The subject is drugs. The characters are loathsome. The first female governor of New York, herself the daughter of a notorious organized crime Don, has made up her mind to rid New York City of illegal drugs. She claims that all politicians before her have paid only lip service to the problem, and that what is needed is an actual act of war. Using the Posse Comitatus Act of 1870 she tries to convince legislators that she is acting correctly when she declares martial law in portions of New York City. She is accused of treason.

Some of her closest friends and political allies become suspect to her cause. Margaret Braggi in her initial actions is not aware of the interplay of the Cosa Nostra and the Russian drug lords. These forces create barriers to her potential success.

The story unfolds revealing ruthlessness in quests for power and money. Terror, murder, and anarchy make this book a study of the drug reality.

On a dark moonless night a cruise ship carrying over two thousand passenger's glides through the waters of the Southern Caribbean Ocean. People are dining, drinking, dancing and enjoying their vacations. Speeding towards the ship in a small rubber raft are four men who are dressing in scuba gear. In the raft with them are high energy explosives.

A secret council hidden under the desert in Saudi Arabia has given Yusaf Yadallah, the leader of the group this assigment. Yusaf is an experienced killer, a sociopath to whom killing is not a special event. His killing began when he was an orphan in a Monastery in Arizona, and the trail of blood he has left behind him to this point in time is macabre.

This is a story of how a small group of people made a transformation from Jew to Jewish American to American Jews. It is not unlike the transformation and Americanization of other peoples. How it differs is from the very fact that a religion, a set of beliefs transformed into a nationality.

It is about a period of time in one woman's life, my mother who was a blend of Europe and America. She was a mixture of ethnicity, culture, religion and Americanized traditions; a potpourri of ideas and actions unlike most and yet common to us all. This is also my story as well as hers. It is about our lives and times of changes. It is about the games we played, the education we received, the changes in religious practices, the friends we had, and the environments in which we lived. My mother possessed virtues that were stark realities of everyday life. It was that there was always room at her table and there never was a shortage of food. She was a powerful loving matriarch who touched the lives of a great many people with a "touch" of this (knowledge), and a "touch" of that, (love).

Many stories are written for children. Many have overt or subtle messages. This tale, "The Search for The Spaghetti Tree," is a tale I have told to my grandchildren, and to many children with special needs at my school. It has always stimulated their imaginations and led to a whole variety of questions. Some of these now adults are telling the tale to their children. All laugh, not because it is silly, but because it demonstrates how courage and cunning can win over evil. Today, video games, television, and movies have taken away much of the imaginative play in our children. More books need be read, and more libraries visited. Hopefully this book will stimulate children to read more and to understand some of the basic principles of life.

The subject is drugs. The characters are loathsome. The first female governor of New York, herself the daughter of a notorious organized crime Don, has made up her mind to rid New York City of illegal drugs. She claims that all politicians before her have paid only lip service to the problem, and that what is needed is an actual act of war. Using the Posse Comitatus Act of 1870 she tries to convince legislators that she is acting correctly when she declares martial law in portions of New York City. She is accused of treason.

Some of her closest friends and political allies become suspect to her cause. Margaret Braggi in her initial actions is not aware of the interplay of the Cosa Nostra and the Russian drug lords. These forces create barriers to her potential success.

The story unfolds revealing ruthlessness in quests for power and money. Terror, murder, and anarchy make this book a study of the drug reality.

It is mid 2010. The country has been swept by a MUTANT AIDS epidemic and is recovering from nuclear strikes. The political climate of our government is one wherein great efforts are being made to include all countries of the world under the protection of the Interspatial Defense Shield. The need for a defense industry is disappearing. A few countries wish to remain autonomous and refuse to join the alliance. United States Senators Saul Goldsmith and Wayne Blyfield plan to bring the holdout countries into the alliance, thus assuring Blyfield's election to the presidency. But a powerful, deadly force is working against Blyfield. A simple trip to the movies with his twin children marks the beginning of a frightening odyssey into terrorism and anarchy designed to shake the foundations of the newly won world peace. Orchestrated by the mysterious director, a Machiavellian plot unfolds. In contrast to this evil stands the passionate love story of Wayne and Janet, the president of Israel. Their idealistic love is put to the test as they become ensnarled in the conspiracy.