This is the second excerpt from my new “Devlin” thriller, Shock Warning. In this chapter, Maryam — Devlin’s fellow agent and lover — has smuggled herself back into her native Iran, investigating the miraculous apparitions occurring over the holy city
by Michael Walsh30 Sep 2011, 5:03 AM PST0
“Devlin,” the anonymous, alienated agent of the Central Security Service who takes on all America’s enemies, both foreign and domestic, is back in my new thriller, Shock Warning, out this week. (The Kindle edition will be released on Oct. 4)
by Michael Walsh29 Sep 2011, 7:11 AM PST0
The torture techniques described in this harrowing chapter from Exchange Alley (now available on Kindle for 99 cents) are true. Taken from the second half of the novel, this sequence dramatizes what happens to the rogue KGB agent, Egil Ekdahl
by Michael Walsh18 Mar 2011, 8:19 AM PST0
This is the first chapter of my first novel, Exchange Alley, originally published by Warner Books in 1997 and now available on Kindle for the introductory price of just 99 cents. It introduces the main character, Frankie Byrne, and presents
by Michael Walsh17 Mar 2011, 8:11 AM PST0
My first novel, Exchange Alley, is now up on Kindle and can be yours for the special introductory price of just 99 cents. Such a deal — especially when used paperback copies are being offered on Amazon for up to
by Michael Walsh16 Mar 2011, 6:37 AM PST0
Brad Thor’s new thriller, The Athena Project, may at first glance seem so far-fetched — the U.S. government is training a cadre of smokin’ hot, kick-ass female Delta Force ops; yeah, right — that you might be tempted to dismiss
by Michael Walsh23 Nov 2010, 2:14 PM PST0
This is my last post as Editor-in-Chief of Big Journalism. A year ago this month, Andrew Breitbart and I, along with the rest of the team at Breitbart.com, began planning this site, designing the logo and the layout, recruiting the
by Michael Walsh10 Oct 2010, 8:28 PM PST0
Otherwise known as “political correctness.” Not just Geert Wilders is on trial in the Netherlands for the crime of “hate speech” — [youtube N6zzdNRysgs&feature nolink] — we all are: To quote Wilders: All there is to say has been said.
by Michael Walsh7 Oct 2010, 8:04 AM PST0
Dick Blumenthal is a nasty piece of work, the NPR-voiced Attorney General of Connecticut and “Vietnam veteran” who thought he was going to waltz into the U.S. Senate by default. But a funny thing happened on the way to the
by Michael Walsh5 Oct 2010, 7:26 AM PST0
To say I’m extremely flattered by El Rushbo’s very kind endorsement would be an understatement: [youtube rr3WdwiiaVY&feature nolink] You can get the first book in the series, Hostile Intent, on Amazon or at any Barnes & Noble or other fine
by Michael Walsh5 Oct 2010, 4:14 AM PST0
I last heard the old Soviet Union anthem as I left Moscow two weeks before the coup against Gorbachev in 1991. That pretty much marked the end of the line for the Old Left, which had invested so much in
by Michael Walsh2 Oct 2010, 5:29 PM PST0
This week, after three years of writing satirically about Hollywood and politics as “David Kahane” on National Review Online, I published Rules for Radical Conservatives, from which this excerpt is taken: Look, I have to admit there’s nothing wrong with
by Michael Walsh2 Oct 2010, 1:30 PM PST0
Look, I have to admit there’s nothing wrong with either the conservative or Republican base. Frankly, you guys terrify us, you and your damn fascist Tea Parties. Is there anything more frightening than seas of grandmothers waving American flags and
by Michael Walsh1 Oct 2010, 4:48 AM PST0
So my agent called me the other day and said she’s putting me up for the newest James Bond movie and would I come up with a “take” so I can go in and pitch. Of course I said sure,
by Michael Walsh30 Sep 2010, 4:55 AM PST0
One of the greatest battles in Marine Corps history, and one of greatest examples of gallantry and bravery in military history, period. [youtube qd8LDdbfIFY&feature nolink] Long past time these warriors, patriots and fathers got their due from the country they
by Michael Walsh30 Sep 2010, 4:20 AM PST0
He was the quintessential Timesman back in the days when that meant something. A New England neighbor, I used to see him at the train station, impeccably dressed for his foray down to New York City, tie perfectly knotted, silver
by Michael Walsh23 Sep 2010, 4:23 AM PST0
Custer at the Little Bighorn, the Kennedy Assassination, the Titanic: some disasters linger in the mind and the memory, coloring the way we look at the world, but bringing the dead past back to vivid life. [youtube M81lDelpSrE&feature nolink] So
by Michael Walsh22 Sep 2010, 5:05 PM PST0
From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel comes this revealing little window into the Democrat-Union-Media Complex: Organized labor is hatching a plan to use prominent Democratic officials and TV ads to pummel Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker over the O’Donnell Park garage accident
by Michael Walsh21 Sep 2010, 12:41 PM PST0
Tammany Hall, the greatest criminal organization of its age, spanning the era from Aaron Burr to Boss Tweed to Boss Croker and Charlie Murphy, was the perfect marriage of Democrat Party politics and organized crime. Though thought dead and buried
by Michael Walsh21 Sep 2010, 7:14 AM PST0
Those of you who wish to understand the criminal organization masquerading as a political party — that would be the Democrats — need only to remember one thing: the very first Democrat vice-president, Aaron Burr, shot and killed one of
by Michael Walsh17 Sep 2010, 3:55 PM PST0
Today is the 223rd birthday of the Constitution of the United States of America. And do we ever need her, now more than ever. The Bill of Rights came along two years later, but now’s a good a time as
by Michael Walsh17 Sep 2010, 4:17 AM PST0
It is only right and just to let the Majarushi have the last word on today’s Topic A — last night’s Delaware primary between Christine O’Donnell and Mike Castle, and the emerging schism between the Washington establishment and the heartland
by Michael Walsh15 Sep 2010, 5:48 PM PST0
From Sarah Ricard, Digital Content Manager of the Dennis Miller Show, who writes: The Dennis Miller Show is now accepting submissions for its “Time Capsule Accountability Project.” Tired of certain celebrities and politicians making outlandish, baseless claims (Al Gore, we’re
by Michael Walsh14 Sep 2010, 12:36 PM PST0
After years of being thought of mainly as the dedicatee of Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, as well as the famous author’s third wife (and, oddly enough, his third consecutive wife from St. Louis), Martha Gellhorn has begun
by Michael Walsh14 Sep 2010, 4:37 AM PST0
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by Michael Walsh12 Sep 2010, 8:14 AM PST0