"THE CIGAR BOX," a life time in crime. Is a story that can be enjoyed by all readers who like a suspense filled journey style book.Mr. Joseph Battaglia, a former war hero, returns home and uses his "G.I. Bill" to attend college. Joe earns a degree in investment banking. Soon after graduation, he and his wife buy a home and plan to start a family. A horrifying event and personal tragedy push Joe over an emotional ledge.Many years later, Joe seeks legal counsel to help find a remedy for his lifetime in crime. Joe finds attorney David Thompson, senior partner at Jones--Dunn--Thompson Law Firm in Washington, DC, and the search begins. What Joe and David discover are layers of corruption and illegal activities hidden within several governmental agencies. These actions have held Joseph Battaglia hostage for more than 35 years. David who had planned on retirement decides to take one last case following his client Joe, into places where no one should go.
Insurance adjuster Benjamin Chaze wakes up in Massachusetts General Hospital, severely beaten and drugged, with no recollection as to how or why. He soon discovers his apartment and car have also been burglarized. Someone had gone to great lengths and risk to get something from Ben. He and the police come to the initial conclusion that he must have seen something while working on a claim or had inadvertently included something incriminating in one of his claim files. Working with a public adjuster, Katrina Peters, the pair increasingly realize the stakes are far more than originally thought and far more sinister than either ever imagined. The race to find the answers holds the key to the prevention of their demise.
Marshall McCabe, a happy go lucky crime beat reporter, stumbles onto a young man who has no name. Mac found him one night kneeling in front of the Baltimore Basilica.The story, Mac wrote about this incident, would be titled "The Angel of Darkness." Several days later, the Baltimore City Police Department learns that his name is Paul Delflume, the younger brother of Jon Delflume.Mac, following his gut instincts, decides that there is more than meets the eye and follows the brothers to Saratoga Springs, New York. What he learns there leads him to Scranton, Pennsylvania. Mac now knows he is onto something very special and shares his suspicions with the newspaper's lawyer.He is advised to contact the Federal Bureau of Investigation and soon after, Special Agent Peter Franks, hi-jacks Mac because of his relationship with the Delflume brothers.Marshall McCabe soon learns that he will be working inside the very prestigious Behavioral Analysts Unit of the FBI. Years later, Mac writes a novel titled "Crucifix" telling his story as an insider who witnessed first hand what has become a case study for the FBI-BAU.
Sal Trumbola will take you inside the entertainment industry for a first hand experience with sex, drugs, rock and roll. This adventure spans over time from the 1980's until the year 2015 and beyond. Early in Sal's career, he uses his sales and marketing skills to promote a new music group. After years of commitment and hardship, he is betrayed by all but one of those closest to him. He is left hurt, but not broken.He continues on with his long time friend, Ty Brady. Together they find new artists and begin to enjoy the sweetness of success. Sal carries with him his nickname "KING" from the early days. However, the game has now changed because he represents the best of the best.The nickname "KING" stays with him as he builds a music empire while moving forward, and finds the love of a woman who gives new meaning to life and happiness.Would you like to lose your soul and never have time for a meaningful relationship or marriage? My story, "Music Man," is an opportunity for you to take a journey with me as we experience the trials and tribulations found in the entertainment business. You will also experience the glory of achievement and all the rewards that lavish the starts.
ATTENTION: GOLF NUTS Those of us that count the Days, Hours, and Minutes until our next match will enjoy this story."57" is a feel good fantasy journey taken by two friends. In this story about "better late than never," Brent Siegle an established sports columnist covering professional football, and recently retired Hall of Fame quarterback Burt Russell, continue their friendship off the gridiron and onto the golf course. Burt entertains the idea of pursuing a second career as a professional golfer. Brent, therefore, decides to write the adventure novel he has waited all his life to write. They decide to take golf lessons together to learn the game of golf, and find they are hooked on the game that so many of use love. Along the way, these two bachelors find girlfriends and Brent finds love for the first time in his life.Suddenly, Burt changes his mind and accepts an offer to become a television game day football commentator. This action leaves Brent with a half-written novel, and the nickname, "ToTo," a wife and son, and no main character to complete his novel. What follows is one most unexpected journey and story for those that believe anything is possible.
