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DEATHSTALKER!Imagine a world where the Allies lost the war to Nazi Germany and America has spent sixty years under duress by Axis powers.Now imagine an America newly freed from oppression and trying to find its way—through crime and punishment.Welcome to the new America.Post-War profits have helped Steeltown grow into a thriving industrial metropolis. But the criminal element is growing along with it.Never before has evil of such a depraved and monstrous nature terrorized the rainwashed streets of the city.Desperate times call for desperate measures, and now only the darkest and bloodiest of messiahs can prevent every man, woman and child from becoming hapless victims.Out of the shadows comes The Scorpion.Kurt Reinhardt is a powerful and debonair newspaper publisher by day—but by night he becomes a crime-busting vigilante feared by the criminal underground and relentlessly pursued by the police.He is neither entirely good nor is he evil—and as The Scorpion his agenda is his own.To fight the criminal element he utilizes the awesome .50 caliber Sting, a garrote of piano wire, and secrets best left buried forever in the past.Aiding him in his ruthless quest for “death for death and blood for blood” are hard-boiled Police Captain Dick Barracks, Spike Malone, a cynical young hooligan out of the river district known as “Shit Town”, and Suzaku, his loyal Japanese retainer.At night in Steeltown the shadows are alive and The Scorpion crawls.THE STING OF THE SCORPION.A juvenile slave trading and prostitution ring has set up shop in Steeltown, an act of perversity which lures The Scorpion out of hiding and puts him hot on the heels of Jimmy Marlowe, a notorious pimp, and his associate, the mystery man known only as “The Red Death”.Bodies are piling up, the obvious victims of an ax-wielding psychopath.Further complicating things is beautiful FBI agent Maggie James, whose goals are twofold: to break the slavery ring and bring The Scorpion and his bloody and destructive campaign to justice.But her investigation of Steeltown’s darkest sentinel brings her to the doorstep of Kurt Reinhardt instead.Will Maggie’s relentless deduction skills uncover Kurt’s past and reveal his darkest secret, or will Maggie herself be the next victim of The Red Death? ... Read more

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A Well Wrought Work of Grim Pulp Action
I had my eye on this book on Amazon for ages before I decided to take a chance on it. I'm a bit skittish, having bought small press and self-published books before that turned out to be utter dreck...heck, I recently bought a very popular YA adventure novel by a writer whose books sell millions of copies and it was one of the worst written tomes I've cracked open in years.

So, yeah. Skittish.

But I finally bought Warren Stockholm's The Sting of The Scorpion, allegedly the first issue of Scorpion Magazine, though this was published in 2006 and there's still no sign of a second issue. But things happen, and it is the product of a small press.

The Scorpion is a pulp hero in the tradition of The Shadow, but even more in the tradition of The Spider (both of whom I wrote about here). He's dark and deadly and armed and dangerous, clad in a black-veiled fedora and a black leather trench coat, brutally taking the fight to the criminals that plague his city, Steeltown.

While the hero is fashioned from a very readily recognizable pulp archetype, Stockholm does some interesting things with The Scorpion and the world he inhabits.

For one thing, the tale takes place in an alternate history in which Germany won the second world war and occupied America for sixty years. America has only recently booted their wretched forces out and is rebuilding itself. The milieu is an intriguing amalgam of the thirties and the late twentieth century, as if the culture sort of froze in place under Nazi rule, but technology moved forward.

As for the hero, in classic pulp fashion, The Scorpion by day is a wealthy paragon, living in the tallest building in the city, assisted by a mysterious Asian woman, dedicated to his mission against evil...but he's not just a hero with a dark past, he's a hero with a really dark past. And he's not really human, in some very interesting and dangerous ways. Richard Wentworth dressed as The Spider to scare criminals into thinking he was a monster; Kurt Reinhardt becomes The Scorpion because he is a monster.

Reinhardt is a compelling protagonist, the action frequent and brutal, the city a violent and noirish place, and the plot interesting. Not only that, but Stockholm can actually write very well (though this is possibly the worst copy-edited book I've ever read all the way through). I do have to warn readers of delicate tastes away, however, because this is a very grim and blood-splashed work.

