weapons, and have never caused anything but heartbreak and devastation. In a bizarre twist of history, invading Iranians used clouds of sodium chloride gas in AD 256 to kill Roman soldiers in the ancient city of Dura-Europos in Syria. During the American […]
Syria: A Very Bad Bet
Weeks after the fact, I remain outraged that President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry so strongly advocated a US-led attack against targets in Syria. Someone in Syria, in all likelihood Assad, killed and maimed thousands of people with horrific chemical weapons. The is unforgivable. And yet—I am not willing to support an action that […]
Insanity = US Arming Syrian Rebels
Putting on my legal cap today (I am a licensed attorney in the Federal District of Columbia and Florida). Providing arms to terrorist groups is against US law section 40, 40(a) and 40(d) of the United States Arms Export Control Act. Last Sunday, President Obama issued an Executive Order to circumvent that law so that […]
