The first book of the Profit Logbooks Series sets the stage for a whole new universe of adventure in the stars.Zack Mbele, captain of the independent freighter Profit, needs cash fast. There’s a loan payment due on the ship, not to mention a bogus Customs duty imposed by a crooked official. They’ll seize his ship if he doesn't pay up and he has few prospects.When an old friend calls with a lead on a job, Zack isn’t too picky about obeying the letter of the law. All he has t...

The debut Fantasy novel from Author Bruce Davis is magic, mystery and murder woven together launching a fast paced engaging series. When King’s Agents Simon Buckley and Haldron Stonebender raid a suburban farmhouse, they expect to find an illegal bomb factory full of Orc terrorists. Instead, they end up killing the sister of the current Elf ruler, turning a straightforward police raid into an international incident.Now, Simon and his team must battle terrorists, gangsters, and thei...

Going straight is hard.The Profit is living up to her name for the first time since Zack Mbele stole her from the Martian Navy. After using the money from a big score to upgrade the ship’s living quarters, Zack and crew market her as a high-class charter yacht to the rich and famous. They’re welcome most everywhere they go (except Ceres and Kwai Hong One, but you can’t please everyone). Even their reputation as pirates and hard-case smugglers works to their advanta...

A true crime account of a mass shooting by gangster brothers which resulted in the deaths of six police officers in Depression-era Missouri."In all the annals of preservation of the peace there is no story that runs more gallantly than this." — Springfield Leader, January 4, 1932As dusk fell on a bitterly cold night during the Great Depression, a posse of ten local lawmen approached two brothers holed up in an isolated Missouri farmhouse. Minutes la...

Enjoy these three shorts set in the universe of The Profit Logbooks, the compelling and action packed science fiction series from Bruce Davis.The Profit was living up to her name for the first time since Zack Mbele had stolen her from the Martian Navy in the chaos at the end of the Reunification War.He was earning a good living for my crewmates, and himself, and it was all honest money. It was what Cleo had always wanted – a home built on a stable business. Zack once though...

"Shines with interest and humanity."— Lara Palay, LISW-S, author of The Way Through and The Sum of Light"Important reading, reminding us all that we don't work with problems but with people just like us."— Kevin Aldridge, MA, author of The Way ForwardWhat does it mean to truly see another person?Fellow Human Beings is a collection of deeply human stories drawn from y...

Zack Mbele has a problem. The Profit is in hock for repair costs and Kwai Chang Wu, a mobster, has bought the bank that holds the note. Either he does a job for Wu, or he'll lose his ship.Just to make matters worse, someone is after his friend, Rabbit, and the Dragons, another mob, are involved somehow. And if that wasn't enough, Duce's friends are being hurt as well; and Cleo, his ex-wife and half owner of the Profit, is up to something and he can't figure out what.And who...

Set in a near-future Chicago, BLANKTOWN (Original title: Queen Mab Courtesy) is part adventure, part mystery, part science, and all fun.Tito, the main character, is a "Denver Dwarf"--victim of a birth defect caused by a biological terrorist attack while he was in the womb. It certainly didn't affect his mind or his spirit, though.He meets up with Charlie Sleazer, a hot chestnut vendor who quotes Shakespeare and has a few interesting sidelines (like helping people out of jam...

The war with the Rilz is pushing humanity to its limits and Intruder pilot Lt. Alan 'Mac' McAllister and his flying partner 'Ivan' Ivchenko are in the thick of the fighting. Battling the Lizards is bad enough, but fighting a planet full of rebel humans tests their friendship and Mac's integrity as a Naval pilot. But the biggest test for Mac is maintaining his own sanity in the face of a creeping dependence on the electronic link that allows him to fly the most advanced combat spacecraft ev...

Three days of riots have left the Hollows a war zone. The fragile racial, social and economic fractures that ran under Cymbeline have ruptured with seismic intensity leaving hundreds dead.Freshly promoted Lieutenant Simon Buckley is assigned to a flying squad responding to newly discovered bodies. But he finds that not all the deaths are due to simple violence born of racial hatred and desperation. Someone is using the chaos to cover foul murder.Simon’s investigation threat...

The follow up to the enormously successful Platinum Magic novel by Fantasy author Bruce Davis published by Brick Cave Books.The Hollows are a tinderbox. Rival drug gangs struggle for supremacy in the Orc dominated slum of Cymbeline. Poverty and prejudice keep thousands of Orcs locked in a cycle of misery and despair.When four Orc children are found dead in a vacant lot, victims of a foul Blood magic ritual, Simon Buckley and his Magic Enforcement team know they have to solv...

The first behind-the-scenes history of the organization behind the Academy Awards.For all the near-fanatic attention brought each year to the Academy Awards, the organization that dispenses those awards—the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—has yet to be understood. To date, no one has ever produced a thorough account of the Academy’s birth and its awkward adolescence, and the few reports on those periods from outside the organization have always had a gl...