In mid-Eighties Windsor, Vietnamese gangs and Chinese organized crime meet head on in violent turf war as they go after a University of Windsor anthropology professor and $2,000,000 in ancient treasure he stole from China. Meanwhile, a brutal serial rapist and killer terrorizes the city. Three psychologically damaged women - the professor's wife, his 17 year old daughter, and a private detective - are drawn into this world of brutal psychological terror, raw physical and emotional violence, and international crime and intrigue. Can they survive? In the tradition of Graham Greene and Elmore...
In mid-Eighties Windsor, Vietnamese gangs and Chinese organized crime meet head on in violent turf war as they go after a University of Windsor anthro...
Steve Lansing, a down and out freelance journalist in Windsor, a Canadian border city across the river from Detroit, Michigan, is gradually but inexorably drawn to a story of international crime and conspiracy with political implications, yet is unable to penetrate the web of deceit protecting whoever is behind it all. Finding himself ever deeper in a world that seems controlled by fantasy, dreams, and visions, it's not that Steve is stubborn, but that it seems he can find no way out. In time, Steve hooks up with the widow of a murdered cabbie and an honest cop on the city force, but can the...
Steve Lansing, a down and out freelance journalist in Windsor, a Canadian border city across the river from Detroit, Michigan, is gradually but inexor...
"To Whom It May Concern" was first published in 2006 by Amazon.com as one of the series of e-books known as Amazon Shorts. The series went out of print in 2009. Dark Matter Press is proud to present this new print edition of Bob MacKenzie's experimental mystery story for fans and collectors alike. "To Whom It May Concern" is a mystery story that explores spontaneous human combustion, connecting it to magic and the supernatural while suggesting there may be a genetic predisposition to spontaneous human combustion that is passed from generation to generation. Follow the police detectives as...
"To Whom It May Concern" was first published in 2006 by Amazon.com as one of the series of e-books known as Amazon Shorts. The series went out of prin...
Steve Lansing, a down and out freelance journalist in Windsor, a Canadian border city across the river from Detroit, Michigan, is gradually but inexorably drawn to a story of international crime and conspiracy with political implications, yet is unable to penetrate the web of deceit protecting whoever is behind it all. Finding himself ever deeper in a world that seems controlled by fantasy, dreams, and visions, it's not that Steve is stubborn, but that it seems he can find no way out. In time, Steve hooks up with the widow of a murdered cabbie and an honest cop on the city force, but can the...
Steve Lansing, a down and out freelance journalist in Windsor, a Canadian border city across the river from Detroit, Michigan, is gradually but inexor...
Anthology of Tragedies & Triumphs is a moving collection of short stories, memoirs, and poems written by 17 seniors, nearly all in their 70s. It describes the simple, but often unexpected, "implications of growing old." The authors are from southwestern Ohio and meet at the University of Dayton's Lifelong Learning Institute. Stories are about an inscrutable bag lady, the dark side of "actually getting your wish," the crush of dealing with personal losses and family imbroglios. There is a story of a foundling who grew up to transform a whole village, a journey to "the other side," and the...
Anthology of Tragedies & Triumphs is a moving collection of short stories, memoirs, and poems written by 17 seniors, nearly all in their 70s. It descr...
""These poems navigate contrary states: experience and innocence; loss and ecstasy; restraint and lyric outpouring. MacKenzie's ominous "wrong dark ravine/...wrong dark wind" is set against the buoyant romantic: "I shall Errol Flynn my way into your heart." The reader of Bob MacKenzie's poems will discover a striking range of poetic form and human experience. MacKenzie writes in "Beyond Convergence: The Whistle Dying," of "Gods we dream no more." Don't let the air of resignation fool you - there is ample resonant dreaming in MacKenzie's poetry." Jeanette Lynes, Author of Archive of the...
""These poems navigate contrary states: experience and innocence; loss and ecstasy; restraint and lyric outpouring. MacKenzie's ominous "wrong dark ra...
In 1959, western Canada was only half a century removed from the old west already being commemorated in books and in the movies and television series. Cowboys and oilmen dominated the popular imagination in a rural economy of small towns surrounded by small family farms. The culture was in gradual transition, with an eye to the future but with one foot planted firmly in the previous century. The new mythology of the old west fueled the imagination of every child bored by an uneventful hot and dry Alberta summer. It's 1959. Three 12 year old boys. Two 12 year old girls. Summer is boring in a...
In 1959, western Canada was only half a century removed from the old west already being commemorated in books and in the movies and television series....
