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Books by
Richard Murff
World War III Has Started... Dress Accordingly
​From a hospital in Kharkov, Richard Murff saw first-hand the strange divide in Ukraine as Russia expanded its mission to bend Europe to its will. The great power competitors are now on the move, with the “axis of chaos” tearing at the post-World War II order. Murff uses his trademark wit and style to put the global crisis into context, how we got here, where this train wreck is going.
Coming in Fall 2024
Pothole of the Gods:
On Holy War, Fake News & Other Ill-Advised Ideas
An ill-advised, but hilarious ramble through the histories and modern streets of Iraq, Istanbul and Benghazi. Attached to a marauding humanitarian medical mission, Murff unravels a dismal record of foreign policy misadventures from Cyrus the Great, the epic clash of Persia and Greece, the glory that was Rome, the Crusades, America's New World Order, to Iran's attempts to trigger an apocalypse sometime next year.
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Revised and updated for the new paperback edition
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Drunk as Lords:
The World in its Cups
2022
We’ve always been soaks and boozers, convinced that a magic elixir would make us taller, charming and just a little less gross. Then we hard wired that bad idea into society.
From drunk monkeys descending from the trees, the awful wine of the ancients, booze fueled revolutions, Murff follows the history, science and lore and gets force fed vodka in Ukraine to tell the story of civilization… and distillation.
One Last Hour
A Novel
2008
Go to Memphis and be a Bond Daddy. For a generation of Southern boys, it was a mantra, a way to make more money that their fathers ever could. For Billy Pitt, it was the answer to all his prayers. Six years and 60 million in sub-prime debt later, Billy Pitt is divorced, suffering an unrequited love for Melissa Lee, his career is in jeopardy and his soul is condemned to hell for all eternity. Billy Pitt is faced with a hard question: how to keep the party going for One Last Hour?
Haint Punch
202o
A Novel
Deke Kipling is floundering in click-bait journalism for something called Smut Butter. Once the target of the right-wing Ballyhoo boys, #damndeke has now been declared persona non grata by the radical feminist Ovarian Liberation Army. With both sides screaming for social justice, and his head, Deke may be out of a job. And a pulse.
Yellowcake
A Novel
2007
An ex-KGB quartermaster is sitting on bunker of forgotten uranium in the Cuban mountains. The beautiful but forgettable Ugly Sue has one mission: to stop him before he can unload it. Archie Gilmur is about to discover that a Chinese Telecomm giant isn't buying up the Panama to bring folks together.