Governments have fallen. Corporations control the world. Now their eyes are on Mars. But Benjamin Drake is about to ruin everyone's plans.Earth is no longer made up of countries and nations. Every bit of land has been privatized, and most of it is owned by five big corporations. Life is hard, and people are struggling. Crime is rampant, and they send serious offenders to Mars to help with the terraforming.Benjamin Drake is a happy-go-lucky truck driver (or hauler) with an unc...

They stole the drone tech and burned the refugee camp. He plans to return the favor.West Africa is already a tinderbox when Captain Frank Sherman touches down. A refugee camp lies in ruins. Experimental U.S. drone tech is missing. And someone's doing everything they can to make sure Sherman's team never comes home.But Sherman doesn't rattle.From jihadist hideouts in Mali to the blood-slick back rooms of Accra, he hunts the truth behind a co...

They framed his sergeant. Sherman's not buying it.When Sergeant Raylan Gournsey is arrested for murder in Equatorial Guinea, it looks open and shut: Naked. Drugged. A body beside him. The local police waste no time calling it solved.But Captain Frank Sherman doesn’t believe in coincidences.The deeper Sherman digs, the clearer the setup becomes—and the more dangerous the players. Mercenaries, foreign agents, and power-hungry politicians are all feedi...

A letter from the past. A dead man in the dirt. And Sherman heading straight into hell.When a cryptic message surfaces about his father's past, Frank Sherman heads to a remote coastal town. What he finds is a place rotting from the inside—run by a smuggler family, protected by silence, and haunted by an old betrayal that's ready to explode.The locals want Sherman gone. That only makes him dig in deeper.When a body is discovered, the cover-up moves f...

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**"This book is the heartbreaking story that every parent dreads . . . Cohen sheds light on what really happened the night Lauren was never seen again." —David Crow, author of The Pale-Faced LieShe visited friends. She walked to a bar. She was right there . . . until she was gone.College student Lauren Spierer was pursuing her dreams, joining her boyfriend at a party school eight ...

This gritty crime novel set in 1990s New York City will appeal to fans of Dennis Lehane.New York, 1993. Jimmy Lettner, a convicted drug-trafficker who once lost a daughter in a narco-fueled car wreck, runs Manhattan's hottest nightspot, Abattoir. Reformed by his time in prison, all he wants is to run a clean club. But that's not possible in a city rife with corruption.Jimmy doesn't know it, but his right-hand man, Serge Thanakis, is operati...

A bold book of rage, hope, and challenge exposing how the political decisions of the 1980s continue to haunt us today.In Dangerous Memory, renowned politician, author, and musician Charlie Angus undertakes a major rethink of the cultural and political shifts of the 1980s, an era that unleashed an unprecedented looting of the economy, the environment, and the common good that continues to haunt us today.Expertly weaving his story within the larger n...

This new edition introduces the core elements of ancient Greek and Roman narratives about immortal gods and heroic humans. It explains how myths once shaped ancient ways of thinking, and how they have fascinated and inspired artists, writers, musicians, scientists, and scholars since.In six clear and concise chapters, this book explains what myths are, sketches the main stories about divinities, heroes and heroines, and explores through specific case studies the ways in which they ...

A dead friend. A dirty town. And one man who won't back down.Captain Frank Sherman rolls into a dusty Northern California town to visit his oldest friend—only to find him dead and the sheriff's story full of holes.The deeper he digs, the more bodies pile up. Crooked cops. A corrupt sheriff. A town so rotten it's begging to be burned down. And Sherman? He's just the man to light the match.What starts as a simple visit becomes a full-blown reckoning, ...

Piracy, War, and Humanity's Last StandThe heavy cruiser Salahdiin is the most powerful private warship in the history of the Myriad Worlds, and bears a Letter of Marque, the Imperial charter for legalized piracy. As the most successful fighting captain of the Imperial Fleet, Saef Sinclair-Maru is the ideal choice to command the privateer, but exchanging egotistical admirals for demanding shareholders carries its own unique challenges, particularly when the fate of humanity...

On his death in the autumn of 2006, Milton Friedman was lauded as "the grandmaster of free-market economic theory in the postwar era" by the New York Times and "the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century" by the Economist. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976, Friedman was both a highly respected economist and a prominent public intellectual, the leader of a revolution in economic and political thought that argued robustly in favor of ...

Ringard, the capital of Myral, and home of the magical Ringada has been attacked. With the help of his best friend, Josen sets out to hunt for those responsible. Driven by rage at the murder of his wife during the onslaught, Josen will stop at nothing to get revenge.Aliyah, a Myralian born on the wrong side of the mountains, may be the key to bringing magic back to Gralanth. Sold to a Gralanthian nobleman, she learns more about her powers and just how dangerous magic can be in the ...