A deep dive into "one of the most spectacular cases of police corruption in the city" from the detective and assistant DA who uncovered the truth ( The New York Times).Friends of the Family is a look deep inside the most notorious case to rock the NYPD: The story of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, the two police detectives who moonlighted as mob hitmen. As told by Tommy Dades and Michael Vecchione—the cop and District Attorney investigator wh...

"Cephalopods are often misunderstood creatures. Three biologists set the record straight on the behaviors and evolution of these invertebrates of the sea." — Science NewsLargely shell-less relatives of clams and snails, the marine mollusks in the class Cephalopoda—Greek for "head-foot" —are colorful creatures of many-armed dexterity, often inky self-defense, and highly evolved cognition. They are capable of learning, of retaining information—and of rapid de...

Behind the Murder Curtain is the true story of Bruce Sackman, Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General. Sackman’s main responsibilities had been investigating white-collar crimes such as embezzlement when he is drawn into the macabre world of doctors and nurses who murder their patients. Sackman evolves from an investigator of routine cases to the world’s leading expert on Medical Serial Killers—MSKs—doctors and nurses who ...

Anarchy, Chaos... Peace?In a world where heinous crimes go unpunished, a priest from the Vatican's Office of Exorcisms in New York makes a chilling discovery: each acquittal preceded a satanic exorcism. His unsettling conclusion? The Devil himself is orchestrating this chaos, plunging America into lawlessness and despair.Enter the Fallen Angel series, where Brooklyn becomes the battleground against the Evil One. Chief Michael Gioca of the B...

For more than two decades, Jimmy Dennedy, a cop's cop, served the people of New York City as a member of the NYPD. First as a uniformed officer working the streets in some of the toughest crime ridden neighborhoods in his home borough of Brooklyn. Then in the NYPD narcotics division, dealing with the worst of the worst who were infesting the streets of the city with the poison that destroyed lives. And finally as a detective in the NYPD-FBI Joint Terrorist Task Force, doing just what the n...

There's a war for the very soul of Brooklyn ... and the stakes are higher than ever!When perpetrators of particularly heinous and insidious crimes were acquitted after trial in an alarmingly large number across America, it caught the attention of a priest in the Vatican's Office of Exorcisms in New York, who noticed that all preceded satanic exorcisms. His shuddering conclusion - Satan must be directly responsible for the crimes and their aftermath.In the U...

An epic excursion into one of the last great frontiers on EarthThe deep ocean comprises more than 90 percent of our planet’s biosphere and is home to some of the world’s most dazzling creatures, which thrive amid extreme pressures, scarce food supplies, and frigid temperatures. Living things down here behave in remarkable and surprising ways, and cutting-edge technologies are shedding new light on these critically important ecosystems. This beautifully illustrated ...

When a priest in the Vatican's Office of Exorcisms in New York noticed the upheaval that was occurring in American cities after perpetrators of particularly heinous and insidious crimes had been acquitted after trial, something struck him about the dates of those crimes. His research revealed that the crimes all preceded satanic exorcisms he had either witnessed or performed and struck at the very fabric of society.After additional research revealed eerily similar instances had occ...

A thrilling memoir from the former chief of the Brooklyn District Attorney's Rackets Division, who took on organized crime, crooked cops, and con men, rarely losing a caseFrom 2001 to 2013, Mike Vecchione was chief of the Rackets Division in the Brooklyn District Attorney's office, which was the largest urban prosecution agency in the country. Vecchione grappled with organized crime and dirty politicians, during which he supervised, investigated, and prosecuted majo...

When a priest in the Vatican's Office of Exorcisms in New York noticed the upheaval that was occurring in American cities after perpetrators of particularly heinous and insidious crimes had been acquitted after trial, something struck him about the dates of those crimes. His research revealed that the crimes all preceded satanic exorcisms he had either witnessed or performed and struck at the very fabric of society.After additional research revealed eerily similar instances had occ...

There's a war for the very soul of Brooklyn ... and the stakes are higher than ever!When perpetrators of particularly heinous and insidious crimes were acquitted after trial in an alarmingly large number across America, it caught the attention of a priest in the Vatican's Office of Exorcisms in New York, who noticed that all preceded satanic exorcisms. His shuddering conclusion - Satan must be directly responsible for the crimes and their aftermath.In the U...

Anarchy, Chaos... Peace?In a world where heinous crimes go unpunished, a priest from the Vatican's Office of Exorcisms in New York makes a chilling discovery: each acquittal preceded a satanic exorcism. His unsettling conclusion? The Devil himself is orchestrating this chaos, plunging America into lawlessness and despair.Enter the Fallen Angel series, where Brooklyn becomes the battleground against the Evil One. Chief Michael Gioca of the B...