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The ‘French Connection’ once smuggled heroin from Turkey to France and then to the United States.This route was responsible for much of the heroin that came into the US during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In the 1970s the ‘Connection’ wa… more

My first book, Fireplay, was based on a true Cold War incident. This was the sinking, some 950 miles northeast of Midway atoll, and in deep water, of a Russian Golf-class class submarine carrying nuclear weapons. The submarine was later rai… more

“Has anything changed since Romeo and Juliet, Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina, Tender is the Night, Darwin, Freud, Hefner and Gurley Brown? Or do the Unified Theories of Sexual Relativity-f=m$2 and m=f♀2-still apply? The men are again from Wes… more

What gave me the idea for Hong Kong, Let Candice Go! was that old urban myth about all those sexy young French girls who used to ‘disappear’ in fitting rooms all over Paris. And wake up in some Arab sheik’s tent, tied to the tent poles. Ano… more

How and why did I write The Don, How to Run a Mafia Family?I got the idea while I was researching secret societies for a series of novels I was then writing. Among these ‘societies’ were the KGB, CIA, Mossad—and the Mafia.After my novels we… more

I wrote Shotgun specifically for the movies.I kept the action tight, over days rather than weeks. I also kept the locale in one area—more or less—and the characters to a minimum.This formula worked because Shotgun was made into a movie.In f… more

April 1973—a hot and sticky month in the mid-Pacific, the month of hurricane Clarissa. While Clarissa raged above the surface, the Soviet submarine Doneska sank to the sea bottom some 950 miles northeast of Midway atoll. And so it began…And… more

I wrote my novel Shotgun specifically for the movies.And as I said previously in my Kindle eBook blurb for Shotgun, I kept the action tight, over days rather than weeks. I also kept the locale in one area—more or less—and the characters to … more