I enjoyed the hell out of this story. I wish there was a Scorpion Magazine #2, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Unlike some other attempts at modern pulp I've read (or tried to read), this one's going on the shelf with my Doc Savages, Shadows, and, of course, that other arachnid, The Spider.

fun pulp fiction thriller
In an alternate universe Nazi Germany defeated the Allies and occupied the losing nations including America for sixty years until the economy tanked causing a war in which America forced the oppressors to leave.Everything is being built up and growth is everywhere even in Steeltown.New rules allow crime to thrive with one dirty operation running a slave trade child porn ring. Women vanish with their abused bodies found in record numbers.

Watching over the city is The Scorpion who stalks and attacks evil men.He is a German super soldier created by the Third Reich but he escaped to the United States. He thinks of Steeltown as his town and plans to clean it up from criminals and predators. He uses his extraordinary skills to kill those malevolent humans harming others.Yet his past catches up to him when he realizes someone he once called brother is now a vile monster needing to be eradicated.

Readers who enjoy pulp fiction thrillers with an homage to Captain America will enjoy the entertaining THE SCORPION.The fast-paced story line vividly describes through a somewhat horrifying lens a small American town of the future five years after the Nazi occupiers have left.The hero is a tortured soul struggling to control his berserker tendency, a critical element of becoming a super soldier.No Bucky sidekick for him; he is alone even when surrounded by allies because he trusts no one, not even himself.Fans will appreciate the adventures of the Scorpion and look forward to more pulp escapades.

Harriet Klausner
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This intimate biography gets straight to the heart of the man behind the public image, revealing aspects of Sting's life that are seldom glimpsed in the media - his difficult childhood, his time with The Police, his relationship with Trudie Styler and his acting pursuits. ... Read more

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From Tiger Moths to Hurricanes, Vengeance dive-bombers to Spitfires, the author of this action-packed memoir flew planes of all kinds in the course of the Second World War - and has many entertaining stories to tell along the way. As soon as he was old enough he fulfilled his boyhood ambition of becoming a pilot, and, after initial training in Tiger Moths in what was then Southern Rhodesia, he joined RAF squadrons in India in 1943. It was a life full of adventures, some of them hair-raising - with anything from hornets in the engine to bombs apparently failing to discharge - and all of them are brought to life with an infectious verve and enthusiasm. ... Read more

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BUT MAKE IT STING, is more than just a study in pain; it is perhaps the most comprehensive erotic treatise on Sadism and its counterpart, Masochism as related to lesbianism. This hitherto unexplored area is treated with not some little understanding and sympathy by Mr. Sumner. The criticism which greeted the publication of a works suggesting the existence of this now accepted phenomenon drove BUT MAKE IT STING underground for a number of years. We are pleased to re-introduce this modern day ... Read more

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I was a happy newlywed, feeling like I was on top of the world, blissfully satisfied with my life; until the phone rang one beautiful, October morning.It was a call that would shatter my world forever...So compelling and heart wrenching was the journey that ensued, Monique and Rene Muñoz's story was featured in Glamour (c) Magazine's December 2005 issue entitled, "Could You Let Your Husband Die?"Glamour (c) 2009 is a registered TM of Condé Nast. ... Read more

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A Book I'llRead Again!
I had to stop and take a moment to write a review about a book that significantly impacted me when I read it. The story immediately captured my attention and continued to hold my interest. The way the story sets the stage of the author's life, then takes you into her and her husband's amazing and tragic story of love and faith and is done well.

Ms. Munoz's honesty about her own challenges, fears, and struggles throughout their journey is written in such a way which makes you feel like she is sitting next to in your living room and telling you the story. But, it's not just a story, it's a book about love, perseverance and God's grace.

I'll keep this book on my shelf and every once in a while when I'm facing life's challenges, I'll pull out, read it and it'll remind me of great love, God's mercies and God's faithfulness.It'll remind me that there is nothing that God can't bring me through.

