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News: Mobile Was A Catholic Town (Blue Jade), a new psychological thriller set in the contemporary Deep South is now available on Amazon Books

Words of our Enemies by Bruce Colbert will be released during summer of 2019 by Blue Jade Press. This thriller novel uncovers the conspiracy in the 1968 MLK shooting death.

Bosphorus, an espionage novel with a Russian connection now at Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and also independent booksellers.

Bruce Colbert is an actor, filmmaker and author who lives in New York City and Fairhope, Alabama. His stories have appeared nationally in the Saturday Evening Post and Argosy, and in the Irish literary magazine The Linnet's Wings. His numerous acting roles include the BBC, ABC and Discovery ID (history channel ...more

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New noir novel Lombard Street by author Bruce Colbert will be released this summer by Anaphora Literary Press, Atlanta.

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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

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Tender story of native Americans in contemporary urban society, insightful and sensitive by the late Michael Dorris, who alas, died by his own hand.
Marvelous and alive characters, young and old. "

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Jul 03, 2019 12:38PM

John Steinbeck: You write it, and take your chances.

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Mar 03, 2017 11:09AM

Said to me by an old Vietnam helicopter pilot friend on the fall of Iraq as the generals droned on. "Oh well, you can't occupy a country without casualties. They learn that fast."

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Jun 15, 2015 10:30AM

Lombard Street novel: "To understand the Chinese, you must first understand Kiasu. If you don't, you're nothing more than a tourist in Asia."

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