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An arsonist has struck a top-secret research facility at a key US naval base. But it's not just a random terrorist attack. These people were after something specific. When Special Agent Patrick Bowers is called in to investigate, he is drawn into a deadly web of intrigue and deception. With his own criminology research being turned against him and one of the world's most deadly devices missing, Bowers is caught up in a race against time to stop an international assassin before it's too late. Full of fast-paced action and mind-bending plot twists, The Rook is an adrenaline-laced page-turner that will keep readers up all night. Book 2 in the Bowers Files, this riveting look into the criminal mind is the perfect follow-up to James's well-reviewed The Pawn..
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Special Agent Patrick Bowers had only met one man who made him truly afraid. Until now. When he's called to North Carolina to consult on the case of an area serial killer, he finds himself in a deadly game. Cunning and lethal, the killer is always one step ahead of the law, and he's about to strike again. It will take all of Bowers's instincts and training to stop this man who calls himself the Illusionist. And just when the pieces start to come together, Bowers realizes they're not quite adding up. Can he unravel the pattern and save the next victim? Or will the Illusionist win the game by taking one of his opponent's pieces? Thrilling, chilling, and impossible to put down, The Pawn will hold suspense lovers in its iron grip until the very last page..
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Criminologist Denny Colt let the world believe he was dead inorder to continue his war against crime as the masked vigilanted known onlyas The Spirit.Through his career, he fought some of the world's deadliestvillains with nothing more than his wits, his fists and his tongue plantedfirmly in his cheek.The blue-suit clad, fedora-wearing crime fighter created by Will Eisnerstarred in hundreds of newspaper adventure stories that thrilled readers,and Eisner's groundbreaking style utilized the comics format to itsgreatest strengths.Eisner's masterwork continues through one of its greatest periods in thisvolume, featuring such classic stories as "Future Death," "The Meanest Manin the World," "Darling and the Octopus" and "The Hero.".
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This encyclopedia doesn't play favorites, capturing personalities from both sides of the law in brisk thumbnail sketches. From Jane Addams, a leading social reformer who helped establish the first juvenile court in the 1890s, to Fernando Wood, one of 19th-century New York's most corrupt mayors, the cast of characters runs the gamut of the good, the bad, and those caught in between up to the present day. Janet Reno, who became the first female attorney general of the United States in 1993, is here, along with her troubles connected to the siege on the Waco, Texas, compound of David Koresh's religious cult, the Branch Davidians. There are the usual notorious suspects--Bonnie and Clyde, "Wild Bill" Hickok, and Meyer Lansky, among others--as well as a wealth of lesser-known notables like William Peist, a turncoat cop who supplied information to Mafia crime boss John Gotti, and John A. Larson, a former police officer and practicing psychiatrist who invented the polygraph "lie detector" test in 1921. The bulk of the passages cover the past two centuries, but there are significant contributions that date further back, including Hammurabi, king of ancient Babylon, whose legal code embodied the idea of "an eye for an eye."

The dictionary is accessible and tightly written, with a sophisticated style that belies the brevity of its passages. Many of the entries come with suggested books and further reading on the personalities, along with a wealth of historical photos and drawings. An extensive index allows for easy searching, not just for the 600 people profiled but for subjects such as "autopsies," "fingernail scrapings," and "self-incrimination," which in turn link to notables in those areas. And a thoughtful introduction delves into the difference between morality and legality, and the evolution of today's police system. Like Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and Black's Law Dictionary, this book deserves a place on a well-stocked reference shelf. --Jodi Mailander Farrell.
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The Deadly Tools of Ignorance follows the witty and feisty Debs Kafka through the dysfunctional halls of academia, into the scandal-ridden Catholic Church, down the streets of San Francisco, and into the locker rooms of Major League Baseball Can he fathom the chaos of these different worlds, find the culprit, and still salvage his own aspirations and stormy romance? In a nutshell this novel is: Good Will Hunting meets the Rookie on the Field of Dreams behind the Catholic Church..
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