Novels and books by herb schultz

Ronnie and Lennie, the central characters of Herb Schultz’s first novel,  are identical twins fused in the womb who join a world that is  unprepared to separate them.  Seemingly chained for life in a rural backwater of North Carolina,  Ronnie and Lennie unexpectedly break free, but life apart is not all  it’s cracked up to be. Serious trouble descends upon our heroes, and  they find themselves prisoners of another kind. A case of chronic  adjustment disorder compels the twins to drastic action. 

 All Gerald Pfalzgraf wanted was to be adored. That, and to possess all  of his wife Morcilla’s vast fortune. Was that too much to ask for?  

Guided by Machiavelli, his childhood hero, Gerald wields the tools of  deception, manipulation and opportunism; he knows that a man who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.

Architect’s Rendition tells the  story of an amoral man who tries to secure the life he always wanted to  live by cutting a swath through a cast of misfit characters − the kind  who allow themselves to be deceived.

Tracy Shepard an expert in the art of negotiation,  highly compensated by parties from all over the world locked in disagreement,  burning cash on futile litigation, seeking another way out. Tracy helps the owners of a small pharmaceutical lab resolve a difference between  them holding up progress on a breakthrough drug meant to cure an insidious  eye disease that afflicts thousands of people, including her father.

Double Blind Test is a brisk story of deceit, connivance, despair, romance and sweet lex talionis.

 Sometimes the Sun Does Shine There and Other Stories is a collection  of five twisted tales of deceit, despair, decadence, derision and  revenge.

The anchor story presents Larry, a stooper who picks up discarded  tickets at the Off-Track Betting parlor hoping to find a winner among  the detritus.  A bizarre turn of events puts Larry in a position to rise up from the OTB floor and recover his dignity. The other stories involve a grocery store robbery that exposes a  fiend, a screenwriter on a mission who instead meets a minor character  from a major motion picture, a bratty bond trader who tries to mend a  fractured relationship with his upstairs neighbor. and two scientists who invent a device that scrambles their futures.  

Avarice, deceit, connivance and revenge – such vile human traits - nd the stuff of so many entertaining Hollywood movies. Here are two screenplays that fit the bill.

 Logline of the first screenplay: Determined to marry his mistress, a Machiavellian architect  enlists three associates in a complex scheme to murder his wife – and  each other. Logline of the second: After a professional mediator is conned by  identical twin businessmen who sought her help to resolve a dispute, she  meets another woman in a suspiciously similar circumstance, and the two  team up to take down the con artists.  

 Culture is represented in many forms: art, music, architecture,  books, movies, television, advertising, business, fashion, cuisine,  sports, technology. Even politics, and especially death. And all of it  deserves scrutiny – justly, of course. This eclectic collection of more  than 250 essays justly scrutinizes culture over six years beginning in  2012. Some of it virtuous, lots of it venal.

With its diverse content of bite-sized essays, Culture Justly Scrutinized is the perfect book for the bedside table, or the rack next to the toilet.