There's both sides to the story as his younger sister.
What I think of the writer "Bee-cause I love myself" I need to continue telling the world what a wonderful person I am. You need to let it go and let him rest in peace. Because him as a christian man would not agree to what you continue to do in bragging..I am very grateful for what you have done, like taking care of him. but like i said there are two sides to the story. one you tell and what you don't..sincere love Veronica Munoz

Munoz' book exceeded all expectations- a page turner
I reluctantly read this book on the advice of a friend. Everything from its cute title "BeeCause You loved me" playing on the title-words in that song by the Canadian singer, Celine Dion to a reference how abee sting made her husband ill, changing the author, Monique L. Munoz's life. In short this linkage of words made me wary.

Frankly, I was expecting a "Star Jones" type of memoir in which the author triumphs by being smarter, being more blessed by God than anyone else and working harder than everyone. Then attempt to write a story of herself by dealing in half truths, flattering hints and clever phrases without providing any details or any new wisdom along the way. This was what I expected.

Wow, was I wrong! Pundits-Professors Rufus Fears, Christina Baldwin and Timothy Spurgin to name a few-tell us there are certain characterisics that define a good read or a great story.A focus on events either displaying an unconditional love,overcoming an unforseen tragedy or the marshalling of personal courage in times of peril. Also a writer must have an ability to speak across age, gender and cultural barriers. But above all, the readers should feel the writer is talking them as individuals rather than as a group. This she does.

In literature, there are some foolproof themes such as writing how one endured a hardship without crumbling or how a single individual struggled to survive.Others such as`how love can bring both pain and pleasure. Or how does one cope with new fears, unusual situations and discover hidden strengths. A memoir should not tell how character of a person is formed. Maybe why it was shaped...because an adversity does not create character, but will only reveal what is already there. Few memoirs can offer you invaluable lessons, insight on the human condition and teach you through an unique experience at the same time,but when it does..... then it must be rated as "a way above average" read. This is what I learned that Munoz's book does.

I read the book in four huge gulps. The first quarter of her memior is a stunningly powerful love story. Woven beautifully, filled with prose-popping, heart tugging details, she captured our spirits and displays her at the same time. In a honest manner, she tells how her emotional shaping was rebuild at a mature age while she was in her thirties.. How she was able to overcome memories of sexual abuse in her childhood, and past turbulent relations with her first husband into a new type of sexuality-spooning the night away is worthy of being read.

Good memoirs are difficult pieces to write. Few things are more difficult in a memoir than doing justice to a complicated marriage. Considered how difficult Munoz's marriage was:different races, different cultures, trying to set up a minstry to God part-time, working full time, managing a family with teenagers, feuding ex-mates on two other marriages. All of this in less than three years, add to it the poisoning sting of a bee,then one can see how the complexity of their relationship only intensifies. Though this is a medium-sized book of less than 260 pages, some readers may feel it could have been even shorter had she forgone some details. Wrong, it is the details that makes her story more appealing..it makes one wonder if she kept a journal by her nightstand, in her car, next to her desk and at the hospital.

Throughout the book, she is a cynosure by example issuing wisdom by her words " Forget about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain" and exposing the internal conflict between her heart and her head how she as a minister can make carnal love outside the boundaries of a marriage. All handled in a truthfully and understandable way.

She opened her heart at every interval by being very honest, arousing one's curiosity at time, showing forgiveness to her husband's family and uncompromising support to her two college age children. She even refuse to take credit for their scholastic success, saying..." I am just honored to be their mother". Oddly, the scene in which she falls in love and the inner conflict-a scene that might be wrought with cliches- is one of the most powerful, honest and credible moments in her inner narrative.

There are many lessons to be learned here. Memories lie buried, yet she explains how they remain forceful enough to shape our lives unless we confront them and then try to forget them. But to remember that somehow they don't forget us as easily.Among other things, she shows how relationships are based on certain emotional elements and how they are described make up the lifeblood and the beating heart of any memoir. This she did superbly.

