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Pothole of the Gods: Holy Wars, Proxy Wars & Fake News
“Strange, insightful and utterly hilarious”
Richard Murff travels through Iraq, Istanbul and Benghazi to unravel a dismal history of religion, geopolitics and global markets...So you don’t have to.
Updated and Revised – because the world is still going to hell
You'd be forgiven for wondering why, exactly, the Islamic Republic of Iran hates American with such unhinged zeal...
Nonfiction
Drunk as Lords: The World in its Cups
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.
Fiction
Earlier works from when I thought it was terribly clever write comic novels. They are good, but please, if you are thinking of writing novels, or know someone who is thinking about writing a novel - please seek help.
Haint Punch
A Novel
Deke Kipling is floundering in click-bait journalism for something called Smut Butter. Now the target of the right-wing Ballyhoo boys, he's also been declared persona non grata by the radical feminist Ovarian Liberation Army. It's a romp through cancel culture with everyone howling for social justice, and Deke's head. may be out of a job.
One Last Hour
A Novel
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, career in tatters and faced with a hard question: how to keep the party going for One Last Hour?
Yellowcake
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.