"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...

"Un impactante viaje al interior del mundo del narcotráfico donde se ponen en evidencia, con nombre y apelido, los poderosos resortes que lo mueven."-- "The drug lords is a gritty chronicle of the shocking complicity of high political circles, police, military and business with organized crime. Anabel Hernández had access not only to extensive documentation, unpublished until today, but direct evidence of authorities and experts in the field, as...

"India, 1922: Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable and very few women have ever seen a doctor. Perveen is attending a lavish fundraiser for a new women's hospital specializing in maternal health issues when she witnesses an accident. The grandson of an influential Gujarati businessman catches fire-but a servant, his young ayah, Sunanda, rushes to save him, selflessly...

"In an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline, Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a rival merchant to cement his hold on the shore when the Widow Caines arrives to throw the wedding and Abe's plans into chaos. That ruthless act of sabotage is the opening salvo in a battle between the man and woman who own Mockbeggar's largest mercantile firms, each fighting for the scarce resources of the north Atlantic fishery, each seeking...

"A brutal murder investigation with connections to corruption at the very highest level threatens not just the career but also the life of Inspector Lu Fei in Brian Klingborn's latest mystery..."--

In 2021 the Prather Point was viewed almost two million times on https://JeffreyPrather.com alone. Global podcast service Buzz Sprout, placed me in in their top five percent for 2022. Folks fell in love with my no nonsense, fact-filled, analytical, information intelligence. They loved that my talks were based upon my faith, and my long years in special operations, psychological operations, Army Special Forces, military intelligence, and as a...

In this comprehensive and riveting account, "Political Fallout and Resignations" delves into the intricate world of high-stakes financial impropriety within the corridors of power. Drawing on extensive research, this tome explores some of the most shocking financial scandals that have rocked governments worldwide, leading to political upheaval, resignations, and lasting impacts on national governance.From shadowy offshore accounts to brazen embezzlement...

"Comparative Autocrats" delves deep into the tumultuous era of the 1950s and 1960s in Latin America, a period marked by political upheavals, revolutions, and the rise of several prominent dictators. The book offers a comparative study, examining the regimes of these autocrats, their ideologies, governance methods, and the lasting impact they had on their respective nations and the continent as a whole.Key facets of the book include:Historical Backdrop:...

A wide-ranging investigation of how supposedly transformative technologies adopted by law enforcement have actually made policing worse-lazier, more reckless, and more discriminatory. American law enforcement is a system in crisis. After explosive protests responding to police brutality and discrimination in Baltimore, Ferguson, and a long list of other cities, the vexing question of how to reform the police and curb misconduct stokes tempers and...

The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending,...