It’s book launch day for the follow-up to Army of Worn Soles: Under the Nazi Heel tells the true story of Maurice Bury, the Canadian drafted into the Soviet Red Army in 1941, as he joins the struggle for Ukrainian independence. The book has a terrific cover designed by David C. Cassidy and was edited […]
Chapter 1: A simple assignment Provence, France, May 2010 MacCallum had promised this would be a simple assignment. “Just follow this logistics guy and find out whether he’s misusing his employer’s — our client’s — resources. They think he’s smuggling. Find out what.” It had sounded reasonable, even easy. But now, with the sweet scent […]
I’ve been re-reading Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe novels in a probably vain attempt to capture the mood and inspiration to write my own crime fiction, and when I compare Chandler’s prose to 21st-century mystery, thriller and crime fiction, it seems that Chandler’s challenge was less than today’s writers’—or at least, very different. The Big Sleep […]
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It’s here! The cover from the unparalleled graphic designer David C. Cassidy for the follow-up to the memoir in novel form, Army of Worn Soles. Under the Nazi Heel is the story of my father-in-law, Maurice Bury, fighting against the German occupation of Ukraine from 1942 to 1944, as a member of the Ukrainian underground […]
Some communications pack a lot of information into a very few words. A skit on the CBC comedy program The Irrelevant Show last weekend is the best example I have heard in a long time. A sketch started with a narrator explaining that in about the year 2050 (or maybe it was 2030—I’m not sure), […]