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The PTL evangelistic empire is in ruins, done in by sloppy or crooked management and a sex scandal. But that's not the end of Tammy Faye Bakker's troubles. Tammy Faye has fought drug addiction and cancer, seen two husbands jailed, become a cruelly mocked creature, working the far...
This posthumously published novel by the author of The Godfather has more tasty twists than a plate of fusilli. A noble don is assassinated by ignoble rivals eager to take over their victim's legal banking empire. His Mob-free offspring, content with their legitimate careers, want to cash out...
It's not that a cybercriminal world of conspiratorial smugglers, scofflaws, crooked banks and tax evaders is impossible. Such countries already exist. It's just that they're not anyone's idea of high-tech paradise. They are places like Bulgaria.
There was free food, provided by the student activity fee. There was free entertainment, provided by the Harvard Juggling Club. And there was free music, provided by a number of talented student bands and, of course, the main attraction, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Some lounged, others danced and few even...
They say history repeats, first as tragedy, then as farce. But sometimes it manages both the first time around. Brit Bob Hoskins is a surprisingly apt choice for the Panamanian kleptocrat, whom he plays as a cruel yet pathetic schemer--a lower-class striver who in another life might have...