The Real Bernie MadoffRalph Griffith wrote a book that no one else could have!There has been no shortage of books written about Bernie Madoff, but Ralph Griffith’s book stands out above all the rest because the author and Madoff were incarcerated together for seven years.Bernard Lawrence Madoff, a prominent Wall Street figure, was serving time in North Carolina’s Federal Medical Center in FCI Butner. Madoff, the former chairman of N...

In the damp embrace of a Portland night, a confession so vile spills from the shadows of the Grotto that Father Thomas flees the confessional. He asks another priest to take over, but fate, it seems, is a fickle deity. The wrong priest ends up with his throat slit, a victim of mistaken identity.Haunted by his own demons, Detective Johnny Walker takes the case. Battling the insatiable hunger of addiction, he delves into Portland's deceptive heart, unearthing a darkness festering ben...

Ralph Griffith's Monkey House is a memoir of his time served at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) Butner in North Carolina. He spent the last seven years of his sentence with Bernie Madoff, Jonathan Pollard, Nicky Scarfo, Carmine Persico, and other well-known criminals.FMC Butner is a high-security prison that houses inmates with serious medical conditions and mental health issues. The prison also has a designation for high-profile criminals. Griffith describes the prison as a "gian...

A work of nonfiction as explained by Bernie Madoff to the author. The author further researched into the financial system of the United States in order to verify that Madoff had told the truth. This work is a definitive analysis of how Madoff was able to commit his crimes along with the rest of the financial community and federal and state governments here in the U.S. and in Europe--in the past and continuing to this day.

Haunted by the ghosts of San Francisco's Summer of Love and the blonde-haired, blue-eyed beauty he left behind, Clyde Thomas reenlists in the army and goes back to Vietnam as part of the 716th Military Police in Saigon. He arrives back a month before the Tet Offensive, hoping to clear the demons from his soul. But as the Tet Offensive explodes and Saigon crumbles into fiery chaos, he discovers a different kind of darkness—a war spiraling out of control, staining the soul of a nation. Drawn...

Too-Sweet's adventures continue in this outrageous fourth installment of the Too-Sweet Saga. Our heroine, Too-Sweet, along with Speedy Gonzales, have fled London by train to Liverpool. They take a ferry to Belfast, in Northern Ireland, along with ten kilos of cocaine that Speedy had stashed in a storage locker back in Soho.Upon arriving they rent a nasty old, boarded up bar, built out on a wharf called The Black Irish. They get help from their IRA friends to get things going. Too-S...

Vodka Express takes readers on a visceral journey into the raw and fractured heart of Saint Petersburg—a city where faded imperial grandeur clashes violently with the brutal realities of its present, where the mean streets hold life cheaper than a bottle of vodka. Amidst this stark duality, Inspectors Dmitri Petrov and Manislov Illich forge an unlikely yet formidable partnership. Petrov, a master of subtle observation in a world quick to resort to force, must navigate this...

The year is 1967. The Summer of Love explodes in San Francisco, a siren song for dreamers and idealistic runaways. Haunted by his Vietnam War experiences, disillusioned Clyde Thomas returns home to Tennessee, only to find that his sister has vanished. Naturally his parents want him to go and find her.Clyde reluctantly ventures into Haight Ashbury's intoxicating swirl of psychedelic music, antiwar protests, and newfound freedoms. Amidst the flower children and civil unrest, Clyde's ...

It wasn't easy growing up in lower Alabama for Elmo King. Being tall and butt-ugly with kids picking on you just because you prefer being a girl. Somewhere along the way as a cruel joke, Elmo picked up the nickname Too-Sweet. Yearning for a life as vibrant as her spirit, she set her sights on the colorful chaos of San FranciscoAt the heart of San Francisco's infamous Tenderloin district beats Divas, a transgender bar unlike any other. Owned by the charismatic Abdul, Divas is less a...

Big Johnson is back, and the stakes have never been higher.It was a cool April evening on the Mississippi, and I was fighting a losing battle at the poker table on the Ragin Cajun—a floating casino churning its way up the river. Down five large and surrounded by a table of questionable characters—from my flashy associate Pimpin Jack Frost to a silent, tattooed ex-con named Pig—I was looking for a way to come up off my losing streak.Frost was dresse...

“Some people walk backwards so they can see where they came from. But a wise man always walks sideways, thereby he can see where he came from, and be careful as to where he is going.”The Fortune CookieFor Federal Inspector Harry Chin, a trip to Perth was supposed to be a short vacation. A chance to lecture on the cold, clinical world of forensics at a law school. While cracking open a fortune cookie at the legendary Li Po restaurant, the air is sha...

Meet the Smallest Giant in New Orleans.They say you should write what you know. After thirty years observing human behavior from the inside of federal prison, I’ve seen every kind of player, hustler, and lost soul the world has to offer.That’s why I had to write, Big Johnson. Let me introduce you:“My mammy who was a sporten lady, named me Lyndon Bains Johnson because that honky President got the Civil Rights Act passed. But everyone calls m...