Archive for October, 2011
Mr. New Orleans: The Life of a Big Easy Underworld Legend
Meticulously researched and supported by FBI records and official court documents, Mr. New Orleans is the
story of how a shy Cajun altar boy from Marksville, Louisiana, became a championship bodybuilder, an unbeaten pro boxer, and finally a New Orleans criminal kingpin—without ever losing his affable nature. Simultaneously an action-packed true-crime memoir, (with a new twist on the Kennedy assassination) and an authentic street history of The Big Easy, here’s the rags-to-racketeering story that could only have come from America’s most infamous outlaw city.
USAID: Following The Money
USAID: Following The Money – House Oversight Committee – 2011-05-11 – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense, and Foreign Operations. Witnesses: The Honorable Rajiv Shah, Administrator, US Agency for International Development; The Honorable Donald Gambatesa, Inspector General, US Agency for International Development. Video provided by US House of Representatives
The Dust of Wonderland
Lee Thomas burst onto the literary scene with his Bram Stoker Award-winning first novel, Stained. Now, the promise of that remarkable debut has come to fruition with this compulsively readable tale of past sin and present-day redemption.
History is dust, he reminded himself. No matter how thoroughly you wipe it away, it always returns to settle. Past and present were coming together. That which had passed, that which should have been dead. The dust had returned. Welcome back . . . to Wonderland.
Ken Nicholson never saw himself returning to New Orleans, but the attack on his college-age son has drawn him. Not just to his home and to his family, but to the mistakes of his own tortured life. Divorced and now fully admitting to his homosexuality, Ken must now confront an evil he thought was long buried. A killer has taken his son and has threatened to take even more: his ex-wife, his former lover, and the very notion of his past. Years ago, the mysterious owner of a club named Wonderland claimed Ken as his own, only to die in violent fashion. Today, a killer knows far too much about that tragic night at Wonderland, leaving Ken desperate for answers, desperate to stay alive.
With its unsettling sense of menace, The Dust of Wonderland will seduce you with its Southern charms as it frightens you to your core.