Bøger af Gary Reed

At a time when political and cultural wars threaten to rip the country apart, Wyoming remains a bastion of conservatism and Republicanism. But backed by a secretive cabal of liberal billionaires, The Project, Inc. is building a new city in Wyoming. It plans to populate it largely with homeless and near homeless people. And, liberals. Young, smart, and attractive Sabrina Adams may be the best community organizer her age in the country. But funding for her current position is drying up, and a stalker with an AR-15 is threatening to kill her. The Project makes Sabrina a tantalizing offer to be the community organizer for the new city's challenging residents. But the position is in far off Wyoming, where local leaders resent this "invasion" of homeless people and liberals. They threaten to crush the new city. If Sabrina accepts the offer, she will need to rally the new city's residents to defend themselves from the political backlash. It would be a high-profile, high-stakes job-exactly the sort of exposure that might prompt her stalker to follow her to Wyoming and finally fulfill his promise to kill her.

While political and cultural wars threaten to tear the country apart, Wyoming remains a bastion of conservatism and Republicanism. But now, a secretative organization--The Project--is building a new metropolis in Wyoming. Its backers plan to populate the upstart city with homeless and nearly homeless people. And liberals!Young, smart, and attractive, Sabrina Adams may be the best community organizer her age in the country. But community organizing is a low-paying profession, and she's struggling financially. On top of that, funding for her current position is drying up, and a stalker is threatening to kill her.The Project offers Sabrina a job as a community organizer for the new city's challenging residents. But the position is in far off Wyoming, where local leaders fierecly resent this "invasion" and threaten to crush it.If Sabrina accepts the offer, she will need to rally the new city's residents to defend against the political backlash. It would be a high-profile, high-stakes job-exactly the sort of exposure that might prompt her stalker to follow her to Wyoming and fulfill his promise to kill her.

Guns, Polls, and Democracy has a simple thesis: Supermajorities of Americans should usually be able to get the laws they want. But when the problem is gun violence, that's not the case. Our gun violence is staggering. Firearm fatalities claim nearly 40,000 lives in the United States each year. Active shooters get the most attention, but firearm suicides take the largest toll. Domestic violence brings the problem home. There are also "road rage" and "retail rage' shootings. And cop killings. And on and on.Americans recoil from the violence. Although deeply divided on the rhetoric of guns and gun violence, polls consistently show that most Americans agree on a broad range of specific policy proposals.This book carefully explains each of those proposals-including universal background checks, "red flag" laws, closing the "boyfriend" loophole, and a dozen more.But Guns, Polls, and Democracy is more than an introduction to the gun policy debate. It collects polling data to assess which proposals Americans support and which they don't. It also breaks out which proposals Republicans, Trump voters, and gun owners support and which they oppose.Powerful members of Congress and our state legislatures, funded by gun manufacturers, armed with gun lobby talking points, and buoyed by Second Amendment absolutists, stand in the way of enacting the very modest measures most Americans want.Can such a stark division between what most Americans want and what Congress is willing (or able) to deliver be healthy for representative democracy in this country?

Amy Berg always suspected she was different, but after being forced into a secret government agency, she became one of the SAVANTS.Amy Berg. Young, rebellious - a typical teen misfit. But in her genetic makeup, she has a secret - a special ability capable of being unleashed when exposed to the exotic drug, Tarit-Doca. She's brought to the Center for Intuitive Studies where she'll join others with the "magic" genes. Kids that have been legally taken, kidnapped, or bought. They can all manifest their unique powers if shown how, and the government has a plan to do just that. Amy feels she doesn't belong with these others... these "freaks". But she's wrong. She's one of them. One of The Savants.

At the dawn of the 20th century, Jack London was considered one of the first literary writing pioneers in the rapidly growing world of magazine fiction. Having written numerous novels, short stories, poems and essays, he became a well-known celebrity and world-wide house hold name. Even today, Jack London's popular written works find a large reader audience and his stories have been adapted into feature films and television programs. Here are presented FIVE of his stories, adapted with illustrated art from award winning comic artists Ron McCain (DC's Batman, and Adventures of Superman, MARVEL's Wolverine), Guy Davis (Dark Horse's Hellboy and DC's Swamp Thing), Vince Locke (Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Judge Dredd, Deadworld), and Charles Yates (High Caliber, Frankenstein). Collected are Jack London's: A Piece of Steak, Chinago, The Death of Ligoun, Told in the Drooling Ward, and Koolau the Leper.

With over 100 issues released and 1,000,000 copies sold Deadworld arrived on the zombie apocalypse scene well before The Walking Dead and presents a supernatural take on the global nightmare. Book Nine collects issues #11-15 of Volume 2.

Before there was The Walking Dead there was Deadworld. First published in the 1986, Deadworld is one of indie comics longest running horror series with over 100 issues and graphic novels in released and over 1,000,000 copies sold. While being considered the ''godfather'' of all the zombie apocalyptic comics that followed. In this continuation of collecting all the original Deadworld stories into a set of Archive volumes, Book Eight features Volume Two of the series, specifically issues #5-10. Here, the lepers of Brunston are introduced and Dan is entranced by the Voodoo Queen who challenges King Zombie for control of the dead. The Dead-Killer shows the townspeople the horror of the zombies first hand so they truly understand what they''re up against to change their naive view of the world.

