Special Forces Major Brett Stone is team leader of an elite Presidential A-Team secretly operating from an Army Recruiting Station located in Graham, Washington. His teams primary duty is assassination/sniper and their secondary duty is rescue team. The team known only by a few people is called the Phantom Warriors. They had just finished their first mission which took them to the Amazon Jungle to eliminate a Colombian drug lord and to rescue two American women from his home that the drug ...

Special Forces Captain "Brett Stone" had begun out processing from the United States Army when he buys a Washington State Lottery ticket and wins fifty-nine million dollars. Captain Stone calls his old Commander at Fort Bragg to tell him the good news and his former Commander offers him a challenge he just can't refuse: A meritorious promotion to "Major" if he stays in the Army and to lead an elite group of soldiers to perform secret assasssinations/sniper duties and resuce missions. Altho...

All aboard the night train to terror…Trick-or-treating takes a sinister turn when a restless spirit seeks revenge on friends who abandoned him. A man's worst memories are turned against him in a cruel dystopian nightmare. And a specialist in deadly wildlife encounters an unusual predator with an appetite for human flesh…The Scare Street train is leaving the station with a new collection of skin-crawling horror. Thirteen tales of nightmares and dark...

Prepare for a lethal dose of terror…A young boy’s art takes a sinister turn when the monstrous creature from his drawings reaches into the real world. The clues to a fiendishly clever crossword puzzle predict a series of tragedies for a witch’s nosy neighbors. And a creepy old doll brings pain and misfortune to a woman struggling to cope with her mother’s illness…As you’re about to go under the knife, Scare Street’s latest collection of supernatura...

Mediæval London—it is a perfectly distinct and real subject, though it might be difficult to give exact dates of beginning and end. Historical periods glide in, and run their course, and fade away or take fresh shape. Yet we may venture to approximate, and to say with some confidence that Ancient London changed into Mediæval in the days of King Alfred, and passed into Modern with the accession of the Stuarts. The Great Fire of 1666 made vast changes not only in the city itself, but in the ...

All aboard the night train to terror…Trick-or-treating takes a sinister turn when a restless spirit seeks revenge on friends who abandoned him. A man’s worst memories are turned against him in a cruel dystopian nightmare. And a specialist in deadly wildlife encounters an unusual predator with an appetite for human flesh…The Scare Street train is leaving the station with a new collection of skin-crawling horror. Thirteen tales of nightmares and da...

Prepare for a lethal dose of terror…A young boy’s art takes a sinister turn when the monstrous creature from his drawings reaches into the real world. The clues to a fiendishly clever crossword puzzle predict a series of tragedies for a witch’s nosy neighbors. And a creepy old doll brings pain and misfortune to a woman struggling to cope with her mother’s illness…As you’re about to go under the knife, Scare Street’s latest collection of supernatural horror is the...

This edition features• illustrations• a linked List of Illustrations, Footnotes, and IndexCONTENTSCHAPTER I. A COMPREHENSIVE SURVEYCHAPTER II. CIVIC RULECHAPTER III. THE THAMESCHAPTER IV. RELIGIOUS LIFECHAPTER V. THE FORTRESS, PALACES, AND MANSIONSCHAPTER VI. THE PASSING OF MEDIÆVAL LONDON

"Tudor Masquerade Murder" plunges readers into the vibrant, jazz-soaked opulence of 1920s New York, where an evening of Gatsby-esque excess spirals into a perplexing murder. At its heart is Charles W. Radcliff III, a self-proclaimed English detective whose boundless ego far outstrips his actual deductive prowess. Fresh off the boat and brimming with condescension for American 'barbarism,' Radcliff finds himself an unwitting participant in Senator McMurphy's lavish masquerade, a world popul...

An All American linebacker for Penn State tells about the glory days -- and the aftermath.

A Tale of Two Cities, a story of rebellion, vengeance and sacrifice, is one of Charles Dickens' greatest exhilarating narratives. Set in contradiction of the setting of the French Revolution, it articulates the story of a family threatened by the terrible events of the past.Dr Manette, wrongly confined in the Bastille for eighteen years, is finally free and unified with his daughter Lucie who, notwithstanding her French origin, has been brought up in London. Lucie falls in love with...

Precise connections between race, poverty, and the condition of America’s cities are drawn in this collection of seventeen essays. Policymakers and scholars from a variety of disciplines analyze the plight of the urban poor since the riots of the 1960s and the resulting 1968 Kerner Commission Report on the status of African Americans. In essays addressing health care, education, welfare, and housing policies, the contributors reassess the findings of the report in light of developments ove...