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This is a short book about a friend who had a very interesting life. Only the parts that the author witnessed are described here.
"Stone Lewis is out of jail, and looking for something solid in his life. The new tattoos on his face - they held him down in the nick and did them for him - make him look scary. People give him a wide berth. But he's trying to rebuild his life, he really is." "But the battered Asian girl he finds in the doorway of his basement flop drags him straight down to the old world. She's come to Hull - Hull! - from California, looking for her best friend after her letters suddenly stopped. She's beautiful, this Ginny, and she's a very long way from home, and Stone is, deep down, kind, so yes, he'll help." "But soon, he's right back in among the vicious lowlife of this city of docks and the opportunities they provide. Before long the terrible truth begins to emerge, and Stone has got something solid in his life, all right - psychos and Dobermanns."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The adventure of a lifetime to buy Stalin's secret multimillion dollar wine cellar located in Georgia; it is the Raiders of the Lost Ark of wine. In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines. He was the perfect person for an occasional business partner to approach with a mysterious wine list that was different to anything John, or his second-in-command, Kevin Hopko, had ever come across. The list was discovered to be a comprehensive catalogue of the wine collection of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia. The wine had become the property of the state after the Russian Revolution of 1918, during which Nicholas and his entire family were executed. Now own...
9 square miles. 10,000 criminals. 130 cops. A riveting memoir by Baker, California's most-decorated police officer Compton: the most violent and crime-ridden city in America. What had been a semi-rural suburb of Los Angeles in the 1950s became a battleground for the Black Panthers and Malcolm X Foundation, the home of the Crips and Bloods and the first Hispanic gangs, and the cradle of gangster rap. At the center of it, trying to maintain order was the Compton Police Department, never more than 130-strong, and facing an army of criminals that numbered over 10,000. At any given time, fully one-tenth of Compton's population was in prison, yet this tidal wave of crime was held back by the thinnest line of the law—the Compton Police. John R. Baker was raised in Compton, eventually becoming the city's most decorated officer involved in some of its most notorious, horrifying and scandalous criminal cases. Baker's account of Compton from 1950 to 2001 is one of the most powerful and compelling cop memoirs ever written—an intensely human account of sacrifice and public service, and the price the men and women of the Compton Police Department paid to preserve their city.
If God is all powerful and entirely good and loving, why is there so much evil in the world? Based on a close canonical reading of Scripture, this book offers a new approach to the challenge of reconciling the Christian confession of a loving God with the realities of suffering and evil. John Peckham offers a constructive proposal for a theodicy of love that upholds both the sovereignty of God and human freedom, showing that Scripture points toward a framework for thinking about God's love in relation to the world.