During the onslaught of legal actions during the Savings and Loans crisis of the 1980s, John Smith came to realize the extent of his employer's wrongdoing, and that he too had been one of many deceived. He discovered that you don't have to commit a crime to be convicted of one, and after years of turmoil, he discovered the relief when the FBI finally informed him fifteen years after his sentencing that he should never have been prosecuted in the first place.

If it can happen to me, it can happen to you. But also, I have learned a deeper lesson: there is much more to this world than we can see or feel or even comprehend. The Abyss is not something you recognize right away. It's a part of you that you don't come in touch with very often. It's the place where you engage in the ultimate struggle for truth, where you ache for a lasting answer. When you touch the Abyss you gather the breath from deep within you, grasp it, embrace it, and hold on for dear life.

When John Z. DeLorean was arrested for trafficking in cocaine, I had no idea that the cocaine they were talking about came out of my car. A dozen armed FBI and DEA agents had arrested me the night before with $28,000,000 worth of cocaine.
Considering that I had recently flown 650 pounds of cocaine from a secret Medellin Cartel Jungle Headquarters, my future was dark. According to an enraged FBI agent, I was facing 144 years in prison without the possibility of parole under the Rico Act for conspiracy to possess and distribute 1,255 pounds of cocaine. The federal prosecutor defined it as the largest known haul of cocaine in U.S. history (in 1982). My trial would become known as “The Drug Trial of the Century.”
It all began with two ounces of marijuana. I was proudly serving my country as a navy bomb disposal frogman in Hawaii. I was a 14 year career veteran with four tours in Vietnam and a short stent in the Philippines going up against Muslim terrorists in 77. I had worked with the CIA, the Secret Service and on top-secret military operations. I was awarded the Naval Commendation Medal for life saving. I was the chief in-charge of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unite One (EODMUONE) team 11. Then I was busted selling a couple of ounces of marijuana to another sailor. I fell from the ranks of heroes like an express elevator in free fall.
I wound up in the San Diego surfer community where I didn’t go looking for crime, it found me in the form of a multimillionaire aviation genius and mentor. I had no idea that Morgan Hetrick had gone over to the dark side. He was a Texas cowboy who didn’t rightly behold to the laws of the United States. He had become the #1 West Coast drug smuggler for Pablo Escobar, who referred to Morgan and Sons as his Cocaine Cowboys. I had unwittily joined that gang, it was “Silver or Lead,” fly the plane or take a bullet in the head.
Pablo was looking for a solution to his biggest problem. Most of his minions had not graduated from middle school. They were motivated by their macho egos which was all about rum, whiskey, guns and knives. Escobar was looking to go high-tech with a sophisticated military commando type of operation to take over the whole USA cocaine market. Thanks to my mentor, Pablo had decided that I would run that operation and was looking to fill my pockets with millions of dollars to make it happen. There was only one problem, no one had told me about my role in Pablo Escobar’s big plans and I was headed for a maximum-security prison with little hope of surviving.
Mine is a journey into darkness? Yet, I had one hope, that prison would become my dojo, a martial arts place of training. I would survive and was committed to rediscovering the American warrior I once was, the man who stood proudly in the ranks of heroes.

One of the weapons a police officer fears most is the shotgun – the blast feels like nine people are shooting at you, simultaneously. As he pursued a hijacked truck with a hostage inside, Officer Dana Owen was Shotgunned by desperate gangsters and hit, not once, but twice, in the head. Read this riveting page-turner to find out whether Dana is able to help bring the fugitives to justice, before the clock on the statute of limitations runs out!

The year was 1965. The Beatles, Elvis Presley, and The Righteous Brothers filled the airwaves. Television shows like "The Adventures of Ozzy and Harriett" and "The Andy Griffith Show" mirrored the innocence of life in the dusty city of Tucson, Az. But the sunbaked desert surrounding Tucson was hiding a sinister secret. A psychopath names Charles Schmid, later nicknamed the "Pied Piper of Tucson" by Life Magazine, would steal that innocence away, along with the lives of three beautiful teenage girls.

In this firsthand account written in 1967, Richard Bruns shares the evolution of his friendship with Schmid, the details of getting involved way in over his head, and how he finally summoned the courage to blow the whistle to end the deadly rampage that shocked the nation and changed the city of Tucson forever.

