Bøger af Vincent McCaffrey

1937. A young press photographer for the Daily Mirror falls in love with a crusading reporter. There's murder before breakfast and a beer and a beating for lunch. Just don't be late for dinner or a deadline. And remember, sometimes it's not your best shot, but taking the shot you have that counts.This is Fiorello LaGuardia's New York, where Thomas Dewey battles Lucky Luciano and the mob, millions are out of work and maybe out of luck, Stalinist is set against Trotskyite and the German American Bund harbors Nazi spies.It's a time of hard bitten city editors, soft hearted molls, Seabiscuit and The Babe, when Winchell's gossip paid the bills for Hearst's newspaper empire, where a nation moved to the beat of Goodman and Gershwin, and Hepburn and Stanwyck filled our silver dreams, while Hughes and the DC-3 arose, Earhart and the Hindenburg fell, the 20th Century Limited departed and Superman arrives in the nick of time.

For 21 days of the year 2162, John Holt, an aging paladin in the now dwindling Order of Pelagius, attempts to keep his honor, fulfill his duty, and resolve past mistakes, as he confronts his own future.Called upon by a local sheriff to solve the mundane murder of a cattleman in New Hampshire, he is beguiled by the love of a good woman, finds himself entangled in the breaking of a local slave trade, snared by the correcting of a wrongful death he may have caused, and obligated to investigate another.Unknowingly at first, he must confront a greater power working to dominate the Myriad nations of the earth and the independent states of the heliosphere, even as a previously vanquished foe seeks revenge amidst a clash of history and circumstance-by plan and accident, using railguns, railroads, dirigibles, steam trucks, and river barges, and with the help of a horse named Rosie."Governments are by nature political. They are the product of expedience, convenience and compromise, not of principle. Governments are naturally malignant. They serve themselves first. They seduce the weak by promising what is not theirs to give. They grow for their own benefit. The Pelagian stands in the way of that bane. A Pelagian knight lives by principle, not politics. Governments fear us, but they accept us out of necessity. Most do. Though this will not always be the case. It is a conflict that is meant to be. Perhaps without end. But the darkness of the Elide must never come again. It is ours to do battle on that sacred ground, so that others may live in peace and lie safely in their beds at night to dream their dreams . . . I live as a free man. I die as a free man. My liberty is my life. I shall not complain. I shall feast!"If history repeats itself, the future may come more than once. . . Three generations after the end of the famines and plagues that were the end of history and known as 'The Elide, ' when the Long Wars are little more than legend, a much depopulated world has renewed itself again.The earth's abandoned colonies in the heliosphere are flourishing and independent, while the 'remnant' peoples of the earth have reorganized under weakened governments without armies.Trade between the outer nations and the earth has increased steadily as fears of lingering viruses fade and the demand by the former settlements for the earth's natural resources and raw materials like wood, fertile soil, and specific minerals, continues to grow.Subtly, but profoundly, humanity has divided into two parts: those who live on the earth, and those who live in the settlements of the heliosphere whose ancestors left Earth before the plagues and thus have little resistance to those viruses. This physical difference will remake the future, as most of mankind will never return to the Earth.In lore, some called them the Fifth Horsemen-the ones who slay the other four. During the generational terrors of pestilence, famine, and war, it was the knight who held the thin line of civilization and offered esperance to the survivors.Yet, in fact, it was something even more grand.It was ordinary men, ordered to kneel, who chose to stand

This book deals with the incidents that led up to the great financial crisis of2008, and how it could have been partially avoided had previous provisions been left in place. It analyses the history of financial crises, the individual factors and behaviors thatcontributed to the Great Recession, and any provisions put in place for the future. The book also demonstrates how provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 - had they beenleft active - could have played a major role in at least minimizing the impact of the crisis. The Glass-Steagall Act's provisions would have separated the two major branches of banking, commercial banking and investment, and this structure in turn could have prevented the crisis by limiting losses in both financial branches.

A man caught mid life-amidst a life unfinished, betwixt love and what he loves, amongst the ghosts and shadows of his own creations, and between a rock and a hard place. What drives John Finn to write are his own frustrations; and what he best understands in others are the frustrations they are prey to. An odd talent to have, yes? Too seldom happy, and never satisfied, he cannot help but see his father in himself, and now once again in his youngest daughter. Yet, in his study of the past, he can glimpse whole lives and imagine how and why they were lived. There he might even imagine his own life complete. Now, by the merest of accidents, he has briefly stumbled on love again, only to lose it. For one moment everything was new once more, and yet he has lost her. What is it that he's actually good for then? Perhaps only to protect the lives of others. Divorced, unemployed, and given to too many words, what would any woman see in him? He would likely be better off if he could just find out what happened to another girl who was lost two hundred years ago-and avoid getting shot in the mean time.

Five unexpected tales: I am William McGuire - The true story of William McGuire, Neanderthal, an innocent in an age of cynicism, and a stranger in a strange land, who must find his own way in Homo sapiens society, as told by himself. That Little Old Lady and Me - A Boston mystery in which John Finn learns that it is location, not size, that matters-in real estate as well. Seely's Surfside - It's the dead of winter on Cape Cod and Burk is lovesick but there is a bigger problem at Seely's Surfside. She Knows Her Onions - In 1938 New York, George Zim has a little black book and a hundred stories to tell, but he still needs a friend. If Blood Were Orange - Margaret Abernathy has a past in her future. Jim McNeill better deal with that before time runs out for both of them.

Henry Sullivan makes his living as a book hound. When an ex-lover is murdered, he mounts an unofficial investigation that leads him through the murky depths of Boston's literary world.