New eBook on Marcos, THIRTY YEARS LATER . . ., Goes on Limited e-Sale, April 27-30, 2016

SAN FRANCISCO - April 27, 2016 - PRLog -- From April 27- 30, 2016, the eBook version of Myles A. Garcia's 'Thirty Years Later . . . Catching Up with the Marcos-Era Crimes,' goes on sale online for US$1.99.

Thirty Years Later  . . . is an especially timely book because on May 9, 2016, the Philippines, an ex-colony of the US, conducts presidential elections that could possibly see the return of Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. (aka Bongbong) as he makes a grab for the vice-presidency of the country, America's main ally in the region.  This political development is especially troubling because it puts Bongbong Marcos, Jr., a heartbeat away from the presidency-and his family back in the seat of power they once abused.

The book looks at what's really a 50-year span of pillage and plunder which began when Bongbong's parents, then-president Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, assumed power in 1966.  She was the Shoe Queen, and in the words of then-US congressman Stephan Solarz (Dem, NY) who investigated them afterwards, 'Compared to her (Imelda), Marie Antoinette was a bag lady,' while Ferdinand made master US embezzler Bernie Madoff look like a rank amateur.  The couple were an efficient cash-and-carry team-he raided the national till while she shopped with the people's money 'til she dropped.

After plundering and ruling with unchecked impunity for twenty years (1966-1986), the highly visible power couple was driven from power in 1986 and not without the US' approval either.  The book picks up the trail of the last 30-years during which opponents of the regime restored freedom and democratic values to the 70-year old republic.  It pierces and unravels the almost impenetrable web of secrecy, foreign bank accounts and off-shore foundations wherein the Marcoses, their co-conspirators and crooks, stashed the staggering ill-gotten wealth.

Without a doubt, the book is an expose.  In under 200 pages, the author has tried to distill all the schemes and shenanigans perpetrated by one family in one of the most brazen acts of wholesale looting of an economy in history, for their own selfish ends.

So blatant, so large-scale, so unconscionable was the looting of a national treasury-estimated to be over $10 billion in loot, not to mention how the civil rights of over 75,000 citizens were violated, including scores of lives forfeited-that some historians rank the Marcos regime as probably the second most rapacious in history.  And now the family's son and namesake, picks up the unfinished path to plunder and powerlust from 1986 with the unaccounted billions, financing the renewed bid for public office and power.

One reviewer, Caroline Kennedy, wrote:

"I admire Garcia for having the commitment to familiarize himself with all the details. The passion in his book shines through its pages. . . For all students of history and politics, this book is a must-read."

Another reviewer on amazon.com wrote:

"Garcia's book . . . offered a new perspective on the Marcos-era years. The book did not disappoint me.  The night I started the 183-page book, I stayed up to 2:00 am to finish the book in one sitting."

In paperback format, THIRTY YEARS LATER  . . . is available from amazon.com and at Popular Bookstore in Quezon City, Manila.

The world will know the outcome of the 2016 Philippine presidential elections after May 9.

About The Author
Myles A. Garcia is a Correspondent for www.positivelyfilipino.com, an online magazine, where two of his articles have won the PAPC's Plaridel Prize for Best Sports Story two years in a row.  A life-long Olympic aficionado, he is also the author of Secrets of the Olympic Ceremonies, and a member of the International Society of Olympic Historians, the ISOH.  He has lived in Manila, New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and San Francisco.