VICTIMS
VICTIMS: Signed hardcover editions now available.
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Recent headlines have thrust the question of “Whose life, is it anyway?” to the forefront of our national consciousness. Working in a cancer unit and serving on a committee that struggled to draw up guide-lines about termination of care, I was exposed to the issue decades ago. I propose no facile solutions. [...]
A good deal of this book is set in a state hospital for the criminally insane. I spent some time in a state hospital for the criminally insane – doing research, not as a patient. The deal was I was allowed entry if I agreed to lecture on writing to a group [...]
The image came to me late at night: a faceless medical building in an obscure section of Beverly Hills, comings and goings suggestive of macabre secrets. Toss in political correctness gone creepily wrong, the smarmiest side of academia, organized and disorganized crime, and Delaware at his sharpest. The story is catalyzed by [...]
Readers who love THE BUTCHER’S THEATER often ask me if I’ll ever set another novel in Israel. Probably not; I’ve said what I wanted to say about Jerusalem. However, nearly a decade after introducing Daniel Sharavi, I did find myself missing him. It sounds trite but when one constructs a novel, the [...]
In 1995 I felt the urge to get Alex out of L.A. and I itched to see how he’d do without Milo. Looking back, I’m wondering if my motivation might’ve stemmed from becoming a father for the fourth time at age 43, in ’92, and realizing it was going to be a [...]
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FLESH AND BLOOD
This may be the quintessential Delaware novel, very much in the tradition of the Southern California hardboiled master I admire most – Ross McDonald. L.A. highs and lows, the skin trade, fabulous wealth, shattered intimacy. The past coming back to haunt those who dare ignore it. From time to time, former patients [...]