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In this, the third appearance of Inspector Constantin Vadim leaves his native Russia for New York. Vadim finds himself caught up in the middle of a presidential election where the victory of the leading candidate is threatened by the outrageous public behaviour of his Russian wife. When someone decides the only solution is to have her killed before she loses her husband the election Constantin's innocent involvement with her pitches him straight into the middle of a murder investigation.

The Memoirs of John F. Kennedy: A Novel brings to life the tantalizing possibilities of "what might have been" had JFK remained president after November 22, 1963. This book imagines an America where progressive leadership takes hold during the 1960s, where President Kennedy, after a grueling fight for his life in a Dallas hospital, survives his chest wounds and returns to the presidency. He is elected for a second term. He does not mount a ground war in Vietnam. Foreign relations with Cuba, the Soviet Union, South America, and our allies and adversaries around the world follow a very different path. This novel interweaves a two-track story. One takes place in 1963 at Parkland Medical Center and follows Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover as they cope with the explosive events of the assassination attempt while the wounded president hovers near death. The other more lighthearted fictional story-line unfolds through the eyes of Patrick Hennessey, the memoirist appointed by JFK during the approaching end of his second term in 1968. Through in-depth talks at the White House, Camp David, Hyannisport, on Air Force One, and golfing on Kennedy's private course at Glen Ora, Patrick gets to know the president as he reviews his decisions regarding the difficult path toward a peaceful resolution of world crises. This well researched alternate history will strike a chord with readers worldwide-those fascinated with the Kennedy mystique and those interested in the potential for politics to be "done right" during challenging times. Considering the current period-and the 50th anniversary of JFK's election-re-imagining a more positive past may enable us to collectively envision a more enlightened future.

Good Mouse Bad Cat is fascinatingly based on a true story about a couple who rescues injured animals, birds, and even a mouse in this particular case. This is an amazing story about a most unusual reaction to a natural occurrence that will find both the animals in the story and the reader totally in awe. Humorous and unbelievable it is a must read for all.

A murder mystery in Russia against the background of a failed rebellion. The protagonist is Constantin Vadim, a detective investigating traffic in human organs. The probe is complicated by political intrigue and Vadim's ex-wife, a rebel general who is seeking his help to leave the country.

Best-selling author Donald James grew up in World's End, Chelsea during the Blitz years. Just on the edge of a fashionable middle class world, his childhood experience was in stark contrast to the privileged, bourgeois lifestyle glimpsed a few hundred yards away. He grew up in stark poverty and depredation, a hard existence yet shot through by the humour and courage of his family and neighbours. This was a now vanished world of grimy factories and generating plants, coal drays, flat caps and boozers, betting shops, dog tracks, 'Piccadilly girls', Guinness Trust buildings and bare foot children. World's End was a melting pot of the working class labourers who flooded to London in the previous century to make their fortunes. labourer who came to London from Essex, married a combative woman who regarded the small enclave as her personal bailiwick. Donald's great grandfather on his father's side was a Victorian bare knuckle fighter, and his great grandmother one of the lady's of easy virtue who made their living in the notorious Cremorne pleasure gardens. His grandmother on that side, born in the 1870s, learned to read and write at the Ragged School in World's End and wore wearing black dress coat and boater all her life, even to bed. The story tells of the feud between Donald's two grandmothers which meant that though they only lived a few yards away from each other, for a dozen years they never acknowledge one another avoiding even at Donald's parent's weeding, Christmases or birthday celebrations. Donald was eight. The radio carried news of impending war and then the declaration of war, difficult to believe in the Indian summer of the 1939. But soon Donald's world would be torn apart by school drills with gas masks and evacuation plans, evacuation itself then an uneasy return to London just as the Blitz itself began and the nights were spent in terror as bombs rained down through the Black Out. Then came the night that Donald's world, did literally end and with it his childhood.

The author's family, menaced by the V-bombs and rockets that were the last stage of London's war, were re-settled in a anonymous London suburb where later his adolescence was to began amidst post war privation, sexual yearning and first love. This autobiography tells of his quest for new experiences that took him all around Britain and France.

Born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1935 and last lived in Boise, Idaho, Donald settled in Wrightwood, California, some eight years ago. He studied fine art at the University of Washington and, after active duty in the army, he obtained his bachelor of fine arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. He then obtained his master of fine arts degree from California College of the Arts in Oakland, California, while being tutored by Robert Bechtle. Donald has shown his work in the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia; Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho; and The Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, California. Don currently has work permanently hanging in the Aspin Lofts of Boise. He has worked as a draftsman, a production illustrator, and a graphic illustrator for Boeing Company and others. He has worked on an eight-foot-by-thirty-two-foot painting for the Desert Community Bank in Wrightwood, which took two and one-half years to complete, and the painting was dedicated to Wrightwood in 2013. He is currently working on landscapes and abstract paintings as he continues to take many photos.