Orphaned at eighteen, a naïve and solitary Chris Pritchard joins the Metropolitan Police in search of a family, friends and a regular income. He is posted to Stoke Newington police station in London’s tough East End. Despite barely concealed contempt for her hapless new charge, his experienced instructor, WPC Dawn Matthews, puppy walks him through a journey, which is regularly amusing, frequently sad and occasionally bizarre. You will not read a more accurate account of how London was poli...

Winner of the 2021 Association for Writing Across the Curriculum/WAC Clearinghouse award for Best WAC MonographA 2008 survey of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) programs found that nearly half of those identified in a 1987 survey no longer existed twenty years later, pointing to a need for an approach to WAC administration that leads to programs that persist over time. In Sustainable WAC, current or former WAC program directors Michelle Cox, Jeffrey R. ...

ThIs is a mystery suspense novel where ’fact’ and ’fiction’ have been combined into a believable story similar in vein to those made popular by such established authors as Michael ‘Jurassic Park’ Crichton, Tom ‘The Hunt for Red October’ Clancy or Frederick ‘Day of the Jackal’ Forsyth. In it Author R Julian Cox weaves his knowledge of the ecology and cutting-edge science together with religious faith and ancient British history. The result is a gripping and multi layered stor...

Who hurt Doll Lansing so bad?Tim Farr didn't know.Who banged Doll's head around so that her whiskey-blurred eyes could no longer see which men were doing what to her hot, voluptuous body?Everybody in Asienta, maybe. Producers, actors, tennis pros, even realtors and judges.Until Doll lay like a broken puppet at the base of a cliff, the wheel of justice spun crazily, and the pointer reached Tim Farr.Sure, everybody in the smoldering Hollywood suburb had had...

Tombstone was fast becoming one hell of a mess when Bat Masterson and the Earps asked their old pal Sam "Cemetery" Jones to lend a hand. There was a man a day getting killed, the notorious Clanton gang raising hell, Apaches on the warpath and a legendary outlaw called Ringo looking to put Cemetery Jones six feet under.But Cemetery wasn't one to refuse his friends, even if it meant going up against six-shooters, raiding Indians, and a cold-blooded killer out gunning for him. It was a...

Logan knew he was good. But so were a lot of men who went after El Puma, the dandy killer with the fancy guns who headed the most feared gang of killers along the whole Mexican border. For as far as a good horse could run before he dropped, El Puma ruled. But even El Puma couldn't have lasted as long as he did without the help of friends in high places on both sides of the border. Colonel Barty, with his riverboat gambler's shirts and whiskey-red face, might be part of it. And where did Lo...

Wilber is old.WIlber is bored.And Wilber has a plan to regain control of his life.

Three full-length classic Western from William R. Cox. Bigger than Texas, Day of the Gun and Moon of Cobra.

Three full-length gritty crime and thriller novels from William R. Cox featuring Tom Kincaid: Hell to Pay. Murder in Vegas. Death on Location. Gambling. Murder. Vice. It's all here in one volume.

He's Sam to his friends.Cemetery Jones to his unlucky enemies.Lucky for Jones he was born suspicious. And dead quick with a gun.Sunrise is a frontier town, just beginning to stretch. Till outlaws vow to take out the whole damn place to revenge themselves on the new marshal, name of Cemetery Jones.The numbers are against him.But Jones has his gun. And the graveyard has plenty of vacancies.

Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging across the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were high. Their target: the Japanese-held Soloman Islands, in particular the southern island of Guadalcanal.Hamstrung by arcane pre-war thinking and a bureaucratic mind-set, the U.S. Navy had to adapt on the fly in order to compete with...

What do you do when doing the right thing leads you down a path of darkness?George Camper is a brilliant scientist, a genius with technology but it didn't stop his wife from dying.Maybe it can bring her back.A great beginning leads to strange endings.