Arthur Herzog Books In Order

Make Us Happy

A thousand years in the future, society is run by computers, with not a gesture or activity unnoticed by their all seeing detectors. Spacescrapers three miles high, 1,000 stories, 1,000 people per floor house 1,000,000 people. The divorce rate having climbed to 100 percent, the computers have made marriage almost illegal but adultery compulsory, with a resultant zero divorce rate. In this setting, Bil and Alce meet, marry, and, their sense of history whetted by a few old books and photos, decide to rebel. They set out to find the central computer bank and pull the plug. Captured and imprisoned on a Floating Island where the computers put criminals to get their just desserts, Bil and Alce escape. Their odyssey is gripping suspense and wonderful entertainment, with an ingenious depiction of man vs. machine.

Glad to Be Here

Returning in triumph to New York City to announce their victory, the revolutionaries, Bil and Alce, the very, very old Ralp Nadir and the very, very sexy Dian Toffler, find that no one has noticed the revolution, and no one cares. Everyone just wants to keep on jogging, safe and secure and uninvolved. Finally, the message of freedom breaks through the nearly fatal apathy of the people, and the painful, stumbling process of reinstituting democracy begins, with Bil as the new President. Then suddenly, it’s all a flashback to the twentieth century, as Bil attempts to revive such great American classics as marriage, fashion, pollution, pregnancy, subways and airplanes, and three square meals a day. Meanwhile, dogs demand equal rights, Staten Island threatens secession, and a counter revolutionary group, the Sad To Be Heres, gains momentum. Can you teach a new society all of its old tricks? Can humanity relearn self government and resist the temptation to slip back into the security of computer domination? Will the computers themselves remain unplugged and unnoticed? In the wit and fun of Glad to Be Here, you’ll find some startling and timely answers, and be glad that Arthur Herzog is back with this rip roaring saga of life, love, and lunacy in the thirtieth century.

The Swarm

FAMILY ATTACKED BY BEES TWO KILLED
MARYVILLE, N.Y. Sept. 26 AP A family of five on an outing in an isolated spot by a stream were attacked by bees here.
Mr. and Mrs. William Peterson died as the result of bee bites. Their three children were also attacked, one, Karen, age 12, severely.
The local coroner, Dr. David P. Znac, speculated that both adults had allergies to bee bites, which can be fatal. About 30 deaths a year in the U.S. are attributed to bites from bees, wasps and hornets.
What caused the bees to attack is not known.

This was the beginning, barely noticed. Then the terror began to spread terror that was to erupt into a national panic as the strange, seemingly purposeful murderous attacks of a new and vicious species of bees began to mount. Against this background, a band of scientists draw upon their knowledge to fight an enemy they only partly comprehend in a desperate race against time.

Built around one of man’s most haunting fears that the forces of nature will overrun his defenses and exterminate the human race The Swarm is a vividly imagined masterpiece of chilling adventure.

Earthsound

Your name is Harry Vail and you alone know the terrifying truthor do you?You are an expert on earthquakes and you fear their awesome power to the point of insanity. Now you are sure that an earthquake is building below your very feet. Your house, your family, your friends, your town, are about to be destroyed. The cracks appearing in the wallsthe ‘accidental’ deaths of local peoplethe strange movements of inanimate objectsall increase the certainty of your belief and the urgency of your warnings to those around you. The trouble is, there are others who have another, even more frightening explanation for what is happeningand God help you all if they are right’A piercing shriek of fear and panic from page one to the shaking end!’Cleveland PressEerie suspenseArthur Herzog’s The Swarm was mighty scary, but Earthsound is even more so!’Publishers Weekly

Orca

Orca the killer whale is one of the most intelligent creatures in the universe. He hunts in packs, like a wolf. Incredibly, he is the only animal other than man who kills for revenge. He has one mate, and if she is harmed by man, he will hunt down that person with a relentless, terrible vengeance across seas, across time, across all obstacles.

Heat

With uncanny skill, Arthur Herzog, best selling author of The Swarm and Earthsound has blended fiction and fact into a terrifying and highly plausible story of the near future: a time when tensions mount as ecological doom beckons. Lawrence Pick, engineer, gathers startling evidence that the world’s weather may be rapidly changing, as a prelude to a fundamental alteration in global climate. In a secret underground laboratory, he and a team of equally skilled scientists learn that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, largely due to the overuse of energy, will ascend to the point where no living thing can survive. Pick s predictions become a reality as freakish weather conditions prevail: extraordinary tornados and hurricanes, droughts, violent hailstorms, and windstorms and savage waterspouts. Condition Green is no longer a theory as destruction runs rampant, but still neither the U.S. Government nor the people will listen. Too late, the result of man s indifference is everywhere with only one hope for survival.

