In the early 1980s, Brian O’Dea was operating a $100 million a year, 120-man drug smuggling business, and had developed a terrifying cocaine addiction. Under increasing threat from the DEA in 1986 for importing seventy-five tons of marijuana into the United States, he quit the trade–and the drugs–and began working with recovering addicts in Santa Barbara. Despite his life change, the authorities caught up with him years later and O’Dea was arrested, tried, and sentenced to ten years at Ter...

"I'll be unsure what my words will be until the breath reaches my lips, then, like everything else, they'll find their way through the world."Recently unemployed, newly single, and dreading the big 3-0 around the corner, Brian O'Dea sells all he can, packs up the rest in his parents' attic, then dives headfirst into the round-the-world journey he believes will be his once-in-a-lifetime, slightly premature midlife-crisis, finding-yourself, movie-perfect metamorphosi...

"I’ll be unsure what my words will be until the breath reaches my lips, then, like everything else, they’ll find their way through the world."Recently unemployed, newly single, and dreading the big 3-0 around the corner, Brian O’Dea sells all he can, packs up the rest in his parents’ attic, then dives headfirst into the round-the-world journey he believes will be his once-in-a-lifetime, slightly premature midlife-crisis, finding-yourself, movie-perfect metamorphosi...

READ THIS BOOK NOW AND BECOME A HAPPY NONSMOKER FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!The Easyway method is as successful for women as it is for men, but many of the issues are perceived differently by women - as their questions in Easyway sessions reveal - and particular difficulties face women who want to quit the habit. In The Illustrated Easy Way to Women to Stop Smoking, Allen Carr debunks the myths about smoking and shows you the way to beat your addiction. This...

From R. Barri Flowers, award-winning criminologist and international bestselling author of the true crime classic, The Sex Slave Murders, comes a gripping new true crime short, Terror in East Lansing: The Tale of MSU Serial Killer Donald Miller.In the late 1970s, a serial killer prowled the campus of Michigan State University, terrorizing students and faculty alike. Donald Miller was a graduate of MSU's renowned School of Criminal Justice, but somehow went awry and turned into a mo...

Ted Bundy--handsome, charming, and articulate--lured victims to their deaths with tricks such as crutches or a fake cast on his arm. He confessed to murdering thirty young women in seven states between 1974 and 1978, but his true number of victims is unknown. How could such a handsome and intelligent man be such a monster?This book is approximately 5,000 words--perfect for reading on your tablet computer, smart phone, e-reader, or other electronic device. That means you can read it...

'the best Kelly biography by a country mile' - The AustralianThe definitive biography of Ned Kelly - and a superb description of his times.A bestseller since it was first published, Ned Kelly: A Short Life is acknowledged as being the definitive biography.Ian Jones combines years of research into all the records of the era and exhaustive interviews with living descendants of those involved, to pres...

From renowned true-crime historian Harold Schechter, whom The Boston Book Review hails as “America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers,” comes the riveting exploration of a notorious, sensational New York City murder in the 1890s, the fascinating forensic science of an earlier age, and the explosively dramatic trial that became a tabloid sensation at the turn of the century.Death was by poison and came in the mail: A package of Bromo Seltzer had been anonymo...

Weed Man – The Remarkable Journey of Jimmy Divine - is John McCaslin’s account of the unbelievable exploits of a Jimmy Moree – a law-abiding citizen turned million-dollar drug trafficker, who, amidst sometimes unbelievable, hilarious and escalating circumstances, risked life and limb to both make – and give away - a fortune.Shiploads of Colombian weedSack loads of cashIsland huts made of marijuana balesTrafficking drugs ...

The Answer Model: A new path to healing describes an exciting new model of human behavior that is also a powerful method of healing, psychotherapy, and personal growth. The Answer Model - which is based on cutting-edge research in neuroscience, psychology, and anthropology - suggests that nearly all of us develop unconscious biochemical addictions to our own pain and emotional distress. Because states of emotional distress release stress hormones that act in the brain much like addictive d...

From award winning criminologist R. Barri Flowers and the bestselling author of The Sex Slave Murders 1 & 2, Serial Killer Couples, and Murder of the Banker's Daughter comes Murder Chronicles, a gripping collection of true crime tales.The collection includes ten compelling stories of murder, madness, and mayhem that span more than a century of American history and homicidal criminality that will keep you reading from beginning to end.Murder at the Pencil Factory: ...

When making the decision whether to tell my story in print, I have to admit, I struggled. I knew that it meant I would have to share all of the events of my life until now. And I knew that it meant I would have to reveal all of it - some of which I’m not proud to be associated with no matter how I feel wronged or victimized due to a rush to judgment by the media. It’s ironic that I would even want to reveal anything since I have been so fiercely protective of my image in light of recent ev...