A murder in a sleepy resort in South Georgia challenges the sheriff's department to solve a crime that involves New York mafia as well as local villains. During the investigation a romance develops between two of the deputies involved in the case leading to a surprise conclusion.

The four classic tales in this volume illuminate Leo Tolstoy's radical orientation toward war and commerce, revealing his vision for a sustainable, peaceable world. The feature story, Ivan the Fool, presents an archetypal fool who works hard, cooperates with everyone, and manages to foil every attempt to cause his downfall. In the end, peasant life comes out on top, while the pillars of imperial Russian society topple down. Esarhaddon, King of Assyria explores a king's empathy-based revela...

Campaign Murder takes the reader inside of two competing political campaigns. The story describes the strategy, current issues, competition among staff, and management of the candidates. Both campaigns are under peril of death as staff members are being murdered, and the clock is running down to election day. Follow the clues as the agents of the GBI peal back the layers of the case to find critical answers before the wrong person gets elected governor.

Georgia Murder School is a fast paced, non-stop, crime drama that takes on the classic crime thriller with a rich plot and unforgettable characters. Among the so-called villains being trained in rural Georgia to become the best killers in the world for a consortium of international crime syndicates are testosterone-ladened klutzes and those second guessing their career choices. A female CIA agent assigned to work with Interpol investigates an international criminal conspiracy. A fresh, unc...

This book tells of two strangers' search for the lost civil War wealth of Atlanta.Against all odds, a young unemployed white man and a young female African American attorney meet, then find, and finally try to hold on to their unimagined bounty. During their search, they must address their prejudices regarding each other and overcome them as they increasingly rely on one another when their adventure grows more dangerous.Suspense builds from a murky South Carolina creek bank...

Jack Kraft's struggle to achieve scientific excellence made him a driven, antisocial and myopic genius, but he was still sought after by the agricultural industry for his creative ingenuity. Ostracized by his family, the damaged young man become a world-renowned horticultural professor who aspired to create the most important and dynamic seed the world has ever known.A mammoth agricultural corporation gives him the largest research grant in history to develop a dream seed. The sear...

A murder in a sleepy resort in South Georgia challenges the sheriff's department to solve a crime that involves New York mafia as well as local villains. During the investigation a romance develops between two of the deputies involved in the case leading to a surprise conclusion.

Sound has always been an integral component of the moviegoing experience. Even during the so-called “silent era,” motion pictures were regularly accompanied by live music, lectures, and sound effects. Today, whether we listen to movies in booming Dolby theaters or on tiny laptop speakers, sonic elements hold our attention and guide our emotional responses. Yet few of us are fully aware of the tremendous collaborative work, involving both artistry and technical wizardry, required to create ...

As the first collection of new work on sound and cinema in over a decade, Lowering the Boom addresses the expanding field of film sound theory and its significance in rethinking historical models of film analysis. The contributors consider the ways in which musical expression, scoring, voice-over narration, and ambient noise affect identity formation and subjectivity. Lowering the Boom also analyzes how shifting modulation of the spoken word in cinema results in variation...

This volume is the first English-language collection exclusively dedicated to the study of genre in relation to Spanish cinema. Providing a variety of critical perspectives, the collection gives the reader a thorough account of the relationship between Spanish cinema and genre, drawing on case studies of several of the most remarkable Spanish films in recent years.The book analyses the significant changes in the aesthetics, production and reception of Spanish film from 1990 onwards...

The late 1960s and 1970s are widely recognized as a golden age for American film, as directors like Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese expanded the Hollywood model with aesthetically innovative works. As this groundbreaking new study reveals, those filmmakers were blessed with more than just visionary eyes; Designing Sound focuses on how those filmmakers also had keen ears that enabled them to perceive new possibilities for cinematic sound design.Offer...

New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder brought private investigator and ex-Special Forces Nick Heller to life in a critically acclaimed series. Here is Nick Heller’s beginning, in a down-priced bundle of the first two thrillers.VanishedLauren Heller and her husband are attacked in Georgetown, but when he disappears completely, she calls her brother-in-law—Nick Heller—to investigate. Thrown into a desperate chase, N...