Author: Laura Scott
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369716590
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
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From USA TODAY bestselling author Laura Scott A criminal on the lam… and danger in the mountains Surviving an attack by her serial killer cousin five years ago left police officer Morganne Kimball his number one target. But she refuses to be his next victim, even if he has now escaped prison and is seeking revenge. Her only choice is to team up with US deputy marshal Colt Nelson, who is determined to capture the fugitive before he’s able to strike at Morganne again… From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith. Justice Seekers Book 1: Soldier's Christmas Secrets Book 2: Guarded by the Soldier Book 3: Wyoming Mountain Escape Book 4: Hiding His Holiday Witness Book 5: Rocky Mountain Standoff Book 6: Fugitive Hunt
Author: Jerry Clark
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442262591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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Fugitives occupy a unique place in the American criminal justice system. They can run and they can hide, but eventually each chase ends. And, in many cases, history is made along the way. John Dillinger’s capture obsessed J. Edgar Hoover and helped create the modern FBI. Violent student radicals who went on the lam in the 1960s reflected the turbulence of the era. The sixteen-year disappearance and sudden arrest of gangster James “Whitey” Bulger in 2011 captivated the nation. Fugitives have become iconic characters in American culture even as they have threatened public safety and the smooth operation of the justice system. They are always on the run, always trying to stay out of reach of the long arm of the law. Also prominent are the men and women who chase fugitives: FBI agents, federal marshals and their deputies, police officers, and bounty hunters. A significant element of the justice system is dedicated to finding those on the run, and the most-wanted posters and true-crime television shows have made fugitives seemingly ubiquitous figures of fear and fascination for the public. In On the Lam, Jerry Clark and Ed Palattella trace the history of fugitives in the United States by looking at the characters – real and fictional – who have played the roles of the hunter and the hunted. They also examine the origins of the bail system and other legal tools, such as most-wanted programs, that are designed to guard against flight.
Author: Bill Minutaglio
Publisher: Twelve
ISBN: 1455563609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
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From Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, authors of the PEN Center USA award-winning Dallas 1963, comes a madcap narrative about Timothy Leary's daring prison escape and run from the law. On the moonlit evening of September 12, 1970, an ex-Harvard professor with a genius I.Q. studies a twelve-foot high fence topped with barbed wire. A few months earlier, Dr. Timothy Leary, the High Priest of LSD, had been running a gleeful campaign for California governor against Ronald Reagan. Now, Leary is six months into a ten-year prison sentence for the crime of possessing two marijuana cigarettes. Aided by the radical Weather Underground, Leary's escape from prison is the counterculture's union of "dope and dynamite," aimed at sparking a revolution and overthrowing the government. Inside the Oval Office, President Richard Nixon drinks his way through sleepless nights as he expands the war in Vietnam and plots to unleash the United States government against his ever-expanding list of domestic enemies. Antiwar demonstrators are massing by the tens of thousands; homemade bombs are exploding everywhere; Black Panther leaders are threatening to burn down the White House; and all the while Nixon obsesses over tracking down Timothy Leary, whom he has branded "the most dangerous man in America." Based on freshly uncovered primary sources and new firsthand interviews, The Most Dangerous Man in America is an American thriller that takes readers along for the gonzo ride of a lifetime. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon's careening, global manhunt for Dr. Timothy Leary winds its way among homegrown radicals, European aristocrats, a Black Panther outpost in Algeria, an international arms dealer, hash-smuggling hippies from the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, and secret agents on four continents, culminating in one of the trippiest journeys through the American counterculture.
