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"Straight from the mean streets, Walk the Blue Line is a first-person account of the days and nights of America's brave cops"--Dust jacket flap.
America's cops are our eyes. Our ears. Our protectors. Those who wear a badge do their best to help people. These men and women serve their communities. They service their country-- even at the risk of their own lives. Here patrol officers, K9 handlers, sheriffs and detectives reveal what it's really like...
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Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood--also known as the Late Show--beginning many investigations but finishing none, as each morning she turns everything over to the day shift. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor.But one night she catches two assignments she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in...
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Adrian Bleese spent twelve years flying on police helicopters and attended almost 3,000 incidents as one of only a handful of civilian Air Observers working anywhere in the world.
In Above The Law he recounts the most interesting, difficult, emotionally charged, funny and downright baffling highlights of his career working for Suffolk Constabulary and the National Police Air Service. The events he was involved in were often life and death or, at...
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How the Supreme Court's decision to treat unreasonable policing as reasonable under the Fourth Amendment has shortened the distance between life and death for Black people
The summer of 2020 will be remembered as an unprecedented, watershed moment in the struggle for racial equality. Published on the second anniversary of the global protests over the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Unreasonable is a groundbreaking investigation...
6) Toxin Alert
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Ride along on the riveting cases of the Tactical Crime Division — TCD. An elite team of FBI agents specializing in high-risk threats.
After biological terrorism rips through an Amish community, the Tactical Crime Division is called in to find out why.
Following a deadly anthrax attack, TCD's biological weapons expert Carly Welsh springs into action. Problem is, the Amish trust no one—especially not an FBI special...
After biological terrorism rips through an Amish community, the Tactical Crime Division is called in to find out why.
Following a deadly anthrax attack, TCD's biological weapons expert Carly Welsh springs into action. Problem is, the Amish trust no one—especially not an FBI special...
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A retired Texas Ranger recalls a career that took him from shootouts in South Texas to film sets in Hollywood.
When his picture appeared on the cover of Texas Monthly, Joaquin Jackson became the icon of the modern Texas Rangers. Nick Nolte modeled his character in the movie Extreme Prejudice on him. Jackson even had a speaking part of his own in The Good Old Boys with Tommy Lee Jones. But the role that Jackson has always played the best is that...
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Now in his 60s, a former international executive with Microsoft Corporation and GlaxoSmithKline, Graham Satchwell, looks back on his time as a Transport Policeman across an impressive career. The book follows his progress from the time, in 1968, when, aged 18, as an unqualified laborer, he cheated to pass the police entrance exam. With extensive use of anecdotes his promotions to every rank within the CID are described with wit and brutal honesty....
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Blending history and memoir, retired U.S. Marshal Mike Earp--a descendant of the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp--offers an exclusive and fascinating behind the scenes look at the most storied law enforcement agency in America, illuminating its vital role in the nation's development for more than two hundred years. Mike Earp spent his career with the U.S. Marshals Service, reaching the number three position in the organization's hierarchy before he retired....
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While helping town deputy Max Stanford care for his 3-year-old daughter, who was left on his doorstep, Charlotte Garrison--who has arrived in Apple Valley, Washington, to open a bakery--finally finds a place to call home in his arms, if only she can come to terms with her past.
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He'll do whatever it takes... and she knows it
Black ops assassin Eli Wayne may work for a company that cares only about money, but when Zoey Martin asks for his help following her brother's disappearance, compensation is the last thing on his mind. With a multimillion-dollar bounty on Zoey's brother's head, though, they'll have to fight to reach him before he's killed—especially since Eli's own company is after the money.
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Black ops assassin Eli Wayne may work for a company that cares only about money, but when Zoey Martin asks for his help following her brother's disappearance, compensation is the last thing on his mind. With a multimillion-dollar bounty on Zoey's brother's head, though, they'll have to fight to reach him before he's killed—especially since Eli's own company is after the money.
The...
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"A retired Texas lawman shares stories of serial killers, labor strikes, and more, in this sequel to the runaway bestselling memoir One Ranger. No Texas Ranger memoir has captured the public's imagination like Joaquin Jackson's One Ranger. Readers thrilled to Jackson's stories of catching criminals and keeping the peace across a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border and clamored for more. Now in One Ranger Returns , Jackson reopens his case files...
