Bøger af Linton Robinson

Teenagers have parent conflicts. Mexicans have conflicts between their Native and Colonial roots. Benito Ochoa experiences both in spades: his long-absent father is from "beyond the sky" and shows up to enlist him in a scheme to rebuild and rule the Earth. Plucked from the gutters of Tijuana to study at Yale--and the hyperspace realms of The Sky--Benito wants to rebel, but seems to be a step behind galactic events. So he exploits the ancient, unused system of meta-space "Tubes" to run amok with his street gang amigos; smuggling across a sprawl of lesser and greater developed planets. His week is spent as a Yalie with a hot redhead girlfriend, arguing with professors about history that he knows more about than they do, but can't prove it. Then a net of mysterious police start closing in on the renegades on every planet they "tube" to, and it looks like his father is grooming him to be an intergalatic Hitler, and his worst enemy from The Sky might be the person he most needs to trust. Ben and his friends turn to what's gotten them by int he past: street smarts, family wisdom, and fire power--but this time they're up against things nobody in history has dealt with before.

Jokes and humor from Mexico! Invaluable for the Spanish student, expatriate looking to blend in, businessmen... and anybody who likes a good laugh. All humor in both Spanish and English, with pronunciation guide and study tips as you chucle your way through. There's no better way to be part of a country than to be laughing at its humor--and here's a collection of classics.

When the band you're in starts playing different tunes.... There's someone in my head, but it's not me... It's only rock and roll but I like it... When I had no ears to hear, you sang to me... The ever popular tortured artist effect... The beat goes on... The beat goes on... Is Raptor the only band that can take over the consciousness of it's listeners? And who took over Raptor in the first place? And what's their game plan for, basically, the human race? A diverse group of people coming together in the Fremont area of Seattle... back before Adobe and Amazon and grunge... and moving out on the world. More about Raptor here: facebook.com/RaptorsGoldenHits There most entertaining member: facebook.com/JaxiSez And the screenplay the book sprang from, with character pics, synopsis, and shooting script: http: //mexipost.com/raptor/

Real Stories For Real Men! This collection of fifteen male-oriented stories ranges from pieces that once ran in magazines like Hustler and Biker to more complex fiction angling for insights into what it is about being male.

Cole Haskins and Bunny Beaumont are crazy in love, which is sometimes good for their careers robbing banks, sometimes not. When even Cole's lightning draw and Bunny's steel-nerved driving doesn't keep them from blowing a big heist in south Texas and have to split to Mexico to hide and heal up, they end up losing money on an armored car robbery that wrecks a town, but luck into an embezzler about to be killed by a bounty hunter. They save him-for a stiff price-but by the time they smuggle him back into the USA on the flying chopper built by two nutso biker/smugglers, things are getting way too loose. They end up in a hostage hole-up, then get chased to a cliff by the law like Thelma and Louise. And through all the hot-wheeling, lead-slingin', and wheeler-dealin' they never miss a chance to crack a joke or smooch each other silly. A richly comic crime novel with a unique twist, it's also a cock-eyed romance. You're going to remember Bunny and Cole.

"Doc" Hardesty--G.I. turned solider of fortune, turned photographer--tries to lead a peaceful life, but they keep coming back and not letting him. This time, "they" want him to rescue a hostage from some Cuban terrorists, and the hostage is the woman he's most loved in his life, the journalist that helped him turns his life from killing to creating. This is a short novel at 40.000 words, a conversion from the screenplay. That's why it's free or cheap (depending on how sharp you are at acquiring budget ebooks). It provides an introduction to Doc, an unusual action hero who doesn't like action, doesn't want to be a hero, and isn't even the main character in his own novels. Doc is an interesting guy, but almost serves to merely introduce more spectacular characters. Like the flamboyant, gorgeous, deadly Dancy Russell in "For Your Damned Love" and rocker/shooter wildman Jim Dandy--ex football star, ex grunt, currently a rollicking mercenary and lover boy--in "Afro-Cuban Boogie Woogie".

