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Richard Ide

Richard Ide is a writer of realistic, action-adventure and romantic-suspense fiction. On May 26th, 2008, Button Top Books released 3 ACES, his first published work. Now available on http://Amazon.com or by special order (ISBN: 978-0-615-15821-1) in bookstores. For more information on Richard and 3 Aces, visit: http://www.3acesthenovel.com.

 Articles by this Author

Wake Up, America!

Let's get real Forget all the Gobbledegook about foreign oil fields peaking and the rapid increase in worldwide consumption… 1

Trucking School

The more I pondered the mystery, the deeper it grew: big trucks everywhere…around me every day of my life Yet I found I knew nothing about trucking or the people manning the cabs — outside of one hokey Hollywood film that threw an ape in there with the driver

PTSD is an acronym for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a dysfunctional condition resulting from on-the-spot contact with an event, or series of events which shock mind or body to the extent that the condition is engendered The mind is principally affected, but it can affect the subject's motor system as well

The Origins of Dawn Carlisle

I'd like to tell you that Dawn came fully clad out of the cleft head of Zeus

Mystique of the Long Haul Trucker

What happened to the bull whacker of old With the evolution of the automobile and the truck, the "freighters" (Conestoga wagons) of Santa Fe and Oregon trail days, pulled by teams of oxen and urged on by the bull whackers, evolved into today's eighteen wheelers

Creed of the Long Haul Trucker

1 Thou shalt deliver thy load on time: a