Bøger af David Sayre

August, 1992. Miami is devastated by Hurricane Andrew and amidst the rubble of a city trying to recover, private investigator Delmon Sheen is searching for a missing young man, Eladio Calderon. Was he lost in the storm or are there other, more sinister reasons for his disappearance?The deeper Sheen digs, the more he wonders if his case is connected to a police shooting and a drug kingpin with whom Sheen has a deep, personal connection. As a second generation detective working streets much different than those in his father's Miami, Sheen finds that it can be just as dangerous to protect what you think is right as it is to survive.

How time, ignorance, and death intersect, highlighting unique innovations and discoveries that offer hope and a moral compass.What makes time, ignorance, and death inevitable? Do they have something in common? A pioneer of reducing that deadly "something" leads a short tour of where it's found and displaced. Sayre's tour visits some unusual places. An immigrant neighborhood builds a microgrid. A remote radio telescope solves how to detect intelligence in the universe. A quantum mystery is resolved by our own incomplete view. All are related. The tour's destination is a moral compass and hope in tragedy.

A pair of strong hands choke the final breaths out of black singer Etta Childs. When Miami police fail to turn up a lead, her brother Wendell Childress turns to private investigator and former police detective Ben Sheen. It quickly becomes apparent that the investigation could have been more thorough. Meanwhile Sheen's own dead ends keep piling up. He'll have to go up against both the police and political powers if he has any hope of solving the crime. Sheen's got a hunch why they don't want him to make progress. One more body will fall before he's got it all figured out, and he'll have to work fast to crack the case open before his unexpected new lover is caught in the cross fire. Can he find the answer in time? Find out in Some Are Shadows, a classic detective story by David Sayre. It's the first published novel for the independent filmmaker and Miami native who brings his town to life in a homage to pulp-fiction gumshoe detective novels of the past.

This autobiographical odyssey seeks in places of great striving a rational faithone true to both our highest religious ideas and our advancing sciences. As founder of both charitable and technical businesses, the author leads us to places of the greatest despair and the greatest power on earth. There we meet amazing examples of good and evil, interwoven with contemporary scientists own searches for meaning, explaining faith and love, truth and life, time and order and beauty. The things we hold sacred are real, after all. For readers unfulfilled by either conventional religions or scientific materialism; parents, teachers, and leaders struggling to reconcile peace with power and beauty with truth.

A companion work to Flatland (Sayre/Emberley, 2014), the Dialogues offer meaning, comfort, and direction to a world at risk of losing its faith. From the latest science and our places of greatest striving, an expert on the reduction of entropy offers a reality that is rational, faithful, and hopeful. The inventor of ¿chirp¿ FM radio and a standard energy-saving contract, Sayre has formed a dozen companies around the sciences of communication, rehabilitation, and energy. These have made him expert in reducing ¿entropy,¿ the measure of both decay and ignorance¿and that is how scientists would detect intelligent life, anywhere in the universe.