Paul W Silver: 5 books

Trying to deal with the end of his career, pitcher Catbird Fisher meets the ghost of his fallen father.

"Seafaring pays you $3000 a month," asked red-bearded Larry, manager of the day shift, "and you want to be a cab driver?" Larry looked intensely between my application form and me, as if suspecting I was from another world. "I want to explore this experiment called civilization,"...

“I will be marketing synthetic beef in less than a year,” I told my brother, Kenneth Hunter Wolff. I expected my announcement to surprise him at least as much as had my sudden arrival. I was trembling with excitement. But Ken just nodded, inserting a mother-of-pearl fountain pen into the pocket...

Alfred Arie must tiptoe through through a minefield as he attempts to woo Jane Mayo away from murderous Dick Bain.

"Typhoon," "earthquake," "explosion," "upheaval," are words connoting waste and destruction, to be sure. But remember there is a creative aspect to catastrophe which sweeps away the old and prepares the way for the new. Be that as it may, in describing the presidency...