Monthly Archives: June 2019

Either Pablo Escobar had cojones the size of cantaloupes or he was just bat-shit crazy. News Of A Kidnapping is the story of how Escobar kidnapped ten prominent Colombian citizens in 1990 to use as bargaining chips with the government … Continue reading →

Touted by some as the best one volume treatment of the Civil War,  Battle Cry Of Freedom spends a fair number of its pages discussing the social, economic and political differences between North and South, going back to the early 1800’s, … Continue reading →

Charles Portis novels always seem to involve a quest of some kind. In True Grit it was a young girls quest to find her fathers’ killers. In Dog Of The South it was a husbands quest to find his wife … Continue reading →