To escape racism in America, James Baldwin fled to Saint-Paul de Vence, France, in 1970, where he lived in self-imposed exile until his death in 1987. This book focuses on this seventeen-year period of his life and literature. Author Jules B. Farber presents "life with Jimmy" through more than seventy interviews of personal reminisces with well-known literary figures, musicians, artists, and celebrities, such as Sidney Poitier, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Quincy Jones, Henry Louis Gates, ...

After six years of overseas duty for Diplomatic Security, Sam Tanner was tired of chasing South American terrorist and keeping dignitaries.from being assisnated. His transfer to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives immediately dropped him knee deep into the violent underworld of the american gun and drug culture. A routine government form and the arrest of a bright but recidivist gun and drug dealer by local authorities led him into an undercover role in Colorado Springs...