IQ83

‘A world lapsing into imbecility true horror!’ New York Times YOU ARE DR. JAMES HEALEY AND LAST WEEK YOU WERE A GENIUS That was before the DNA experiments. Before the accident you said could never happen Since then you have felt your mind decaying a little more each day. You have watched your wife slip into imbecility. You have seen the crowds growing murderous with animal terror, the President of the United States babbling and drooling on TV Only one thing separates you from them. You, at least, know what is happening as you search for the cure for the horror you have unleashed upon the world as each day the dimming of your mind lowers your chance of finding it!

Aries Rising

Philip Castle, newly separated from an adulterous wife and afflicted by middle age doldrums, is a professor at the University of Chicago off to the Caribbean for a relaxing vacation. But life is far from restful. His first day on the island he watches a small plane crash, piloted by a man who looks disturbingly like him. He then meets Marie Celeste a fabulously beautiful and provocative young woman with whom he makes love only to find that she is the mistress of the powerful and mysterious Count Raymond de Vaucresson, who with three colleagues has made a fortune in drug running, arms smuggling and gambling. He may even be a murderer. They seem ruled by astrology, and have the persuasive charm and lan of the super rich, so even though he knows they are evil and dangerous, Castle, deeply in love, agrees to board their yacht, the Zodiac, on a trip around the Caribbean. The voyage gives the illusion of the swankiest of pleasure cruises, but the reality is one of danger, crime, and sexual depravity. When Philip discovers their real mission, he vows to stop them, but hasn’t the slightest idea how to do it and the answer doesn’t lie in the stars.

The Craving

IT WAS THE ANSWER TO A MILLION PRAYERS…
It was the miracle everyone had waited for: Sovwrenincredibly nutritious, indescribably delicious. Millions of Americans went for it, lived on it, lost weight on itbecame the slim, lithe creatures of their most glamorous dreams. They tasted happinessuntil an appetite for something more began to stir. Small at first, it grew and became a hunger nothing could satisfy. And then they were swept into the deadly nightmare of obsessiontrapped in the ravenous jaws ofTHECRAVING

L*S*I*T*T

A marvelously authentic novel of startling dimension that transforms the headlines of corporate wars and takeovers into the flesh and blood behind the scenes manipulations of a conglomerate head who begins a distinctly unfriendly corporate merger with an unwilling female C.E.O. In the world of ‘white knights,’ arbitrageur middlemen playing both sides against the middle, of self serving corporate lawyers and carnivorous investment bankers, Steve Berg, armed with the inelegant but accurate rallying slogan ‘Let’s stick it to them’ L S I T T, directs his unsolicited corporate affections upon Leslie Royal, a proud, decent and tough in her own fashion young woman struggling to protect the independence of her family’s pharmaceutical company. Her company’s new product the first, reliable FDA approved aphrodisiac, is the lure that sets off the struggle; at stake are millions of dollars and a proud reputation; and at the core are wondrously human passions, including, in the end, the oldest one possible between a man and a woman.

The Woodchipper Murder

Even though the Newtown, Connecticut, police listed Helle Crafts’ disappearance as a routine missing person case, Keith Mayo, a private investigator, knew the Danish born mother of three hadn’t skipped town nine days before Thanksgiving.. Rita Buonanno remembers the words exactly: ‘ If anything happens to me don’t think it was an accident.’ Helle Crafts was last seen on November 18, 1986. In the style of a brilliant detective novel, Arthur Herzog skillfully re creates the hour by hour circumstantial details that inform this grisly true crime narrative. We observe dispassionate Richard Crafts as he buys a truck with a pintle hook for towing heavy equipment, promised for delivery before November 18. A day later he reserves a Badger Brush Bandit woodchipper.

The War-peace Establishment

There has come to exist in the United States, as a result of the cold war, a body of specialists accustomed to dealing with issues of war and peace which may be described as a war peace establishment. It is clear that there are important divisions of viewpoint in the United States, especially among those who have concerned themselves most with it, on the question of what to do about the threat of thermonuclear war. To some, risks must not be run; to others, great risks must be taken; and to still others, we have reached the point of absurdity either way. What gives urgency to the debates, then, is not only the seriousness of the present situation, but also the question of how to avoid the cold war’s recurrence. It may be that a cold warless world will require that we reshape a host of notions concerning war, peace, and the future.

