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Labete, the Curmudgeon, doesn't like many things in today's world, especially people and their nasty habits including tattoos, bad oral hygiene, video games, tourism, junk food, bad service, poor sportsmanship, phony politics and hypocrites, to name a few. He basically doesn't like anything or anybody and has no problem telling people to their faces what he thinks. In a linked series of well-written funny sketches, Richard Bonte savages people and life in Italy, France, the Middle East and the USA.

Our friendly neighborhood Curmudgeon, Labete, is at it again: He still doesn't like many -- or most -- things in today's world. But he's finally fed up and has gone on the loose after anyone & everyone. Richard Bonte's new linked series of humorous sketches picks up where his award-willing Curmudgeonly Yours left off. Now at our Curmudgeon's mercy, you'll find: "Free" vacation sales pitches ... that are nowhere near "free" The follies of Big Pharma Elections & the accompanying insanity Language barrier inanities And, of course, a mysterious mishap involving the ubiquitous Florida road work that will never, ever end ... unless the peninsula falls into the sea. Is no one safe from Labete's wicked wit? Not in this Curmudgeon's world. And in a few cases, he's actually held back. Don't believe it? Read it & see!

The year is 1924. The Great War has come and gone, having given way to the Roaring Twenties. The beautiful socialite Celia née Dawes, now Celia Casterson, is married to budding tycoon, Don Masterson. They lead a perfect life in their summer place in the Hamptons until a certain neighbor moves in next door. Hamptons Hot, by Richard Bonte, is the fourth book in The James Masters Series by Richard Bonte and Hamilton Harcourt Fleming III. (Jayne Louise Crawford contributed to the first book, The New Yorkers, in the series).

When Rod Lafleur is visited one day by a distant second cousin, Teresa Roberts, he doesn't know what to think. For one thing, he hardly knows Terry, having met her only once and talked to her a couple of times on the telephone. For another, Terry has always ranted on about hair-brained schemes and pots of gold, about this or that one being greedy or not getting their fair share of the family pie: a privately-held, well-known plastic toy company in the Mid-West. Sure, Rod and his extended family have inherited twenty thousand gift shares of the Allen Company. But they have no decision-making power, and the shares are worth nothing on the open market. Terry has a new spin and the Lafleurs are willing listeners until they find out that the option contract she has is not what they thought it would be nor is Terry exactly who she claims to be. Will Rod be able to save his family from the clutches of the evil Terry and his own greedy sister-in-law? Will Rod be able to save himself?

SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET is the dramatic story of a good family man's encounter with two "skeletons in his closet: " an ex-girlfriend and her son have come home to roost.

"All Black" is the fourth volume in the series, 'The Family.' Michael Green, the hero of "Black on White" in volume three, takes a turn for the worse after the demise of the love of his life, Italian actress Carla Signori, at the end of the Roaring Twenties. The Great Depression has grabbed America by the short hairs, but not Studio Head Michael Green who gained great wealth during the Stock Market Crash when he sold short while everyone else sold out. At the beginning of the Depressing 1930s, Michael Green has money, a thriving movie studio called 'Tiger Productions, ' a beautiful wife with a child on the way and all the material possessions one can have, but there's something missing. Yes, it's a thing called 'love' that Michael spends most of his waking moments running after in all the wrong places with all the wrong people. Find out how Michael risks his life and the lives of those dearest to him just to discover that what he's looking for is right in front of him but he just can't see it.

The Baja Redemption (2020) is a fast-paced road thriller which seeks a radical solution to the "One Promised Land, One Israel Theory." Set against the current climate of nuclear war between the USA/Israel and Iran, two Academics attempt to transport Moses' newly-discovered Ten Commandments Tablet from Baja California to the White House. Powerful forces within the three countries also want the Tablet. They don't want a new Promised Land. They don't even want Israel's relocation. They want its destruction. The President of the United States and her secret protectors covertly align with the Academics against the "War" hawks. Within a tight time frame, there is a deadly cross-country race to deliver the Tablet to the President. If the Academics succeed, they will have avoided nuclear war. If they don't ...

In screenplay form as well, “Against Nature” is a classical, fast-paced story of obsession for a cause in modern-day Los Angeles. Skeeter Thomas is an ex-cop turned eco-terrorist who kidnaps the beautiful daughter of a wealthy car industrialist in order to force the clean-up of the Los Angeles transportation mess. Way before today's ecological revolution, Skeeter always had a love/hate relationship with cars--mostly hate. However, when he loses his wife to car smog-induced lung cancer and then his young daughter to an automobile accident, his hate turns to fury. As a young widower and now childless, Skeeter, decides to make Los Angeles traffic problems his own.Read about one man's attempt to turn the car into a modern-day dinosaur.