Christmas is Cancelled. Early 1980 was a whole different world. It seems like a lifetime ago and even another reality. One piece snow suits, massive blizzards, drifts of snow burying everything, and overgrown woods whose untamed fauna swarmed in around...

War is hell. We all know that. But unless you were a veteran who saw it on the front lines (like the World War 2 vets who cried during the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan), it was often...

The government in hot pursuit! I first got the bug to rebuild trucks when, as a teenage punk rocker living in a bad neighborhood in DC, I got a small settlement from an accident, and used it to buy a...

Monica was always my biggest fan and greatest supporter. I make sure to thank her in every book I release. She died in 2007 in a hit-and-run, and the NYPD mangled the investigation (most likely because she was a...

The Great State of Texas. I remember one rainstorm so intense, I couldn't even see the sides of the road. It was spring, I lived in Virginia then, and the watery deluge was so intense I didn't know where I...