RICHARD, DIANAS FRIEND, HAIR DRESSER AND DISGUISE MASTER

Richard’s Beverly Hills salon was of Moorish style architecture and had once been a Moroccan restaurant. He had chosen this building for a specific reason. Richard was, without a doubt, the worlds greatest fan of the movie Casablanca. He had refurbished the building into an elegant, luxurious beauty salon and spa with decor resembling Rick's Cafe Americain in Casablanca. You entered through giant wooden doors carved to match those in the movie. The waiting room was dimly lit by Moroccan lamps that were hand made of sheep skin stretched around wrought iron frames. Diffuse light shown through fine black lines that artists had punctured in the skin with a needle. A ceiling fan with broad rattan blades rotated slowly overhead. Clients were seated in fan-shaped rattan chairs arranged around tile-inlaid tables and were offered cool drinks while they waited to be called for their treatments. Occasionally Richard hired impersonators to appear at Rick’s as Bogart and Bergman or Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Naturally he named place Ricks Coiffures Americain. Diana Hunter
COMING SOON---NEW DIANA HUNTER THRILLER CORPORATOCRACY RULES

"I backed into someone and turned to apologize. He was a tall, well-dressed man with no hair, a jowly, red face and a rotund body.

"Oh, pardon me."

"Not at all, my dear. Glad you could make it today. So nice to see you again."

Again? He did look vaguely familiar and for just a moment I thought maybe we really had met before.

He shook my hand with practiced ease and rehearsed sincerity, then brushed right past me and went on to the next ever so sincere greeting. As he did, I remembered who he was. It was Senator George B. Simpson, in the flesh. Lots of flesh.

Senator Simpson had been a U.S. senator for over twenty years and had recently resigned under a cloud of federal investigation. His career was bracketed by two major mortgage meltdowns, and he allegedly had unsavory ties to the fraudulent activities of both disasters." Diana Hunter

CORPORATOCRACY RULES

A NEW DIANA HUNTER THRILLER        COMING SOON

Mr. Leonard von Kleimur II---international investment banker

"Standing in the doorway was a short, heavy-set man with straight black hair, a gold-tipped walking stick, and a very expensive dark blue pinstripe suit. He looked first at me and then at Heinrich for an explanation.

My young blond friend’s light complexion blushed red as he hastily explained, "Sir, I have explained to this lady that you are too busy to see her today and . . ."

Von Kleimur held up one hand to his assistant, instantly silencing him. He was a round little man, no more than my height and perhaps an inch shorter. The way he carried himself, however, made it clear that stature had nothing to do with the amount of power he was accustomed to." Diana Hunter   Corporatocracy Rules 

Meet Maude McCallvoy---Diana's new client

"Every year Maude was the largest single contributor to the Republican Party. Her political viewpoint could be summed up by the old comic strip character, General Bullmoose, in Lil Abner. "Whats good for General Bullmoose is good for the USA." Her hero was Ronny Reagan and his trickle-down economics. Her friends were those who wield the power within corporations, banks, and government offices. In short, Maude was a member in good standing of that shadow-power behind the curtain, those I had come to call our ruling Corporatocracy. " Diana Hunter, Corporatocracy Rules

Private investigator Diana Hunter is about to learn that in the rarefied world of concentrated wealth and power things are not done by law but by Corporatocracy Rules.

What are the Corporatocracy Rules

Where is the Corporatocracy?