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by Joseph Wallace

Introduction

Possessed outhouses. Hookers à la carte. Muggers offering the deal of the century. Revenge all the sweeter for being postponed. And a host of unsavory characters unlike any you've met before. Listen in on twelve violent and funny episodes from the deeply odd dark side of our global village, and give thanks it was Joe who was there, and not you....

Joseph Wallace is author of such nonfiction books as
The Autobiography of Baseball and A Gathering of Wonders: Behind the Scenes at the American Museum of Natural History. He has also recently completed The Scorpion's Tail, a thriller set in the same steamy, dangerous tropical environment as some of these stories.

Audio Versions

Keith Snyder, composer/writer/filmmaker extraordinaire, has put two of my stories to music. I wish my whole life had such a terrific soundtrack!

The Stories

The Butterfly
"...we'd come to Kenya for adventure."

"...we'd come to Kenya for adventure."

The Cocoa Exchange
A rooftop park in the City's Financial District...

A rooftop park in the City's Financial District...

The End of the World
New York to Africa on a rusted lightship.

New York to Africa on a rusted lightship.

Floater
Welcome to New York.

Welcome to New York.

Lost
The key to the past.

The key to the past.

The Choice
Justice in Uganda.

Justice in Uganda.

That Night
A visit to the Hotel Chiromo.

A visit to the Hotel Chiromo.

The Haunted John
What was lurking in there-and where was it hiding?

What was lurking in there-and where was it hiding?

Mugged
Something lost, something gained.

Something lost, something gained.

Payback
He'd been waiting twenty years...

He'd been waiting twenty years...

Oxbow
A story of first contact.

A story of first contact.

The Kill
Under the vulture's eye....

Under the vulture's eye....

The Village Devil
Spellbound on the road to nowhere.

Spellbound on the road to nowhere.
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