Avoid the mutants. Save the girl. Get revenge…Dave Pulaski is hurting. His wife is dead, and he knows who to blame. Walt Freeman – the man who unleashed a medical experiment that turned a quiet town into a bioscience nightmare. Blame isn’t enough, though.He goes to Los Angeles to get revenge. But his mission is sidetracked. Despite the risk, he feels compelled to help Sasha, a Russian girl who escaped Walt’s government-funded lab. This throws a deadly obsta...

When science alters your world, trust no one…Draggers, those infected with a bizarre virus that kills them, lust for meat. And even dead, they hunt. While fighting, Dave Pulaski and his wife are trapped by a horde.They catch a break when a security outfit known as Black Dragon rescues them. The company takes them to a safe zone where they protect surviving residents of Tres Marias, the outbreak’s epicenter. But the nightmare is just beginning....

When your boss pulls a gun on you, it might be time to quit.Brandon Wheegar has just joined Baseborn Identity Research as a security guard. But no one told him how bad things can get when a secretive employer has deep pockets and no conscience.He should’ve quit the night his supervisor went off on him. Now, alphas, murderous mutant test subjects, are loose in the facility. And then there are the hypers, genetically modified superhumans. They lie asleep in s...

Precarity and Belonging examines how the movement of people and their incorporation, marginalization, and exclusion, under epochal conditions of labor and social precarity affecting both citizens and noncitizens, have challenged older notions of citizenship and alienage. This collection brings mobility, precarity, and citizenship together in order to explore the points of contact and friction, and, thus, the spaces for a possible politics of commonality between citizens and noncit...

What if getting lost is the only way back to yourself?Let’s Get Lost: A Modern Fairy Tale is a lyrical, genre-blending novel about love, ambition, and the strange magic that hides inside ordinary lives.Adam is rebuilding from heartbreak, from career missteps, from the quiet fear that the life he imagined may never arrive. Set against the pulse of modern city life, his journey unfolds in unexpected ways as romance, memory, and ambition collide. Just...

A new virus mutates, and even death can’t stop it…Dave Pulaski wasted his youth getting drunk. After meeting Holly, a smart, determined woman, he worked hard to get his life together. But now their future might be cut short.A strange plague ravages the quiet town of Tres Marias. It turns victims into draggers, dead flesh-eaters who hunt. No one knows the origins of the infection. Or they choose not to tell.With ravening hordes surging, the ...

Her only memory is dying from her wounds…Jane wakes up in a lab. She's alone, immersed in a sterilized tank with wires and tubes connected to her. She looks around. There are others–test subjects like her. Except they're all dead. What makes her different?She has no answers, but she wants them. Wants them with a powerful drive that courses through her like the life she lost in a night raid in Afghanistan. It's a life she shouldn't have now. Someone brought ...

A critical examination of the wrongdoing underlying the 2008 financial crisisAn unprecedented breakdown in the rule of law occurred in the United States after the 2008 financial collapse. Bank of America, JPMorgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and other large banks settled securities fraud claims with the Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to disclose the risks of subprime mortgages they sold to the investing public. But a corporation cannot commit fraud e...

In spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this oligarchy proved it could first hold the global economy hostage and then use its political muscle to fight off meaningful reform. 13 Bankers brilliantly charts the rise to power of the ...

Previously published as The Trillion Dollar MeltdownNow fully updated with the latest financial developments, this is the bestselling book that briefly and brilliantly explains how we got into the economic mess that is the Credit Crunch. With the housing markets unravelling daily and distress signals flying throughout the rest of the economy, there is little doubt that we are facing a fierce recession. In crisp, gripping prose, Charles R. Morris shows how ...

?Approximately 50,000 Canadians move to the U.S. every year. Already, there are hundreds of thousands of ex-Canadians living south of the border. The similarity in language, currency, culture, services, and products of these two countries can lead Canadians in the U.S. to mistakenly think that its laws and customs are also the same. It is these areas where The Canadian in America will be crucial to anyone either contemplating a move or already living in the U.S. Can a Canadian qualify for ...

The definitive report on what caused America's economic meltdown and who was responsible. The financial and economic crisis has touched the lives of millions of Americans who have lost their jobs and their homes, but many have little understanding of how it happened. Now, in this very accessible report, readers can get the facts. Formed in May 2009, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) is a panel of 10 commissioners with experience in business, regulations, economics, and housing...