According to Richard Houston, you can be one of the educated few who turns an impending disaster to your own financial advantage-but only if you wake up and smell some very fishy facts. Without a basic understanding of the world's money markets and the little-known machinations of how they work, you're likely to fall victim to a long-running scam in which financial services industries and governments use your money to further their own wealth (and debt)-and keep you locked into beliefs and schemes that not only don't serve your best interests, but are ticking financial time bombs. At the...

According to Richard Houston, with the right information and attitude, YOU can be one of the lucky success stories out on the leading edge of business development and growth. Of course, in reality, getting there involves a lot more than luck (although a bit of that doesn't hurt). It takes clarity, guts, determination, courage-and a blueprint for the most crucial preparations and protections. Houston's mission, following his own successful string of businesses that made him independently wealthy and free to pursue his passions, is to help people obtain the financial education we all need to...

A Book to Die For is the second book in Houston's To Die For series. Jake Martin is not your ordinary sleuth. He's an outsourced software engineer, handyman and writer. This time the story takes place in the foothills of Denver. Jake is accused of manslaughter and he has to prove the accident was really murder. Along the way he encounters a poaching ring and falls in love with a beautiful game warden. The characters are memorable and the plot is multilayered. It keeps the reader guessing who dun-it until the very end.