Technical writer Tom Godot can't believe his luck when CONSPIRACY , the book he has co-written with the elusive Harold Stevenson, is a hit. The book details a plot to hijack communication satellites. As Tom crosses the country on his book tour, he is disturbed by people interested in early drafts and dogged by an NSA agent. Communicating by fax with his editor and by encrypted e-mail with the mysterious Stevenson, Tom reaches out in his loneliness to his California girl friend Sylvia Hanson who turns out to be a pivotal figure. There is another conspiracy, and Tom is part of it

With no GI Bill income duing the summer I couldn't afford rent, so set off to hitchhike to North Cape, the northernmmost land in Europe. I had an old Boy Scout backpack, tent, sleeping bag, nesting pots and a pan, and a tiny Lomas gasoline stove. I made the trip on $2 a day, a great adventure through Sweden, Norway, and Finland.

Native Yooper Kerstin Mikkola, is a TV broadcaster at WMUP with offices at an old airport terminal. She works for Queen Annie, her mentor and widow of the original station owner. What Kerstin would like is to move up to a network job but she is unknown. A surprise arrival at the station is Imogene Michener who, as a marine recruit, was raped by her training sergeant Carlos Wayne Sauvenier. Imogene's traumatic case was blown off by her commander. Suffering from extreme PTSD and discharged, Imogene set up the StopRape.com web site, inviting other victims to post their stories for the world to...

When Adam Rottman's childless Aunt Sadie Gold died, the eight cousins learned her estate was in an irrevocable trust, the proceeds going to Adam's sister Sarah while she lives. After Sarah's death, the money would go to the last surviving cousin. It's a fatal tontine Adam's lawyer brother Harold set up. Would the cousins kill each other for one million dollars? Sarah's car is found in the river, but not Sarah. That begins a series of mysterious deaths. Coincidence? Or Murder? Who will be next? Adam and his psychologist wife Deborah must stop the chain before he, too, is eliminated.

So you want to write a book? Better read this first. What happens when a stable of crazy authors are called to the Miami Book Fair by their SOB publisher aboard his yacht, Lollipop. Could lead to murder.