Eight irreverent tales with a twist! Pure entertainment just for you. Comical, fascinating reading that will stir your imagination. Dangerous, out-of-control people playing deadly games. This extreme variety of villains will stop for nothing - not even a coffee break. Bad people at their best - murder! But they haven't lost their shocking sense of humor, and that's important. Step into the eye of the whirlwind and experience fast-paced stories of suspense, mystery, and bizarre crimes - but crimes with a laugh. An outrageous diversion of bedlam and mayhem with dead beats, screwballs, cowards,...

The drama that unfolds will keep you reading to the startling conclusion of a tragic struggle for survival. The year is 1942. The setting a United States Army disciplinary barracks in the fierce and barren landscape of the Mojave Desert. Here, troublemakers, cowards and deserters from combat units are sent for retraining and eventual reassignment. During the punishing weeks in vicious sun and heat and bone-chilling nights the staff relentlessly drive the prisoners to the breaking point in an effort to "reshape" theminto a true image of a combat soldier. The arrival of four new prisoners...

July 1927, in the rugged mining country of Wapakonetka County, Ohio, the miners of Mine Seven call a strike, and it propels them into an unforeseen and bitter conflict. This was a time when men worked twelve-hour days, seven days a week, for seven dollars and fifty cents a day; struggling to keep themselves and their families clothed and fed. But the owner of Harwick Coal Company, and its president, are powerful, iron-willed kings of industry, determined to crush the strike at any cost, and by any means. Without warning, trainloads of strikebreakers are rushed in. The miners are forced to...