There's a rule at Mike's Place: never, ever talk politics or religion. At this blues bar on the Tel Aviv beachfront, an international cast of characters mingles with the locals, and everyone is welcome to grab a beer and forget the conflict outside. At least, that's the story Jack and Joshua want to tell in their documentary. But less than a month after they begin filming, Mike's Place is the target of a deadly suicide bombing. Jack, Joshua, and the Mike's Place family survive the only way they know how-by keeping the camera rolling. Written by filmmakers Jack Baxter and Joshua Faudem and illustrated by award-winning cartoonist Koren Shadmi, Mike's Place chronicles the true story of an infamous terrorist attack in painstaking detail. Rarely has the slow build to tragedy, and the rebirth that follows, been captured with such a compassionate and unflinching eye.

Mike’s Place est l'un des rares endroits à Tel Aviv où juifs, chrétiens et musulmans pouvaient sortir paisiblement, entourés par les expatriés et les touristes qui remplissaient le bar tous les soirs. Dans ce cocon de paix cosmopolite, l’amour est la grande affaire de chacun et le blues une passion commune. Au printemps de 2003, Jack Baxter décide de réaliser un documentaire sur le phénomène Mike’s Place. Mais le 30 avril, la frivolité fait place à la tragédie : le bar est la cible d’un attentat suicide qui fait trois morts et une cinquantaine de blessés, dont Jack et Josh, son cameraman. Mike’s Place retrace l’histoire vraie de l’équipe du bar et de ses clients, avant, pendant et après l’attentat.

Clowntown is a fun, sexy, and edgy work of literary fiction that is also a deeply philosophical endeavor with subtle references to the works of Camus and other influential philosophers who grapple with larger human questions and dilemmas. Clowntown is set in a small city in the near future; An economic collapse has fractured the world as we know it and Clowntown has seceded to become a thriving city-state with many hidden, vicious stories to tell. Clowntown itself is as colorful, complex, twisted, and perverse as its residents and Detective Jack Baxter is no exception. His life as a detective has been primarily comprised of cleaning-up after those hidden, vicious stories are told - well, that is, until now. Jack has met all types of Clowns over the course of his life and his career, but when he meets the Prizewinner, his life and his city spiral out of control. Let's just say, things can go very, very wrong in a town full of Clowns.Clowntown is a sprawling crime novel that covers the highest echelon of society to the lowest of the degenerates and touches every Clown in between. This novel is the first-person account of Detective Jack Baxter's attempt to keep himself and his city from falling apart. The question is, will he succeed and moreover, at what cost?

Letter from William Wood to Jack Baxter. Gives an account of the colony since Baxter left.