Law Enforcement

What to do when the customer you can’t afford to lose is a thirsty vampire? Fire Dancer? I wish. Just because I’m part dragon shifter, part pyromancer doesn’t mean I can control fire. Lately, though, I’ve started to show signs of magic — and that’s not the only unexpected development in my life. My wolf shifter ex is back in town and more consumed by his job than ever. Ingo is sweet, loyal, and in serious need of some work-life balance. As an agent in supernatural law enforcement, he sees enemies everywhere — including in my best customer. A customer I can’t afford to lose, ...

Police Mental Barricade: A Survivor's Guide to Poor Law Enforcement Leadership is a raw and unfiltered look into what is causing the growing epidemic of suicides within the profession. Last year, Blue Help reported 228 (known) suicides within the law enforcement profession. This is compared to the 147 killed in the line of duty.

Serial Car Thieves unfolds across multiple chapters, each peeling back layers on the individuals, gangs, systems, and societal factors that drive this phenomenon. Law enforcement’s painstaking surveillance and wiretaps painted a vivid picture of organized crime in motion, exposing how deeply entrenched the problem had become. The book explores the “chop shop economy,” where stolen cars disappear in hours through illicit dismantling and VIN-switching schemes. Corrupt mechanics, middlemen, and insurance fraud networks collaborate to erase paper trails, making recovery difficult and the ...

Carol Leonnig has been reporting on the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the secrets, scandals, and shortcomings that plague the agency today - from a toxic work culture to dangerously outdated equipment to the deep resentment within the ranks at key agency leaders, who put protecting the agency’s once-hallowed image before fixing its flaws. But the Secret Service wasn’t always so troubled.

This is Volume 2 to the best-selling book Police mental barricade, rated top 100 law enforcement books of all time by Goodreads.com. Police Mental Barricade: A Survivor's Guide to Poor Law Enforcement Leadership is a raw and unfiltered look into what is causing the growing epidemic of suicides within the profession. Last year, Blue Help reported 228 (known) suicides within the law enforcement profession. This is compared to the 147 killed in the line of duty. We are losing more officers at their own hands than we are to deaths on the job. Why? Partially, this is from poor leadership within ...

Sweet... sweet Chastity... who knew what she was capable of. At Stallions, they call him Rooster because he’s packing the biggest you-know-what in the club. He’s hounded every night by ladies asking how big it really is. Until he’s handed a crisp $100 bill and told to keep a special eye on Chastity. Rooster has a firm rule about not getting involved with the clients, but rules are meant to be broken. Sweet, chaste Chastity winds up in his bed at the end of the night. Too bad when the next morning rolls around, he finds out that he just nailed the bride-to-be on the night of her ...

Born a slave, Bass Reeves never learned to read or write English, but he spoke six Native American languages and when he became one of the first African American deputy U.S. marshals west of the Mississippi River, he carved out a name for himself as one of the most feared lawmen in Indian Territory. Enjoy volume 3 of more adventures of the man known as the Indomitable Lawman. Fictional but historically accurate tales of a man who in a 30-year career brought in over 3,000 fugitives and despite dozens of gun battles with outlaws was never wounded.

Listen to this book and send your nonverbal intelligence soaring. Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains how to "speed-read" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors. You'll also learn how your body language can influence what your boss, family, friends, and strangers think of you.

Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis provides a revealing window into Parks’s politics and years of activism. She shows listeners how this civil rights movement radical sought—for more than a half a century—to expose and eradicate the American racial-caste system in jobs, schools, public services, and criminal justice.

Joseph Silver Hawk Argent is on the run. He's running from the cops and an ancient prophecy that he doesn't want anything to do with. He's seventeen, a leader of the Los Caballeros street gang and even though he's Native American, he doesn't want any part of where he came from. A Holy man has pegged Joseph or Cheetah, as his friends call him, as a warrior who lived during the days of Crazy Horse but Joseph lives in New York. He wants nothing to do with his past or a past life that he doesn't care about. Frank Belger is the cop who only cares about one thing. He's determined to catch the ...

