When Kansas City Royals pitcher Willie Cintron is found dead of a heroin overdose on the day of the final game of the American League championship series, NYPD Lieutenant Joe Dante and his partner, Jumbo Richardson, investigate and uncover a web of intrigue and deceit.
The designer of the trend-setting new sportswear line of the Close Apparel label is found bludgeoned to death in the corporate offices. Missing items point to a piracy ring that could cost the company plenty. Still, Detective Joe Dante wonders whether cheap off-the-rack knock-offs are worth killing for. An arrogant U.S. Treasury Agent shows up and steps all over Dante's case. A beautiful model is targeted for death. For Joe Dante, there's a lot more at stake than the new fall line . . .
Even cynical New York City is rocked by the brutal murder of Congresswoman Cora Davis. An outspoken advocate of warning labels on rock music, she is censored forever when she's bludgeoned and strangled in a Manhattan hotel room. Lt. Joe Dante's prime-and only-suspects are the last two people to see Davis alive: the lead singer of the rock megaband Crucifixion and the wife of a right-wing Southern senator. Polar opposites in the public eye, these two are secret lovers. Heading up the homicide investigation, Dante is thrust into a tangle of hypocrisy and intrigue. While angry NYPD brass breathe down his neck, Joe's up to his chin in blackmail, sex scandals, cover-ups... and a mounting body count. Dante's in double jeopardy: if he doesn't crack the case, his badge is on the line-but trapping his vicious prey means putting himself in the line of fire... BLOCKBUSTER PRAISE FOR CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN: "HARD HITTING, SUSPENSEFUL. NEWMAN REALLY KNOWS THE TERRITORY" -William Caunitz, author of ONE POLICE PLAZA and SUSPECTS "JOE DANTE IS ONE OF THE BEST OF THE MODERN MANHUNTERS, AND HE GETS BETTER IN EVERY BOOK." -Donald E. Westlake "NEWMAN IS ONE OF THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS." -William J. Caunitz "LIEUTENANT JOE DANTE'S NEW YORK SIZZLES." -Lawrence Block "NEWMAN PROVES ONCE AGAIN THAT HE CAN WRITE A GREAT STORY." -W.E.B. Griffin
Maverick New York detective Joe Dante socializes with the city's rich and famous and arrests society's scum, like the Colombian drug enforcer he recently busted. When the lieutenant is shot in the street in revenge for the arrest, he begins a hunt for the killer who came after him. From New York to Miami, a tail of broken bodies leads the cop closer to his quarry--and a shattering deception.
Oracle of Lost Causes tells the life story of John Newman Edwards, a Confederate soldier and political journalist perpetually at war with the modernizing world around him, who sought to weaponize the memory of Confederate defeat.
Christopher Newman, best-selling author of the Lt. Joe Dante novels, is back with an exciting new series that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Meet Sean Malloy, a former FBI profiler hired by the Department of Defense to investigate violent crimes committed by U.S. forces on foreign soil. Now retired, Malloy runs a cannabis plantation in the Sierra foothills and is an outspoken advocate for medicinal marijuana use. In an unwanted turn of events in his now relatively peaceful life, Malloy is recruited by a U.S. Attorney in California to aid in a major case of corruption at the highest levels of the American government. In Pillage, he is once again deputized as a U.S. Marshal, this time for a case much closer to home-mass killings and the theft of marijuana oil in multi-million-dollar proportions. Newman brings us head-first into the world of legal and illegal marijuana growth and trafficking, involving the Chinese underworld and a candidate for president of the United States. Action-packed, Pillage, is a timely and thrilling novel of non-stop suspense.
A unique and idiosyncratic collection of verse, prose and aphorisms with the occasional quote for good measure, all from the journals kept by the author over a period of more than forty years. The journals represent the authors response to that old imperative know thyself; and are thus an exploration of the authors own nature. Given that the author is a fully paid up member of the human race, it may also, he hopes, be an exploration of human nature.
This monograph delineates John Henry Newman's 'theology of history', which refers to his theological understanding, or 'view', of history that one finds pervading his work like a rich atmosphere. Newman's view led to his crafting of provisional theories that not only were more historically conscious, but also could support and promote revealed religion and religious epistemology in the present. This project traces these developing theories and the presuppositions on which they rested, as well as distills from them Newman's 'theological imaginary', which can be understood as his 'idea' of the church, an idea which he believed must become manifest in the world. Newman's theology of history is thus inextricably bound up with the realization of Christianity in its authentic ecclesial manifestation. This monograph highlights the import of Newman's theology of history for our own theological 'imaginaries' in the present, post-Vatican II context, ultimately developing an original 'relational-developmental model of doctrine'.
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