When Merritt Fury, a fiercely independent American entrepreneur, returns to Hong Kong on business, little does he know that he has become enmeshed in a conspiracy to confiscate his investment and render the Crown colony a dependency on the Mainland dictatorship to the north. While he suspects foul play by some of his business partners in Bluelist Tungsten Trading, he also learns that he is the object of scrutiny by an underground group combating the conspiracy. He meets Amber Lee, a Eurasian beauty and government economist - and also a pistol-packing spy. As Fury fights for his life and...

Merritt Fury is the unconquerable American entrepreneur who in "Whisper the Guns" foiled a Red Chinese conspiracy in Hong Kong, and in "We Three Kings" gave a Saudi sheik his just desserts. Now, in "Run From Judgment," he finds himself the target of a mysterious assassin who is eliminating, one by one, the financial enablers of the world's terrorists. He is also the object of another entrepreneur's malice, and finally the subject of a captivating portrait painter. At the same time, he is the primary suspect of a British homicide detective, who believes Fury has committed the inexplicable...

Why is American foreign policy failing? Should our foreign policy be principled, or pragmatic? Why are politicians and bureaucrats so determined to regulate and rule our lives? Who are the new shock troops of collectivism and statism? Are we at war with Islam, and if so, has long has the war been waged? What are the goals of Islam? Is Islam compatible with Western norms of freedom? If not, why not? Why are religious conservatives who oppose Islam just as much a threat to freedom as Islam? Why do so many wealthy individuals and large corporations endorse Barack Obama, who has declared war on...

Why is American foreign policy failing? Should our foreign policy be principled, or pragmatic? Why are politicians and bureaucrats so determined to regulate and rule our lives? Who are the new shock troops of collectivism and statism? Are we at war with Islam, and if so, has long has the war been waged? What are the goals of Islam? Is Islam compatible with Western norms of freedom? If not, why not? Why are religious conservatives who oppose Islam just as much a threat to freedom as Islam? Why do so many wealthy individuals and large corporations endorse Barack Obama, who has declared war on...

Why is American foreign policy failing? Should our foreign policy be principled, or pragmatic? Why are politicians and bureaucrats so determined to regulate and rule our lives? Who are the new shock troops of collectivism and statism? Are we at war with Islam, and if so, has long has the war been waged? What are the goals of Islam? Is Islam compatible with Western norms of freedom? If not, why not? Why are religious conservatives who oppose Islam just as much a threat to freedom as Islam? Why do so many wealthy individuals and large corporations endorse Barack Obama, who has declared war on...

"Boarding Parties is the fourth in a series of anthologies of columns, reviews, and essays about the American condition, covering politics, Islam, freedom of speech, and the culture

This is the fifth anthology of commentaries and essays collected from Rule of Reason and other weblogs over the years. They focus on current politics, Islam, freedom of speech, various cultural issues, and miscellaneous subjects. The startling and unexpected reelection of Barack Obama in 2012 for another four years to continue what frankly should be deemed a nihilist campaign to "deconstruct" America should cause anyone who values his freedom and his life to enter into a state of permanent trepidation. Much has happened since the publication of the last volume: the Boston Marathon bombing;...

The Sparrowhawk Companion has become an indispensable reference book for readers of the Sparrowhawk series, containing, in addition to essays by the author and other contributors about the series and period in which it is set, a chronology of Acts of Parliament from 1650 onward up until the conclusion of the American Revolution, a glossary of 18th century terms encountered in the series, a handy list of the 375 characters that appear in the story, a list of all the naval and merchant vessels, and a selective bibliography of some of the author's sources. The Companion was originally published...