NEW STUFF ALERT!

Quite industrious, our boffins and elves … Out now are recent book updates and enhancements to the Kindle editions for DUST: SPECIAL EDITION, TO DUST, and BOLITA. Better readability and overall experience. DUST SE’s editions also updated for 2023. Wait … book updates? That’s what’s great about Print-on-Demand. Making something better is easy, and allowed.…… Continue reading NEW STUFF ALERT!

The Mafia—Not Forgettinaboutit II

Mafia Part II Perhaps the best trailing nugget from this week’s column is Joseph Petrosino. Here, we have an Oscar-worthy narrative replete with a tragic, unlikely, and fortuitous embryogenesis. It was followed by a plucky and eccentric career at the infancy of modern law enforcement. Although parts of Joe’s Mafia-busting undertakings have been featured long…… Continue reading The Mafia—Not Forgettinaboutit II

Not Forgettinaboutit—The Mafia

My father’s memory of his days scrapping with elements of Tampa’s mafia remain a frequent topic at family dinner conversations and other moments when something or someone suddenly prompts him. Lately, this occurs when either one of “those people” from that era, or perhaps a colleague from the police department, is featured in the Tampa…… Continue reading Not Forgettinaboutit—The Mafia