Author: Colleen Thompson
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488064075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Enjoy this action-packed thriller about family bonds, forgiveness and honor, part of The Coltons of Mustang Valley series. Her business is finding criminals… but can she risk falling for a fugitive? Capturing Ace Colton is the solution to bounty hunter Sierra Madden’s troubles. The bounty will pay off the vicious loan shark whose goons are after her. Too cynical to buy Ace’s protestations of innocence, Sierra tamps down her growing attraction. But when she’s the ultimate target, she might be forced to rely on the absolute last person she should trust. From Harlequin Romantic Suspense: Danger. Passion. Drama. The Coltons of Mustang Valley: Book 1: Colton Baby Conspiracy by Marie Ferrarella Book 2: Colton’s Lethal Reunion by Tara Taylor Quinn Book 3: Colton Family Bodyguard by Jennifer Morey Book 4: Colton First Responder by Linda O. Johnston Book 5: In Colton’s Custody by Dana Nussio Book 6: Colton Manhunt by Jane Godman Book 7: Colton’s Deadly Disguise by Geri Krotow Book 8: Colton Cowboy Jeopardy by Regan Black Book 9: Colton’s Undercover Reunion by Lara Lacombe Book 10: Deadly Colton Search by Addison Fox Book 11: Hunting the Colton Fugitive by Colleen Thompson Book 12: Colton’s Last Stand by Karen Whiddon
Author: Robert K. Cromwell
Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN: 1635050790
Category : Judicial error
Languages : en
Pages : 147
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We've all seen how the criminal justice system is portrayed on TV. From NCIS and Law & Order to White Collar and Cops, were led to believe that we know how the system works. But how much do we really know about what goes on?
Author: Jeffrey Einboden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190844493
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler urgently pleading for a private "interview" with the President, promising to disclose "a matter of momentous importance". By the next day, Jefferson held in his hands two astonishing manuscripts whose history has been lost for over two centuries. Authored by Muslims fleeing captivity in rural Kentucky, these documents delivered to the President in 1807 were penned by literate African slaves, and written entirely in Arabic. Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives reveals the untold story of two escaped West Africans in the American heartland whose Arabic writings reached a sitting U.S. President, prompting him to intervene on their behalf. Recounting a quest for emancipation that crosses borders of race, region and religion, Jeffrey Einboden unearths Arabic manuscripts that circulated among Jefferson and his prominent peers, including a document from 1780s Georgia which Einboden identifies as the earliest surviving example of Muslim slave authorship in the newly-formed United States. Revealing Jefferson's lifelong entanglements with slavery and Islam, Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives tracks the ascent of Arabic slave writings to the highest halls of U.S. power, while questioning why such vital legacies from the American past have been entirely forgotten.
Author: David G. Smith
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823240320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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"David Smith's On The Edge of Freedom is the most nuanced, detailed and sophisticated study of the Underground Railroad in rural Pennsylvania that I have ever read. Based on a wide variety of primary sources, this study offers a series of fresh insights about how the fugitive crisis along the Mason-Dixon Line directly impacted the wider national struggle over slavery and union." -- Matthew Pinkser, Dickinson College. David G. Smith has delivered a revelatory portrait of one of the most important political battlegrounds of antebellum America, where networks of fugitive slaves, slave-catchers, informers, and Underground Railroad activists lived side by side in a tangled web. He sheds much new light on the struggle of the abolitionism to take route in southern Pennsylvania's difficult soil, and challenges cherished preconceptions of the North as solidly anti-slavery and friendly to fugitive slaves. In the process, he has given us a deeper understanding of the daunting moral complexities of life in the pre-Civil War borderland. This is a book to be reckoned with."-Fergus M. Bordewich, author of America"s Great debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise that Preserved the Union. In this well wrought and powerful narrative, Smith examines the vital borderland of south central Pennsylvania. Challenging scholars to re-think our understanding of the fugitive slave law, Smith examines that issue through white and black perspectives over nearly fifty years of sectional conflict, war, and reconstruction. This is an important contribution to our understanding of how war itself intensified the fugitive slave issue and redirected it. Smith's thorough appendices demonstrate remarkable and comprehensive research reflected in this important narrative."-Orville Vernon Burton, author of The Age of Lincoln.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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Author: Jenna Night
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369728610
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Two convicts on the loose and threats around every corner… Pursuing a dangerous bail-jumper has bounty hunter Hayley Ryan barely escaping an attack by the fugitive. Hunting the same escapee compels Hayley to team up with rival Jack Colter until their manhunt results in the discovery of another criminal—one who’s been missing for years. Can they—and their uneasy partnership—survive their search for not one but two notorious escaped felons? From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith. Range River Bounty Hunters Book 1: Abduction in the Dark Book 2: Fugitive Ambush
Author: Richard Hildreth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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