by Piper Bayard | Oct 10, 2014 | The End is Near. . . .
By Piper Bayard Amsterdam Pays Alcoholics in Beer to Clean Streets Blogs and Articles in No Particular Order: New York Times bestseller and former Green Beret Bob Mayer asks, Why Do You Write? Check out Bob’s latest, ShIT Doesn’t Just...
by Piper Bayard | Oct 6, 2014 | Bayard, Holmes, Movie, No Popcorn, Espionage
By Piper Bayard The Equalizer is a thriller film by Antoine Fuqua in which an ex-CIA operative must defeat the Russian mob to save his friend. Denzel Washington plays Robert McCall, a widower who has left his former life of intelligence fieldwork. He keeps a simple...
by Piper Bayard | Sep 29, 2014 | Foreign Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes This week, ISIS remains a major news item. For the sake of continuity, we will continue referring to them as ISIS, but be aware that, in recent weeks, they have acquired more aliases than the average Brooklyn mob goon. Since their defeat at...
by Piper Bayard | Sep 17, 2014 | Amusing Ourselves and Hopefully You
By Piper Bayard It began as an innocent, good willed attempt at providing supper for my family. Ground bison. Presumably completely dead and with no ill intentions toward me, my hair, or my kitchen. I cooked it up around 1:00 p.m. and pushed the pot to the back...
by Piper Bayard | Sep 11, 2014 | Life and Death
By Piper Bayard Thirteen years ago today, a generation of little boys and girls learned that there are evil people in this world whose only desire is to kill everyone they cannot control. Even as children, it ignited a passion in them to protect the innocents. Those...
by Piper Bayard | Sep 8, 2014 | Book Reviews
By Piper Bayard In BECOMING JOSEPHINE, Heather Webb eloquently traces the transformation of Rose Tascher, carefree Caribbean island girl, to Empress Josephine, wife of the most powerful man of her century—Napoléon Bonaparte. Rose Tascher is a daydreaming...
by Piper Bayard | Aug 31, 2014 | Espionage
Bayard & Holmes ~ Piper Bayard The November Man is an espionage movie in which an ex-CIA operative is brought back by the Company for a personal mission in Moscow, only to find himself pitted against his protégé. It is a fast action thriller starring...
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