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Inspector Bismark Pacheco, the most respected man in Costa Rica, would rather practice playing his tuba, but he is called to the mountain town of Monteverde to investigate an armed robbery of a group of tourists from Sheboygan
Pacheco finds himself pitted against the oily professional criminal Delgado, masquerading as a bank viced president, and his hulking henchman, the evil Romulo. Journalist Wilson Abut writes it all down . . . the four muchachos who roam the cloud forest collecting quetzal feathers; Kenneth, the vodka-drinking poet who searches for meaning; Kaufmann, the mysterious Swiss businessman who has come to buy the town; Paco, the beer-swilling taxi driver who shaves on Tuesday and Thursday and sings Cielito Lindo; Bonnie and arnold, the UCLA students who came to see tropical birds, and instead become ki | |  | | For Those In Peril On The Sea
For those In Peril On The Sea is a roman a clef set int he mid-twentieth century time fromae of 1939 to 1955. Booker T. McCan is the primary protagonist, mentored by 100-year-old Count Nyame, and Flapper Jackson, his former high school math teacher and more recently shor fire control officer on the cruiser Indianaoplis. When World War II breaks out, sixteen-year-old Booker T. joins the Navy, determined to avenge the death of his brother killed in action in the Pacific. Booker T. survives the war with three Purple Hearts then returns as an officer to serve in the Korean War. The second half of the book describes the efforts of Count and Flapper to establish a School for Presidents at tuskegee Institute in the face of violent Ku Klux Klan resistance. In the end Booker t. marries an Okinawan bar girl and takes her to Africa to begin a new life.
August 14, 1945
Dear Booker T.,
While being caught up in the excitement over the end of the war, I am at the same time deeply troubled as I read today's news and listen to the accounts and commentaries on the radio. The world news summary in my newspaper reads: "World War II became a page in history last night." Then, at the bottom of the page, almost as a footnote, was this: "In the midst of the rejoicing it was disclosed by the Navy that the heavy cruiser Indianapolis had been sunk, presumably by an enemy submarine, shortly after she delivered an atomic bomb cargo to Guam. All 1 | |  | | Giessow's Cottage Farm
Jaybird and Crazy Dan - An 11-year-old kid and a wild-eyed mountain man, off on a riotous adventure starting on an Ozark Mountain river and finding its way to a major league baseball park . . . Huckleberry Finn would have loved it.
Giessow's Cottage Farm is a resort in the Ozark Mountains where Jaybird goes with this family every summer. But this summer is different because a new baby sister has joined the family, and Jaybird feels so neglected that he has decided to run away from home with his dog, Rin. Jaybird's 11-year -old head is in for a confusing, adventurous whirl when he meets Phil, a wild-eyed mountain man. Jaybird quickly sees that Phil is a little bit crazy, but he likes him because Phil is the only grownup who doesn't treat him like a kid. In the next week Jaybird survives a wild ride on a raging river, lamo | |  | | God Is Alive and Playing Third Base for the Appleton Papermakers
Blue knows baseball, and he knows the Appleton Papermakers.
If you know two or three different ways that a second baseman can make the pivot for a double play . . . if you know two or three ways a catcher can defend against the double steal . . . if you know the difference between a drag bunt, a push bunt, and a squeeze bunt . . . if you know these and countless other baseball tricks, don't you have a sacred obligation to pass this information on? | |  | | Higher Ed
You think it's easy to run Lawt Sidney University when the seven board members are dwarfs?
Higher Ed is six feet nine inch Edward Appleton, president of Lawt Sidney - an anagram for Walt Disney - University. among the seven Sidney U. board members are Grumpy Marcus Elay (Yale spelled backwards), Feliz gonzalez a crane operator on the San Diego docks, and Doc Rivera, head Veteranarian at the Tijuana Bull ring. Higher Ed has his hands full dealing with, among other things, Deans such as Dangerous Dan Stonewood who recites Robert Service ballads in his head during faculty meetings. But besides all the satirical zaniness, the novel Higher Ed offers thoughts on some serious issues facing | |  | | Luz Stella's Tale- A Bismark Pacheco Mystery
Luz Stella wanted the world to be a better place. When she found it to be otherwise, she did not hesitate to do all in her power to change it.
Bismark Pacheco was there to do his part-to save the world, and to save Luz Stella. Or was it the other way around?. | |  | | Murder At The Cat
The CAT is the Center for Tropical Agriculture located on the Atlantic slope of Costa Rica. Inspector Bismark Pacheco, the most respected man man in the entire country, is called to solve the mystery of who killed a visiting scientist with a lance to the throat.
Bismark Pacheco Pacheco, descended from the Bri Bri Indians and trained as a guerilla fighter in the Nicaraguan civil war by operatives of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, goes to work for the Costa Rican Ministry of Justice after graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Pacheco soon becomes the premier crime detective in the land.
Inspector Pacheco is called to investigate a murder at the Center for Tropical Agriculture (The CAT) on the Atlantic slope of Costa Rica where he finds an international web of intrigue that tests the limit of his skil |
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