Fictional --- Futuristic --- Compelling A novel I was driven to write because I love my country. The stage is the American political scene pre and post Election Day 2016.Matthew Moore is a published author who works for a daily newspaper as a crime beat reporter. One evening Matt meets a young man troubled by his service time in Afghanistan and Iraq. Matt believes that Nickolas Flynn represents many of those veterans returning home from war with PTSD.Matt had been considering writing a novel on the subject and now with his new acquaintance Mr. Flynn, he plans to start work immediately. However, a sniper shooting at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore City leads Matthew to follow the presidential campaign in search of the shooter.Several months later, FBI agent Richard Cooper asked Matt to go undercover as a FBI informant traveling with the American Independent Party Candidate, Ben Carr.A group of Domestic terrorists and the events attributed to them overshadow the race for the White House."Campaign 2016 / American Rage"This project was in the works starting just after the 2012 election and I completed my work at the end of 2014.I started with a story line that would be the centerpiece reflecting current frustrations shared by most Americans. Then, I built several other stories featuring some of the main characters around the same subject matter. You will either love, or hate, this story. I know one thing for sure, it will get your attention. I believe so strongly in this story that I offered it to members of the mainstream press, and each member of the 113th House of Representatives. Enjoy and thank you. Vincent Anthon
You or someone you know may be faced with a terrifying dilemma? If so, this story was written for you. A SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD CAN OFTEN BE THE GREATEST CHALLENGE PARENTS FEAR BUT MUST FACE. Sal and Deanna, two young teachers in the public school system working in Baltimore City, Maryland, are blessed with their first child Katie. One year later they have a son, Gino. However, both Sal and Deanna notice that Gino is developing much slower than his sister Katie. The young family embraces the challenge with unwavering love and commitment. Mother, father, and sister find the strength to support Gino's desire to attend public high school. During Gino's journey, his father who is also the varsity football coach, uses innovative communication methods to overcome Gino's limited use of speech. Over this same time period his mother becomes an authority on the subject of special needs children. Deanna then works to change how the public school system recognize this problem as she advocates change. As you read this story your heart will hurt a little, but you will be left with a good feeling about the blessing of having children.
Religion can play a dual role with regard to conflict. It can promote either violence or peace. Religion and Conflict Attribution seeks to clarify the causes of religious conflict as perceived by Christian, Muslim and Hindu college students in Tamil Nadu, India. These students in varying degrees attribute conflict to force-driven causes, namely to coercive power as a means of achieving the economic, political or socio-cultural goals of religious groups. The study reveals how force-driven religious conflict is influenced by prescriptive beliefs like religious practice and mystical experience, and descriptive beliefs such as the interpretation of religious plurality and religiocentrism. It also elaborates on the practical consequences of the salient findings for the educational process.
THIS IS AN ADVANCED READER COPY ONLY - A poignant tale of extreme hardship, anguish and love where one man must decide whether he'll accept life's circumstances surrounding the coveted, sacred Italian tenant of 'Omerta' for the sake of his Family.Alosio's heart, mind and soul burned with the memory of his beloved Sera' and memories leading to his departing from her company. In the years to follow, Alosio would become so hardened by the world that he wouldn't be able to bring himself to vocally express his love, his cold nature would become notorious. For now, however and until they met again, she bestowed upon him a kiss that would last as the sustenance of his love for her. He could not but exhale one breath without feeling her within him. As their lips parted for the last time in some years, she prayed and said, "Whenever you despair, whenever you think of me, speak these words and remember they are mine. I ask the angels of light to stand at the gateway of my soul, please protect me from all negativity, except that from which I need for my learning."
A British soldier storming the Normandy D-Day beachhead, a man whose girlfriend had been deported to Auschwitz four years previously - "Whenever I see a German in black? I see a dead German in SS black."The #1 Amazon charts bestseller The Long Road to Auschwitz explores the horrors of the Holocaust whilst looking to what would eventually end Nazi tyranny in Europe - the Allied soldiers landing on Normandy Beach. Pre-War Europe - May 1939. A couple meet and fall in love on a Parisian street. Max is a British Territorial soldier and Zia is a Jewish girl from the south of France. Zia's grandmother is a wealthy socialite, privy to a dark secret that can harm the Nazi leadership. After Zia is kidnapped by the Gestapo and Max is hospitalised, he awakes to find no trace of his beloved who he had planned to marry in England. The Red Cross suspect that she was trafficked across the border and delivered to Sachsenhausen Labour Camp at Oranienburg, not far from Berlin on the night of May 26th, 1939. A criminal act, 343 days before the Wehrmacht attacked France. June 6th, 1944 - four years later. Max is one of 150,000 Allied troops headed towards the Normandy beaches. He has two options - find the woman he could never forget or kill the people responsible for her death. From the very beginning, Berlin had ordered SS Hauptsturmf hrer Dieter Baumann to deal harshly with their VIP captive but never to kill her. Through three concentration camps, ending in Auschwitz, Zia wishes she had been killed many times over. Traumatized, she has no idea that Max and a few unlikely friends are battling their way through Nazi occupied Europe in a crazy attempt to rescue her. This novel explores the dark depths that humans can sink to in times of war. It is for adults only and even then; it is not for readers of a sensitive disposition. Whatever you read in this novel of extraordinary graphic Holocaust content, consider this - it was immeasurably worse, a hundred thousand times so.