From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor

She’s secretly searching for answers. He’s hiding from his past. When the two collide, will their enemies be the death of them or the answer to a new life? Gage Rogers doesn’t expect two hard years spent deep undercover to land him in witness protection, but when a trusted ally blows his cover, assuming a new identity is the only way to stay alive. When a flat tire leaves journalist Morgan Stevens stranded in front of an out of town bar, her instant attraction to the rugged man behind the counter catches her off guard. Between Morgan’s new assignment and her budding relationship, ...

I’m a cop, and I go after what I want. The moment I walk into the new donut shop across the street, I know I’m in trouble. Elisha’s got curves that make my mouth water, a laugh that’s pure sugar, and a way of talking to her pastries that has my mind going straight to sin. She doesn’t know it yet, but she’s mine. I don’t play games. I don’t waste time. And I sure as hell don’t let a woman like Elisha slip through my fingers. She’s got the sweets—I’ve got the appetite. And now? I’m about to show her just how hungry I really am. Previously published as Axel. This new ...

In the heart of Cottonwood Springs, where secrets are whispered and grudges are nurtured, one woman's treacherous game of blackmail comes to a deadly halt. Morgan Douglas, a woman with an uncanny knack for uncovering others' secrets, has made a comfortable living exploiting the vulnerabilities of the town's residents. Living a lavish lifestyle, funded by the desperation of those she's cornered, Morgan believed she was invincible. Until bingo night. Brigid, the proud owner of the New Dawn Bed & Breakfast, anticipated a night of fun and light-hearted competition when she decided to sponsor ...

Midnight’s election campaign is in full swing and it’s all hands on deck for her run for Attorney General. Her opponent will stop at nothing to get ahead and lies about Midnight’s private life soon start to circulate. Joe and Jordan hit a stumbling block when they vacation with Randy and John, making Joe question his future. His life is moving in a different direction and not in the way he’d expected. With election day fast approaching, more than one life will be changed forever.

Life is moving as fast as ever for the Gang, with no chance of slowing down any time soon. Jordan and Joe’s relationship is tested while she’s out on the road and Joe must make a decision that will impact his career…and his life. Things are about to change dramatically for Midnight and no one yet knows what the outcome will be. Everyone has big challenges to face and no matter how hard they try, sometimes life has Unintended Consequences.

In the shadows of Reno, justice is the only light. When a dark figure from the past resurfaces in Reno, Detective Chief Hector Ramirez finds himself thrust back into a nightmare he thought was long buried. William Black, a cunning and sadistic predator, has returned, and his presence is a chilling reminder of old traumas for Hector, his family, and the community. As Hector races against time to bring Black to justice, he must navigate a minefield of personal and professional challenges. With two new brutal assaults echoing a series of unsolved cases, the stakes have never been higher. ...

Sworn to protect and serve, police officers who stray into deviant behavior may become a citizen's worst nightmare. An honest look at the formal and informal processes of becoming blue, Police Organizations and Culture is a unique combination of academic research based on Chief Scott Silverii's doctoral research and more than 25 years in law enforcement. The book seeks to answer the ultimate question: Why do police organizations and individual cops behave the way they do. Right or wrong, there is a powerful culture that controls behavior and expectation. Chief Silverii explains how personal...

Texas Ranger Jim Blawcyzk lands in hot water when he kills a drug dealer in a shoot-out between the Rangers and a gang of modern day outlaws deep in the heart of Texas. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg as he uncovers the criminal connection between these same drug dealers and a slew of murders taking place across several Texas counties. When the hit men come after him and his family, they get more than they ever bargained for—the fight is on, and Jim Blawcyzk is one Ranger who is determined to get his man, or die trying. As a deadly shooter chases his wife, mother, and baby son ...

This fascinating book covers true tales in the life and career of a Sheriff's Department captain in New Hanover County, North Carolina. Mark Vincent was the captain of the county jail for most of his career but that title was sorely inadequate in describing what his job entailed. The stories run the gamut from humorous to frightening to sad to unbelievable. But truth, as is often stated, is stranger than fiction. If you think there is nothing new under the sun in law enforcement, well, there is always something. Mark Vincent has had a remarkable career, but it's certain there are many days ...