Smuggler's Rebellion: Dawn of Defiance"Blending razor-sharp action with emotional depth, Smuggler's Rebellion is a pulse-pounding ride through a galaxy on the brink. Jake Jones, a reluctant hero with a code of his own, anchors a story rich in found family, rebellion, and courage. Douglas crafts vivid worlds and weighty stakes without ever losing the thread of humanity. With a princess, a soccer bot, and a conspiracy that could shatter worlds, this is s...

The book that inspired the stories of Gladiator & Gladiator II: Step into the ring with this classic, in-depth account of the ancient Romans' obsession with the bloody and brutal games."[ The Way of the Gladiator is] this crazy, tawdry, wild book about the Coliseum. . . . It hardwired in my brain the absolute similarities between who we are and who we were." —David Franzoni, Academy Award–nominated scree...

The basis for the new Peacock television series: The classic, in-depth account of the ancient Romans' obsession with the bloody and brutal gladiatorial games."If you can imagine a superior American sports writer suddenly being transported back in time to cover the ancient Roman games, you will have some idea of the flavor and zest of [ Those About to Die]," said the Los Angeles Times about Daniel P. Mannix's century-by-century—and nearly moment-by-...

The award-winning author of The Way of the Gladiator brings to life medieval Paris and the wolves who held it hostage, in this novel based on real events.Praised as "nature writing at its best," The Wolves of Paris takes readers to fifteenth-century France, a country so decimated by the Hundred Years' War that its people became prey for marauding wolf packs ( Hartford Courant). With France split among the English, the Burgundians, and the ...

NEURAL BOUNTY: A Space Western Noir ThrillerSeven years hunting the galaxy's worst. This time, she's hunting herself...Kassidy Reyez doesn't ask questions about her past. She hunts bounties, collects payment, and keeps her demons locked down tight. But when a corporate contract sends her after a simple tech thief, her carefully constructed life starts unraveling faster than a hyperdrive in a plasma storm.Her target...

Psychotic killers, devious ghosts, alien monsters, howling storms, undead creatures, and other dark forces haunt the highways and the truckers who drive them in these 18 chilling tales. A ghostly voice on a trucker's CB radio knows more about his life than it should… Two drivers find their cargo gives them inhuman appetites… A boy in a truck stop encounters a supernatural force that threatens to destroy the world… The hypnotic singing lulling a driver to sleep might not be coming from the ...

A commander's "compelling" behind-the-scenes view of the United States at war after 9/11, from high-level strategy to combat on the ground ( The Wall Street Journal).Over his thirty-five year career, Daniel P. Bolger rose through the ranks of the army infantry to become a three-star general, commanding in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Perhaps more than anyone else, he was witness to the full extent of these wars, from September 11th to withdrawal from the reg...

This classic, award-winning novel and the basis for the animated Disney movie is "a masterpiece, it is tops in the field of animal books" ( Omaha World-Herald).Winner of the Dutton Animal Book AwardWinner of the Athenaeum Literary AwardReader's Digest Book ClubTwo animals on opposites sides of the hunt—one a loyal, domesticated companion, the other a wily, solitary trickster. C...

Vermont in 1777: Burgoyne coming down from Canada, the Green Mountain Boys, Bennington, and a Tory's daughter caught between her father's loyalty and her own. Thompson was a Vermont judge who collected the testimony of the men who fought it while they were still alive to give it — the campaign here is history taken down from witnesses and then told as a story.

BLOOD TIDE: A Harbor Noir ThrillerLos Angeles, 1950. The harbor keeps two kinds of secrets: the kind that make men rich, and the kind that make them dead.Private detective Jack Morrison doesn't give a damn about either anymore. The ex-LAPD detective drowns his mornings in black coffee at Cooper's Diner and his nights in bourbon, trying to forget why he traded his badge for a bottle. Then the newspaper drops a bomb: his war...

The factor that makes some communities rebound quickly from disasters while others fall apart: "A fascinating book on an important topic."—E.L. Hirsch, in ChoiceEach year, natural disasters threaten the strength and stability of communities worldwide. Yet responses to the challenges of recovery vary greatly and in ways that aren't explained by the magnitude of the catastrophe or the amount of aid provided by national governments or the international commun...

The author of The Way of the Gladiator continues his exploration of the dark side of history with this grisly account of pain and punishment through the ages.Human beings have a deep-seated instinct for cruelty, and, so far, have not evolved much past it. History is rife with examples of the infliction of pain used as penalty or execution. In The History of Torture, Daniel P. Mannix takes you from the crucifixions of ancient Rome, to the hanging of...