Convinced that there is a pattern in the apparently random killings of three old men, Dan Forrest, a crime writer for a New York tabloid, sets out on a cross-country investigation to discover the key to the murders and finds his own life at stake
FromEWashington insider MacKinnon comes a page-turning spyEthriller in which staunchly conservative Boston P.I. Ian Wallace comes face to face with the KGB colonel who ended his CIA career.
Sights set on their next target, Kaito, Minnalis, and Shuria travel to the magical city of Karvanheim, where they find Minnalis’s traitorous childhood friends leading carefree lives. But soon, the partners in crime come across an obstacle not even Kaito could have foreseen—a merchant woman named Leone who was also summoned from Japan and remembers the world of Kaito’s first life. Still possessed of her morals, Leone attempts to interfere with the trio’s rampage of revenge... but there’s no stopping Minnalis from exacting hellish reprisal on the people who doomed her to slavery and killed her mother.
One hundred years ago, in 1911, two young men lost their lives: one from a stab wound and the other by mob action. In an attempt to explain how such violence could take place in a prosperous and forward-looking community, the author first examines the growth of Thorndale as a small agricultural town on the railroad and then connects Thorndales geographical setting in central Texas with its tradition of violence. This particular lynching was unusual in that it took place at night, thereby complicating apprehension of the members of the mob. However, as a result of intervention by the governor, four men were arrested for the crime and three were tried. The lynching was also unusual because the victim was of Mexican heritage thereby inciting the Mexican community to voice its outrage and demand justice. The nature of its reaction testifies to the political awareness of the Mexican minority and also provides an insight into its perception of Anglo society.
Revenge is a one-way ticket straight to Hell… For Ghost Hunter and retired Marine, Shane Ryan, every day is another battle. A never-ending struggle against bloodshed, violence, and supernatural evil. And although Shane and Detective Jacinta Perez emerged from their last fight victorious, the war goes on. Called once again to Detroit to investigate a string of suspicious suicides, Shane Ryan quickly confirms that all is not as it seems. Something is cutting a bloody swatch through the criminal underworld of this urban wasteland. A sinister entity that targets criminals and forces them to take their own lives. To stop the trail of mayhem and bloodshed, Shane will have to confront the consequence of a past error in judgment—a ghost bent on ridding the world of all evil. One by one, it will send them all to the fiery pits of hell… And it promises Shane Ryan he will be joining them soon.
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. Michael S. Sherry argues that, by the 1990s, the "war on crime" had been successfully broadcast to millions of Americans at an enormous cost--to those arrested, imprisoned, or killed and to the social fabric of the nation--and that the currents of vengeance that ran through the punitive turn, underwriting torture at home and abroad, found a new voice with the election of Donald J. Trump. By 2020, the connections between war-fighting and crime-fighting remained powerful, evident in campaigns against undocumented immigrants and the militarized police response to the nationwide uprisings after George Floyd's murder. Stoked by "forever war," the punitive turn endured even as it met fiercer resistance. From the racist system of mass incarceration and the militarization of criminal justice to gated communities, public schools patrolled by police, and armies of private security, Sherry chronicles the United States' slide into becoming a meaner, punishment-obsessed nation.
Embark on a thrilling adventure with Martin Conisby as he seeks vengeance on the high seas, encountering pirates and navigating the treacherous waters of the Spanish Main. Farnol weaves a tale of revenge, romance, and daring escapades. A swashbuckling journey of revenge and redemption. Set sail with Conisby as he confronts old enemies and discovers unexpected alliances.