In this book Robert Cole--a retired California police officer hired by DynCorp as an international police trainer--presents a vivid account of the challenges of training the Iraqis to handle their own security. In blunt, everyday language, Cole gives the reader an unusually candid and often hair-raising glimpse into reality at the street level as he and his colleagues navigate the dangerous sectors of Baghdad, Tikrit, and Kirkuk, dodging explosions and bullets aimed at them by young, Iraqi, wannabe heroes. Cole describes situations not shown in the media: men in their sixties being hired as...

There's more to human life than what meets the mind. If it is meant to be that a soul should find its eternal home beyond the confines of its earthly dwelling... a place where the cruelty and suffering from the earth are left behind and peace surrounds it, then it is not a consequence of life that is discovered by chance, but an objective from the start. The Soul is the story of one soul's discovery of its reason for being.

On a holiday in England, Alex Carhill is caught in the nightmare of a nuclear holocaust. In a matter of hours a mid-summer's day is turned into a nuclear winter. This is the story of his survival in a world that no longer has rules; where climatic extremes, murder, starvation and disease are commonplace. As the land slowly heals, the survivors scratch together an existence in a contaminated wasteland ravaged by plagues of insects and disease. In this world, through hardship and pain, a new society is forged based on new rules and values molded from the demands and necessities of life. After...

Ever wonder what makes you... YOU? Is it merely the memories you've made, the path you've chosen, love shared or unrequited, maybe inherited traits or a resemblance to an ancestor? Corbin Annarino has through MERCI, the Memory Regenerating Computer Interface, discovered an answer, or at least a partial one... you can't travel back in time, but you may perhaps be able to visit there.

On an earth-like planet in the Andromeda Galaxy, the Creator of the Universe skipped the introduction-and evolution-of the human being as the pinnacle of creation, opting instead for a species of intelligent, social, conversant and powerful flying creatures, the gull-hawk. Book I The Call, the first book on this trilogy, is a thought-provoking addition to the oft-told "hero's journey." It is a story of faith, love, war, and the inevitable conflicts that arise between those of differing viewpoints, longstanding traditions, deeply held beliefs, and hidden-and not so hidden-agendas. Building on...