The past few decades have been witness to a number of important developments with respect to the global intellectual property (IP) system, including shifts in focus between multilateralism and bilateralism/regionalism; growing recognition of the various ways in which IP intersects with and impacts areas including human rights, development, trade, and social justice; broad acknowledgement of the economic value of many IP rights; and important theoretical interventions that have challenged t...

Would you risk your life for a complete stranger?What if she’s a fresh-faced fifteen-year old about to lose hers?Billy Mack has five seconds to make that decision.Working in London, Billy Mack’s assistant is brutally murdered and a witness identifies Billy as the killer. When the brutal crime scene photos make headlines, the case captivates the public and the hunt for Billy is on. On the lam to clear his name, Billy happens upon a young girl running for her life. He...

Why was Billy Mack summoned to Rome on the next plane? Billy thought it was to experience an historic event, but quickly learned otherwise. After a succession of over 266 popes dating back to St. Peter, a sede vacante, a papal vacancy, was not an unusual historical occurrence for the Vatican but a call from Cardinal Kauftheil suggested that this vacancy was unlike any other. The Pope’s mysterious death was only a prelude to what was about to confront the Catholic Church. As...

Was it a case of mistaken identity or was Billy Mack deliberately chosen? On a business trip to Vienna, Mack is taking a break from heated negotiations when a beautiful, mystifying woman sits at his table, addresses him by name and acts as if they were lovers. When he discovers what she slipped into his pocket, he is dragged into a terror plot designed to start the next world war and begin the worldwide Caliphate. With his life on the line, he is stuck in a Catch-22 world of espionage, dec...

JC and Susan Shelby, fresh from their adventure aboard the ill-fated Russian cruise ship, MS Alexander Nevsky (Dead in the Water), are fated to have their leisurely stop over on their way back to Honolulu in the idyllic Fiji Islands interrupted when a fellow vacationer from New York is ostensibly captured by a band of cannibals. Mr. Throttlebottom, CEO of Murkies chain of cheap clothing stores, the victim, and his wife, Emma are traveling with their aide, Crassley Fenwick to Hong Kong to m...

Jeremiah Cuthbert Shelby (JC), an ex navy man who suffers from congenital sea sickness, goes back to college in a small town in Iowa after one enlistment tour to get his degree in criminal Justice. With a part time job in the college library he is in an ideal position to put his academic plans to premature use when the body of a young library assistant is discovered in a vault in the Special Collections stacks. Romance enters the picture when he is ably assisted in his sleuthing by Susan, ...

Our young detective couple, JC and Susan Shelby, embarks in Chicago on a small ship tour of the Great Lakes, the Erie Canal, Hudson River, and Manhattan. What should have been a much deserved rest from their arduous immediately past adventures turns into a nightmare experience with death at Niagara Falls among other places along their colorful tour route. A large group of fellow passengers, a family of seven from North Dakota celebrating an inheritance with a hopefully pleasant vacation, b...

While in Hawaii Our young Navy Lieutenant, JC Shelby and his wife Susan, are urged by their boss, the Fleet Admiral at Pearl Harbor, to assist an old cold war adversary, the captain of a Russian passenger ship now on a Circle of Fire cruise, in solving the murder of one of the ships officers. The case turns out to be far more complex than a simple act of violence. Money and unrequited love play a role. The Russian skipper, retired from the Navy, risks a peaceful retirement to a clime warme...

Jeremiah Cuthbert (JC) and Susan, the Shelby amateur sleuth couple, are at it again in the high mountains of Colorado. JC, mustered back into the Navy and given a commission, along with his very talented and charming wife, have been sent there as they journey back from their hair-raising adventures in Fiji by JCs boss, the four-star admiral in Hawaii. Only they havent been told exactly what the problem is. But the opportunity to take up skiing in the spring of the year at what must be the ...

The year is 2050. Sea levels have been rising for nearly half a century. Parts of San Diego are underwater and Point Loma is an Island. For Adam McBride, ten years old, its always been like this. Some miraculous technology still exists, but most of the infra-structure of the country is in shambles. History always presents us with surprises. To compound the difficulties of normal life under these conditions a new sexually transmitted disease, MS Mule Syndrome, has begun to ravage the world....

This book is a collection of tales about the adventures of Elves (and a little girl) in Southern Colorado, a macabre tale of a Caribbean cruise (you wouldn''''t want to take), the hilarious (and sometimes sad) misadventures of Mr. Throttlebottom and his hapless wife Emma told in four short stories, and a longer alternate future Novella about how Mr. Howard Hughes managed to establish a very unique hotel using his recently purchased Queen Mary moved to a new location a little further South ...

Billy Mack’s niece, Layla, disappears on her 16th birthday and her brazen abduction is caught on camera - intentionally.Her ransom demand is highly suspicious. Billy must deliver $3 million to a dubious location and wait for further instructions. If he obeys the kidnappers’ demands, he plays a game of Russian roulette with five bullets in the six-shooter. He has one chance to rescue Layla or she vanishes, forced back into her hellish former life.Billy has no choice but to i...