Robert Burke, is kidnapped in the trunk of a rental car in the middle of a shanty-town gunfight. Brazilian Scrub is the story of how he got there as well as the story of the tragic mayhem of urban violence, sex, drugs and police corruption that plagues Brazilian cities. The background notes include the huge and largely forgotten contribution of the Irish and Confederate Americans to Latin America

James Frazer is the guy who has everything and Antonio Carvalho is the crooked Brazilian lawyer who intends to take it all. Caught in a nightmarish scam in Rio in which he is drugged, sexually abused and forced to watch his life in New York go – legally - from bad to worse, James is offered a way out, only to find that he has been used again. As they say; Brazil is not a country for beginners.

Annie Maguire is a forty something ex-newscaster that never made anchor and is trying to scrape a living producing shows for the documentary channels. While making a show on the Queen's Chamber of the Great Pyramid she meets John Elliot, an expert on Gravity Waves and the wrong side of 50, who is part of the research team. Back in the mid-west, sale of the show flops and she faces financial ruin as well as being troubled at night by bad visions. Elliot is the key to understanding what is h...

A European ruler destroys democracy, replaces a debased currency with new coin, forces Jews to wear a yellow badge, strikes a deal with an Asian power, and then invades France. History does repeat itself: this was King Edward I of England. In 1265 a single battle at Evesham decided the fate of western civilization. The forces of democracy lost and Britain was plunged into a reign of terror. Sir Roger D'Audley was on the losing side but managed to escape the slaughter and return to Outremer...

This is the first of a three-volume anthology of Edo- and Meiji-era urban literature that includes An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Mega-City, 1750–1850 and A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850–1920. The present work focuses on the years in which bourgeois culture first emerged in Japan, telling the story of the rising commoner arts of Kamigata, or the “Upper Regions” of Kyoto and Osaka, which harkened back to Japan’s middle ages eve...