She explained how there are certain emotional elements within all relationships which monitor the interior climate of our souls as part of the human condition. For example, how some of her chapters are titled -"Friendship, Insanity, Denial, Adapting, Grief"-offer a virtual tour of the human condition. Her conciseness of seperating one emotional element from the other is shown over and over again. For example she shows how grief is an individual emotional reaction to a loss (death, sickness, divorce, etc) based on the emotional price ticket valuing the loss; while bereavement are calculated to the age, the culture and prevous emotional experience of the mourner. Most people make the mistake of thinking grief and bereavement are interchangable, Munoz does not.

All in all, she depicted emotions as being fluid and yet arbitary at places...just like if they were water, without obstacles they flow taking up the shape and form of whatever container they are poured. Also like water, settling at the lowest point in one's life or overflowing to excess if not controlled.

How she is able to raise two children, hold down a demanding executive position in the fast moving sofware industry, drive across the Seattle area daily to be by her husband's side is very revealing, and when hishealth goes from bad to worse she refused to give in. "I am the most stubborn person I know" she declares.

It's hard to identify the intended audience for this book or how it may make a difference. Further one wonders exactly what was the motivation for Munoz's writing such a honest and powerful memoir. Soren Kiekegaard, the Danish Philosopher and Samuel Johnson, the Scottish writer, both stated that people write for one of three reasons: either to become famous; to become wealthy; or for revenge. However there are other reasons, a memorial to her late husband perhaps, the psychological belief that the sooner private emotions are discussed or written down, the better; and that broken hearts heal faster if made public; and the best legacy for one's children and their children's children is a memoir.

Whatever was her key motivation, it is clear that she would be or is an excellent advocate for a patient's rights. The book is an instructional manuel, if not a technical primer on how to deal with hospitals, insurance procedures, non-supporting family members, uncaring doctors,and to negotiate around a ego-structured environment such as a medical institution. How to make certain that everyone remains patient-centered is something she seemed skilled at doing.

In summary, Munoz writes to the heat and soul of what makes us human. She writes so forcefully that one is drawn deftly ino another world, seeing someone experience as your own. The fact she wrote it so soon after her husband death is an important factor. Her text conveys an extraordinary sense of urgency, a fierce need to capture the complexities of human behavior while everything is still fresh and volatile. She shoehorned her way into being a caregiver for Rene, her husband, with a plucky, can we do better attitude and a refusal to just let him die without a fight.

Errol D. Alexander Sr., Arrowhead Institute, Tacoma Div of TAGACO

A Real Page Turner!!!
"Beecause You Loved Me" is a fasinating read. It's a real page turner in the fact that it's hard to put down once you start reading it.The writer captivates her readers with her inspirational personal story of her strength, courage, faith and Love.As a man reading this book, I can only say "wow, what a very special woman".This book makes the reader think as well as feel.I loved the book so much that I bought several copies as gifts.All I can say is; read it, enjoy it and share it.I feel blessed as a result.

Inspiring true story of love and courage
What would it be like to find your true love, and within months of your wedding lose most - but not all - of him to afreak allergic reaction?How would you cope with caring for him for 3+ years while also raising 2 teenagers and supporting everyone with a full time job?These questions sound like the basis for a good introspective novel - yet they are the reality that author Monique Munoz faced, and writes about, in BeeCause You Loved Me.

The story is written in an easy, informal style, and Ms Munoz is frank though never self-pitying in her description of the challenges she faced.Despite the title and main subject of the book, though, it is in essence a love letter to her late husband.Instead of focusing solely on Ms. Munoz's dedication to her husband after his accident, much of the book revolves around the charming story of how they fell in love, how that love was nurtured by their strong mutual faith, and how they honored that love in their daily lives.

Read this book to get a dose of perspective - trust me, your problems will probably start to feel small as you read about what the Munoz family faced.And read this book for an uplifting story of love transforming two lives, giving one woman the strength to do the impossible. ... Read more

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Good LDS Fiction.
Not great literature, but a well-written thriller that makes you care about the characters.Doesn't harp on the Church, but there are some expressions that would be a bit weird for non-members.Clean language, clean morals, interesting story.I wish I had the first two!I'll be looking for them. ... Read more

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love the book.
Great history on the 63-67 cars, not sure why they discontinued the book, I was lucky to find a copy.

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