As an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms,William Queen must tackle a number of challenging cases. In thewinter of 1985, he faces his toughest mission to date: He mustapprehend Mark Stephens, a notorious narcotics trafficker who hasbeen terrorizing the communities around Los Angeles with frequentrampages involving machine guns and hand grenades. A recluse livingin the treacherous backwoods outside the city, Stephens is a wilysurvivalist. Nobody has been able to catch him, but Queen isdetermined to take him down. Queen’s unique expertise is not taughtin any police academy or ATF training seminar–he honed hisoutdoorsman abilities as a kid. He is adept at hunting and trappingand living for weeks in the wild. Queen will use these skills–alongwith surveillance, confidential informants, and intelligencegathering–as he doggedly tracks his dangerous quarry, a chase thatculminates in a gripping showdown high in the San BernardinoMountains.
An account of life in LeavenworthPrison, based on interviews with inmates and others, describes thelives of a sexual predator, a gang member in for forty-two years, asociopath in ""no human contact"" status, and others. Reprint
The influence of the evangelical Christian right on the Bushadministration has had a mostly unnoticed impact on America'senvironmental policy. While some take God’s granting of dominionover the earth to man as a call to good stewardship of our planet,many evangelicals distrust science and disdain environmentalprotections. They live in anticipation of one event: the Rapture,when Christ will return to cleanse the earth while the truebelievers are transported to heaven. For those who believe that theRapture and the destruction of the world are imminent, there is noneed to be concerned about saving the planet from environmentalcatastrophe. Welcome to Doomsday is an investigation into the coupling ofideology and theology, in particular the intrusion of religion intopolitical life, in America today. Global climate change is a rapid,possibly irreversible occurrence, yet the stance taken by the WhiteHouse in both international and domestic arenas is one of bothignorance and disbelief. Appeasing the inf
