John Black

"Feedback: Electronic agents may be our servants using feedback mathematics that won World War II based on an idea from France's vineyards where the Humane Society began while a doctor in Michigan created cornflakes."--Container. "What's in a name?: A breakfast leads to corn cob garbage used for 'furfan' which creates resin for bonding that leads to inventing the tractor and diesal engine and to the creation of the Smithsonian in Washington, DC."--Container....

Detective John Shaft is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenage daughter and finds himself up against some Mafia chieftains who want to take over a chunk of the black underworld's uptown territory.