That war [Vietnam] only made billionaires out of millionaires. Today’s war is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress.—Kurt Vonnegut

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Family Affairs. This novel is all about family—Castilblanco’s nieces, adopted families, a terrorist’s family, and broken families. You also might think twice about taking an ocean cruise again. #6 in the “Detectives Chen and Castilblanco Series” will provide you enough mystery, suspense, and thrills to get you through the end of 2016 and all of 2017.  Given the above, you might need some distraction.

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What does the “B” in Benoit B Mandelbrot stand for? Answer: Benoit B Mandelbrot.

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The Collector. Most Nazis stole art not out of appreciation but for money—a famous piece can launder many dollars or be used to finance all sorts of things. What they finance here might give you the creeps. Detectives Chen and Castilblanco swim in the dark seas of illegal art in this mystery/suspense/thriller novel. Can they keep from drowning?

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Our daily news sources, newspapers and TV, are now so craven, so unvigilant on behalf of the American people, so uninformative, that only in books do we learn what’s really going on.—Kurt Vonnegut

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Teeter-Totter between Lust and Murder. #3 in the “Detectives Chen and Castilblanco Series,” this mystery/suspense/thriller novel has more twists and turns than a carnival pretzel. Chen is accused of murder, so naturally Castilblanco tries to help her. But there is a lot more to the murder than meets the eye. Readers will have a great time unraveling it all with these NYPD homicide detectives and will be kept guessing right up to the climax. Soon available in all ebook formats.

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So many of these heartless PPs [psychopathic personalities] now hold big jobs in our federal government, as though they were leaders instead of sick. They have taken charge. They have taken charge of communications and the schools, so we might as well be Poland under occupation.—Kurt Vonnegut

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Aristocrats and Assassins. Detective Castilblanco and his wife go on vacation. They both see a wee bit too much of Europe, including a few royals who are kidnapped. Written before the Paris, Brussels, and Nice attacks, I don’t think anyone would say now that this is impossible. Maybe European security agencies should consider it a warning?

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You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.—Winston Churchill

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Trouble on the border? It’s not Mr. Trump’s construction trucks rolling in but Detectives Chen and Castilblanco trying to stop a few bad guys. Assigned to a national task force, they stand in the way of a diabolical plan that involves a drug cartel, al Qaeda, and a right-wing militia. Angels Need Not Apply is a thriller you don’t want to miss! Available on Amazon and Smashwords and its associated retailers (Apple, B&N, Kobo, etc) and lenders.

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What made Mexico so evil back in the 1840s, well before our Civil War, is that slavery is illegal there. Remember the Alamo? With that war we were making California our own, and a lot of other people and properties, and doing it as though butchering Mexican soldiers who were only defending their homeland against invaders wasn’t murder.—Kurt Vonnegut

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Action on the southern border! No, it’s not Trump beginning the construction of The Wall. It’s Chen and Castilblanco fighting terrorists, a cartel, and neo-Nazi militias. In Angels Need Not Apply, the deadly duo from the “Detectives Chen and Castilblanco Series” go undercover to fight crime as part of a national task force. This novel is available in all ebook formats (Amazon, Smashwords and its retailers).

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If you are not prepared to take care of the men and women who put their lives on the line to defend this country—who come back wounded in body and spirit—if you’re not prepared to help those people, then don’t send them to war in the first place.—Bernie Sanders

Celebrate and support our veterans and their families and remember the fallen today.

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Social Security can pay every penny owed for the next 18 years. Lift the cap on taxable income and it’ll be solvent for decades.—Bernie Sanders

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There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.—Kurt Vonnegut

H A P P Y  H A L L O W E E N !!!!!! Please watch for the little goblins and ETs in the streets tonight.

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Those of us who had imagination circuits built can look in someone’s face and see stories there; to everyone else, a face will be just a face.—Kurt Vonnegut

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