New York Times bestsellerLos Angeles Times bestsellerUSA Today bestsellerThe highly anticipated debut novel from Norman Reedus, acclaimed star of The Walking Dead“This country wasn’t built on good—only fought for with good intentions.”Jack’s dying mother told him, “Run and never look back.” He spent his life amassing wealth, but af...

Geared toward IT management and business executives seeking to excel in business intelligence initiatives, this practical guide explores creating business alignment strategies that help prioritize business requirements, build organizational and cultural strategies, increase IT efficiency, and promote user adoption. Business intelligence, together with business analytics and performance management, eliminates information overload by organizing the massive amounts of information available in...

Frank Bill is back with a gritty, wrenching novel from deep inside the traumas of a broken American heartland.Miles is a Vietnam veteran who’s worried he’s going to lose his job—and with it his tenuous grasp on a stable life—over a fight with a coworker. His PTSD and struggles to control his steroid-fueled violent tendencies also complicate his relationship with his girlfriend, Shelby, a stripper who only occasionally displays the proverbial heart of gold. She’s ce...

With business analytics is becoming increasingly strategic to all types of organizations and with many companies struggling to create a meaningful impact with this emerging technology, this work—based on the combined experience of 10 organizations that display excellence and expertise on the subject—shares the best practices, discusses the management aspects and sociology that drives success, and uncovers the five key aspects behind the success of some of the top business analytics program...

A brother is severely frost bite on both hands growing up and is challenged to go on with life. Five brothers lives on a small farm in the 1970’s are haunted by Satan. As the family moves to town and Satan follows.

This book is a military psychological thriller of a Marine following orders to his own demise. It takes place on board an aircraft carrier and what he must do to now protect his family when it all comes home to roost.

Benny answers an opportunity to find love and it spirals out of control and finds himself a sex slave to an organized sex crime syndicate.

A bareknuckle fighter must win a brutal tournament to feed his family in "a novel that guts the underbelly of southern Indiana"—now a major motion picture ( Kirkus Reviews).The Donnybrook is a three-day bare-knuckle tournament held on a thousand-acre plot out in the sticks of southern Indiana. Twenty fighters. One wire-fence ring. Fight until only one man is left standing while a rowdy festival of onlookers—drunk and high on whatever's on offer—bet on the f...

The acclaimed author of Donnybrook "returns with a vengeance" in this brutal tale of America in chaos as gangs and militias reign supreme ( Kirkus ).Frank Bill's America has always been stark and violent. In his new novel, he takes things one step further: the dollar has failed; the grid is wiped out.Van Dorn is eighteen and running solo, dodging the bloodthirsty hordes a...

This story collection explores the violent underbelly of America's heartland: "A dark, hard-boiled debut . . . no doubt about it, Frank Bill can write." — Kirkus ReviewsWelcome to heartland America circa right about now, when the union jobs and family farms have given way to meth labs, backwoods gunrunners, and bare-knuckle brawling. Frank Bill's southern Indiana is haunted with the deep, abiding sense of place, and his people are men and women pre...

Most of the high-profile cases of real or perceived unethical activity in data science arenâ??t matters of bad intent. Rather, they occur because the ethics simply arenâ??t thought through well enough. Being ethical takes constant diligence, and in many situations identifying the right choice can be difficult.In this in-depth book, contributors from top companies in technology, finance, and other industries share experiences and lessons learned from collecting, managing, and analyz...

Frank Bill is back with a gritty, wrenching novel from deep inside the traumas of a broken American heartland.Miles is a Vietnam vet who’s worried he’s going to lose his job and his tenuous grasp on a stable life because of a fight he had with a coworker over some steroids. His PTSD and struggles to control his steroid-fueled violent tendencies complicate life with his girlfriend, Shelby, a stripper who only occasionally seems to have the proverbial heart of gold. She certainly see...