REAL MEN RAISE CHAMPIONS and EVERY CHAMPION NEEDS A COACH - These are the messages author J. A. Faulkerson wants to communicate to today's fathers. With 24 million American children - one out of three - living without their biological fathers in the home (not to mention the forces that are mobilizing to rob them of peaceful and prosperous futures), the time for REAL MEN to exert their God-given power, authority and influence is now. Gone are the days when fathers allow their self-worth to be measured by hefty paychecks. Today's challenges require fathers to HUDDLE UP, and work with their...

When 40-year-old Mason Reynolds boarded the Metro train after work for the routine ride back to Compton, he did so not expecting trouble. However, trouble finds him, in the form of Ty, a gun-toting, teenaged thug, and his posse of knuckleheads. But Mason isn't fazed by the boys' appearance or demeanor. He grew up in Compton. He knew you had to maintain a certain swagger to be respected, to survive on its mean streets. But he is forced to push caution to the wind when Ty pulls his gun from his hoodie and threatens to use it on one of the other passengers. How will the wheelchair-bound Mason...