Both marshals had pledged to one another that not another soul would be injured or killed--not on their watch--by Damien. The urgent questions now are where do we look? How do we find him? What if he is running in the opposite direction? How would we know? The answer is always the same: To catch a criminal one must think like a criminal. That's why Buster Gibbs and Ruston Lovell are now heading back up the Chisholm. The criminal escaped from them in the southern tip of Texas. There was no ...

Smeared by cheap innuendo and false accusations alleging he is responsible for having allowed a bomb aboard Pan Am 103, Micheal T. Hurley, career law enforcement veteran, faces a dilemma as real as his lifetime savings: bet everything that truth would win out in a court of law or just surrender to that which he knows to be wrong. Succumb or fight? Capitulate or resist?I Solemnly Swear captures his answer to that dilemma and presents a diverse group of heroes and traitors, ...

Cops everywhere have their stories.The retired police officers of the Oxnard Police Department are no exception.Like the stories told by officers anywhere, Oxnard PD's stories, too, seem to grow each time they are retold until few can offer an iron-clad guarantee that they are today the way the stories actually unfolded then. Some officers, however, offer an iron-clad guarantee that these stories reflect their current memory.Offbeat is a collection of their...

INVISIBLE: they are the American government's most powerful asset, their very existence only known to a handful of individuals.INGENIOUS: an elite unit of deep-cover agents, turning the tide in the war on terror. That is, until they start being exposed, one by one.INFILTRATED: and now a hunt to find the leak, before they all go under.

California landscape artist Estelle Donovan hates big cities. Between the grime, the smell, all the drab concrete, and the suffocating summer heat, how can anyone breathe? Housesitting her brother's New York apartment, complete with broken elevator and smoking air conditioner, is her kind of hell. It's only for two weeks, though. What could possibly go wrong?Dumping a jar of pickles on the hot girl at the grocery store wasn't Crosby Chase's finest hour, nor was getting bit...

New York Times bestselling author reveals the FBI’s most closely guarded secrets, with an insider look at the bureau’s inner workings and intelligence investigations.Based on inside access and hundreds of interviews with federal agents, the book presents an unprecedented, authoritative window on the FBI's unique role in American history. From White House scandals to celebrity deaths, from cult catastrophes to the investigations of terrorists, stalkers, Mafia figure...

"Shocking in its disclosures, elegantly crafted, and faultlessly measured in its judgments."-Roger Morris, author of Richard Milhous Nixon and Partners in PowerHow did the deeply flawed George W. Bush ascend to the highest office in the nation, what forces abetted his rise, and-perhaps most important-were those forces really vanquished by Obama's election? Award-winning investigative journalist Russ Baker gives us the answers in Family of Secr...

One of them came to Gunner's Creek at the end of a long search.The other had simply drifted into the town.Fate drew them together. Two Texans who found a town in trouble, and being who they were, had to throw in their hands to helpChet Ballard and Jess McCall.Texicans down to the tips of their boots. Big men with hard fists and fast guns, who saw trouble and refused to back away from it.This is the long "lost" novel by best-selling Western writer Neil Hun...

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZEFor most living Americans, September 11, 2001, is the darkest date in the nation’s history. But what exactly happened on 9/11? Could it have been prevented? And what remains unresolved? Here is the first panoramic, authoritative account of that tragic day—from the first brutal actions of the hijackers to our government’s flawed response; from the untruths told afterward by U.S. officials to the “elephant in the room” of the 9/11 Commi...

'The king of macho noir' GUARDIAN'The American Dostoevsky' JOYCE CAROL OATES'One of the great American writers of our time' LOS ANGELES TIMES***'***Fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted and paranoid' STEPHEN KING'One of the most original and daring writers alive' INDEPENDENTLos Angeles, 15th January 1947. A beautiful young w...

Where is it written that a rancher’s daughter has to marry a long, tall Texan—or lose the ranch that’s her home?In Dana Mobry’s father’s will! And Dana has just discovered that her partner in this marriage of convenience is none other than the sexiest cowboy in Texas—Hank Grant!

Disaster brought them together and, despite desire, may ultimately keep them apart.Wind. Fire. Ice. Love.Nothing for volunteer firefighters Gable McCoy and Erin Richards seems to go smoothly. From the tornado that nearly claims their lives to the raging forest fire that threatens to consume them, the forces of nature conspire against them.Even a they struggle with personal uncertainties along with their growing attraction, a deadly challenge awaits that may be the f...