13) Dear Martin
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Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
14) Covert
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First published as Countermeasures, a ticking clock and opposites attracting will keep readers on the edge of their seat in this classic story from USA TODAY bestselling author Janie Crouch!
At first it looked like a glorified babysitting job: safeguard a scientist while she created a countermeasure to neutralize a dangerous weapon that had fallen into the wrong hands. But when Dr. Megan Fuller's life is threatened, undercover agent Sawyer Branson...
At first it looked like a glorified babysitting job: safeguard a scientist while she created a countermeasure to neutralize a dangerous weapon that had fallen into the wrong hands. But when Dr. Megan Fuller's life is threatened, undercover agent Sawyer Branson...
15) Texas Kidnapping
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She'll do whatever it takes
To keep her baby safe.
Aiming a shotgun at a would-be kidnapper showed Renee Smith she had the instincts she would need to safeguard her newly adopted daughter. Then US marshal Cash O'Connor offers her a safe haven at his Texas ranch and she knows it's best to accept his protection. Cash recognizes that Renee's incident is eerily similar to his own infant sister's unsolved kidnapping thirty years...
To keep her baby safe.
Aiming a shotgun at a would-be kidnapper showed Renee Smith she had the instincts she would need to safeguard her newly adopted daughter. Then US marshal Cash O'Connor offers her a safe haven at his Texas ranch and she knows it's best to accept his protection. Cash recognizes that Renee's incident is eerily similar to his own infant sister's unsolved kidnapping thirty years...
16) Texas Law
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An O'Connor family mystery volume 3
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She escaped the clutches of her violent ex...
But the threat continues as she gets closer to the truth.
The woman who darts in front of Sheriff Colton O'Connor's car one rain-lashed night is no stranger to him. But she is someone he never expected to see again. Especially not in his hometown. Now as they ride out the storm together, the widowed lawman awakens dangerous emotions in Makena Eden. As a rogue cop tracks them, the...
But the threat continues as she gets closer to the truth.
The woman who darts in front of Sheriff Colton O'Connor's car one rain-lashed night is no stranger to him. But she is someone he never expected to see again. Especially not in his hometown. Now as they ride out the storm together, the widowed lawman awakens dangerous emotions in Makena Eden. As a rogue cop tracks them, the...
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His latest case is dangerous.
So is his attraction to the missing victim's ex.
Eve Shea's ex is missing in the Colorado mountains. Although her romantic feelings for the man are long gone, her honor demands she be a part of Ranger Commander Grant Sanderlin's investigation. But her rising attraction to Grant is another matter. The hardened military man vows justice, even as he opens his home and heart to Eve. But as more clues...
So is his attraction to the missing victim's ex.
Eve Shea's ex is missing in the Colorado mountains. Although her romantic feelings for the man are long gone, her honor demands she be a part of Ranger Commander Grant Sanderlin's investigation. But her rising attraction to Grant is another matter. The hardened military man vows justice, even as he opens his home and heart to Eve. But as more clues...
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THE #1 TRUE CRIME BESTSELLER. Serial killings, child abductions, organised crime hits and domestic murders. This is the memoir of a homicide detective.
WINNER OF 2021 DANGER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
Here I am: tall and broad, shaved head, had my nose broken three times fighting. Black suit, white shirt, the big city homicide detective. I've led investigations into serial killings,
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A nonfiction collection of the exploits and accomplishments of African American law enforcement officers.
LaVerne Dunlap, She infiltrates drug gangs and testifies against them in court...only to have the drug lords come gunning for her.
Dep. County Sheriff Winroe Reed, He goes into America's "Homicide Capital" alone to apprehend a 6'9" homicidal crack dealer...a man so dangerous no other cops would accompany him.
Robbie Robinson, A movie actor/martial...
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"Two Decades Behind the Badge chronicles incidents ranging from humorous to harrowing, to downright unthinkable. It also takes a comprehensive look into the daily life of a police officer from both a personal and professional perspective. He clarifies common police procedures, and explains what police officers can and cannot do when assisting the public. Geisinger's memoirs recount experiences from his first day in the police academy up to his retirement....
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