A crime thriller starring two FBI agents up against the mob: "This series dazzles with fast, intricate plotting, terrific characters, and humor" ( Publishers Weekly).Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons were once odd-couple partners in crimesolving. But Gibbons has gone into retirement—and Tozzi has just gone renegade.After hot-headed Tozzi leaves a trail of bodies in his wake, Gibbons heads back to work to stop him. Instead, the two of them team up—and...

A rollicking coming-of-age comedy set in 1970s New Jersey, from a multiple award–nominated author.In this hilarious and biting novel, seventeen-year-old Frank Grimaldi wants one thing more than anything else—to have sex before he graduates. Too bad his crazy teachers, his insane parents, the Catholic Church, and the Mafia are all standing in the way . . .From the author of Bad Apple and the Anthony Award finalist Devil's Food, this is an i...

"[A] tautly paced stunner . . . [Anthony Bruno] leavens the suspense with dark humor and builds to a slam-bang finale" ( Publishers Weekly).After two bodies—each of them hacked in half—are found in the Hudson River, FBI agents Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons begin to investigate a deadly partnership between the Mafia and the Japanese yakuza.But they're in for a fight. After Gibbons takes a severe beating from a deranged assassin who believes he's t...

Anthony Award Finalist: A skip tracer chases an embezzler to Florida—and finds herself entangled with bikers and the IRS—in this thriller "packed with humor" ( Booklist).With her low-level law-enforcement career on the rocks, it's make-it-or-break-it time for zaftig Loretta Kovacs. She's been assigned to the ragtag Parole Violators Search Unit, a.k.a. the Jump Squad. All her buttons are pushed when she goes undercover as a desperate dieter at a Florida fat...

A fast, funny crime thriller featuring "the best fictional cop duo around" ( People).FBI Special Agents Cuthbert Gibbons and Mike Tozzi get into hot water when the turncoat mobster they were assigned to protect is found murdered—and Tozzi is the prime suspect.At the center of the crime is a dirty assistant US attorney who's been ordered to throw a major drug case to pay off a debt to a Sicilian gangster. But Gibbons and Tozzi are determined to brin...

An FBI profiler plays a dangerous game with her mother's murderer in this chilling thriller by the author of Seven.FBI profiler Trisha McCleery has been on a twenty-year personal search for the person who brutally murdered her mother. At the same time, serial killer Gene Lassiter has been on an obsessive twenty-year search for the daughter of his first kill.If she finds him, justice can at last be served. If he finds her, one man's reign of terror ...

Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant is the first history of the concept of facticity. G. Anthony Bruno argues that this concept's coining, transmission, and repurposing by post-Kantian thinkers leaves a lasting divide concerning the question of whether a science of intelligibility can tolerate brute facts. In the phenomenological tradition, 'facticity' denotes undeducibly brute conditions of intelligibility such as sociality, mortality, and temporality. This suggests an af...

From ancient conceptions of becoming a philosopher to modern discussions of psychedelic drugs, the concept of transformation plays a fascinating part in the history of philosophy. However, until now there has been no sustained exploration of the full extent of its role.Transformation and the History of Philosophy is an outstanding survey of the history, nature, and development of the idea of transformation, from the ancient period to the twentieth century. Comprising twent...

The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, with Ray Liotta and Chris EvansHe was smart, merciless, and deadly. And it took someone just as tough to bring him down.A mob contract killer known as “The Iceman” for hiding a body in an ice-cream truck freezer, Richard Kuklinski boasted a personal body count of more than a hundred victims. Using guns, knives, poison, ice picks, tire irons, baseball bats, ...

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"A cast of kooky, dangerous characters worthy of Elmore Leonard or Carl Hiaasen . . . A funny, often harrowing crime novel" ( Booklist).In this follow-up to the Anthony Award finalist Devil's Food, fugitive-hunter Loretta Kovacs races to keep one hitman from killing another. The intended victim is a valuable government witness against the mob, and a dirty FBI agent is helping the bad guys.Now, while she struggles to kick her caffeine habit...

The current wave of critical and historical engagement with idealist texts affords an unprecedented opportunity to discover the richness and value of the thought of F. W. J. Schelling. In this volume leading scholars offer compelling reasons to regard Schelling as one of Kant's most incisive interpreters, a pioneering philosopher of nature, a resolute philosopher of human finitude and freedom, a nuanced thinker of the bounds of logic and self-consciousness, and perhaps Hegel's most effecti...