Drone Strike Reading and Signing
Drone Strike Reading and Signing:
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Italian American Writers Association
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September 14th, Saturday, 2.00-4.00 p.m. Mulberry Street Public Library, Manhattan,10 Jersey Street, corner of Mulberry and Prince Streets.
PRIMO Magazine Author Interview – Drone Strike, an Anthony Provati Thriller
Your new novel Drone Strike takes readers deep into the workings of Islamic terrorism. What new insight about the Middle East will the readers gain from Drone Strike? Black market sale of oil and refined products were an important financial source for the Islamic State in the Levant, and Karim worked as a drilling…
PRIMO Magazine Review of Drone Strike
A great thriller rises on the shoulders of its main character. He must carry the novel by being clever, worldly, and above all else, likable. These are the attributes of Anthony Provati, the 34-year-old Italian American protagonist in Joe Giordano’s excellent new novel – Drone Strike. Fans of the author know Anthony Provati well. Giordano…
Drone Strike, An Anthony Provati Thriller – Book Reviews
“Drone Strike is intense, full of emotion, raw, painful and touches on the human perspective of conflict. This is an intense but thrilling novel from start to finish. It builds up dramatically and leaves you not wanting to put the book down. There are so many tiny pieces woven into this story and this adds…
Drone Strike ‘Novel Night’ at Malvern Books
At 7.00 p.m. on Thursday, May 9th, I will be reading Drone Strike, An Anthony Provati Thriller at Malvern Books, 613 W. 29th Street, Austin, TX.
New York to Correct Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge Misspelling
After fifty-four years, the misspelling of Italian explorer, Giovanni da Verrazzano’s name will be corrected on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge spanning Staten Island and Brooklyn through legislation signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo. Following Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the new world and the return of the Magellan expedition after circumnavigating the globe, Verrazzano was commissioned by the…
The 1911 Dillingham Immigration Commission Report
In 1911, the Dillingham Commission, consisting of bipartisan, U.S. House of Representatives and Senate members, produced a forty-one-volume report on immigration in the Unites States warning that the influx from Southern (overwhelmingly Italians) and Eastern Europe threatened America’s way of life and should be drastically reduced. The Commission’s conclusions provided the bases for immigration quota…
Christopher Columbus: Entrepreneur
Like a modern entrepreneur, fifteenth-century explorer, Christopher Columbus, raised capital for an expedition to discover a western passage to Asia. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 placed control of the land routes to the lucrative Asian spice trade in Ottoman-Turk hands. Columbus first proposed the Atlantic Ocean route to Joao II of Portugal in 1485.…
Brennan Burnside’s Review of Appointment with ISIL
The World is a City. Joe Giordano’s literary thriller Appointment With ISIL balances considerations of genre (characterization, pacing, mood) with a subtle but definite awareness of literary form and function. Much like his debut novel Birds of Passage, Giordano shows a penchant for sharp scenes, concise dialogue that has the bite of a Dick…
Author Interview with “Write-by-Night’s” David Duhr
Q1: Can you give us some background on your career as a writer? How you got started, how long you’ve been at it, a bit about your publishing history? A1: One of the positions I held before I became a writer, was to run a business in Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa…