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These are books.
They’re free to read in the library and a dollar to keep.
They’re also on amazon if you’re into that.

I didn’t write them to sell you anything.
I wrote them because they needed to exist
and once they did, I couldn’t stop.

They’re not normal.
They don’t pull punches.
Some of them might change your life in under 30 minutes.
Some of them might just make you laugh and go “yo what the fuck.”

Either way
You’re here now.
Might as well read one.

Featured Books

Book cover for 'tsar.exe: An Odyssey Through Power' by James Johnson, featuring a dark background with a vintage throne that is disintegrating into digital pixels, and orange text resembling computer code.
Book cover titled 'Regime Machine' by James Johnson. Illustration features a smiling figure wearing a sash that says 'President' with various labels such as oil, debt, sanctions, media, militias, and others pointing to different parts of the figure. The background is red with black and white text and graphics.
Book cover for "White Silence: A History of Antarctica" by James Johnson, featuring a solitary person walking in a snowy, foggy landscape.
Book cover titled 'Caesar: Blood, Crown, and the Collapse of the Republic' by James Johnson. Features Roman historical figures, a man and a woman, in ancient attire, standing back to back against an ancient Roman landscape with pyramids and pillars, under a dramatic sky.
Book cover titled 'The Warren's Ghost Files' by James Johnson. The cover features files labeled with names such as Amityville, Annabelle, and Sautington, with a cross placed on top of some files. The background shows filing cabinets and a dark, mysterious atmosphere.
Book cover titled "The Kingdom of Smoke: Inside the North Korean Illusion" by James Johnson. The cover features a man in black suit and hat standing on a stage, facing away toward a North Korean palace in the fog, with red curtains on the sides.

Also on Amazon

Looking for more? You can find the full lineup of my published books on Amazon too, including paperbacks, eBooks, audiobooks, and everything else that hasn’t made it to the site yet.

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