In the world of Australian football, no-one has been more notorious than Wayne Carey. Once hailed as The King, and widely acclaimed as one of the greatest footballers of his generation, Carey fell from the highest pinnacle of the game to the lowest of lows.In his extraordinary memoir, Wayne Carey goes where no Australian sportsman has gone before - telling the whole, uncensored truth about a career whose implosion was as spectacular as Carey's legendary on-field exploits.

A new Johnny Falco thriller by Wayne CareyA thief stalks the Straits Settlements, stealing artifacts from local Buddhist temples. When a life-size gold statue goes missing, colonial investigator Eustace Butler summons a friend for help. But Johnny Falco barely arrives when Butler is murdered. To get the full-story, the Governor tasks him with recovering the priceless Buddha.As Falco begins his search, sinners and saints join the suspect list: A nun who offers his f...

Erin is not a typical seventeen-year-old. She's sarcastic, independent, and trapped in a life taking care of her neurotic mother and substance-abusing brother. Her deadbeat father left them years ago and ended up being part of the Earth mission to the planet Rryllin, a colony world for the Yyrrlaar, an advanced humanoid species with whom Earth has started diplomatic relations.When her father dies on Rryllin, the Yyrrlaar insist on honoring him in a ceremony which requires a family m...

Hong Kong, 1931.Amidst the turmoil of prewar China, a colonial bureaucrat is found floating in Victoria Harbor. The Hong Kong police consult John Falco, whose reputation is known even within the halls of China's Presidential Palace.Falco offers to help, but he's suppressing the truth: He put that body in the harbor — with help from his associates, a Zulu prince and a former IRA terrorist. Police follow the evidence back to the apartment of Yvette Devereaux, where Falco found ...

The senator's daughter went missing in San Francisco's Chinatown. The FBI turned to Johnny Falco for help.Falco escaped the life of a gangster at sixteen, finding a new path in the Shaolin Temple in China. Now he seeks to atone for his mobster father's violence. It sounded like the right thing to do, until the search for eighteen-year-old Kristine Mansfield led from a Chinese tong to the triads of China.Falco and his friends — former IRA terrorist Flanagan and Zulu prince M...

Nominated for the Pulp Factory Award for Best Anthology of 2023!The years leading to World War II. A turbulent and perilous time for America and he world as it faces destruction from a fiendish, shadow organization using fringe science, the occult, and the supernatural in its evil quest for world dominance. To protect the nation from these unnatural threats, a unique task force consisting of highly-skilled military and civilian daredevils is formed, code n...

We have another great lineup this time, with original tales by Robert Lopresti (thanks to Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken), Shannon Taft (thanks to Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman), Wayne Carey, Teel James Glenn, and JM Cyrus (who gets the honor of having the story with the longest title that we’ve [yet] published!)As always, it’s an eclectic mix, from traditional mysteries to supernatural crimes, from space opera to a fantastic world of moving islands…and everything in between! I h...

Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America. Few states have produced a more impressive array of literary figures, among them Conrad Aiken, Erskine Caldwell, James Dickey, Joel Chandler Harris, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, and Alice Walker.This volume contains biographical and critical discussions of Georgia writers from the nineteenth century to the present as well as other information pertinent to Georgia literature. Organized in alphabetica...

River Tales presents thirty-two short stories from new writers around the globe. Several fishing tales, along with a few coming of age stories, even one from a fish's point of view, are sure to entertain.River monsters, murder, and redemption can all be found in these watery tales. From poignant to humorous, there is something for everyone to enjoy.