I'm Not 'mr. No-by-the-book.' I Just Want

Action And Adventure On Land And Sea-you Can't Ask For More. But Robert Kurson Raises The Ante In Pirate Hunters With An Array Of Mystery And A Fleet Of Colorful Characters Spanning Four Centuries. This Is A Great Summer Read!

A Newspaper Is The Center Of A Community, It's One Of The Tent Poles Of The Community, And That's Not Going To Be Replaced By Web Sites And Blogs.

Now I'm Writing About Contemporary Los Angeles From Memory. My Process Was To Hang Out, Observe, Research What I Was Writing About, And Almost Immediately Go Back To My Office And Write Those Sections. So It Was A Very Close Transfer Between Observation And Writing.

Los Angeles Was The Kind Of Place Where Everybody Was From Somewhere Else And Nobody Really Droppped Anchor. It Was A Transient Place. People Drawn By The Dream, People Running From The Nightmare. Twelve Million People And All Of Them Ready To Make A Break For It If Necessary. Figuratively, Literally, Metaphorically -- Any Way You Want To Look At It -- Everbody In L.a. Keeps A Bag Packed. Just In Case.

I Think There's A General Misconception That Anything Written Quickly Lacks Quality, And I Don't Believe That.