American Justice Crime

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that "the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime", and police forces, arms makers, policy makers, and crime experts heeded this call to arms, bringing weapons and practices from the arena of war back home. The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have moved to the center of American life and become imbued with militarized language and policies.

For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented migrants cross into Arizona in overwhelming numbers, a state whose anti-immigrant laws are the most stringent in the nation. And Arizona has the highest number of migrant deaths. Fourteen-year-old Josseline, a young girl from El Salvador who was left to die alone on the migrant trail, was just one of thousands to perish in its deserts and mountains.

A major literary figure tells “a searching tale of loss, recovery, and déja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé” (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family - civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis - shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

WHEN THE AMERICAN DREAM DIES, YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO TURN TO AMERICAN CRIMES! A lower middle-class couple, a mailman and a housewife, living in the suburbs suddenly find themselves caught up in the middle of a Mexican Cartel drug war. In the Complete Saga you get all four pulse-pounding books. For fans of Ozark and Breaking Bad comes a thriller only New York Times bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award winning author Vincent Zandri can write. Grab your pulse-pounding copy now! "Vincent Zandri hails from the future." --The New York Times “Sensational . . . masterful . . . brilliant.” -...

For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The highway is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. Highway of Tears is a piercing exploration of our ongoing failure to provide justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and testament to their families and communities' unwavering determination to find it.

In desperate moments, lethal measures may be employed. Join a treacherous hunt for the prize of Sorrow's kin, with a puppet master unknown and the puppets slowly unveiled. This quest brings death and despair to all involved and the city of Gary. Panther and her associates search desperately for the kidnapper, leaving corpses, deceit, and falsehoods in their wake. Will they find "He" in time, or will their bloody mission lead to incarceration or doom? Will Sorrow and Malakai put aside their personal issues to save their son? Will Genesis be an ally or an enemy? Will Truth's daughter's ...

Before soldiers drove the Cherokees out of the Great Smoky Mountains to the Oklahoma reservation in 1838, the Indians hid their gold mines. Many died on that infamous Trail of Tears, and their secrets died with them. Now, more than a century and a half later, solitary prospector Moses Kyle discovers one of the fabulous lost gold mines. And disappears. Hot shot pilot John Hardin and beautiful Cherokee biker Kitty Birdsong try to find Moses. But also on the hunt in the misty folds of the Smokies is a murderous family clan rooted in the worst kind of evil, along with a group of cult members ...

John Hardin is the WITSEC identity of a pilot who runs a small aerial photo business flying his Cessna out of Asheville, North Carolina.He's restoring a log home on a ridge overlooking the Great Smokies village of Maggie Valley, and does house repairs to bolster his income. He shares his place with octogenarians Hank and Hattie Gaskill, and has an independent Cherokee girlfriend who rides her own lipstick-red motorcycle.Brandon Doyle, a burly biker friend of theirs, runs afoul of a drug lord who sells synthetic equivalents of cocaine, heroin, and ecstasy. John and Kitty try to help Doyle, ...

WHEN THE AMERICAN DREAM DIES, YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO TURN TO AMERICAN CRIMES! A lower middle-class couple, a mailman and a housewife, living in the suburbs suddenly find themselves caught up in the middle of a Mexican Cartel drug war. In Book IV the Jones's go to war with the very cartel who started them on their journey from a life of middle-aged boredom to a life of crime. For fans of Ozark and Breaking Bad comes a thriller only New York Times bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award winning author Vincent Zandri can write. Grab your pulse-pounding copy now! "Vincent Zandri hails from the...

This audiobook features chapters on: how illegal immigrants really do commit more crimes; statistics showing Hispanics commit more violent crime than whites; some suggestions for fixing the illegal-immigration mess; why the death penalty is appropriate for opioid traffickers; some suggestions for dealing with the opioid crisis; and more.

An assassination/vigilante justice thriller with an unexpected twist! Sugar Cane, the world's most feared assassin, has made a career of erasing problems. But when her own identity is exposed, Sugar's world begins to unravel. She’s hunted by her past and on the run. With her life hanging precariously in balance, Sugar must navigate a treacherous landscape of deception and betrayal to unmask the mastermind behind her downfall. Enter Frank, a mysterious and enigmatic figure tasked with safeguarding Sugar - but can she truly trust him? Will Sugar emerge victorious, or will her secrets be her...

Shadows of Truth By Harold and Carmen Laski They thought their days of danger were behind them. They were wrong. Gabriel Santiago and his wife Isabella had planned to leave their investigative days behind, but when a desperate whistleblower exposes a pharmaceutical giant’s deadly secret, they are thrust back into a world of danger and deception. As they pursue a trail that spans continents—from the sunlit streets of Miami to the shadowy corridors of power in Europe—they uncover a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of global finance, politics, and corporate greed. With every ...

Poetic Injustice shines light on the lack of fairness or justice shown to the missing children of The Atlanta Child Murders, Children of The Snow, The Holocaust children, and their forever grieving families. This poetry book illustrates very complex cases of children who go missing, involving crime, and/or death, thus leaving our world a painful reminder of an innocent void with lasting effects. Lest we forget those innocent precious children who’ll forever leave their blameless mark in the world.

The Mexican village of San Patricio is being menaced by a bizarre, cultish drug cartel infamous for its brutality. As the townspeople try to defend themselves by forming a vigilante group, the Mexican army and police have their own ways of fighting back. Into this volatile mix of forces for good and evil (and sometimes both) steps an unlikely broker for peace: Timothy Riordan, an American missionary priest who must decide whether to betray his vows to stop the unspeakable violence.

La metrópolis. El lugar en el que los sueños de cualquiera se cumplen, o al menos eso es lo que todo el mundo cree. En esta ciudad azotada por la corrupción y el crimen, las oportunidades de surgir, tener un gran trabajo y una vida sin preocupaciones, es posible para un puñado; para el resto hay docenas de caminos ilícitos y rápidos para lograr su cometido.