Imortalon

Enjoy everlasting youth with Imortalon It was possibly the discovery of a lifetime: a drug that would reverse the effects of aging, seemingly indefinitely. The tests were all positive, first on rats, then monkeys and other large animals, and finally, on humans. It was a dream come true, the promise of a healthy, happy life, with all the benefits of the young, including energy, vitality, and sex drive, for 200 years or more. Tens of millions clamored to be among the first to take the drug. The FDA approved the drug in record time. Unfortunately that was before anyone found out about the headaches, the uncontrollable rage, and the suicides…
the dream became a nightmare!

God Bless the Child

‘Mama may have, Papa may have, But God Bless the Child That’s got his own! That’s got his own.’ The song ‘God Bless the Child‘ was first performed by legendary jazz vocalist Billie Holiday in 1939 and remains one of her enduring masterpieces. In this picture book interpretation, renowned illustrator Jerry Pinkney has created images of a family moving from the rural South to the urban North during the Great Migration that reached its peak in the 1930s. The song’s message of self reliance still speaks to us today but resonates even stronger in its historical context. This extraordinary book stands as a tribute to all those who dared so much to get their own. A free CD of Billie Holiday’s timeless recording of ‘God Bless the Child‘ is included to enjoy along with the book.

Icetopia

Col. Joseph Pike was planning for his early retirement from the Army Corps of Engineers. He had the bungalow in the Caribbean picked out, and all that was left was to put in his notice, make the down payment, and pack his bags. Then he was called in for one last assignment. An Army encampment from the late 1960’s, a city built under the ice of a glacier in Greenland, was originally designed to be a one year experiment, using volunteers to inhabit the facility to see if life under the ice was possible. Thirty years later, a man is found frozen to death on the top of the glacier, and the Army decides to go looking for their facility. Col. Pike is sent to search for Camp Century, the city under the ice, and finds more than even the Army expected.

A Murder in Our Town

In Salisbury, Connecticut, the lavish weekend homes of wealthy New Yorkers stand only a short distance from the dilapidated houses of the local working class, known as the raggies . But this seemingly calm and pastoral community has a sordid, evil underbelly.

Feeling oppressed by their economic and social status, the three Duntz brothers seek revenge on the wealthy upper class, and historical Salisbury becomes their target. The brothers set fire to the Salisbury town hall, a 235 year old symbol of the town’s proud heritage. But when Earl Morey confesses to seeing one of the brothers commit the crime, he is found shot to death one early October morning. Driven to bring the murderer to justice, Lieutenant James Hiltz launches the largest, most complex investigation in the history of the Connecticut State Police. But the rich are apathetic and the poor fear retribution from the Duntzes, who hamper law enforcement s efforts to capture Morey s killer and further entrench the division between rich and poor.

A gripping true crime tale, A Murder in Our Town reveals the curious juxtaposition of the privileged and poor in small town America.

Polar Swap

Four Americans seek refuge from skin cancer which has become an epidemic in the US. They meet in Canada where one has rented a gothic house close to the Eskimo village which add to the trouble. They fear the earths magnetic poles will trade places and exterminate the human race. They try experiments that simulate a magnetic pole reversal. Then the Polar Swap actually happens. Will these engaging characters survive?

Arthur Herzog’s Body Parts

From imagination to materialism, the provocative stories in Body Parts cover the bases. Can brains survive without bodies? Will the love modem result in romance or homicide? Should a loose tongue reveal its secrets? Would a guru who brings bliss be killed by the government?

What’s to stop pigs being raised to provide artificial hearts from revolting? Could a rowing machine be used to commit murder? What happens when a fat woman sits on a lap dog and kills it?

What s wrong with kidneys from Texas? Can feet lead a brave woman to find her way through a computer?

These stories include science fiction and horror. They ll stretch your imagination, yet remind you of reality. They ll make you laugh or scream or both.

Beyond Sci-Fi

Beyond Sci Fi includes a collection of short stories and novella. The Ark of Arrogance is the story of refugees living on an ark as means of survival due to a massive flood on Long Island. Escaping on the ark doesn t provide safety, but instead brings catastrophic results, including mayhem, martial law, looting and murder. Other stories in the collection include jealous tennis rivals and a group of bloggers who all die mysteriously. The characters in each story are unusual, their circumstances unique.

McCarthy for President

McCarthy for President: the words recall an endeavor both brash and quixotic, unpredicted and unpredictable, a political campaign of permanent interest to voters and historians alike. Even in defeat the McCarthy movement racked up considerable success: the dramatic toppling of the President, pressure to initiate the Paris peace talks, the political involvement of most of the young generation, and a massive re examination of the Democratic Party. Arthur Herzog’s account is no mere chronicle, and his vivid writing captures all the color and spirit which imbued the ‘Children’s Crusade’ from its first startling success in New Hampshire to the chaos and agony of the Chicago anticlimax. Much of what seemed destined to remain unknown about this unprecedented and erratic campaign is brought to life in McCarthy for President, the first authoritative account of a movement that began, in McCarthy’s own words, ‘to give the system a test.’

