Books

The Sofa Contract: The Stanton Crimes Part III

A murdered son. A stolen quantum computer. A criminal empire spanning seven nations. For former NYPD investigator Mirco Mirosevic, the hunt for George W. Stanton began as a search for justice — and became a battle for the future of global security.
Stanton, a financial prodigy turned cyber‑criminal mastermind, built an empire on crypto fraud,...

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Death of the Crypto King: A Quantum Computer Techno Thriller (The Stanton Crimes Book 2)

You read to relax? You relax to be creative, think about your future? You read a mystery about crime to protect yourself, your family, your bank account, your community? This book describes crime as you probably could not imagine. Crime is growing with technology.
In your lifetime, technological revolutions are happening with ever increasing...

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My Final Crime: Money, Murder, Monks (The Stanton Crimes Book 1)

Mining cryptocurrency for personal enrichment is impossible. So the experts say. But three programmers are dead. They knew the code, how to do it. They paid with their life. I retired on St. Barth, a Caribbean island, but I had gained a reputation as the best private investigator, specializing in extortion, blackmail, financial scams, and...

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The old Man and the Ice: Getting 150 Years old

Getting 150 years old sounds like science fiction.
But it is not. First, the genetic cause of aging has been discovered.
Second, science has not identified an age limit.
Third, we have found cures for just about any disease, in mice.
The long journey to the age of 150
started with a dream and a vision.
Surviving strange encounters
steering to the...

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Secret Island in the South Pacific: A Dramatic Book about World Politics and Sailing

It all started when I was hired as crew on the yacht of a retired CIA director, Gordon McGillespie. In World War II he had crash-landed on an island in the middle of the South Pacific. The island was scratched off all maps, hiding it from the Japanese. Later, it was condemned due to radioactive fallout from French nuclear tests, and when its...

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The Tunnel: Of caves, coins, and crooks

The reader, who is familiar with the Caribbean, may identify historic events, islands, countries, even specific locations, and certain sailing areas, or dive sites. However, any similarities with governments, their laws and proceedings or with companies and people are purely accidental and a product of fiction.

Although the appetite of...

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Happy Sailing or not?: My 70 years of Sailing Adventures, Romance, and Disasters

Happy sailing. Hear the bow cutting through gentle waves, sh, sh, sh, talk to the dolphins looking at you. Anchor in peaceful bays, admire the stars at night, dream and discuss about the world. Float without gravity in colorful coral reefs, watch strange sea creatures, explore distant islands, their cultures, their beaches, and mountains.
Or be...

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A Happy End of Life: Living well after 80

Thoughts, Experiences, and Research about the last twenty Years of your Life.
This book is written in two parts: “The Aging Body” derives from the personal life experiences of Wolfgang Berg, an 84 year old. He brings observations from high-level amateur sports and personal stories of encounters with people living all over the world. He engages...

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Monkey Sail: Fast Track North

Sliding down ten foot waves sure beats heading into light five foot seas. My stern is about six to eight feet above the water, but every seven seconds the waves behind me are about the same distance above my stern rail. Next I am high above the wave, surfing down and accelerating. The wind is always seventeen to twenty five knots. No need to use...

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Banana Log: Mules and Muggers

This is the second part of the sail of a lifetime through the Caribbean with an extreme hiking adventure to the Caribbean’s highest mountain and with not always enjoyable island encounters like being mugged in a dark alley and my well-off crew lured into a million dollar real estate purchase.
The sailing became rougher, the cruise a race against...

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Banana Log: The End of the World

This is the third part of a sail through the Caribbean. It is an actual account of what’s it like out there for those who dream about sailing to distant tropical islands. This book paints a colorful variety of small island countries, poor and rich, with as many cultures as there are islands. It tells of sailors and adventurers escaping a good...

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The Banana Log: From Dream to Disaster

For those who dream about distant tropical islands, armchair sailors or cruisers preparing the sail of a life time, the three parts of this book paint a colorful variety of small island countries, poor and rich, with as many cultures as there are islands. It tells of sailors and adventurers escaping a good job in an orderly civilization in...

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Voyage to the Magic Mountain: Sailing Adventures in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands

We wanted to sail were few sailors had ever traveled, exploring the “Out Islands” and beyond, sailing to the “Magic Mountain”.
While the Bahamas got their independence, a group of flat islands, far beyond the Out Islands of the Bahamas seemed to be forgotten, even by the British government, who owns this crown colony, the Turks and Caicos...

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Sugar Sails: Last Island of Happiness, Castro’s Cuba

There is a place where you can actually step back in time by 100 years. It is not a museum but a living country where time has stood still. Or, to be more accurate, where time has moved backward. This outstanding accomplishment has been created by a revolutionary system that was going to make all people happy and equal. It is communist Cuba, the...

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Fellini’s Ladder: How to become Famous

Marco Fellini, son of a reputable barber in South Philadelphia was taught by his father, Antonio Fellini, to climb the social ladder. He started climbing ladders as a painter but his career did not work out as expected. Somehow he became owner and captain of a world class yacht, or rather a wreck that he thought would only need a good paint job....

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