Gaius Julius Caesar was intelligent, courageous, and connected. For the majority of his adult life, though, he took little advantage of his gifts. Then, in his early forties, he came into his own as an orator, politician, general, writer, and statesman. Caesar dedicated himself to a singular mission: building Rome into an empire over which he would rule. As he realized his grand vision, the world he had created crashed down on him. Friends and foes alike turned against him. A group of cons...

Nothing in history sounds grander than a trade route, one of those thick bold lines on the statistical maps by which people have exchanged the products of their hands, minds, and sporadically, even hearts. Some of the routes have shaped history, rather than merely reflecting it. Primary among them is the Silk Road, the overland route across Asia that endured for more than 1,000 years as a crossroad from East to West. Here, in this essay by historian David Grace is the story of one of the g...

Long forgotten by mankind the world "Fane" lies on the outer reaches of explored space. The planet's peculiar electromagnetic fields slowly destroy electronic devices but in compensation they enhance psychic abilities. Over the centuries humans and the aliens with whom they share the planet have evolved into clans of wizards and masters, dullards and incompetents.Grantin, the nephew of a powerful but harsh magician, seems bound for failure in the magical arts. In a last ditch effor...

After being acquitted of eight grisly murders by reason of insanity, Hanford Wells was committed to a psychiatric hospital from which he soon escaped. When dental records proved that the battered body discovered in the woods was that of his missing patient, psychiatrist Llewellyn Price breathed a sigh of relief.Now, a year later a girl's skeleton is discovered near Wells' home town and carved into her skull are a line of symbols strikingly similar to those Wells doodled before his ...

This book contains twenty Science Fiction stories totaling approximately 130,000 words. The first three stories follow Harry Dondero, the first officer of the tramp star freighter, Orion. The topics for these twenty stories cover aliens, time travel, rogue technology and more.Five of the stories were novelettes originally published in Analog Magazine.Three of the stories were written by Hayford Peirce and David Grace (then writing under the "David Alexander" name).

Young J.T. Trainer was about to be killed for the life insurance money that would pay off his father's gambling debts. J.T.'s only friend, sixteen-year-old Hannah McGuire, discovered the plan and managed to get J.T. on a bus out of town before luring the killers in the other direction. J.T.'s last, fleeting glimpse of Hannah was of her racing off into the night with the gambler's enforcers hot on her trail.Now, twenty years later, San Diego Homicide Detective J.T. Trainer is still ...

When Peter Howard stumbled across a kidnapped child in the middle of nowhere he only intended to follow them and then call the police, but the man confronted him and pulled a gun. The next thing Peter knew Lisa was in his car, her captor was lying on the ground bleeding, and Peter was driving off madly into the night.Peter soon discovered that Lisa's captor was the brother of the local police chief and that Peter himself was now a wanted man. If the locals caught them they would gi...

At the end of WW II revolutionary technology seized from Nazi slave-labor labs in central Europe was consigned to the Forbidden List to be kept secret forever.When Deputy Assistant Undersecretary of Defense Daniel Rivers stumbled across it he plotted to make a fortune from its release. Rivers' scheme was discovered and everyone relaxed when he was quietly silenced with a commitment to the Wheaton Fields Psychiatric Clinic as a paranoid schizophrenic. Relaxed that is until it was di...

"Set in the modern day, this straightforward, fast-paced detective novel cages a truly twisted villain.""The reader is thrust into a page-turning, clever narrative that continually morphs from police procedural, thriller, courtroom drama, and gritty evaluation of a serial rapist and killer.""...the relentless pace allows for little introspection.""Grace relishes the accurate and disturbing details, providing top-quality entertainment....""...a relentless sto...

After twenty-fives years on the job, NYPD Lieutenant Greg Webster retired to a small Kansas college to teach classes in Criminal Justice. Webster looked forward to the move as a well-deserved rest for himself and his social-worker wife, Carolyn. Unfortunately, before even a year had passed Carolyn was dead, killed in an apparent hit-and-run accident. Though dazed and heartbroken, Greg suspected nothing sinister about her death until, as a class project, one of Webster's students began rese...

Veteran Homicide Detective James "Big Jim" Donegan and his partner, Detective Chris Hunter, have been called to scene of their latest case, a strangled call girl who has been put halfway through a wood chipper that was left unattended in one of the city's parks.Since he was eight years old Chris Hunter has looked up to Big Jim Donegan not merely as a mentor but also as a father-figure. Today Big Jim intends to use this case, like every other crime that they have worked together, as...

Big things always start small. Big steps can surely take an individual further ahead on the path of success, but it's the small steps that count – those were the steps that put the individual on the path in the first place. This is the ideology that has been discussed in this book. The author has studied ants most of his life and has always been fascinated by their relentless effort, never giving up to achieve what they want. He believes there is a lot to be learned from our little friends...