Thunderstruck Cop
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Unwarranted
“At a time when policing in America is at a crossroads, Barry Friedman provides much-needed insight, analysis, and direction in his thoughtful new book. Unwarranted illuminates many of the often ignored issues surrounding how we police in America and highlights why reform is so urgently needed. This revealing book comes at a critically important time and has much to offer all who care about fair treatment and public safety.” —Bryan Stevenson, founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption In June 2013, documents leaked by Edward Snowden sparked widespread debate about secret government surveillance of Americans. Just over a year later, the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, set off protests and triggered concern about militarization of law enforcement and discriminatory policing. In Unwarranted, Barry Friedman argues that these two seemingly disparate events are connected—and that the problem is not so much the policing agencies as it is the rest of us. We allow these agencies to operate in secret and to decide how to police us, rather than calling the shots ourselves. And the courts, which we depended upon to supervise policing, have let us down entirely. Unwarranted tells the stories of ordinary people whose lives were torn apart by policing—by the methods of cops on the beat and those of the FBI and NSA. Driven by technology, policing has changed dramatically. Once, cops sought out bad guys; today, increasingly militarized forces conduct wide surveillance of all of us. Friedman captures the eerie new environment in which CCTV, location tracking, and predictive policing have made suspects of us all, while proliferating SWAT teams and increased use of force have put everyone’s property and lives at risk. Policing falls particularly heavily on minority communities and the poor, but as Unwarranted makes clear, the effects of policing are much broader still. Policing is everyone’s problem. Police play an indispensable role in our society. But our failure to supervise them has left us all in peril. Unwarranted is a critical, timely intervention into debates about policing, a call to take responsibility for governing those who govern us.
Wisdom of the Universe
In the first half of the twenty-first century, the winds of renewal that drove the affairs of humankind near the end of the previous century are spreading democracy and the rule of law to significant portions of the world. But some twentieth-century discords remain unresolved, and fanatics, unable to organize official armies, turn to terror instead. When a shadowy extremist group deploys advanced technologies to kill off whole segments of the human population, Martin Molina emerges as a reluctant champion of the people seeking to help stop the massacre of innocents. A former marine who is deeply spiritual, he finds himself forced into working with military and law enforcement personnel from around the worldsome of whom were once his adversariesto locate the source of the tech causing earthquakes and spreading chemical and biological agents that are killing millions. Only time will tell whether he will succeed in protecting humanity from those seeking to harm it. In this science fiction thriller, one man joins forces with a multinational team of experts to prevent a terrorist group from using advanced technology to destroy the world.
Thick As Thieves
The sensational debut of a crime novelist who will remind readers of how thrilling it was to read Carl Hiassen, Robert B. Parker, or Elmore Leonard for the first time. This novel features Mackin, a rogue and a professional thief who survives by being the very best--and by never breaking his own rules.