Romy Cadman is the wildcard. She's being backed by an unknown organization with deep resources that is intent on stopping SimGen from producing more "product". Romy finds Patrick Sullivan and show's him what the ugly side of life looks like for these SIMs. Patrick has some soul searching to do. Was it really about the SIMs or just the fame and possible fortune that would come from taking such a high profile case?

This is the second novella in what F. Paul Wilson said in his first book, would probably be 5 or more installments. This is a fine follow up to La Causa, that opens up the plot even more and starts new thread lines. Unfortunately, for any reader who might just run across this book, it is not a self-contained book. It just picks up where La Causa left off. There is no recap of events and a new reader would be pretty lost. Judging by the first two books, this series could be one large book that was just chopped up into bite-sized pieces, to make a series of chapbooks. I would suggest to anyone to try and buy, borrow, beg, or steal La Causa to enjoy the full impact of this great story.

As with La Causa, The Portero Method is only available as a signed limited edition through Cemetery Dance Publications. The print run was only 750 copies. There is no indication that all future installments will be any different. So, grab one while you can.

SimGen is the largest company in the world. How did they get there? They market genetically altered chimpanzees called SIMS. SimGen has found the genes that will allow these SIMS: limited speech, be larger in size, not reproduce, and yet be docile enough to work. SimGen leases their "product" to business throughout the world as cheap but efficient labor.

Not being happy with their fate, a group of SIMS has enlisted the aid of a lawyer named Patrick Sullivan to help them form a union. Could this be the start of the downfall of the giant corporation known as SimGen?

In Wilson's forward, he states that this is the first novella in what will probably comprise 5 or more books. Though not groundbreaking, this first novella sets the groundwork for what looks to be a solid series.

Currently, this book is only available as a signed limited edition through Cemetery Dance Publications. The print run was only 750 copies. So, if you can find one, snatch it up. There aren't many to go around. Future installments will likewise be the same. Hopefully in the future, there will be a mass-market paperback version so that a larger number of people could enjoy this book.

This book original Title "Sechzig Upanischad's des Veda", is of questionable value in English as it is a translation (from German to English) by V.M. Bedekar and G.B. Palsule of Paul Deussen's 1897 translation (from Sanskrit to German). I have made spot comparisons of this book to both Deussen's translation and to the Sanskrit Texts, and this just doesn't work out well, because it is twice removed from the Sanskrit text and the translators are not good enough as translators. The commentary is however is most useful. Unfortunately this is the only book in print that contains translations of some of the Yoga Upanishads, Sannyasa Upanishads, Siva Upanishads, Visnu Upanishads and others. It is possible to use this book for reading, but not for scholarly purposes. For just the so-called "Principal" Upanishads seek out Radhakrishnan and Hume instead. (See my reviews)

Trennt is a courier for what's left of the U.S. government, a hard man in a hard world, made bitter and cynical by the death of his wife. He has a sterling record of getting through roving packs of ruthless looters, traps set by hijackers, and mobs made desperate by starvation. Mow he has to reach a secret project in Wyoming and bring back a breakthrough discovery that can restore the U.S.A.-but what he doesn't know is that someone in the government plans to terminate the project and its personnel.

Trennt has to get the project files back to Washington in spite of a sabotaged aircraft and agents sent to eliminate him and his charges. But Trennt has never failed to get the job done before. And anyone who gets in his way is not likely to live to regret the encounter....

The nine chapters are as follows (the descriptions are my wording, not the actual chapter titles): (1) Early NYC buildings (such as Singer Building, Times Tower), (2) Chicago skyscrapers up to 1905, (3) Flatiron and Woolworth Buildings, (4) buildings from 1917-1931, (5) The Chanin, Chrysler, and Empire State Buildings, (6) the 1930s, (7) modernism in the 1950s, (8) late modernism, especially projects emphasizing open plazas (such as the World Trade Center), (9) postmodernist projects that were on the drawing board as the book was being written (such as Battery Park City).