Five years after leaving office, former Secretary of Defense Caleb Mercer steps off an international flight expecting a car, a meeting, and dinner. Instead, federal marshals are waiting.The warrant comes from a Caribbean nation accusing Mercer of responsibility for a secret military campaign that killed hundreds at sea. His arrest opens a door Washington thought had been permanently closed.Soon investigators are following evidence that reaches far beyond Mercer: into the Ju...

Financial literacy is about much more than balancing a checkbook or understanding a credit card statement. It is the ability to make informed financial decisions throughout one's life. It includes budgeting, saving, investing, understanding debt, recognizing financial risk, protecting against fraud, planning for retirement, and appreciating the power of compound interest. These are life skills every graduate will need regardless of career choice.

In this thrilling new chapter of the Bimini Twist Adventure series, Max Carson and his teenage sons, P.J. and Gaffer, find themselves off the coast of Mexico on the vibrant island of Isla Mujeres. What begins as a sportfishing trip quickly turns into a high-stakes mission when the Carsons intervene in the attempted kidnapping of a young woman—none other than the daughter of influential rancher Miguel Castillo.Their daring rescue earns them deep gratitude and trust from Cas...

The study of Mortgage Banking takes in a wide variety of subjects, not only how to apply for a residential mortgage loan, but also all the behind the scenes activities that make the mortgage industry function. From the beginning of the loan process through the closing, and all the departments that help along the way. What is the role of the appraiser, or the secondary market, the title agent, or the hazard insurance agent? What is the role or the commercial banks in real estate finance? Wh...

Nick "Coach" Wallace never wanted to be an ambassador. He's a retired high school football coach and former Marine who came to the Bahamas with his sons, Ray and Darren, on their sport fishing boat Tiburon. When a survivor from a sunken refugee boat showed up on the dock, that changed everything. Sol de la Torre's testimony exposed a U.S. military operation that blew up a dozen boats and killed at least sixty innocent people. As Nick helped bring that tragedy to justice, he gained favor wi...

Will Tanner spent a couple of million dollars to buy Wave Dancer, a luxury sport fishing boat, but he doesn't know the first thing about fishing or yachts. And he hired Reginald Cordelle, the most incompetent, unscrupulous captain in all of the Bahamas Islands to run it. What else Will does not know is that Cordelle has been approached by international arms smugglers to use Wave Dancer to smuggle very dangerous weapons from Lucaya in Grand Bahamas Island, to an offshore pick-up. But Will c...

Leaky Tiki is the history of eight different boats the author has owned or operated over sixty years of boating in the bays of New York, the Mediterranean Sea, and around South Florida and the Bahamas Islands. Leaky Tiki was a 15 foot Chris Craft kit boat with a 30 H.P. Evinrude motor. Graduating through time the author has yachted between Spain and Italy on board the 27 meter Benetti, and then owned a series of boats for different purposes. When he wanted to go fast he bo...

In all of sportfishing, Isla Mujeres on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico stands out, not only for its abundance of pelagic and reef species, but also as a location with an interesting history dating back thousands of years.Today Mexico is a rare jewel in the western hemisphere. It has an educated population, much industry, a skilled work force, and natural resources in unimaginable abundance. Among Mexico's most precious resources is the pristine water surrounding it on its east and...

Only a day trader can understand the adrenaline rush that comes from jumping in and out of the market all day long, watching instantaneous stock prices stream across the computer screen, taking a position and minutes later dumping it. They live a life of high-octane excitement, shaving an eighth of a point here, six cents there, and hoping to finish the day ahead of where they started.Nick Anthony is the owner of a firm in San Diego called Market Makers, where he rents out work sta...

How angry do parents become when their children are at risk from dangerous behavior their kids get into on account of bad associations? It is beyond description. Parents will do anything to kep their children safe. In The Fathers Club, four fathers with the help of a sympathetiic badass sheriff take the law into their own hands when the system lets them down. Just because a crooked judge doesn't want to act, does not mean these angry fathers are without remedies. At times they have to give...

The author has brought together a dozen of the biggest names in sportfishing to create a collection like none other. Names like Bart Miller, Ronnie Hamlin, Billy Harrison, Peter Wright and Peter Bristow, Skip Smith and Bark Garnsey and several others, have each contributed their favorite adventure stories about big game fishing in every continent and every ocean. Nowhere is there a collection of stories like the ones contained in the Living Legends of Big Game Fishing non-fiction book.

In the American criminal justice system thousands of men and women who have broken no laws have been put away and forgotten. Many of these inmates are talented individuals who have contributed much to society. Doctors, artists, professors, businessmen, philanthropists, musicians, attorneys, and people of many other professions, have been wrongly accused and convicted. These men and women ran businesses, employed workers, paid taxes, provided health insurance and retirement plans for many, ...