Bøker av Mike Slosberg

Mike Slosberg proves that humor is the only defense against aging. Whether you are under 40 or pushing the far side of 80, PIMP MY WALKER will make you laugh, and that's a good thing.

Mike's characters are so finely etched they defy description. Settle into a favorite easy chair to find out what overpowering secret drives the August Strangers to the brink.

"In Slosberg's ... third novel, a ruthless lawyer, a New York City detective and a vengeful sister collide in the wrenching world of black market adoptions...the intricate plotting throws in...gut-wrenching surprises and leads to a solid ending that lives up to its title. A thriller that refreshingly addresses tough issues..." -Kirkus ReviewsThe expose/advocacy novel has a long and successful history in bringing to the world's attention the cruelty of entrenched injustice. Mike Slosberg's
A BABY TO DIE FOR fits squarely into that tradition. What Upton Sinclair did
 for the meat slaughtering industry in his novel, THE JUNGLE, and Harriet Beecher Stowe did to indict slavery in UNCLE TOM'S CABIN...A BABY TO DIE FOR takes on the horrors of the black market adoption racket....It has been a while since we heard from a novelist with the skill and knowledge to...[produce] a thriller that gets to the heart of the subject and calls our attention to the duplicity, horror and heartbreak that ensue when evil perpetrators exploit the natural human yearning for offspring.-Warren Adler, Author of "War of the Roses"Start reading early or this novel will keep you up all night! Slosberg's thriller plunges the reader into the world of barren couples desperate for a child and the predators who exploit them....With taut writing and colorful characters, he plays with our emotions by depicting the...innocent young women coerced into...birthing babies to be sold off to the highest bidder, and the lawyers and middlemen who profit from them.-Gail Sheehy, author of "Passages"Mike Slosberg's novel is a modern juggernaut. So clearly written with pace and intensity, bathed in a compassionate liquid that is the most primal of our humanity: procreation and the next best thing, adoption-at any cost.-Steve Guttenberg, Actor, Writer, Humanitarian

In this short story collection, Mike's particular creative lens creates hilarious twists and turns that elicit surprise and loud guffaws when the reader comes to them.

1944, Nazi GermanyThe war is in its final hours. Three high-ranking Nazi officers, using secret orders from the desk of Herman Goering, execute a plan to purloin a fortune in confiscated diamonds.Decades later, in a sleepy village near West Palm Beach, Florida, Moe Green, a retired octogenarian, seeks to determine the value of a German postage stamp he acquired during the war, given to him by a grateful young Holocaust survivor.But when the stamp's existence surfaces on the Internet, blood flows.The action moves rapidly from New York to Florida, London, Israel and France as Jake Green, the old man's son, is sucked into the vortex of an international scheme to locate the diamonds. Suddenly, Jake is tangling with an elusive and ruthless assassin, an ex-Nazi general whose real identity has long ago been erased, and a beautiful Israeli spy.

Humor is the alchemy that can magically turn tragedy into comedy. PIMP MY WALKER is a celebration of the cardinal aspects of growing old, softened only with Mike's hilariously appropriate illustrations. Think of it as an owner's manual for aging with humor, whether you are this or that side of 40 or are simply limping to the far side of eighty---It will keep you feeling youthful and it is good for the digestion and low in cholesterol.

What happens when a couple desperately wants a baby butthings don't go exactly as planned? They can always adopt, right?That overwhelming and elemental desire-to have a child-leads Tuck and Ellen Handler down a path that at first appears tobe clearly marked. But the consequences they encounter quickly turn deadly.A BABY TO DIE FOR follows Tuck Handler's unyieldingdetermination to expose the sordid side of the adoption trade-from a ruthless Network of money-driven black market babybrokers, to underground slave auctions in the Middle East.After reading Slosberg's gripping page-turner you will neveragain view the idealistic and hopeful process of adoption in quitethe same light.

1944, Nazi GermanyThe war is in its final hours. Three high-ranking Nazi officers, using secret orders from the desk of Herman Goering, execute a plan to purloin a fortune in confiscated diamonds.Decades later, in a sleepy village near West Palm Beach, Florida, Moe Green, a retired octogenarian, seeks to determine the value of a German postage stamp he acquired during the war, given to him by a grateful young Holocaust survivor.But when the stamp's existence srufaces on the Internet, blood flows.The action moves rapidly from New York to Florida, London, Israel and France as Jake Green, the old man's son, is sucked into the vortex of an international scheme to locate the diamonds. Suddenly, Jake is tangling with an elusive and ruthless assassin, an ex-Nazi general whose real identity has long ago been erased, and a beautiful Israeli spy.