The Travelers Series Books 4-6: The Freeport Robbery, The Kidnap Victim, and The Murder Run

The Travelers Series Books 4-6: The Freeport Robbery, The Kidnap Victim, and The Murder Run
Author: Michael P. King
Publisher: Blurred Lines Press
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2020-02-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 099936488X

The Travelers…husband and wife con artists who specialize in stealing from other criminals. The Freeport Robbery, The Kidnap Victim, and The Murder Run are books 4-6 in this series of no-holds-barred crime thrillers. If you like edge-of-your-seat action, shady criminal intrigue, and devious plot twists, then you’ll love these pulse-pounding page-turners at this special low price. Click now to start reading these can’t-put-them-down crime thrillers. The Freeport Robbery: Stolen art. A hijacked heist. Can the Travelers outmaneuver the FBI and a murder gang? The Travelers, short on cash, break into a freeport vault to reclaim a stolen 16th century jewelry casket for return to a museum. But after they’re ambushed during the break-in, they’re on the run from the cops. To keep their pictures off the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, they must retrieve the jewelry casket. But when they finally catch up to it half way across the country, they find it has been delivered to a man who hasn’t a clue as to what he’s gotten himself into. Can they get the casket back and stay out of the crosshairs of the murder gang that wants it for themselves? The Kidnap Victim: When the hard men come with their guns. . . and bundle you into the trunk of a car. . . who do you wish had your back? The Traveling Man and a new partner have their eyes on a safe deposit box full of drug money when the new partner’s husband unexpectedly shows up, muddling up the score. Meanwhile, the Traveling Man’s wife, who’s busy charming the daughter of her new boyfriend, is spotted by an old mark they previously swindled, a mark who’s looking for payback. The Murder Run: Never cheat a partner. Always get revenge. . . The Traveling Man takes on a quick and easy safecracking job…easy until his partners are murdered and he’s on the run. His wife is trying to settle into her new role as a rich man’s girlfriend, so she isn’t at his side. Who are these killers who are after him? And how are they connected to the government agency that wants the envelope he took from the safe? With the help of a new associate, he tracks the killers until he’s steered into a trap. They think he’s cornered, but he’s still got one ace up his sleeve. . . The Travelers crime thrillers contain profanity, violence, and sexual situations typical of the genre and similar to R rated movies.

The Lynching of Cleo Wright

The Lynching of Cleo Wright
Author: Dominic J. CapeciJr.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2014-10-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813156467

On January 20, 1942, black oil mill worker Cleo Wright assaulted a white woman in her home and nearly killed the first police officer who tried to arrest him. An angry mob then hauled Wright out of jail and dragged him through the streets of Sikeston, Missouri, before burning him alive. Wright's death was, unfortunately, not unique in American history, but what his death meant in the larger context of life in the United States in the twentieth-century is an important and compelling story. After the lynching, the U.S. Justice Department was forced to become involved in civil rights concerns for the first time, provoking a national reaction to violence on the home front at a time when the country was battling for democracy in Europe. Dominic Capeci unravels the tragic story of Wright's life on several stages, showing how these acts of violence were indicative not only of racial tension but the clash of the traditional and the modern brought about by the war. Capeci draws from a wide range of archival sources and personal interviews with the participants and spectators to draw vivid portraits of Wright, his victims, law-enforcement officials, and members of the lynch mob. He places Wright in the larger context of southern racial violence and shows the significance of his death in local, state, and national history during the most important crisis of the twentieth-century.

