Gun, Badge & Cuffs

Gun, Badge & Cuffs
Author: Dr. Richard S. Rhodes
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2011-04-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1449097731

The experience of a young Black police recruit while in the academy was assigned to undercover vice assignments on weekends. He is taken back by its challenges, exciting and adventurous to say the least. Graduating from the academy he is permanently assigned to the Vice Squad. He describes in vivid detail his experiences in various assignments during his thirty year career from vice to uniform patrol, detective and patrol supervisor. His incidents include two face-to-face gun fights, car crashes, being drugged, and pulled from a three story building, confrontation with a boa constrictor, the riots and many others. His body guarding and managing experiences with the late Redd Foxx, his experiences in show business, etc. The book is exciting, real and most of all, TRUE. Described by one critic as a "Real Page Turner!"

This Gun’S for Hire

This Gun’S for Hire
Author: Terrence Howard
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2012-06-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781475928532

If youve ever wanted to get inside the mind of a police officer, then this candid book written by a former Chicago cop will take you there. Terrence Howard, who retired from the force after twenty-four years, recalls an adventurous career that includes the good, bad, and ugly sides of law enforcement. Whether you are considering becoming a police officer or just curious about how they think, Howard offers answers. This Guns for Hire identifies the three models of police officers; examines the forty golden rules of police survival; and provides advice on how to work with police so you can steer clear of trouble. When encountering a police officer, its important to know the difference between the laws of the courts and the laws of the streets. Figure out how police officers really think, and take the necessary steps to ensure a more positive experience the next time you meet one.

Going Deep

Going Deep
Author: Anne Calhoun
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250084636

SHE’LL ROCK HIS WORLD After weeks on a sold-out tour, singer Cady Ward is coming home for the holidays. But after one too many episodes of fan-craziness, Cady’s manager decides that she needs protection—in the form of muscled cop Conn McCormick. Longing for peace and quiet to prepare before her next album drops, Cady doesn’t need a bodyguard just to deal with some vague email threats...though she can’t deny that close proximity to Conn’s body is a very nice place to be. Conn is in the midst of a career scandal when his boss assigns him to pop-star guard duty. It’s a poor use of his skills, even though Cady’s feisty nature proves the perfect distraction for Conn while Internal Affairs investigates his case. What begins as a sizzling attraction becomes something deeper than either Conn or Cady could have expected. But when Conn uncovers the sinister plan behind the threats to Cady, he’s faced with a professional dilemma: To save her life, will he risk having a future with the only woman who’s ever touched his soul? What these bestselling authors have to say about Anne Calhoun’s romances: “Scintillating sexual chemistry!”—Lauren Dane “Uncommonly good storytelling.”—Beth Kery

Less Than a Moment

Less Than a Moment
Author: Steven F. Havill
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 149269911X

No crime is forgiven, and no mistake overlooked in this new addition to the critically acclaimed Posadas County Mystery series... When a developer shows up in Posadas County, the locals get nervous. The small town along the southern border of New Mexico has enjoyed a surge in visitors, jobs, and prosperity since rancher Miles Waddell opened an eco-friendly complex. But then the developer buys land just next door, with plans for a project that will threaten the county's newfound success. Tension is at an all-time high when someone shoots up the newsroom—and then the developer is found dead at the base of a cliff. Sheriff Bob Torrez and Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman know these events are all too convenient and bloody not to be connected. With support from Bill Gastner—an old Western sheriff straight out of the movies—the partners dive into a heated investigation. But as the case gets personal, the two will have to untangle a web of convoluted evidence before the community turns on itself. Readers of C. J. Box and Anne Hillerman will be riveted by this female protagonist thriller set in the rural, rugged Southwest. The newest of Steven F. Havill's Western mysteries and thrillers will lead you down trails of danger and deceit... But will one of these paths lead to justice? "The Posadas County that Havill has created is so tangible, you feel that if you walked down its streets, you would be greeted by old friends."—Bookreporter "Less Than A Moment reveals Posadas' sense of small-town life through the conversations of multiple characters and by rolling them into the narrative, whether they're related or unrelated to the crimes."—Albuquerque Journal

Identifying Cap Badges

Identifying Cap Badges
Author: Graham Bandy
Publisher: Pen and Sword Family History
Total Pages: 1252
Release: 2022-03-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526775980

