Product Description: Award-winning novelist, screenwriter and playwright Bill Mesce, Jr. turns, for the first time, to short fiction in a gallery of pieces ranging from the familiar (an encounter at a winter-whipped commuter bus stop in “North”) to the arcane (a lost cavalry patrol in the Civil War-set “Precis”); the sweet (a hopeful tete a tete at Parisian café in “Ad Vivum”) to the bittersweet (a drifter marking time between busses in “Ante Meridiem”); the intimate (an altar boy’s private rebellion in “Crusade”) to the epic (the Vietnam War novella, “Diamond Red”...read more

Product Description: Crockett, Texas is the kind of small, sun-baked, insular, backwater town where nothing changes, where Main Street looks much like it did 40 years ago. Everybody knows everybody else, there's so little to do that one of the biggest pastimes is, as one town wag says, "mindin' everybody else's business," and where somebody always has the town's preacher over to dinner on Sunday...read more

'Examines the evolution of the thriller from the heyday of the Hollywood mogul era in the 1930s when it was primarily bottom-of-the-bill fodder, through its maturity in the World War II years and the noir-breeding 1950s, its commercial and critical ascendancy in the 1960s and 1970s, and finally its subsequent box office dominance'--Provided by publisher.

Court-martialed for disobeying an order in combat during World War II, a young lieutenant enlists the aid of his childhood friend, Lieutenant Colonel Harry Voss, against the charges, but a dark secret from the past could turn the case upside down. Reprint.

Product Description: From across the spectrum of the arts―theater to music, painting to poetry, and everything in between―men and women from the creative front lines share their experiences and insights on the often harsh realities of a life in the arts...read more

When the body of Lieutenant Armando Grassi, a much disliked American officer, washes up on the shore of a remote Scottish island, Major Harry Voss, an attorney with the U.S. Army's Judge Advocate's office, is given the task of finding out who killed Grassi and why and finds himself drawn into the middle of a deadly conspiracy. By the author of The Advocate. Reprint.

Product Description: At his peak, from the late 1960s through the early 1970s, Sam Peckinpah was hailed as one of the new masters of the Western film, while simultaneously becoming one of the most controversial American directors of the era. In a time of great social turmoil, Peckinpah's on-screen orchestration of physical and emotional violence drew adamant praise for what some considered fearless realism and vehement criticism for what others called tasteless gore and brutal misogyny...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An apparent friendly fire incident over the English Channel in 1943 prompts an investigation by the Judge Advocate's office, led by cynical lawyer Harry Voss, who soon discovers that the wartime incident may be more than it seems. Reprint.

An apparent friendly fire incident over the English Channel in 1943 prompts an investigation by the Judge Advocate's office, led by cynical lawyer Harry Voss, who soon discovers that the wartime incident may be more than it seems. A first novel. 25,000 first printing.