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Cult of Glory
“Swanson has done a crucial public service by exposing the barbarous side of the Rangers.” —The New York Times Book Review A twenty-first century reckoning with the legendary Texas Rangers that does justice to their heroic moments while also documenting atrocities, brutality, oppression, and corruption The Texas Rangers came to life in 1823, when Texas was still part of Mexico. Nearly 200 years later, the Rangers are still going--one of the most famous of all law enforcement agencies. In Cult of Glory, Doug J. Swanson has written a sweeping account of the Rangers that chronicles their epic, daring escapades while showing how the white and propertied power structures of Texas used them ...
Blood Aces
A rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of Las Vegas They say in Vegas you can’t understand the town unless you understand Benny Binion—mob boss, casino owner, and creator of the World Series of Poker. Beginning as a Texas horse trader, Binion built a gambling empire in Depression-era Dallas. When the law chased him out of town, he loaded up suitcases with cash and headed for Vegas. The place would never be the same. Dramatic as any gangster movie, Blood Aces draws readers into the colorful world of notorious mobsters like Clyde Barrow and Bugsy Siegel. Given access to previously classified government documents, biographer Doug J. Swanson provides the definitive account of a great American antihero, a man whose rise from thugdom to prominence and power is unmatched in the history of American criminal justice.
Big Town
The brilliant debut novel in the widely-acclaimed Jack Flippo series, an Edgar Award Finalist from the Mystery Writers of America and the winner of the John Creasey Award from the British Crime Writers Association Jack Flippo was on the fast-track as a prosecutor for the Dallas D.A.'s office until an affair with a drug-dealer's wife derailed his career. Now he's a low-rent PI, hired by a sleazy attorney to get photos of a motivational speaker who has been cheating on his wife. But things go outrageously wrong, and Jack becomes entangled in a web of greed, betrayal sex, blackmail and murder...and that's just the start. "Detective fiction at its finest-fast, fun, and full of surprises. The cha...
Umbrella Man
Rumor has it that a long-lost movie showing a second gunman in the Kennedy assassination exists somewhere in Dallas. Eddie Nickles, an entrepreneur who gleefully leads tourists along the ill-fated motorcade route, offers a quarter-million dollars he doesn't have to anyone who provides the mystery footage. When he drags P.I. Jack Flippo into the mix, it isn't long before both men are running for their lives.
Getting It Right
In this steamy romantic suspense novel, a straight cop navigates his feelings for a male best friend while a serial killer is on the prowl. Detective Nathan Wolf might just be a junior detective, but he tackles every case with the passion that he lacks in his personal life. A series of failed relationships with women has left him still single at thirty-four—because he’s too scared to admit to his longtime crush on his best friend James. Dr. James Taggert likes to keep his profession as a psychiatrist separate from his party-animal persona. Known around the gay clubs as “Tag,” he’s the guy who screws them, leaves them, and never looks back. But James’s drinking is getting heavier, and when bad memories from the past resurface, he’s close to becoming the worst version of himself. After a drunken blackout ends in a hot and heavy make-out session with his very straight best friend, James has no memory of the steamy affair. But Nathan isn’t sorry for the kisses that James can’t remember. Nathan finally musters the courage to tell James how he really feels, but a life-altering event might force them apart before they can ever be together.
Murder in the Closet
Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots, LGBTQ life was dominated by the negative image of "the closet"--the metaphorical space where that which was deemed "queer" was hidden from a hostile public view. Literary studies of queer themes and characters in crime fiction have tended to focus on the more positive and explicit representations since the riots, while pre-Stonewall works are thought to reference queer only negatively or obliquely. This collection of new essays questions that view with an investigation of queer aspects in crime fiction published over eight decades, from the corseted Victorian era to the unbuttoned 1960s.
A Delightful Memoir of People and Places
A Delightful Memoir Of People And Places invites you to journey through the life of Harold MacKay. Follow Harold from his childhood in the 1930's through his years and experiences as a pastor, a father and a real estate agent, all the way into his retirement and after. Along the way, you will visit various communities across Canada and have the pleasure of meeting some of the strange, wonderful and endearing people who have enriched Harold's life.
The Ethics of the Story
The best journalists are masters at their craft. With a comma and a colon, a vivid verb and a colorful adjective, they not only convey important information but also create a sense of place and evoke powerful emotions. A compelling story can shape--for good or ill--the way a reader understands people, events, and issues. The Ethics of the Story examines the ethical implications of narrative techniques commonly used in journalism, not just literary journalism but also news and feature writing. The book draws on interviews with 60 talented journalists, including Pulitzer Prize winners, to offer practical advice about ethical choices in writing and editing. Much has been written about journalism ethics, but the discussion has often focused on spectacularly bad decisions--such as Jayson Blair's and Jack Kelley's use of fraudulent narrative--rather than the ethical dimension of day-to-day choices about the building blocks of journalistic storytelling. The Ethics of the Story fills a gap in current work on ethics, writing, and editing. It will enlighten any serious wordsmith with a story to tell.
Carnal Society
The intent of his book is to improve the management and operation of the criminal justice systems through public awareness of the dark and corruptive insides of these massive systems. A major goal of his work is to improve the daily treatment of young incarcerated Americans, with the hope of preventing these young people from entering into the adult criminal justice system. Another goal is to improve the training for managers and administrators of these programs so that employees can be better selected, trained, and treated, and so that they can serve as better role models and supervisors for the youth of America. Most criminal misbehavior can be altered and turned in a positive direction, w...
Scouting
Published by the Boy Scouts of America for all BSA registered adult volunteers and professionals, Scouting magazine offers editorial content that is a mixture of information, instruction, and inspiration, designed to strengthen readers' abilities to better perform their leadership roles in Scouting and also to assist them as parents in strengthening families.