This book is an invaluable ‘tool of the trade’ for anyone trying to identify or interpret photos. – Peter Hart, Military Historian Identifying Cap Badges is the book that has been missing from the bookshelves of family historians, military enthusiasts, and badge collectors alike. It is quite easy to find an erudite book on military cap badges, but you could spend hours, if not days, plodding through hundreds of pictures to find a match for the one you hold. Sometimes you may not find it at all! These learned badge collector's books have one major flaw; they are pictured and discussed in 'order of precedence', that is to say, from the earliest formed regiments to the latest, with separate sections on medical, engineers, cavalry, infantry, etc. This can be most confusing to those uninitiated into the 'dark arts' of military badges. Thus, if you do not know the name or 'original number' of your regiment in this order of precedence, you can be flummoxed! This, combined with all the different crowns, laurels, animals, mythological beasts and castles, can prove more than a little daunting, even to ex soldiers themselves! In this book you will find badges ordered by what is on the badge itself; be it a dragon, sphinx or castle, horse, lion or tiger. This is badge identification in minutes, rather than hours, with added information on dating badges and many comparison photographs alongside all the pictures of the badges. Added to these pictures are short histories of the regiments and 'family trees' plotting the antecedents of today's units.

Don't Look for Me

Don't Look for Me
Author: Mason Cross
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2018-01-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1681776960

A nail-biting new thriller—perfect for fans of Jack Reacher, Alex Cross, and Jason Bourne—about the desperate hunt for a woman who has a secret to kill for . . . Six years ago, the woman Carter Blake loved disappeared and told him not to ever look for her. For six long years, he kept that promise. She was a woman on the run—a woman with a secret many would kill for. It was better that she stay hidden. But now someone else is looking for her. Trenton Gage is a hitman with a talent for finding people—dead or alive. And his next job is to track down the woman Carter Blake once loved, a woman on the run. With both men hunting the same person, the question is: Who will find her first? A riveting new thriller from Mason Cross, ideal for readers of David Baldacci, Linwood Barclay, and Mark Billingham.

Hitler’s Blitzkrieg Enemies 1940

Hitler’s Blitzkrieg Enemies 1940
Author: Nigel Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2014-02-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1782005978

The armies of Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium bore the first crushing impact of Hitler's mighty Blitzkrieg war machine in Western Europe, in a campaign that astonished and terrified the world. The German Wehrmacht was millions strong, equipped with the latest guns, tanks and aircraft, and had the priceless advantage of having learned the realities of modern warfare in Poland the previous September. The defenders of Scandinavia and the Low Countries were raised from small populations, and were inadequately funded, trained, equipped and armed. Their modest numbers, inexperience, and largely indefensible borders condemned them to rapid defeat. For this reason they have tended to be neglected by history – in many cases, unjustly. Vastly outnumbered – and, in the case of the neutral Low Countries, with their potential French and British allies reeling under simultaneous attacks – thousands of soldiers fought heroically in the hopeless defence of their homelands against the Nazi juggernaut.

Bond of Darkness

Bond of Darkness
Author: Diane Whiteside
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2008-10-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440639957

National bestselling author Diane Whiteside delivers the third and final novel in her acclaimed Texas Vampires trilogy. Texas Ranger Stephanie “Steve” Reynolds knows all about vampires, since she has a demon lover of her own. For the past several years, Ethan Templeton has been helping her on cases when he wasn’t sharing her bed. But Steve, craving mortal motherhood, refused to get serious about the handsome vampire. Especially after she saw him kill a man she’d just arrested… Ethan loves Steve, but he thinks nothing can come of their passion. Even if he could convince her to share his immortal life, his vampire patron, Don Rafael Perez, would execute him for transforming her. But when the killer menaces Steve, Ethan realizes he has no choice except to risk everything. Will Steve agree to join a man she’s called murderer—or will she refuse her one chance at eternal life, lust, and love?

Donnie and Jean

Donnie and Jean
Author: Ph. D. Samuel D. G. Heath
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2003-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 059529166X

Donnie and Jean was a time of great transition for our nation, one in which there was no television, and radio and Hollywood were the main sources of both entertainment and news defining what would later be called "The Great Generation." Comic books and the funny papers were war oriented and children were ready to defend America against all invaders; while adults fought the war, children played at war. Donnie and Jean is more than a story of two twelve year old children meeting and beginning to learn what it is to love; they were born into a generation that epitomized the best of what America was during that era when the leaders of America were trusted, when teachers and police were the friends of children. In many ways it was an age of innocence lost and not to be recovered, but recalled here in the story of these two children.