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How do you catch a criminal? It takes more than blood, sweat and tears - you need courage and a will of steel. Now, one unique team, a bail bond agent and a bounty hunter who's a heroic former cop, vow to protect the innocent, root out the criminals and change an industry which walks the line between legality and crime. Prepare yourself for an adventure unlike any other. Journey into the dark underbelly of society where peril and jeopardy loom at every corner and the unexpected is the most dangerous aspect of all. Shootouts, hot pursuits, nonstop action and murder fill the pages of this thrill ride of violent shakedowns, car bashings, fevered foot chases and harrowing gunfights. Here, bail agent Pam Phree and bounty hunter Mike "Darkside" Beakley share their most gripping stories, including run-ins with vicious gang members, career criminals, convicted murderers, felonious gun merchants, drug lords and even other bond agents and bounty hunters in their quest to change the industry, Also revealed are the pair's intense struggles, fierce clashes and hard fought battles to ultimately achieve having new laws passed requiring background checks for aspiring bounty hunters, rigorous program training and state certified licensing. Additionally, Phree and Beakley investigate potential "dirty" agents in search of the truth behind the whispers and innuendos taking place behind closed doors. Betrayal, Murder and Greed: The True Story of a Bounty Hunter and a Bail Bond Agent is a genuine modern day docudrama put to paper, chronicling how two brave people risk their lives and reputations to help the innocent and bring the bad guys to trial. These stories are brutal and sympathetic, but always exhilarating. Learn how they joined together and continue to bring savage fugitives to justice.
2012 Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Non-Fiction "FANTASTIC. If I did not know most of the main players I would have thought the author had a vivid and twisted imagination."--Paul Martin Brown, author of Wild Orchids of Florida "A fascinating true story of obsession, greed, and lust for the unobtainable. Reminds me a great deal of The Maltese Falcon. This rare flower is definitely the stuff that dreams are made of."--Ace Atkins, author of Devil's Garden and Infamous "Pittman has captured the extreme competition, unique characters, and general insanity that often typify the orchid world. The Scent of Scandal exemplifies how passion and profit can overrule common sense and the law."--Scott Steward, former associate editor, North American Native Orchid Journal After its Peruvian discovery in 2002, Phragmipedium kovachii became the rarest and most sought-after orchid in the world. Prices soared to $10,000 on the black market. Then one showed up at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, where every year more than 100,000 people visit. They come for the lush landscape on Sarasota Bay and for Selby's vast orchid collection, one of the most magnificent in the world. The collision between Selby's scientists and the smugglers of Phrag. Kovachii, a rare ladyslipper orchid hailed as the most significant and beautiful new species discovered in a century, led to search warrants, a grand jury investigation, and criminal charges. It made headlines around the country, cost the gardens hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, and led to tremendous internal turmoil. Investigative journalist Craig Pittman unravels this tangled web to shine a spotlight on flaws in the international treaties governing trade in endangered wildlife--which may protect individual plants and animals in shipping but do little to halt the destruction of whole colonies in the wild. The Scent of Scandal unspools like a riveting mystery novel, stranger than anything in Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief or the film Adaptation. Pittman shows how some people can become so obsessed--with beauty, with profit, with fame--that they will ignore everything, even the law.
This book seeks to underscore the multifaceted ways in which we encounter suffering in clinical and social settings. The fear, greed, and guilt cause an individual to suffer privately, while the deception, betrayal, and revenge lead others to suffer.
The true story of the vicious Chicago underworld from a New York Times bestselling author. With a contract out on his life, Nicholas "Nicky Breeze" Calabrese turned government witness and revealed the truth about the murders of a notorious Mob enforcer and his brother-culminating in a criminal case that would challenge the Mob from the street to the highest seats of power.
Ava Marie Sinclair never dreamed she would fall so deeply in love in one minute and become a widow the next. She had a life that felt like a fairy tale. The good job, nice apartment, and a handsome husband, all stolen from her with just one phone call. That phone call came late one night two years ago, she only remembers one word said to her, "Dead." Her husband, Drake had died two years ago but it felt like yesterday to Ave. Now Ava finds herself about to embark on a strange journey. Journeys are great, if you know where you are going. Ava's journey started with questions she had about the two items she found in Drake's coat pocket. Holding the items in her hand, Ava could feel her emotions going in all directions. She had loved a man so deeply that she could hardly breathe at times and now with so many questions surrounding her, she almost hated him, and didn't know exactly why. She looked again at the items in her hand, she would have thrown them away, but then she got that letter. A letter that had been in the 'dead mail' for so long addressed to a Drakard Black Hawk, and sent to their apartment. Who was he and did he have anything to do with her husband? To find her answers, she would have to move to another city, change her name and stay hidden from a man that was so nasty that the devil would hide and run away. She will race against time to get her answers, but when she gets them, will she be able to live with what she finds out? Come join her and experience all the drama and feel the "sting" of a "Betrayal of Trust." Happy Reading.
The fourth cozy mystery featuring Cherokee sleuth Sadie Walela features murder, intrigue, and romance--Provided by publisher.
“A lively tale of historical innovation, the thrill of the bibliophile’s hunt, greed and betrayal.” – The New York Times Book Review "An addictive and engaging look at the ‘competitive, catty and slightly angst-ridden’ heart of the world of book collecting.” - The Houston Chronicle The never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, and its impact on the lives of the fanatical few who were lucky enough to own it. For rare-book collectors, an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible--of which there are fewer than 50 in existence--represents the ultimate prize. Here, Margaret Leslie Davis recounts five centuries in the life of one copy, from its creation by Johannes Gutenberg, through the hands of monks, an earl, the Worcestershire sauce king, and a nuclear physicist to its ultimate resting place, in a steel vault in Tokyo. Estelle Doheny, the first woman collector to add the book to her library and its last private owner, tipped the Bible onto a trajectory that forever changed our understanding of the first mechanically printed book. The Lost Gutenberg draws readers into this incredible saga, immersing them in the lust for beauty, prestige, and knowledge that this rarest of books sparked in its owners. Exploring books as objects of obsession across centuries, this is a must-read for history buffs, book collectors, seekers of hidden treasures, and anyone who has ever craved a remarkable book--and its untold stories.
Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign contributions, Jack Beatty details the corruption of American political culture that, in the words of Rutherford B. Hayes, transformed “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people” into “a government by the corporations, of the corporations, and for the corporations.” A passionate, gripping, scandalous and sorrowing history of the triumph of wealth over commonwealth.
When Jennifer Tracey discovers that her new parish priest has harmed her two sons, she encounters the Coalitiona secret church organization tasked with the responsibility of taking care of these types of incidents quickly and quietly and by any means necessary. Jennifer decides to file a lawsuit against the priest and the church and seeks out an attorney, Zachary Blake, who handled her late husbands industrial death case. However, through an unfortunate series of events, Zachary has gone from the penthouse to the poorhouse, working out of a dingy one-room office, handling traffic cases. Although Jennifer has misgivings, she reluctantly retains him, and they call a press conference to announce their lawsuit. Zack hires an investigator, the infamous Micah Love, who travels to Ohio, where he discovers that two families have disappeared after an encounter with the same priestand the one person who may provide some answers has died under mysterious circumstances. Religion, law, betrayal, mystery, intrigue, faith, and love converge in Michigan for the trial of the century. Will Zachary resurrect his troubled career and obtain the justice Jennifer seeks for her kids? Or will the church and the Coalition and its mysterious leader prevail in covering up the decadent acts of the priest and circumvent justice once again?