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Two Conventions: Politics at the 1948 and 2016 Democratic Party Conventions in Philadelphia
Stanley Cutler
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Cyber detective Roy Landis is on a mission to prove the innocence of his new lover, Tina Sigmundsdottir. Her company accused her of hacking their accounting system, fired her and threatened to have her arrested for embezzlement. She is accused of diverting payments from the accounting system into her pockets. To exonerate her, Landis unpeels a web of cyber fraud. As he closes in on the thieves, he wonders if he can "salvage" the stolen millions for himself. He's a hacker in a gray hat, a knight in tarnished armor saving a damsel in distress. He discovers that the hack was worldwide and embedded in the commercial software used by thousands of organizations worldwide. He wonders if he can "salvage" the untraceable fortune for himself. His investigation triggers a vicious murder and attempts on his life. Can he evade the killers, recover the money and prove his lover innocent of the greatest criminal exploit since the invention of the computer?
In 2016, a Pennsylvania Congressman wins re-election against long odds. Can voting machines be hacked? Cyber sleuth Roy Landis is persuaded to investigate. Landis, a knight in tarnished armor, a gray-hat hacker, finds malware. Human trails and cyber traces point to a cast of American and Russian villains. Will lame-duck President Obama have enough information to act before a new Congress and a new President take their oaths? And what actions, if any, would be good for the country?
The first book of The Rubin Family / Dave Levitan Series, in which Al Rubin establishes his power and influence.In 1929 Atlantic City, gangsters and politicians answer to Enoch 'Nucky' Johnson, the Czar of The Ritz. In Washington, J. Edgar Hoover sets out to end Nucky's reign. Nucky hatches a plan to neutralize Hoover with blackmail photos taken when the young FBI Director comes to an Atlantic City hotel for Decoration Day celebrations. Al Rubin, a studio photographer, is promised a lucrative lease on an entertainment pier to set up the shoot and snap the shots.Hoover discovers the plot and sets off in pursuit of Al, who tries to disappear in the sin city of the Jazz Age. More is at stake than the life of one thoughtful photographer. The American justice system's balance of power rides on the surprising and ingenious outcome of a fast-paced thriller.
In 1944, the US Army occupies Atlantic City's hotels as military barracks and uses the convention hall as a training base. When an Army recruit is murdered with a strange bullet, police detective Dave Levitan overcomes the interference of his crooked bosses, the incompetence of the military police, and the FBI's suspicions about his politics in order to investigate the senseless execution. He discovers a deep-cover Nazi spy and a team of German saboteurs who intend to destroy a vital link to the American soldiers fighting in France. Does Levitan have what it takes to stop the Germans from derailing the American war effort?The Subversive Detective is the first novel in the Detective Dave Levitan Series. A suspenseful, adventure and rich depiction of wartime American life, this remarkable story keeps readers entertained from the first page to the last.
George Koyne, an Iowa-born scientist, disappears in 1948. Concerned that the missing man might be a Soviet spy, the feds dispatch top investigator Dave Levitan to track him down. Levitan discovers Koyne's secret biography, an astonishing story of a Jewish American life churned by global politics. Levitan's dogged hunt takes surprising turns, finally onto an ocean liner bound for France. The future of the nuclear world hangs on the outcome of their fateful, storm-tossed confrontation. What part does the missing scientist play in the first contests of the Cold War?Is Koyne on a vacation to Europe or an assignment to Moscow? Will Levitan uncover the truth before it is too late?The Reluctant Spy is the second novel in the Detective Dave Levitan Series. A suspenseful, adventure, an engrossing tale that entertains to the final page.