Download or read book Operation Snitch written by Robert Gadkey and published by RAWC Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-19 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six years out of law school, Minneapolis attorney Beau Campbell was broke. No reputable firm would touch him because the FBI had shut down his last employer. Facing mountains of debt, he hung a shingle and started his own firm specializing in vengeful ex-spouses needing a divorce lawyer. One night, while working late at the office, an unexpected female visitor appeared in his lobby. When she asked for his help, he felt powerless to say no. Suddenly, he was thrust into the middle of a dangerous game with implications that stretched far beyond a simple court case. Can Beau find a way back to a normal life before it’s too late?

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Download or read book Snitch written by Ethan Brown and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our criminal justice system favors defendants who know how to play the "5K game": criminals who are so savvy about the cooperation process that they repeatedly commit serious crimes knowing they can be sent back to the streets if they simply cooperate with prosecutors. In Snitch, investigative reporter Ethan Brown shows through a compelling series of case profiles how the sentencing guidelines for drug-related offenses, along with the 5K1.1 section, have unintentionally created a "cottage industry of cooperators," and led to fabricated evidence. The result is wrongful convictions and appallingly gruesome crimes, including the grisly murder of the Harvey family in Richmond, Virginia and the well-publicized murder of Imette St. Guillen in New York City. This cooperator-coddling criminal justice system has ignited the infamous "Stop Snitching" movement in urban neighborhoods, deplored by everyone from the NAACP to the mayor of Boston for encouraging witness intimidation. But as Snitch shows, the movement is actually a cry against the harsh sentencing guidelines for drug-related crimes, and a call for hustlers to return to "old school" street values, like: do the crime, do the time. Combining deep knowledge of the criminal justice system with frontline true crime reporting, Snitch is a shocking and brutally troubling report about the state of American justice when it's no longer clear who are the good guys and who are the bad.

Download or read book Snitch written by Rene Gutteridge and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2007 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Las Vegas police sergeant faces wacky characters, sincere faith, and surprising twists when he agrees to slip off the retirement track to head up an undercover task force.

Download or read book The Best Job Ever written by Robert Gadkey and published by RAWC Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Otis Covington loved his unusual job. And the six-figures it paid him. But as he approached mandatory retirement age, he needed to find a family member to take his place if he wanted to get a special pension his employer offered. However, when his twenty-year-old nephew turns him down, things begin to spiral out of control. How far will Otis go for money? This story is a novelette that is approximately fifty-two pages long.

Download or read book Making Partner written by Robert Gadkey and published by RAWC Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young attorney Beau Campbell is three days away from his dream of making partner at the small boutique law firm of Morgan, Peterson, and Addison. All he wants is to cross the finish line without making waves. But late one night, he gets an urgent call from the firm’s biggest client–a company he hardly knows. A simple assignment they give him turns his life upside down and forces him to question everything he thought was true. Can Beau keep it together long enough to get the life he always wanted? This novella is approximately 48 pages long.

Download or read book The Pursuit of Being Noticed written by Robert Gadkey and published by RAWC Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A laugh-out-loud, unforgettable story about the things people do to be seen and the courage it takes to follow one’s heart, wherever it leads. When thirty-four-year-old Harvard law graduate, Kate Becker, lands her dream job at an all-woman firm in Austin, Texas, she is on top of the world. Her quest to become a judge, and follow in the footsteps of her hero, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, suddenly seems possible. And best of all, she did it by edging out her sister and a shady colleague to boot. Everything in her life is on track. If she doesn’t screw up. The firm doesn’t tolerate mistakes. It employs winners, only winners. But when a misguided attempt to impress the boss goes horribly wrong, Kate must decide how far she’s willing to go to save her dream. And what she’ll risk for it. With help from her sister, mother, and a group of zany retired card club members, she discovers what really matters in work and in life. Quirky, clever, and eminently relatable, The Pursuit of Being Noticed is filled with eccentric characters and is the perfect read for anyone who doubts if they are on the right path.

Download or read book Minimum Security written by Stephanie McMillan and published by NBM. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A furious escaped lab bunny vandalises symbols of corporate greed while arguing political theory with a pigtailed eco-warrior, as Zen Pug observes it all in blissful detachment. They drag her pop culture-bedazzled brother, his anarchist boyfriend and other characters - kicking and screaming - into the struggle against the rapacious thugs and theocratic wingnuts ruling imperial America. Stephanie McMillan's comics, deploying an engaging visual style that draws in everything from folk art to anime, confront the insanity and heartlessness of global capitalism and war.

