A Real SEALs Deal

A Real SEALs Deal

More than a dozen top national security figures gathered in the White House Situation Room to tensely observe as elite door-kickers from the U.S. SEAL teams took down über-terrorist Osama Bin Laden.

The ‘Glades of My Youth

The ‘Glades of My Youth

To summon a memory of the music of the wild that whirled from our woods each night of my childhood, is, for me, a way to recall all of Florida’s vast botanic and biologic grandeur. I don’t mean Florida as it is now. I mean the way it was back in the Fifties, when I...
Musings on Storycraft

Musings on Storycraft

Book Review of  “The Drop (A Harry Bosch Novel)”  by Michael Connelly I just finished my new favorite work by Michael Connelly: “The Drop,” a Harry Bosch mystery from 2011. (It displaces “Void Moon,” from 1999.) I realize the dude’s scribbled four or five...

The Blind Pool

The Blind Pool Paul McHugh No price is too great for the scalp of the enemy king. Alexander Koblentz, chessmaster Chapter 1 Florida’s Overseas Highway is a gray band linking isles of the Keys via bridges that arch over channels of turquoise water. On this day, as...