Joseph Di Prisco's latest memoir brings back to life the hustler, gambler, criminal, bookmaker, and confidential informer who was his father. On the street they called him Pope, and he made his bones in Brooklyn during the '50s and '60s. Di Prisco discovered by accident fifty-year-old transcripts of New York State Appellate Division trials, where his dad was the star witness against corrupt NYPD cops—cops with whom he collaborated. Suddenly, Pope's hazardous, veiled, twisting past was illuminated. This new book is both sequel and prequel to his much-praised memoir, Subway to California, and enlightened by these disclosures, Di Prisco memorably traces how secrets once revealed led to even deeper mysteries. In The Pope of Brooklyn he grapples with unsettling truths that simultaneously bind and separate father and son. Views: 22
The discovery of instantaneous space travel that average people could afford saw thousands of Terra's best race to the stars before governments could react. New Empires emerged through luck, treachery, or purpose.
This series chronicles the survival and growth of the small Teaman Empire and the Shadow Warriors that made it possible. Shadows are unique, symbiont-enhanced warriors used as counter-insurgents by the Teaman Empire. The Teaman Empire is small compared to its two Alliance Partners. It survives being gobbled up by its partners or by the other two Alliances because of its Teaman University, the hundreds of Empire owned research companies the University spawned, the huge Teaman Empire driven banking industry, and by providing small Shadow teams to solve large problems for a steadily increasing number of planets.
GalTech is the business started by Teaman's young emperor, a successful businessman and former shadow, the Empire's top banker, and a beautiful and lethal Shadow that never saw a fight she wanted to avoid.
Military action, martial arts, business, humor, and relationships are all made more interesting as the meld between Shadows and their symbionts grow in strength and ability.
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