In his early thirties and working as a corrections officer, Chuck Barreto is at a crossroads in life. Years earlier, the love of his life Shandi was murdered, and he recently lost his father in the 9/11 terrorist attack, which has reopened old wounds. Still haunted by the past but trying to move on, Chuck is working on writing a memoir and building the ranch Shandi had always dreamed of. He and his siblings stand to inherit a large parcel of land from their mother, but a ruthless developme...

When archaeologists unearthed a small clay jar containing a copper cylinder and an iron rod in Iraq, the world was captivated. Dubbed the "Baghdad Battery," it sparked wild theories that ancient Mesopotamians had discovered electricity thousands of years before Alessandro Volta. These sensational claims of ancient electroplating and lost technological empires make for great television, but they actively erase the genuine brilliance of the ancient world. By forcing modern concepts onto anci...

Sequel Unleashes New Threats for Chuck: Land Heist, Murder Trials, and a Mysterious Cowboy. Family Tensions Rise as Ranch Expansion Begins, Love Affairs Stir, and a Secret Looms.In Capricorn Chuck's World of Pain, we delve deeper into the life of Chuck and his family as they face a formidable force hell-bent on swindling them out of their inherited land. The stakes are high as the nefarious attorney involved is held captive, awaiting a potential murder trial in the very prison wher...

Everyone Is Underutilised: Unlocking The Capability Work Forgot explores the quiet, often invisible ways organisations shrink human capability and how leaders and individuals can unlock the potential that has been there all along. Across workplaces everywhere, people operate far below their true ability. Not because they lack talent, but because the systems around them, and the stories within them, dim what they believe they're allowed to contribute. Job descriptions narrow initiative. Hie...

At the dawn of the 20th century, developers saw an arid basin in Southern California and dreamed of an agricultural paradise. Instead, a single miscalculation turned the mighty Colorado River inland, flooding the desert for two relentless years. This catastrophic engineering failure birthed the Salton Sea, a massive accidental ocean that transformed into a glamorous mid-century resort destination, only to become one of the nation's worst ecological time bombs. Beneath its receding, toxic w...

The adventures of Capricorn Chuck conclude in this action-packed thriller about one man's quest to save his land and find himself again.It's true that Chuck has survived a world of pain before, so who could have guessed the events that would ultimately lead to his demise. But for Chuck, losing was the only way to win.In the aftermath of his brother's death, Gary and his new bride, Lilly, move back to Woodrow, and Gary goes to work for a mysterious company in Wofford City. A...

In the rugged wilderness between New Hampshire and Quebec, a cartographical error after the American Revolution left a small pocket of land entirely unaccounted for. Both the United States and Great Britain claimed it, yet neither effectively governed it. Frustrated by double taxation and constant threats of arrest from two different countries, the few hundred settlers living there did something extraordinary: they declared absolute independence. From 1832 to 1835, the Republic of Indian S...

In sunny Puerto Rico, the Executioner will turn paradise into hellThe plane comes in low over the Puerto Rican resort, getting Mack Bolan close enough to notice snipers in the hotel windows and shotguns in the cabanas. He escaped his latest battle against the Mafia by fleeing to the Caribbean, but the tentacles of the mob stretch everywhere, and they are waiting for him to land. He rigs the plane for a collision course with the resort, bailing out just before impact...

The first book in the classic vigilante action series from a "writer who spawned a genre" ( The New York Times).Overseas, Mack Bolan was dubbed "Sgt. Mercy" for the compassion he showed the innocent. On the home front, they're calling him the Executioner for what he's doing to the guilty.In the jungles of Southeast Asia, American sniper Mack Bolan honed his skills. After twelve years, with ninety-five confirmed hits, he returns home to Massachusett...

"Action adventure icon" Mack Bolan, aka the Executioner, is back—and this time he's got backup ( Los Angeles Times).After Mafia pressure destroyed his family, ace sniper Mack Bolan left the jungles of Southeast Asia to declare a new war on the home front. A one-man army, he wiped out the mob in his Massachusetts hometown. That was just the beginning.Hunted by the police, tracked by the FBI, and carrying a price on his head, Bolan is on the move. Af...

Introducing "action adventure icon" Mack Bolan as he wages a one-man war against the Mafia—in the first three books of the million-selling series ( Los Angeles Times).In the jungles of Southeast Asia, no sniper was more ruthless than Mack Bolan. After twelve years in-country, with ninety-five confirmed kills, the Special Forces sergeant returns to the United States only to find that his father has gone berserk, slaughtering his family before taking his own ...

When his brother is kidnapped, the Executioner goes berserkWhen the Pittsfield Mafia destroyed Mack Bolan's family, the only survivor was his brother Johnny—a wide-eyed teen not prepared for life on the front lines of a war against the mob. Before he began his assault on organized crime, Mack sent Johnny into hiding along with Mack's fiancée, Val. Now they've been kidnapped by an enterprising thug who thinks he can use the Executioner's family against him. The Bosto...