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...

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...

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...

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...

A raid on a sex slave depot on the U.S. eastern seaboard is the launching pad of an international firestorm for Mack Bolan.His target–the Albanian mafia–is rapidly expanding its American network with help from the resurrected Kosovar terrorist group, the KLA. After mopping up the mob's stateside end of the pipeline, Bolan and a beautiful Russian agent track the long reach of drugs, human trafficking and black-market arms sales across the Atlantic to the port city of Marseille, Fran...

The elite, covert agents of Stony Man Farm, comprising the best cyber techs and military in the world, act under orders of the President. Whether it's stopping a terror attack overseas or saving civilians closer to home, the teams fight for freedom and peace.A cutting-edge electromagnetic pulse weapon sets off a bidding war, and brokers from countries all over the world can't wait to get their hands on it. But when the Libyan rebel behind the auction squeezes out the U.S., red flag...

Holy terrorThe Executioner once saved Dr. Annis Hassan from a right-wing Muslim attack in the Afghanistan desert. But when a Christian extremist gunman attacks the heroic doctor's Mobile, Alabama, women's health center, Mack Bolan knows Annis is now the target of two fanatic lethal groups. And no one goes after The Executioner’s friends without hellish payback. Battling squads of brutal mercenaries and terrorist soldiers, Bolan hones in on the megalomaniacal leaders of both faction...

Stony ManFighting battles few even know exist, the covert officers of Stony Man Farm are the most elite soldiers and cyber techs in the world. The team knows that if they don't succeed, innocent victims will die.Rebel DeceptionA civil war in the Middle East is the perfect breeding ground for Al-Qaeda's brand of terror. Taking advantage of the chaos to fuel violence between rebel fighters and government forces, Al-Qaeda's ultimate goal is to dominate the war-torn cou...

BLOOD BROTHERSThe deadliest, most organized threat ever to homeland security is situated in America's own backyard. A violent, militant arm of a neo-Nazi group has forged an unholy alliance with Palestinian terrorists to bring about a mutual goal. They want to generate panic, chaos and bloodshed on America's streets.With limited intelligence available and even less time, Mack Bolan works down a hit list of strikes planned by both groups–at home and abroad. The attacks are i...