Conspiracy is the second in the series of humorous novels about the life, escapades and legal exploits of C. Bruce West, a successful, young Baltimore lawyer. Bruce is retained to represent a middle-aged couple who are accused of conspiring with an elected government official to operate a fraudulent marriage ring in violation of the nation's immigration laws. He pursues a very risky defense strategy which could have serious, career-threatening consequences and could result in long prison terms for his clients if he is unsuccessful. He has a steamy affair with his clients' daughter. There are...

I was continuously amazed by the stupid things that people said to me, the bizarre situations that people got themselves into and the unrealistic perceptions that people had of their rights to sue others. The misperceptions and the inflated expectations of recovery of damages for the imagined wrongs committed against them never failed to astonish me. Hardly a day passed that I didn't hear some preposterous story from a client...a story that if I lived a million years, I would never have expected to hear. I kept a journal of the absurd stories that I heard during the course of my career. I...

Mistaken Identity is the third in the Bruce West series of humorous novels about the life, escapades and legal exploits of successful, young, Baltimore attorney, C. Bruce West. Bruce is hired by a prostitute to represent her son who is charged with armed robbery. Although his client has a long history of similar offenses and has been positively identified, Bruce is convinced that the victim has mistakenly identified him. Bruce is forced to examine the dynamics of the city's African American community. He becomes involved in a sexual adventure with the daughter of a federal judge and has to...

A 500 page anthology compiled from the clean and off-color jokes and humorous quips I heard and received in e-mails over the past 20 years. Only those that made me laugh out loud were selected for inclusion. The title was inspired by the catch-phrase, "Delivered in a plain brown wrapper,"generally used to insure the privacy of a person receiving items of adult content and questionable taste. The jokes are categorized, indexed and cross referenced by topic. Read it and become the life of the party

Julian Berger, a charismatic young man with a magnetic personality and movie star-good looks is an accomplished scam-artist. After a series of successful scores scamming local drug dealers, he follows Bruce and Jill to Acapulco where they are vacationing. While there, he meets one of their friends, a wealthy, widowed New York socialite. He weaves a web of deceit to engineer a three million dollar diamond heist and then scams the FBI when they set up a sting operation to recover the stolen diamonds. After successfully avoiding prosecution for the theft of the diamonds, he once again ends up on...

This is the fourth in the series of humourous novels about the life, escapades and legal exploits of young, successful, Baltimore attorney, C. Bruce West. Bruce is hired by a woman who has been arrested for possession of the illegal drugs her drug dealer-son had hidden under her bed. She has no viable defense to the charges against her. Bruce concots and imaginative defense just moments before his closing argument to the jury. He becomes involved in a serious and very romantic relationship and experiences events that will forever alter his personal life. Steamy scenes and lots of laughs

Three humorous courtroom dramas about the life, escapades and legal exploits of Bruce West, a young, successful Baltimore attorney, in a single volume. In the first novel, "A lawyer's Revenge," Bruce represents a client accused of rape. Not only does his client offer a preposterous alibi, but he stiffs Bruce for his fee. As the heat of the courtroom drama unfolds, Bruce is overcome by his compulsion to win, despite his determination to exact revenge. In "Conspiracy," Bruce represents a middle aged couple who are accused by the FBI of conspiring with an elected government official to conduct a...

Three complete unabridged novels in a single volume. In "Busted" Bruce is hired by the mother of a drug dealer who has been arrested for possession of the illegal drugs her son hid under her bed. Her claim that she didn't know they were there is not a viable defense. Bruce concocts an imaginative defense moment before he delivers his closing argument to the jury. He experiences events that will alter his personal life. Steamy love scenes and lots of laughs. In "Scoundrel," Bruce's client is an accomplished scam-artist. Among his endless criminal enterprises, he rips off drug dealers,...

An unidentified, bullet-riddled body is found in the woods on the multi-million dollar estate of Bruce's client. She is charged with his murder, despite her air-tight alibi. There is no doubt about her innocence, at least not until the police locate the hit-man who was hired to commit the murder. Her fate is sealed by his compelling testimony. You will be stunned by the shocking outcome of her trial.

A dream was the inspiration that set me upon a quest to discover my ancestry and recall long forgotten events of my past. The discoveries and resurrected memories took me on a cathartic journey from my beginnings to the end of a lifetime of failures, failed relationships and an ultimate string of successes in business, personal relationships and my professional career as an attorney. My pioneering efforts resulted in changes to the archaic rules of practice promulgated by the American Bar Association since 1874 and rigidly enforced by the highest courts in the United States. In retrospect,...