My new book, "Into the Nightmare"

[Tracy Riddle]

A few months back on this forum I took Vince to task vehemently -- some at the time thought violently -- for his ostensibly long-concluded affaire d'amour with Bugliosi and a lesser known, not-quite-public dalliance with Gerald Posner. In speculating on the motivations for such perfidy, I drew attention to Vince's narcissism (just yesterday, on his Facebook page, he breathlessly noted how many times he is referenced in the McBride book -- a disturbing and too-common behavior exhibited within the contexts of other JFK-related works over the years that cannot be explained as a one-off, pre-publication book promotion tactic). And I did not write off the possibility that darker agendas were at play.

A good point. He does seem to review books that mention him somewhere in the text (even just the footnotes or bibliography). "Brothers" drops his name on one page, so he left one of his instant reviews on Amazon. "Breach of Trust" doesn't mention him, so he didn't review this truly great book.

Anyway, I'm done griping about him. It just annoys me how often I come across his self-promotion on the internet. This subject is not a parlor game, or a chance to build your career on the History Channel.