Download or read book Covert Operations Unveiling Organized Crime written by Daniel M. Rudofossi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Police Department "cop doc" Dr. Dan Rudofossi delves into what it meant to live as a deep-cover operative through narratives with Joe Pistone, the FBI agent who spent six years living as Donnie Brasco as a member of the Bonanno crime family. When Operation Donnie Brasco abruptly closed, it was the longest and most successful infiltration of a Mafia family. Dr. Rudofossi underscores Pistone’s genius to survive daily challenges of infiltration by using innovations in the ecological niches of Mafia violence. Donnie Brasco’s "mental toughness," resilience, and ingenuity are understood through Rudofossi’s signature Eco-Ethological Existential Analysis. Mapping out why and how trauma shaped functional dissociation as unconscious adaptation, the author’s experience as a police psychologist—that is, a "cop doc"—helps decode the bigger picture of conflict, resolution, and compromise in the disparate worlds of policing and organized crime. This unique look at the costs and successes of tracking, infiltrating, arresting, and convicting those involved in organized crime is a groundbreaking read for law enforcement personnel, criminal justice, homeland security, law students, police psychologists, as well as anyone fascinated by the world of organized crime.

Download or read book Thomas Pynchon written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical essays on Thomas Pynchon's work.

Download or read book Cassandra The Definitive Guide written by Jeff Carpenter and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn't a problem. With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn how the Cassandra database management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This expanded second edition—updated for Cassandra 3.0—provides the technical details and practical examples you need to put this database to work in a production environment. Authors Jeff Carpenter and Eben Hewitt demonstrate the advantages of Cassandra’s non-relational design, with special attention to data modeling. If you’re a developer, DBA, or application architect looking to solve a database scaling issue or future-proof your application, this guide helps you harness Cassandra’s speed and flexibility. Understand Cassandra’s distributed and decentralized structure Use the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) and cqlsh—the CQL shell Create a working data model and compare it with an equivalent relational model Develop sample applications using client drivers for languages including Java, Python, and Node.js Explore cluster topology and learn how nodes exchange data Maintain a high level of performance in your cluster Deploy Cassandra on site, in the Cloud, or with Docker Integrate Cassandra with Spark, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Solr, and Lucene

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Download or read book Officer 1Eight7 written by Paul Lozada and published by Paul Lozada. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a true story of San Francisco's most decorated and most investigated undercover cop, Paul Lozada. Follow Paul's journey throughout his career as he recounts near-death experiences, leaning into his faith, navigating fears as a family man, and confronting political barriers to uncover police corruption within the San Francisco Police Department. Don't be swayed by the badge number, Paul stood against the city's dirty cops, inequality, and racism poisoning the ranks of the police force. Officer 187 became a liability, a symbol for the demise of department corruption, and the powers at hand that made every effort to silence him.

Download or read book Hunting for Time written by Robert Gadkey and published by RAWC Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his new novel, Robert Gadkey takes you on a wild ride exploring what matters in life, and the price people pay to get it. On a snowy afternoon in rural Minnesota, con artist Ronan Sullivan sat on a bus bench waiting to go back to civilization. At sixty-five years old, he had just finished his third stint at Rockville Prison. Broke and alone, his future looked bleak. But when a car sent by his estranged brother arrives to take him home, his world is thrown upside down. Can Ronan seize the opportunity for a second chance? Or will he stay the man he has always been? If you like fast-paced stories with a heart that keep you guessing, then this book is for you.

Download or read book Cassandra The Definitive Guide written by Eben Hewitt and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could you do with data if scalability wasn't a problem? With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how Apache Cassandra handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers -- capabilities that have attracted Facebook, Twitter, and other data-intensive companies. Cassandra: The Definitive Guide provides the technical details and practical examples you need to assess this database management system and put it to work in a production environment. Author Eben Hewitt demonstrates the advantages of Cassandra's nonrelational design, and pays special attention to data modeling. If you're a developer, DBA, application architect, or manager looking to solve a database scaling issue or future-proof your application, this guide shows you how to harness Cassandra's speed and flexibility. Understand the tenets of Cassandra's column-oriented structure Learn how to write, update, and read Cassandra data Discover how to add or remove nodes from the cluster as your application requires Examine a working application that translates from a relational model to Cassandra's data model Use examples for writing clients in Java, Python, and C# Use the JMX interface to monitor a cluster's usage, memory patterns, and more Tune memory settings, data storage, and caching for better performance

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