Do unto others before they do it to you. Three disillusioned SAS Special Forces soldiers return to Britain in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf conflict to discover an increasingly corrupt judiciary. Smirking miscreants walk free whilst the innocent suffer. Aided by a Scotland Yard informant, the trio embark on a brutal, covert crusade to rid Britain of its nefarious untouchables. Drug dealers, paedophiles and various other lawbreakers are targeted as the morgues fill and the courts empty. Detective Inspector Jim Brannigan, a former military policeman, investigates, suspecting that the deaths are linked. Divided loyalties ensue when the paroled Jamaican drug dealer responsible for the death of Jim's wife evades the justice system but not the elite soldiers now operating as vigilantes.If any of us, or our families, had suffered at the hands of terrorists, drug dealers or paedophiles - would we not demand justice? Especially if the offenders had walked free from court on a technicality. In the case of this book, and its sequel, justice is often lethal and barbaric, carried out by demobbed Special Forces soldiers. Not for the politically correct though even they might say that SAS: Body Count is wonderful and wishful thinking. Hollywood is certain to come knocking for this book - Ray Hoy (The Fiction Works)Unputdownable Cornerstones Agency. Superbly written book that I just could not put down. The story kept me hooked from beginning to end, Looking forward to part two - Kevin Paul Rich.I'm sure most of us have ranted at soft justice. I certainly have but none of that in this book Full of suspense and very well written by a clever author. Very graphic violence so be warned about that. I enjoyed this - Paula Potier.
Be cruel to your enemy and they will dread the very notion of you. While the hunt for the former SAS trio continues across Britain, a wave of pro-vigilantism is whipped up by the duplicitous UK media. Detective Inspector Jim Brannigan's world is thrown into turmoil when his partner is inexplicably shot by one of the ex soldiers. As she clings to life, the vengeful copper learns that the elite killers have spread their net to include resurgent terrorists, a strategy that leads to mayhem on the streets of The UK. Unknown to even his comrades, the unit leader plans one final devastating act of revenge. * Includes a 90 page novella that acts as a prequel to books One and Two in the Wicked Will Perish series.
A serial killer who can read the thoughts of victims and investigators. Detective Mickey Rourke is called to a late night homicide in Queens, New York. The scene resembles a slaughterhouse. The sole victim had been torn apart. A distraught elderly neighbour informs Rourke that the victim was a serial killer - the victim? She then asks the NYPD detective to look "behind the walls" of the apartment. What is found within, sickens a shocked and petrified populace. A serial killer had killed another serial killer leading to a week of carnage with only a female psychic to lead the embattled cop towards safety, closure and peace of mind."This could be the book of the year. The central character's language is reminiscent of Raymond Chandler dialogue spoken by Humphrey Bogart." - Ray Hoy of The Fiction Works.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR?Considering recent events, we should all keep a look over our shoulder - the unthinkable could happen again, so easily. Let us hope it does not because the numbers would be even more staggering than the Holocaust. This time it will not be the Jewish people. Muslims have to clean house from within, or the lunatics will do it for them. Pulled from the aftermath of an ISIS attack in London where 532 people perished, Tobias Rock believes that it was his destiny to survive. Europe is a powder keg waiting to implode with vast numbers of immigrants leaving the Middle East to pass safe havens to reach Britain. This is unacceptable to the former British Army Intelligence Corps officer who embarks on a new mission - to rid the United Kingdom of all militant Muslims and anyone offering them shelter. To achieve his goal he must enter the murky world of politics and gain power by fair means or foul. A holocaust awaits as a reign of terror threatens the oldest democracy in the world but Rock only cares for the preservation of British values and strengthening her armed forces. Will history repeat itself or will Rock's enemies in parliament stop him in time.