The B. S. Factor

Fakery and hypocrisy in American communications are the subjects of this outspoken and hilarious book. Uncovering our thought pollution problem for perhaps the first time, Arthur Herzog exposes Executalk ‘name of the game’ for ‘point’ or ‘purpose,’ ‘ball park estimate’ for ‘rough guess’, Quote Facts opinions made to seem like facts by virtue of being quoted, and Complex Complex the compulsion to make things more complicated than they need to be, to mention only a few of the current crimes against logic and language. The perpetrators of these atrocities include Fadthinkers, Word Mincers, Sci Speakers, Copy Cant ers, and Anything Authorities, those who, having succeeded in one field, appear on TV talk shows as experts on everything else. Without the B.S. Factor, success in America is almost impossible, says Herzog, and he goes on to call for a new breed of ‘radical skeptics’ to clear away the B.S. that is now engulfing our country. ‘An entertaining and witty attack.’ Publishers Weekly ‘Mr. Herzog has diagnosed the sickness brilliantly.’ The New York Times Book Review

17 Days

On December 28, 1992, two days before her tenth birthday, Katie Beers disappeared. She had left for an outing with a close family friend, John Esposito, and her whereabouts remained mysterious as the year drew to a close and her family grew frantic, fearing the worst. On January 13th, Katie was found alive in a secret, dungeon like vault beneath Espositos Bay Shore, Long Island house. Families nationwide followed the story of Katies heartwrenching ordeal, as she bravely survived the isolation until her nearly miraculous rescue from a setting reminiscent of The Silence of The Lambs. Katies harrowing story reveals a chilling side of human nature, even in the seemingly peaceful suburbs. And her fate as the smiling survivor of a troubled family raises disturbing questions about the plight of children across America: children like Katie, whose trust can be so easily betrayed.

Vesco

Today’s high flying, high rolling conglomarateurs and corporate raiders are a tame lot compared to their immediate predecessors. The most notorious of these is Robert Vesco, the Kingfish himself, who in 1973 fled the United States accused of looting $250 million from Investors Overseas Services. Now, in this riveting account, noted author Arthur Herzog tells the astounding story of this high school dropout from Detroit, who parlayed cunning, ambition, a brilliant mind, and above all, other people’s gullibility and money into a vast financial empire. Vesco‘s was a different kind of white collar crime. Indeed, there are many today who think he is not a criminal at all just a victim of the SEC ‘See Everything Crooked’. Working narrowly within the system, Vesco joined together smaller companies to form ever larger ones; then, driving up the price of stocks, he attracted investors by the thousands worldwide. When, at last, the dream fell apart, he got out before being thrown in jail. What followed was a desperate escape and an equally desperate chase by the FBI, CIA, and SEC to the Bahamas, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and finally Havana, Cuba, where Vesco now lives under the protection of Fidel Castro.

How to Write Almost Anything Better and Faster

Would you like to improve your writing skills and become the writer you know you should be? Are you simply frustrated with your own writing, knowing deep inside you could be, and should be, producing much better work? Does the fear of writing, or perceived lack of ability, cause you to break into a cold sweat when you have been assigned a project due in a few days? Do you want to become a professional writer? If your answers to any of these questions is YES, then you need to read How to Write Almost Anything Better and Faster!

The Church Trap

Churches today are caught in a sociological trap. Parishioners want to keep comfortable status quo organization. Churchmen feel the pressure to modernize, to ‘get where the action is.’ This book is a provocative and zesty analysis of the problem. Dishonest to God? The churches have followed corporations in emphasizing fat figures and solid annual growth. If religion were sold like stocks you would have the ‘high fliers’ like the booming Southern Baptists and the Roman Catholics, the ‘blue chip’ denominations Episcopalians, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians and then those with small growth potential like the Jews. The ‘sick’ clergy. Most clergymen of the various faiths, needless to say, are not alcoholic or homosexual. On the other hand enough clergymen have these problems to cause concern, and beyond the slippery labels of neuroses there are enough inward tortured people in the clergy to make church authorities wonder what in heaven is wrong. The future. One of the basic models for churchly change is ecumenism, but although ecumenism may look good on the drawing board, it has some very formidable hurdles before it . There is no sign in the heavens that the organized religion in America will be granted a resurrection.