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Most of us never get to test ourselves in combat. As a UH-1 Helicopter pilot flying in the jungle highlands of South Vietnam, Warrant Officer Jim Crigler and the men he flew with were tested daily. Coming of age in the late 1960s and early 1970s was challenging for most young men of that era. Throw in drugs, free love, draft notices, the Vietnam War and a country deeply divided, and you have one of the most important books of this genre. This true story is a raw, bold, introspective autobiography where the author openly wrestles with his personal moral dilemma to find meaning and purpose...

On August 4, 2004, Jason Crigler was onstage in a New York City nightclub when a blood vessel burst in his brain. The thirty-four-year-old guitarist, a fixture in the downtown music scene who had played with Marshall Crenshaw, Linda Thompson, and John Cale, narrowly survived the bleed. A string of complications that followed meningitis, seizures, coma left him immobile and unresponsive, with his doctors saying nothing more could be done. Meanwhile, Jason s medical insurance quickly hit its lifetime cap, meaning that his policy would no longer pay for his care. Despite such overwhelming...

When Senator Charles Jamison dies in an apparent accident in Afghanistan, some people grieve, some celebrate, and the federal investigation into his corruption begins a controlled shutdown.

But when Sean McCloskey, an Atlanta teenager, overhears conspirators saying Jamison was murdered, he neither rejoices nor mourns. He disappears.

Detective John Mason is assigned to find Sean, but no one has a clue -- not his mother, not his sister, not his friends -- until Sean begins calling home every day. His cell phone is only turned on for a few minutes at at time, but the location trace shows...

Barbara Penfield was a normal suburban housewife. She had a normal suburban family; they lived in a normal suburban house. She even took normal suburban antidepressants. The car crash that killed her was assumed a normal suburban tragedy.

But when the evidence made it plain Barbara had been lured from her home and her car had been tampered with, Detective John Mason could only draw one conclusion: Murder.

The greatest mystery was why anyone might want Barbara dead.

Mason finds her murderer, but only with help from an unexpected source.

"Unthinkable" is the inaugural book in the...

""Majorlabelland and Assorted Oddities"" is comprised of an essay about hard rock bands in the eighties and nineties and their struggles with major record labels which resulted in several albums that have never been released. Interviews have been conducted with almost forty musicians from some two dozen bands and they all graciously agreed to chat about their career and the problems they encountered that ended some of their careers' dead in its tracks. The book is also comprised of short stories that have been complied since the author was in college and they fi t the feel of the book:...