Part Two of the Nibelungenlied, Jim Staack's translation in prose form. Read of the first superheroes. A story first told in song over a thousand years ago, written in the 13th century and now retold in the 21st. The bitter revenge Kriemhilt, now Queen of the Huns, takes on her brothers to make them pay for the murder of her first husband, Sivrit the dragon slayer. A tale of battles, blood and bravery. Read of the first superheroes of literature, the three kings, Gunther, Giselher and Gernot, their protector, the one eyed Hagene the horrible and his fighting companion, Volker, the fiddler....

Love and Death is part one of Jim Staack's translation of the Germanic epic poem, Das Nibelungenlied. This work first appeared in the 12th century A. D. and shares much of its Nordic and German mythology with Wagner's classic Ring operas. This is a story of love, of how Sivirt, the legendary dragon slayer, wins his bride, Kriemhilt, the beautiful princess of Burgonden and how Gunther, king of Burgonden wins his bride, Prunhilt, the wonderful queen of Iceland. It is a story of friendship and valor, of how Sivirit and Gunther become friends and how Sivrit helps Gunther on the battlefield and in...

DEBTOR NATION is a novel set in the not-too-distant future in the United States of America. The course of American democracy has lead to a society run by the Central Bank and its chief operating officer, Ragnor Wolfe, with few people, the board of directors of the Central Bank, possessing nearly all of the wealth and power of the nation, leaving the scraps for the remainder of the population. Only one person outside of the Bank's circle of borrowers, the entrepreneur and inventor, Edsel Ford XIII, has amassed wealth nearly equal to that of a Bank board member. The Bank has eroded and usurped...