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Looking for Jack: Massacre at Fort Sage 2 Review

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(More customer reviews)A wonderfully stirring tale of the nineteenth century wild West, it gives one a taste of Old Sacramento, San Francisco's Barbary Coast and China Town among other picturesque places in this intrigue. All this is a backdrop to the continuing adventures of Peter Dawes, Investigator, in his quest for justice and the rescue of shanghied Jack Rhodes, in this sequel to "Massacre at Fort Sage". Many colorful characters, including villains and heroes, and mysterious happenings make for a great story and pleasurable reading. A very satisfying novel from the beginning to the page turning exciting conclusion. Looking for Jack: Massacre at Fort Sage 2

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Peter Dawes continues the search for Jack Rhodes by taking stagecoach and steamboat to San Francisco where Rhodes was shanghaied. Even before Dawes returns to San Francisco, Rhodes experiences a shipwreck and rescue by a very literate and murderous captain who commands the Arkadia, bound for San Francisco with a cargo of opium for Oyster Mike, known as an oyster pirate but in reality the man who controls the vice payoffs in the Barbary Coast.One danger that Dawes is unaware of is that the brother of the half-breed he killed in Susanville has returned to the frontier town. When Tug finds out that Dawes killed his brother he sets out for revenge.Dawes uses his skills as a confidential investigator to ferret out information about what happened to Jack Rhodes. In the meantime he is approached by various other San Franciscans, including the notorious Captain Breen, to embark on investigations that are intertwined with his search for Rhodes.Dawes ultimately finds Rhodes and helps him to escape the Arkadia. As Dawes, Rhodes and a policeman enter the New Bella Union, owned by an acquaintance of Rhodes, the Arkadia's crew, Oyster Mike and his men, and Captain Breen converge on the New Bella Union.Tug is gambling at one of the tables in the New Bella Union, but he is unaware that Dawes has entered the establishment.

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Akasha Review

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(More customer reviews)Beginning with a frightening nightmare this novel culminates in an explosion of turbulent events. It centers around a woman who has reached the higher echelons of her profession only to find she is missing a key element in her life. After testing the waters with religious cults of the 1970's, she turns to a therapist who, by hypnotic regression, helps her to relive events in her past lives to help her sort out what she's really looking for. As the suspense builds, this story will keep you guessing right up to and including the astonishing ending.

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Thomas Guide 2000 Metropolitan Bay Area: Street Guide and Directory includes Metro Areas of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara Counties Review

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(More customer reviews)If you live in the Bay Area, the Thomas Bros. map book "Metropolitan Bay Area" is the one volume to keep by your side. It covers just about every single town and street between San Jose and the North Bay. If you're among the terminally lost, this is the book to have...forget those map web sites!

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Eight of Swords (Tarot Card Mystery 1) Review

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(More customer reviews)"Eight Of Swords" by David Skibbins - ISBN 0-312-33906-2

In the early `70s, he was an active member of the notorious Weathermen. Assumed dead for 30 years, Warren Ritter, latter-day, anarchist, makes a living reading Tarot cards on Telegraph Ave. in Berkley, California.
Now, fifty-five years old, he has a comfortable life: frequent forays into book stores for poetic sustenance, once a month to the shooting range with his favorite cop on the beat, cruising at 90 mph on an Aprilia RSV Mille motorcycle, and therapy sessions for manic depression on Wednesday's.
When out of no-where his older sister, Tara, discovers he is still alive, on the same day he gave an ominous reading to young, Heather Wellington, who has been kidnapped: it rocks his world.
Trying to still his fears, salvage his anonymity, life-style, and fend off an inevitable guilt trip, Warren tries to assuage Tara's outrage. But he's shocked to find out he has a daughter, and about to become a grandfather.
Panic escalates when Heather's mother also disappears. Then one of the victims is found murdered. Since both women were last seen in the company of Warren, he becomes a suspect.
Having the police and F.B.I. nosing around in his violent past just isn't cricket. Newly birthed with paternal feelings and pricked with guilt, Warren-anti-establishment-Ritter, the hunted, becomes the hunter.

David Skibbins' development of the characters and their interaction is well-crafted. But, the first-person musings of Warren Ritter are priceless. More than once I winced at his cheeky sarcasm.
Although some readers' recollection of the infamous Weathermen may be a little rusty, Warren's past affiliation with them was an integral part of his character profile. As more information about their activities is divulged, a better understanding of the depth of his fear of being caught and an appreciation of Warren's diverse capabilities is realized.
A fragile art that can't be forced, writing humor effectively is elusive to some scribes. In EIGHT OF SWORDS, subtle glimpses to brazen, in-your-face laughs stalk the pages. I can't remember the last tome I read that tickled my funny bone so well, so often. Yet, it did not clash with the killer / survival instincts Warren needed to "kick butt" and bring the murder mystery to an "anti-establishment" conclusion. You gotta' love him.
Get ready. Don your leathers. Grab your helmet. Straddle that chrome pony, (careful: hot pipes!) A new dude in town has just been jump-started. Name: Warren Ritter, he's over fifty, revved and long over-due.
It's about time.

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Cheri Adult Magazine March 1983 San Francisco Night Sights Review

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(More customer reviews)Cheri - March 1983. Volume 7 Number 8. Cheri in San Francisco-O'Farrell Theater, Xanadu, Market Street Cinema, Skintight Lounge, Condor, El Cid, Galaxie, Garden of Eden, Sutter Street Theater, Sutro Bathhouse, Exotic Arotic Halloween ball; Jeannie Pepper.

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LAS FLORECILLAS DE SAN FRANCISCO Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is in Spanish, chapters are not in the traditional order or sequence but it works.

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The City and County: A Novel of San Francisco Newsmakers Review

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(More customer reviews)Anyone interested in political campaigns, big city newspapers and local politics should take a look at "The City and County," a fast-moving and convincing portrait of scandal and deceipt in always exciting modern day San Francisco. Longtime reporter Strupp apparently spent many years working in the Bay Area so he knows what he's writing about. He gives us convincing portraits of political consultants, local pols and two SF daily papers--plus a certain "independent weekly" headed by one Jimmy Min (inspired by the now legendary Ted Fang, by any chance??) The story really moves forward when a former police chief wins an upset race for mayor of San Francisco--with the help of a tough, gay, political consultant from New York--and the newspapers, and various other power brokers, attempt to bring him down, playing hardball for keeps. Recommended reading for media and political junkies!

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The twisting, turning story follows Billy Dale, San Francisco's most cunning, dirtiest, and most successful political consultant. A hard-bitten, gay ex-New Yorker, he reaches his sweetest victory on Election Day 1991 when former police chief Jack Callahan wins an underdog race for mayor.But the victory is not so sweet for the city's two daily newspapers, The San Francisco Bulletin and The San Francisco Jounal, who endorsed incumbent William Carlson and lost plenty of political clout when he was forced out.That sets the stage for a real roller-coaster ride as the newspapers battle for control of the new mayor and Dale fights to keep his City Hall power intact while navigating through real-life issues of police corruption, toxic pollution, and sexual scandal.

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