REVIVALS

The reissue of my 1996 crime novel, Equation for Evil, by Bourbon Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, comes out Tuesday, Feb.4. Please see my post of September 16, 2013, for a few more details. In the same vein, Lyons Press, a division of Globe-Pequot...

DON’T NEED A WEATHERMAN

I recently received this e-mail from a limo service I use for business travel. Another wave goodbye in the long goodbye to print journalism. So long to ink on your fingers, the crinkle and crackle and smell of newsprint paper, the thud of the Sunday edition hitting...

TUSCON EVENT

It’s always gratifying for an author on a speaking tour to fill a ballroom. More than 300 people attended the Friends of Saddlebrooke Libraries luncheon in Tuscon, Arizona, where I spoke about The Longest Road and read excerpts from the book on Friday, Nov. 22d....

MY PERSONAL WALL, VETERANS DAY, 2013

Herewith, in memoriam, the names of comrades and the dates of their deaths. They are among the 14,844 Marines killed in Vietnam: LCPL. CARROLL FANKHAUSER 7/30/1965; PFC ROBERT FERNANDEZ, 5/20/1965; CPL. BRIAN GAUTHIER, 7/11/1965; LCPL. REYNALDO GUZMAN, 1/25/1966;...

VIETNAM MARINES

And to fellow marines who fought in Vietnam: Let us remember that our war was the costliest, in terms of overall combat casualties, in our 238-year history: 101, 689 killed and wounded in battle, as compared with 87,940 in WWII. 

USMC

Nov. 10th, 1775: The U.S. Marine Corps was established in a Philadelphia saloon, Tun Tavern. Raise a glass, all marines, active and former, everywhere, and wish yourselves a happy 238th.