Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904) was an undisputed professional success during his lifetime. Crowds flocked to see his vividly rendered historical and Orientalist compositions, and thanks to the mass marketing of his work through mechanical reproduction, he reached audiences on an unprecedented scale.

From the outset, however, his success met with critical hostility. Emile Zola, champion of Edouard Manet, dismissed Gerome as a cynical manufacturer of anecdotal images for popular consumption--a critique repeatedly echoed by historians of modern art. In light of revisionist and postmodern...

The story takes place in Hollywood FL. and begins with four friends that have grown up together and are now in their late twenty's. Dave Foley has become a homicide detective, Danny has become a Paramedic. Rafe is a drug smuggler that has become a power boat racer, and Wes is a successful developer with ties to the underworld. Danny seems to lead a straight and simple life, but is brutally murdered by having his throat slashed while at home. The mystery deepens when drugs are found at the crime scene. Foley gets the case and finds himself having to team up with his old friend Wes. The cop...

The story takes place in Hollywood FL. and begins with four friends that have grown up together and are now in their late twenty's. Dave Foley has become a homicide detective, Danny has become a Paramedic. Rafe is a drug smuggler that has become a power boat racer, and Wes is a successful developer with ties to the underworld. Danny seems to lead a straight and simple life, but is brutally murdered by having his throat slashed while at home. The mystery deepens when drugs are found at the crime scene. Foley gets the case and finds himself having to team up with his old friend Wes. The cop...

An elegantly conceived book on the revolutionary and stunning works of a nineteenth- century French master.

Our story picks up where the "Paramedic" left you hanging. Wes has fled to Spain to avoid being questioned for the grisly murder of an undercover cop. While hiding out, Wess brother shows up to offer him a deal. Full immunity for all his crimes under one condition; work undercover for the Government!
Wes agrees to the condition, but theres a problem. He cant tell his partner about his involvement with the government. Everything goes according to the plan until someone is double crossed.
Lives become endangered while a deep dark secret intertwines itself into the story and stays hidden until...

Our story picks up where the "Paramedic" left you hanging. Wes has fled to Spain to avoid being questioned for the grisly murder of an undercover cop. While hiding out, Wess brother shows up to offer him a deal. Full immunity for all his crimes under one condition; work undercover for the Government!
Wes agrees to the condition, but theres a problem. He cant tell his partner about his involvement with the government. Everything goes according to the plan until someone is double crossed.
Lives become endangered while a deep dark secret intertwines itself into the story and stays hidden until...