This is one of the best books available about life for both expat residents and natives in villages and cities across Mexico. What sets it apart from other books about living in Mexico is that it's a literary collection of twenty-two short stories and essays, full of insights by contemporary authors who write and live full time in Mexico or who have spent a lot of time living in the country. Their writing spans a variety of topics; many contributions extol life in Mexico's abundant sunlight while others examine what the shadows sometimes obscure. It's a sampler of sorts, with active hyperlinks for more information about the authors and their other writing. The anthology contains complete chapters from books and also single pieces from internationally-acclaimed authors and emerging writers: Bruce Berger, E.G. Brady, Ann Hazard, Michael Hogan, Jim Johnston, William Kaliher, Janice Kimball, Judy King, Jeanine Kitchel, David Lida, C.M. Mayo, Carol M. Merchasin, Mikel Miller, Katie O'Grady, Antonio Rambles, Daniel Reveles, Robert Richter, Lin Robinson & Ana Maria Corona, John Scherber, Jennifer Stace, James Tipton, and Candelora Versace. Perhaps the best way to gain valuable insights about the day-to-day life of people in a foreign country is to read good books by authors living and/or writing in that country. The purpose of this book is to identify several writers who can help readers accomplish this for Mexico. Edited by Mikel Miller, with co-editors Michael Hogan and Linton Robinson. Enjoy!

"Pretty Woman" meets "The Godfather" in a border prison. Convicted drug lord Gaspar lost his wife and family, but wants company and prison visits, so he arranges a marry with a beautiful call girl--but has no idea what he's getting into. The sweet, gentle Nan steps up to being a wife--and when Gaspar is attacked and harried by Feds and gangs, she strikes back with spectacular fury. What's a nice call girl like Nan doing in a place like the penitentiary? 1. When a divorced crime boss decided he'd like conjugal visits, she won the personality segment of the cattle call. 2. She's safer in there than outside with the Feds and rival gangs trying to nail her. 3. Since he got battered into the hospital, she's been trying to patch up his shattered family. 4. She's starting to see the monthly trysts in the "boneyard" as a sort of haven from the cares of the world. 5. It's a great place for planning her para-military raids against the MS-13 wildboys who threaten her husband's life. 6. Irony. She's finding it comes with the territory. Our Nan is not your typical romance heroine. She's a high-priced take-out prostitute who marries the incarcerated border "Godfather" Gaspar for money and convenience, but gives him genuine affection and a fierce loyalty. Authentically kind and sweet-natured, she reacts to threats with a cold-eyed, homicidal efficiency. Desiring nothing but peaceful sleep, she detonates a war that shocks even veteran border cops. While having lived on illegal sex trade since she was twelve, she is scrupulously honest and has never even been arrested. And after living a life without love or sexual response, she finds herself falling for a handsome athlete--who is in charge of a Federal task force targeting her husband's cartel. But aside from the bundle of contradictions, Nan isn't typical because she's just not an ordinary person. Charming and gentle but all spring steel inside, filtering the world through her infectious sense of humor, capable of reaching out touchingly to a child but stepping up bravely to danger, thinking out of the box and ahead of the gangsters, Feds, killers and corrupt cops that suddenly surround her, Nan Gaspar is a woman to be dealt with, and to be remembered. And all she wants out of life is a good night's sleep.

Weekends are hell. If you do them right. That's the subtext of the columns scrawled by Wiley from various states of semi-consciousness as he slinks out of the woodwork and insinuates himself into the soft underbelly of Southern California consciousness. Wilier than a coyote, badder than Santa, Gonzo'er than Dr. Duke, the Wilester lays waste to everybody in range, not least himself. There are two tributaries to the flow of "The Way of the Weekend Warrior" a normal (more of less) plot of a demented outsider snarfing up the media scene, and the content of the columns he writes and broadcasts as his weapon against normality and status quo. Taken from the syndicated cult column of the nineties, these passages snidely sneer, raucously rant, surrealistically swoop, and otherwise amaze and amuse. If you can get get through a chapter without laughing out loud, you get your money back. Well, not really, but you at least have our sympathy and scorn. Wiley is not for the meek and weak... he is THE WEEKEND WARRIOR. Read him if you dare.