The Ballad Of Sergeant Collins

You’ve heard it said: they don’t make cops like they used to. Well, they never made another like Sergeant Collins. Legend? Maverick? A force of his own. These are some of his stories. An excerpt from the book: Constable Collins catches a glimpse of chrome. A snub-nose, buried in the guard’s huge gorilla hand. Pushed into Stamford’s chest. At the heart. It happens point blank and fast. Whomp … Whomp … Whomp. Three shots, muffled, but unmistakable. There are screams. People start ducking for cover. Joshua Stamford falls to the white tiled floor. His body jerks and kicks. Holes torn in his leather. Scarlet streams begin to meander out from his back and chest. Constable Collins sees scraps of bloodied meat a few feet behind the body. Holes torn right through the man. Sasquatch had no chance. The guard turns toward the girl. For a millisecond, Constable Collins looks into the ugly mouth of the revolver. He jumps. Hits the girl hard. Pushes her to the floor. ‘Police,’ he screams at the guard, ‘drop the weapon.’ The girl lands awkwardly, arms splayed apart, face slapping the tiles, knees up, her arse in the air. It’s the centrefold pose. Collins lies across her. Human shield. But still, her arse cups nicely into his groin. ‘Police,’ he says again, but much louder. ‘Drop it!’ The guard turns. Starts running. The sounds of heels on concrete. Stamford’s heels haven’t moved. Just blood running now. A lot of blood. Constable Collins lingers across the girl. Pleasure, for the briefest moment. Then he thinks about the job. About screwing up. About the Commissioner and all the paperwork. He leaps to his feet and starts to run after a new suspect. Knowing it’s hopeless... Also by Conrad Jaymes. CROSSING THE LINE Series: Book 1 – WHITE – Good Cop Bad Cop – Live Cop Dead Cop Book 2 – SILVER – Money & Madness, Mayhem & Murder Book 3 – SCARLET – Love & Loss, Rage & Revenge

At the start of the new millennium the world's media coined a phrase -- The Heroin Drought. And while the impact on drug supply was widely reported, the story of what led to this scarcity has never been told – until WHITE. In this brutal & gritty thriller Conrad Jaymes takes us into the darkest corners of the drug war & introduces us to some of her combatants: Peter Balino – a tough, complex man, haunted by his past, unsure of his future. The Say Tong – the most powerful criminal organisation in East Asia, run by men of knife-edge ambition & cruelty. Men known as Snake Eyes, The Vampire & The Giant. This is a story for fans of true crime. A story born in the headlines. A story so real it just might be true. All these books can be read as standalone and in any order. CROSSING THE LINE Series: Book 1 - WHITE - Good Cop Bad Cop - Live Cop Dead Cop Book 2 - SILVER - Money & Madness, Mayhem & Murder Book 3 - SCARLET - Love & Loss, Rage & Revenge

In a world of bureaucracy gone mad, how does a good cop get the job done? Violence. Corruption. Madness. Peter Balino is old-school - as cops go, he's a good one. But what the hell does good mean anyway? Aided by friends in high places, the Asian Triads do as they please. To go against them is suicide - but Balino always did like those odds. His marriage is over, his career destroyed, and the woman he loves is an unwilling pawn in a brutal and dangerous game ... and only Balino can save her. With everything on the line, it's time for one Vet to go back to war - and it's time to start making his own rules. "WHITE is a brutal, heart-pounding, ticking time-bomb of a thriller. Like life on the Frontline, it is brutally, needlessly, horribly violent - Balino is a great Anti-Hero, and The Giant makes for one of the nastiest characters ever to appear on the page. Highly recommended - but definitely not for the faint-hearted." Download WHITE for free today. All these books can be read as standalone and in any order. CROSSING THE LINE Series: Book 1 - WHITE - Good Cop Bad Cop - Live Cop Dead Cop Book 2 - SILVER - Money & Madness, Mayhem & Murder Book 3 - SCARLET - Love & Loss, Rage & Revenge

Experience the Vietnam War through the eyes and experiences of US Army surgical medic Andy Collins as he and his medical team are overwhelmed first by the wounded and shattered casualties of combat, and later as victims of their own obsessions to save as many lives as possible. This story probes the dark, psychological struggles of the human mind and body as it strives to retain a sense of sanity in a world gone mad with mind-shattering repercussions. Flawlessly written in the genre of the American war novel, it has been critically acclaimed as the One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest of the Vietnam War.

Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuvre his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined - ; every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favour or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute... and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes. Three books, four films and one WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON, The Hunger Games changed the face of global YA.

The dramatic life of Vietnam War hero Roy Benavidez, a Mexican American Green Beret from a working-class family with deep roots in Texas, revealing how Hispanic Americans have long shaped US history In May 1968, while serving in Vietnam, Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez led the rescue of a reconnaissance team surrounded by hundreds of enemy soldiers. He saved the lives of at least eight of his comrades that day in a remarkable act of valor that left him permanently disabled. Awarded the Medal of Honor after a yearslong campaign, Benavidez became a highly sought-after public speaker, a living symbol of military heroism, and one of the country’s most prominent Latinos. Now, historian William Sturkey tells Benavidez’s life story in full for the first time. Growing up in Jim Crow–era Texas, Benavidez was scorned as “Mexican” despite his family’s deep roots in the state. He escaped poverty by enlisting in a desegregating military and was first deployed amid the global upheavals of the 1950s. Even after receiving the Medal of Honor, Benavidez was forced to fight for disability benefits amid Reagan-era cutbacks. An unwavering patriot alternately celebrated and snubbed by the country he loved, Benavidez embodied many of the contradictions inherent in twentieth-century Latino life. The Ballad of Roy Benavidez places that experience firmly at the heart of the American story.

High-top-fade security guard hero Buckett Collins goes in search of a beloved comrades murderers, fights to save a child abuse victim, and evades a belligerent former love interest amid self-doubt, hostility, and the insanity and street violence of 1989 South Central Los Angeles.