The bodies are piling up. Sanford, freelance consultant, assassin, and doer of odd jobs, contracts his deadly skills through a Darknet brokerage service known to underworld insiders as Bugsy's List.Sanford's assignments pit him against cops, other assassins, and the syndicate. The only likely winners in this bloody charade are two young Darknet entrepreneurs actively exploiting a wave of crime warfare as it spreads like wildfire across the City of Brotherly Love.

Rural southern America in the 1950s, a great time for a boy to grow up. Joey, eleven years old, begins the summer of '51 with a new best friend, Tommy, the new kid next door. Tommy is thirteen, with a down-to-earth country attitude, and wise to the ways of the world with much for Joey to learn.Boys that age could roam, explore, and experiment with their environments without supervision and with the only curfew being, get home in time for supper.Wander along with Tommy and J...

Travel with Al from his childhood when he discovered ventriloquists on television in its own infancy, through his development as a child performer and his rediscovery of the engrossing art when he retired after forty years as a computer programmer, writer and musician.Follow Al's workshop skills, as he builds and repairs ventriloquist dummies and renovates the time-worn works of the old masters.And stay with him in a lifelong search for the one dummy that will define his ro...

There's nothing funny about diabetes. But from the mind of Al Stevens, long-time columnist for Dr. Dobb's Journal, stand-up comedian, and author of "Politically Incorrect Scripts for Comedy Ventriloquists," the lighter side of the disease can make you laugh while it scares the crap out of you with its potential for ruining and shortening your life.From his first diagnosis, which he blames on a topless bar, to memory losses and hallucinations, to getting thrown out of a pharmacy, St...

Somebody has taken a shot at Stanley Bentworth and the soft-boiled detective doesn’t know who wants him dead or why. Then, when a stranger who resembles Stanley is gunned down in broad daylight, Stanley wonders which of them was the intended victim.His investigation charts an unlikely journey through the worlds of online pornography, a legendary cat burglar, buried treasure, and a legacy that he never knew was meant to be his own.

A mysterious Darknet presence has begun to slaughter the homeless and display its handiwork on the dark web. Viewers around the world can vote with Bitcoin cryptocurrency to determine the fate of each subject.Rodney Bentworth, legendary eastern seaboard hacker, works with the city's Cybercrimes and Homicide units to crack the case.When the killer sets his sights on unsuspecting college students, Rodney and the department step up their efforts to find the murderer and bring ...

Drug dealers find high-tech markets for their products, and young people are dying from the lethal drugs peddled across the Darknet and delivered to their doorsteps by drones.Private Investigator Stanley Bentworth teams with his associate Sanford and his nephew Rodney to crack the case of a teenage girl who falls victim to these lawless predators. The Darknet underworld, threatened by Stanley's inquiries, unleashes an assassin to silence him with a squadron of killer drones program...

All the characters in the Stanley Bentworth Mysteries series are gathered together in a three-book collection, the first three volumes of the series offered at less than the price of a single volume in the series.On the Street Where You Die introduces Stan and his contingent of characters—Willa, Rodney, Amanda, Sanford—as they set about to shut down a blackmail operation and clear the client of a murder charge they believe and hope is a frame-up. You’ll meet Sammy too, the bartende...

When the Captain gives him the boot again, soft-boiled detective Stanley Bentworth finds himself back in his P.I. office in search of new clients and cases to solve. His first assignment sends Stan and his associate Sanford as bounty hunters to capture a bail-jumper, a botched adventure that puts Stan in the hospital and results in a warrant for his arrest on federal kidnapping charges.Now on the lam under an alias, Stan works as a bag man for what turns out to be a domestic terror...

Trouble follows P.I. Stanley Bentworth like a baby duck. When a brutal murder at sea interrupts his romantic getaway with Grace, his new girlfriend, the ship’s captain recruits Stan to investigate. Stan and Grace soon find themselves the targets of a desperate killer who intends to thwart the investigation whatever it takes. If Stan fails to expose and overcome the villain, he could lose Grace forever and find himself treading water and feeding the sharks somewhere in the expanse of ocean ...

Dead young women are piling up in a small suburban city, their throats slashed, their bodies desecrated, and homicide detective Stanley Bentworth and his rookie staff are caught up in an intensive investigation.When the Slasher steps up his schedule, the bosses pressure the team to find the killer and rescue the next victim. If they fail, the once peaceful town’s panicked citizens will lock themselves in at night, awaiting the next senseless killing, not knowing when, where, and wh...

The e-book version of the highly successful 7th print edition of this work. You learn the C++ programming language by running exercises with the free Quincy IDE, which you can download for free. The lessons are incremental and each successive one builds upon knowledge you have learned up to that point.