20 essays drawn from numerous online archives that illuminate two decades' progress of DeVoon's thought on the philosophy of laissez faire law, a system that he believes has no direct antecedents, except Thomas Paine and Ayn Rand O'Connor, with a grateful hat tip to Jefferson, Lincoln, Madison, Hancock, Otis, and Franklin.

First serialized in Laissez Faire City Times, this is Wolf's zany action adventure saga of an anarcho-capitalist utopia in the year 2050. Plutocratic playboys and private police grapple with assassins, a war zone in Southern California, corrupt London bankers, and myriad cloak and dagger identities. Rated "R" for racy language.

DeVoon competently combines the pull of a space story with suspenseful twists and turns of a thriller. He reaches out to the thinking reader, providing a savory touch of art. An example: "History is predictable while the pressure builds, then it explodes in a crescendo that no one expected or understands except in awe of its might, just as rocks melt beneath an atomic bomb." In Book Two, the story takes on a much more intimate tone; and although DeVoon's touch is sometimes heavy, his obvious familiarity with the concepts he explores makes that easy to overlook. He also appears to be another...