How a Man Loses His Soul
One of the more grizzly discoveries I’ve made over the years has been that of professionals compromising their ethics and betraying faith with which they were entrusted for the sake of personal gain. Truly, this brings to mind the...
Dr. Paul Branson — The Ghost of Africa
The hero of The Ghost of Africa is Dr. Paul Branson, a tall, handsome, rugged man with a heart of gold. A prominent New York City trauma surgeon, Branson’s life is turned upside down when his young wife, Nicki,...
Human Trafficking — The Heinous Underworld Enterprise
In the United States, we’re sometimes shielded from what happens in other parts of the world. Profiteering at any cost is the motivation behind most illegal entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter what the collateral damage might be, it’s considered worth...
This is Where the Plan Goes Wrong
In a remote village surrounded by lush vegetation and rolling hills, a sparsely lit building perches on a small hill, isolated from the huts nearby. Raised above the soil on short stilts, the dank barrack held a sense of...
The Murky Waters of The Congo
Extreme circumstances caused Dr. Paul Branson to make difficult choices in an attempt to escape a madman. One of those choices involved him stealing his enemy’s plane, which later disappeared beneath the murky waters of the Congo’s Kibali river....
Night Terror in Africa
In yesterday’s blog, the scenario was presented in which a chopper hovered three feet off the ground waiting for enemy forces to approach them head on in a personnel truck that would breach a crest in the road at...
Odo — The Beginning of Justice
The steep rock precipice known as Odo towers at the entrance of the Imatong Mountains in the heart of Sudan. Over 1000 feet of sheer faced, solid, vertical stonewall protects the villages below. Steeped in tradition and superstition, Mount...
Dennis Ricci Blog Interview by Don Brobst
A year ago I was honored to spend several days with Dennis Ricci on a retreat with authors Steven James and Robert Dugoni. These New York Time’s best selling authors made each of us better writers just by being...
The Killing Fields of Africa
663,000,000 people in this world don’t have access to a safe source of clean drinking water. As a result, diarrhea kills 2,195 children each day—more than AIDS and Malaria combined. In addition, according the Neverthirst, women spend 40 billion...