"FALSE WITNESS" Released on August, 2001. False Witness is fiction based on true events. In some cases the names have been changed to protect the guilty. In South Florida anything is possible. It is the end of the criminal funnel, where sooner or later all the major crimes and criminals wind up, basking in the sun, in the Southern end of the great state of Florida. The allure of easy money, endless sunshine, long white-sand beaches that snake the coast for miles, bikini clad women and windsurfing tan men.

In this story the FAA and the DEA raid a stolen aircraft chop-shop. They are surprised to learn it is a rogue U.S. Customs operation. They are also unaware that the illegal secret operation is sanctioned from the highest levels of U.S. political power. One man decides to defy them and that's when the action starts.

The story includes a new subject, the theft and re-selling of small aircraft, which in reality is a major business. The story takes us from the secret sweaty dens of iniquity in South Florida, to the mysterious Great Swamp-The Everglades, to a hot nightclub in Little Havana, and finally to the island of Cuba, where we learn that Fidel and his brother Raul are up to their ears in all forms of crime and contraband.

Cuba is the new official 'Criminal Free Zone', a high tech free-trade illegal global marketplace, designed to accommodate the new breed of global criminal. A tropical home for world wide desperadoes, international criminals, who need a global 'Free Trade Zone' an open marketplace facility for their criminal enterprises. This includes: storage and repair for stolen aircraft, arms running, drug warehouses, the sale of stolen advanced computer contraband and modern hotels and pleasure palaces for the new global criminals to meet and conspire, with no threat from the long arm of law enforcement.

One man is thrust into this world through no fault of his own. He is crossed and double-crossed by the U.S. Government until he has to take matters into his own hands, and that's where the action spirals, as he falls deeper and deeper into a complicated web of deceit.

This book is the basis for the headlines yet to come as the world is about to witness its first glimpse at how "global gangsters" and crooked men and women of great international political power really work.

Released February 21, 2001

"HOW TO TRADE IN STOCKS" is being published by Traders Press as a sequel to the successful book "JESSE LIVERMORE: WORLD'S GREATEST STOCK TRADER". Originally written by the famous trader Jesse Livermore, it has been updated and provides more technical information on how to trade the stock market and win. The copyright was purchased from the Livermore estate and belongs to Richard Smitten. There is also a computer software program being written to allow people to actually practice, "Trading Like Jesse Livermore."

Released December 1, 1999

"JESSE LIVERMORE: WORLDS GREATEST STOCK TRADER" is being published by Trader's Press and came in January of 1999. Jesse Livermore is a Wall Street legend. Part biography, part novel, part technical-the book reveals his secrets. The book is coming out in trade paperback format in October-published by John Wiley and Sons.

Jesse Livermore is considered by many of today's top Wall Street traders as the greatest trader who ever lived. For the first time, in one book: his trading secrets, techniques and stock market methods are revealed. Livermore broke new ground in trading the market. His timing techniques, money management systems, and high-momentum approach to trading in stocks and commodities was revolutionary, and remains valid today. His personal life reads like a high powered novel with: an attempted murder, a house invasion robbery, great parties, and two suicides.

HISTORY

His first novel was published in 1987 - "TWICE KILLED" - published by Avon books, is a thriller/love story. Loosely based on the adventures of famous international swindler Robert Vesco, the book traces his activities across continents. It was later updated and republished under the title "CAPITAL CRIMES" in Britain and seven other countries. The book was then released for a third time in 1994 in the U.S. through SPI/Hearst under the name "BANK OF DEATH".

His next two books were true-crime books - "THE MAN WHO MADE IT SNOW" - published by Simon and Schuster, co-authored with Robin Moore. This book details the true story of Max Mermelstein, the only American to ever sit with the hierarchy of the Colombian cartel. What Meyer Lansky was to the Mob, Max Mermelstein was to the Cocaine cartel. The paperback version of this book was released under the title: "INSIDE THE COCAINE CARTEL".

"THE GODMOTHER" -- Published by Pocketbooks, a division of Simon and Schuster. The true story of the notorious Griselda Blanco, on her DEA dossier was written, La Madrina - the Godmother), the most heinous female criminal of the century. She and her crime family were pursued by one lone DEA agent for ten years. He became obsessed with her and the chase, until finally, single-handedly, against enormous odds, he caught her and pulled her five hundred million dollar empire tumbling down.

R.L. Smitten's next book was about counterfeiting, using high-tech equipment. "LEGAL TENDER" - published internationally in eleven countries, is a sweeping mainstream novel with a strong love story. The saga unravels a worldwide counterfeiting ring. The leading nations of the world must take action to avoid the potential disaster of monetary markets oozing with newly printed perfect counterfeit currency. Money that has been sold to the major criminal enterprises of the world in exchange for gold.

R.L. Smitten's next book dealt with a notorious Florida sex-scandal that became a nationwide story. "KATHY - A CASE OF NYMPHOMANIA" - A Broward County deputy sheriff was acting as a pimp for his wife. He would hide in the closet filming her encounters. Among those he filmed was a Fort Lauderdale city councilman, a deacon of his church, a man who was leading the campaign to shut down the strip-clubs and porno shops in Fort Lauderdale. Kathy, the beautiful defendant, was defended by Ellis Rubin, Florida's most controversial lawyer.