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This well-crafted mystery novel is a character drama and an allegory for the dangers of money and greed. It explores questions of morality, racism, inequality, deception, infidelity, and even sexual identity. Within its pages, these matters become the surprising hallmarks of an Appalachian Mountain locale where whiskey making is king, and a criminal mentality prevails.

When a southern transplant to Detroit, Frankie Suchet, steals two million dollars from a shot-up car he's working on, he does not know that the cash belongs to gangster Ellis LaCosta, who will stop at nothing to recover...

Book one is a story about the origin of a terrorist plot, and the background of the man who enters the United States to carry it out. His weapons of choice are the same as those said by many to be under current development in both Iran and North Korea. Such weapons, in this second decade of the twenty-first century, are sought after by numerous rogue terrorists currently operating in the Middle East, and the fact that so many of these people are mental pigmies does not alter the fact...

"For its intelligence and humanitarian achievements, for its political honesty, for its power and its beauty (there is no other word), this book deserves to be called a masterpiece." --American Ethnologist

Jerome R. Mintz's classic study of the lives of Andalusian campesinos who were swept up by one of the 20th century's pivotal social movements provided a new framework for understanding the tragic events that tilted Spain toward civil war. In a new foreword, James W. Fernandez reflects on the fieldwork that led to the book and its contribution to subsequent developments in the...

Leyburn provides a connected story of the growth of Haiti's social institutions out of the backgrounds of slavery and French colonial life and the slow shaping of these institutions through the 19th century. The central thesis of the book is that Haitian society is divided into two segments, the yeomanry and the elite, and that the national institutional structure has not allowed any alteration in that division in the course of Haiti's history as a sovereign nation.