David Cudlip: 5 books

The debt-ridden U.S. is floundering.A near desperate President calls upon the Shang-Magan, a centuries-old group of five world-class traders for help. Joost VanSlyke, a Dutchman, and the head of the Magans decides that any possibility for a real fix depends on sacrificing the young American, Rushton...

STORY NOTES – Vol. IIThe call from Jaggy Muldaur to Dominic Dillon, interrupting his idyll with Shandar Bazak in Southern France, was a fiendish, grimy trick. She’d used their infant son’s illnesses as a ploy to play Dillon like a fiddle. He fell for the ruse…Jaggy Muldaur, abetted...

Dillon is under house arrest in Monte Carlo. But that arch-magician, Augustin deMehlo, is about to re-roll Dillon’s dice. But what about the Swiss, who’ve heisted billions from The Muldaur Trust—of which Dillon is, or was, the sole trustee?Forced to cut a deal with the Mediterranean mafia, he...

A Hollywood courtroom drama evokes the scandal-ridden exposures of Dominic Dunne in his heyday. Here, we have a young, highly acclaimed film actress on trial for allegedly murdering Marc Sterne, the son of a Hollywood mogul.The evidence against Romaine Brook is largely circumstantial, yet is, at times,...

One could say Dominic Dillon is a man blessed to have escaped early life as a Baltimore street ruffian. He knocked up a girl, who dies at the hands of an abortionist. Roundabout, this brings Dillon before a judge, who, with a dash of pity in his heart, sends Dillon into the care of the Jesuits who’re...