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When you have no work and even the Tarot cards are saying bad things, it makes a road trip sound like fun. Three friends head out from LA to Las Vegas…the place where many things fall apart, including the foundation of the trio. Blame it on vagueness and a prostitute who is a Scorpio. Escaping without money means catching a ride with a Midwestern dentist. He's driving his Porsche all the way to a mountain without even a name, and the trip provides a certain amount of flatline insight. If the endless country music doesn't prove toxic, a return from the brink might be possible.

Old Sweet ain't gonna build no more boats...On the Caribbean island of Kayakoo, a local boatbuilder named Sweet is found dead on the beach. Detective Johnny Cliff needs to find out what happened to him. With a little help from a friend from a Scotland Yard detective who is there on vacation, he follows the typically twisting and curious trails an island investigation can take.

Life gets crowded on the open road. Jason loves the open spaces of the western US. There is contemplative quiet that comes with crossing the endless miles. And that's his job, traveling, doing mobile repair and maintenance work for an office equipment company. When they send him into New Mexico, an overnight stay at a motel that is haunted changes his life. Who knew spirits could be so tenacious or complicate your life so much? A short, fantastic adventure in surreal New Mexico.

Martin Billings heads to Venezuela to locate a friend’s business partner. The man has slipped off the radar, and a lot of people want to find him. It’s easy enough to locate the man’s wife, vacationing on Margarita, but she knows nothing of the man’s whereabouts and cares even less. Several people do care where he is, however, including an ex-British spy named Simon, organized crime, and a mysterious foreign woman. None of it seems to have a thing to do with the reason he's there, but Martin is caught in the middle—again.

When an LA private investigator heads to Colorado to see an old buddy and get in a little fishing, he walks squarely into a murder investigation. It’s like he never left home, and he was looking forward to a relaxing time in the country. The victim, a reporter for the local paper, worked for his friend Jimmy who retired there. Now, Jimmy is calling in favors. The local sheriff isn't an exactly a go-getter, and Jimmy wants to ensure the killer is found. Old friendships can make for high-maintenance situations.

Former Navy SEAL Martin Billings thought he was through with special ops, but when he gets word that his brother is in jail in Venezuela, charged with killing a fisherman, he knows he is the only one who can do anything about it. Arriving, he finds that the Venezuelan police, a mysterious and gorgeous woman lawyer, a vicious gringo called Highball, a seemingly affable drug lord, and a guy named Raul would all much rather Martin just turned around and went home.

Sailing out into deep water is deceptive, especially when the weather is beautiful, the sky crystal clear. The tropics can lull you into complacency. This is the story of a Rasta and his girlfriend going fishing on a borrowed motorboat, and the separate tale of a couple traveling the islands on their sailboat. They have little in common until things go wrong. Sailing in the same waters, with no knowledge of each other, they come to share the life-threatening challenges the sea can offer them, without there being a storm in sight.

Colonies require support and expansion to other planets means shipping supplies to them. Pirates love long supply chains and not even Elon Musk is invulnerable, although there is reason to believe he might do slightly better than cumbersome governments. This highly speculative look at the perils of building the first functional Mars colony stars Elon Musk.

Ron Añejo loves his carefree lifestyle in the Caribbean, sailing his barely seaworthy wooden boat from one dodgy job to the next. It's a life that requires lots of chutzpah and more than a little luck. Legal work for a boat bum can be hard to come by, even if you actually had a work permit. And Ron isn't big on formalities.

The first book in the series, Bitpats is about an underground cyber organization deeply involved in the struggle to prevent anyone from using the new financial tools to dominate the world.

Being married to Bart Titus gave Lisa a great deal...money, position, all those things she'd thought were important. But it was also boring. A trap. He was controlling. So when she went to Mexico for a vacation, she decided to have a little fun. But sometimes fun catches up with you, and now she was being blackmailed. So one problem had become two. A clever and impatient girl like Lisa isn't going to let that situation fester. All she wants is to have a little fun, but that might require some work and planning.

Being married to Bart Titus gave Lisa a great deal - money, position, all those things she'd thought were important. But it was also boring. A trap. He was controlling. So, when she went to Mexico for a vacation, she decided to have a little fun. But, sometimes, fun catches up with you, and now, she was being blackmailed. So, one problem had become two.

Moteles en diferentes puntos de las carreteras de América, proporcionan una gama de servicios y precios. Nosotros los usamos. Miles de nosotros los utilizan como un lugar para descansar, para reuniones y otras asignaciones, e incluso, en ocasiones, para actuar dramas de la vida. Son lugares sin alma, casi perfectos para los finales trágicos que a veces parecen asumir su propio poder y fuerza, al fin y al cabo, jugando con nosotros.

Why somebody kill that man? The mysterious death of a popular figure at a Caribbean resort has inspector Johnny Cliff wondering why someone might want him dead. And he still has to solve the case of Henderson’s dog disappearing. It’s busy times on the island.

When the CIA sends a financial analyst named Tyler Blake to go undercover at the Anarchapulco conference in Mexico, the idea is to have eyes and ears on anarchist plots. Somehow things don’t go as planned. Despite good intentions, the ideas of freedom he’s exposed to might just be too contagious to resist.

Tropical heat, money, and lust. Henry Miller once said, "One's destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things." I think that’s why, on an extended vacation from my programming job to Cartagena, Colombia, I let a rich and chatty American expat tell me his story. I wasn’t impressed or even particularly interested - not until I met his beautiful assistant and heard rumors that the man had a dark secret. Even then I became intrigued, mostly, I suspect, because learning the truth was a way to get to know her.

The hub of life in the islands is the local rum shop and though life in the Windward Islands in the Caribbean might be a little different, move at a slower pace than in other places, the problems of life are pretty much the same.

Motels dot the highways of America, providing a range of services and prices. We use them. Thousands of us use them for a place to rest, for meetings and assignations, and even, at times, to act out life's dramas. They are soulless places, almost perfect for the tragic endings that sometimes seem to take on their own power and strength, playing out no matter what we truly want.

Dust storms pop up out of nowhere and are a danger for drivers on the open highways of the southwest. But when you can't see what is in front of you, maybe, with a little help, a fresh pair of eyes, you see something new. Something that might not even be there other times, something that is accessible only when dust storms may exist!