The Discovery of Blackbeard Island, and stories of Carrie, Sandy, Percy, Amadou, George, Derek, Scotty, and Diana

This is a small book with some thirty photographs, some beautiful, some grim. The book especially remembers and memorializes two Aiken, SC, law enforcement officers who were shot to death while doing their duty. The two died, a decade ago, from bullets to their heads. Their abrupt, unexpected deaths (and other like deaths) have placed the temper of police and policing on a short fuse.

A second theme is to analyze the post-mortems on George Floyd, to see what evidence they offer for his caus...