A Patriot's History of the United States

A Patriot's History of the United States
Author: Larry Schweikart
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 1350
Release: 2004-12-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1101217782

For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Author: Rob Nixon
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2011-06-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 067424799X

The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of "slow violence" to describe these threats, Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, spectacle-driven messaging that impels public activism today. Slow violence, because it is so readily ignored by a hard-charging capitalism, exacerbates the vulnerability of ecosystems and of people who are poor, disempowered, and often involuntarily displaced, while fueling social conflicts that arise from desperation as life-sustaining conditions erode. In a book of extraordinary scope, Nixon examines a cluster of writer-activists affiliated with the environmentalism of the poor in the global South. By approaching environmental justice literature from this transnational perspective, he exposes the limitations of the national and local frames that dominate environmental writing. And by skillfully illuminating the strategies these writer-activists deploy to give dramatic visibility to environmental emergencies, Nixon invites his readers to engage with some of the most pressing challenges of our time.

Managing Death Investigations

Managing Death Investigations
Author: Arthur E. Westveer
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2002
Genre: Compact discs
ISBN:

The purpose of this publication is to consolidate the training material utilized in the Managing Death Investigation Course and Death Investigation Field Schools conducted by the Behavioural Science Unit, FBI Academy,

The Case That Never Dies

The Case That Never Dies
Author: Lloyd Gardner
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2012-06-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813560632

Essential reading for anyone interested in the most famous American crime of the twentieth century Since its original publication in 2004, The Case That Never Dies has become the standard account of the Lindbergh Kidnapping. Now, in a new afterword, historian Lloyd C. Gardner presents a surprise conclusion based on recently uncovered pieces of evidence that were missing from the initial investigation as well as an evaluation of Charles Lindbergh’s role in the search for the kidnappers. Out of the controversies surrounding the actions of Colonel Lindbergh, Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the New Jersey State Police, and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, Gardner presents a well-reasoned argument for what happened on the night of March 1, 1932. The Case That NeverDies places the Lindbergh kidnapping, investigation, and trial in the context of the Depression, when many feared the country was on the edge of anarchy. Gardner delves deeply into the aspects of the case that remain confusing to this day, including Lindbergh’s dealings with crime baron Owney Madden, Al Capone’s New York counterpart, as well as the inexplicable exploits of John Condon, a retired schoolteacher who became the prosecution’s best witness. The initial investigation was hampered by Colonel Lindbergh, who insisted that the police not attempt to find the perpetrator because he feared the investigation would endanger his son’s life. He relented only when the child was found dead. After two years of fruitless searching, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a German immigrant, was discovered to have some of the ransom money in his possession. Hauptmann was arrested, tried, and sentenced to death. Throughout the book, Gardner pays special attention to the evidence of the case and how it was used and misused in the trial. Whether Hauptmann was guilty or not, Gardner concludes that there was insufficient evidence to convict him of first-degree murder. Set in historical context, the book offers not only a compelling read, but a powerful vantage point from which to observe the United States in the 1930s as well as contemporary arguments over capital punishment.

Natural Resources and Violent Conflict

Natural Resources and Violent Conflict
Author: Ian Bannon
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780821355039

Research carried out by the World Bank on the root causes of conflict and civil war finds that a developing country's economic dependence on natural resources or other primary commodities is strongly associated with the risk level for violent conflict. This book brings together a collection of reports and case studies that explore what the international community in particular can do to reduce this risk.; The text explains the links between natural resources and conflict and examines the impact of resource dependence on economic performance, governance, secessionist movements and revel financing. It then explores avenues for international action - from financial and resource reporting procedures and policy recommendations to commodity tracking systems and enforcement instruments, including sanctions, certification requirements, aid conditionality, legislative and judicial instruments.

Criminal Poisoning

Criminal Poisoning
Author: John H. Trestrail, III
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2007-10-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1597452564

In this revised and expanded edition, leading forensic scientist John Trestrail offers a pioneering survey of all that is known about the use of poison as a weapon in murder. Topics range from the use of poisons in history and literature to convicting the poisoner in court, and include a review of the different types of poisons, techniques for crime scene investigation, and the critical essentials of the forensic autopsy. The author updates what is currently known about poisoners in general and their victims. The Appendix has been updated to include the more commonly used poisons, as well as the use of antifreeze as a poison.