"Evocative, and inspiring ... So much more than a true crime." - Steve Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of NO STONE UNTURNED

After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust – in ghettos, on death marches, and in concentration camps – a young couple seeks refuge in Canada. They settle into a new life, certain that the terrors of their past are behind them. They build themselves a cozy little cottage on a lake in Muskoka, a cottage that becomes emblematic of their victory over the Nazis. The charming retreat is a safe haven, a refuge from haunted memories.

That is, until a single act of unspeakable violence defiles their sanctuary. Poking around the dark crawl space beneath their cottage, they discover a wooden crate, nailed tightly shut and almost hidden from view. Nothing could have prepared them for the horror of the crate’s contents – or how the peace and tranquility of their lives would be shattered.

Now, their daughter, Deborah Vadas Levison, an award-winning journalist, tells the extraordinary account of her parents' ordeals, both in one of the darkest times in world history and their present-day lives. Written in searing, lyrical prose, THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice examines man’s seemingly limitless capacity for evil... but also, his capacity for good.

Los Angeles Book Festival Runner Up Best Non-Fiction
Readers' Favorite Book Award - Honorable Mention
New York Book Festival Honorable Mention
Author and researcher, George Sidiropolis, exclusively reveals a previously hidden and shocking truth in his new book, Murder Never Dies--a detailed chronology and factual account of decades of rampant virgin crime and corruption in a city that became known as "Little Chicago." The research illustrates a life experience of virtuous people who suffered unfairly and were shamefully abandoned. Their profane and immunized guardians engaged in wholesale bribery and unlimited decadence that made the city a bread basket of crime. Wheeling, WV, was forever changed.

With parents tormented by secrets, guilt, and shame, Jo Dibblee quickly learned to protect herself. Faced with her parents' alcoholism, drug abuse, and depression, along with the sexual assault and stalking of an "upstanding" foster parent, Jo began, early in life, to use a coping strategy she now calls frocking. With humor and hope, Jo shares the harrowing rollercoaster of her life story and gives the low-down on frocking-how she learned it and used it to survive, how she found it holding her back and what she had to do to, once and for all, Frock Off. Despite harsh truths, brushes with death and agonizing betrayals, Jo's heart shines through these pages, offering promise, wisdom and inspiration to any reader who has learned to hide and longs to be free.

Inadmissible chronicles the unlikely story of a young man who emigrated to the U.S. in pursuit of the American dream, and how one mistake landed him behind bars along with some of America’s most notorious offenders. Against innumerable odds, he manages to survive prison, becoming an accomplished scientist, writer, and motivational speaker. Despite that, the separation from his American daughter would be forever, as he remains in the eyes of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Inadmissible. The memoir chronicles the flaws in the American justice system that mark felons for a lifetime of discrimination, and immigration laws that rip apart families and leave the most vulnerable—the children—without parents. It’s the true tale of one man’s redemption and triumph, lived through believing in himself and believing in the good hearts of the people who stuck by him.

A chilling look at human nature in a context where the lines between right and wrong are obscured. It is compellingly written account of one woman's life and what drove her to the brink. It neither condemns her actions nor supports them but leaves one to wonder how close the edge really is for every one of us. It seems that the author is writing with this purpose in mind...to bring to our attention how seemingly small 'everyday' choices and events build up. They shape our personality, perception, thought and justification process, and eventually our actions as surely as water shapes sandstone. It is a fascinating but tragic study in human nature but one that should not be missed.

California's picturesque shores have always been a magnet for outcasts and criminals. Read about 64 of the most horrifying crimes ever committed in The Golden State, from the early 1950s into the 1980s. These accounts tell of man's inhumanity toward his fellow man and provide an inside look at infamous serial killers, assassins, sadistic rapists, bank robbers, kidnappers, Satan worshippers, and a plethora of other notorious criminals. Revisit "The Sex Club Slaying," "The Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping," and the "Real House on Haunted Hill." Be glad you're not on the helpful list of "The Lonely Hearts Killer" or "Souls for Satan." Written in an accessible, chronological sequence and enhanced by over 60 photographs, each entry provides an overview of the crime, the parties involved, evidence gathered, and leading theories about solutions. This reference is indispensable for the study of the history of modern crime in California.