Guns, Polls, and Democracy has a simple thesis: Supermajorities of Americans should usually be able to get the laws they want. But when the problem is gun violence, that isn''t the case. Our gun violence problem is staggering: Firearm fatalities claim almost 40,000 lives in the United States each year. Active shooters garner the most attention, but firearm suicides take the largest toll. Domestic violence brings the problem home. There are also "road rage" and "retail rage'' shootings. And cop killings. And on and on. Americans recoil from the violence. Although deeply divided on the rhetoric of guns and gun violence, polls consistently show that most Americans actually agree on a broad range of specific policy proposals.This well-researched book carefully explains each of those proposals-including universal background checks, "red flag" laws, closing the "boyfriend" loophole, and a dozen more. But Guns, Polls and Democracy is more than an introduction to the gun policy debate. It collects polling data to assess which proposals Americans support and which they don''t. It also breaks out which proposals Republicans, Trump voters, and gun owners support and which they oppose. Powerful members of Congress and our state legislatures, funded by gun manufacturers, armed with gun lobby talking points, and buoyed by Second Amendment absolutists, stand in the way of enacting the very modest measures most Americans want. Can such a stark division between what most Americans want and what Congress is willing (or able) to deliver be healthy for representative democracy in this country?

Rafiq A. Medawar, M.D., is a rakishly handsome young surgeon. When the police find the body of his wife, Ann, in a park overlooking the Ohio River, they also discover a video on her cell phone.  It shows him going into a sleazy inn with an attractive young nurse.The prosecutor sees in the video evidence that Rafiq was having an affair. He concludes Ann confronted Rafiq, and he killed her.Ann was taking a documentary-making class. Her classmates believe the video was part of the class project.Ann''s best friend has her own, darker theory.Can Devin Garner, a brilliant young attorney from the wrong side of town, discover why the video led to Ann''s murder and win an acquittal for an innocent man?

Before there was The Walking Dead there was Deadworld. First published in the 1986, Deadworld is one of indie comics longest running horror series with over 100 issues and graphic novels in released and over 1,000,000 copies sold. While being considered the ''godfather'' of all the zombie apocalyptic comics that followed. Here are the beginnings of Volume Two and Book Seven has the first four issues. Time has moved ahead and the plan for sanctuary in the frozen north hasn''t worked out as planned. The entity of Amy is trapped but hoping to unleash herself as the remaining teens find themselves in a renegade group, unaware that Moloch has retaken the city...a city that the zombies also want. Also included is the short story "Body Art" featuring the character, Tattoo and a short piece entitled "The City" which appeared in the pages of Calibrations. Deadworld Archives series collects all of the original Deadworld comics originally released by Arrow and Caliber Comics.

For the first time Deadworld in full color! Before there was The Walking Dead there was Deadworld. Considered by many to be the godfather of the original zombie comic with over 100 issues and graphic novels in print and over 1,000,000 copies sold, Deadworld ripped into the undead with intelligent zombies on a mission and a group of poor teens riding in a school bus desperately try to stay one step ahead of the sadistic, Harley-riding King Zombie. Designed to stand on its own, the story line picks up the pieces of Deadworld: Slaughterhouse as it returns to the sanctuary known as Safe Haven. A small outpost, remnants of a twisted scientist's scheme gone wrong to defeat the plague, holds out against the army of King Zombie. Their secret weapon are the Lepers - victims of a bizarre experiment that left them with dead skin in breathing husks...with flesh that even zombies won't touch. It is a war of intelligence versus primal instincts - the will to survive against the craving for flesh. It is a war of those with dead carcasses inhabited by living minds against those that are totally lifeless. It is a War of the Dead. Collects Deadworld: War of the Dead comic series issues #1-5.

X-Files meets Mission Impossible! A unique team of operatives, led by the mysterious Edgar Allan Raven, under the auspices of the organization called Raven, Inc., are brought together to investigate any and all cases of paranormal activity. Formed of both skeptics and believers alike, the team is often called in by local or government authorities when cases prove to be too bizarre, too unusual, or just plain unsolvable. Covering the entire spectrum of the unknown, from the supernatural to the dark side of man, Raven, Inc., searches for answers in areas that most people refuse to acknowledge even exists.Volume 3 collects comic book issues #9-12. In this Volume, sheep killings by wolves draw Raven members to Wyoming. But when reports of wolves standing on their hind legs are circulated, it's time for Raven Inc. to check it out more seriously; The true life murder of young Mary Phagen in 1913 and the lynch hanging of Leo Frank in 1915 is investigated as one of the Raven members claims to see the ghost of a man named Alonzo Mann who, 80 years later, knows what really had happened to Mary and who killed her; Also the team head to the Ukraine in an attempt to capture a murderer preying on the victims of Chernobyl; And lastly Raven members head to Maine to investigate a series of strange murders. One victim is found full of pins, another is completely dismembered, and a third is found with the eyes gouged out. It seems like a case of revenge murders but how could a 10 year old boy be a victim? 

Murder at a famed cabaret!Sherlock Holmes is called in to investigate a double murder at a cabaret in Paris...a crime that has to be kept silent. But Inspector Bodine claims the murder and motive are obvious and Mr. Holmes’ services are not needed. Holmes demonstrates that not everything is as it first appears with more than enough suspicions and contradictory clues to go around. With guest character appearances such as Oscar Wilde and Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec, the mystery weaves a tapestry of betrayal and forbidden love.BONUS: Several Sherlock Holmes short stories and insights on the famous detective included!

A look at Sherlock Holmes in his “retirement” years as a news reporter is curious about the whispers at the University of a mysterious man rumored to be exploring and examining corpses in the dead of night. If it isn’t related to a crime, what could he possibly be searching for? The Retired Detective hints as that.This lead story is joined by another shorter tale as Sherlock and Watson are pulled into solving a maze set up by Lewis Carroll and the maze master, Mr. Townsend.Also included is one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s unabridged classic tales, A Case of Identity.

With over 100 issues released and 1,000,000 copies sold Deadworld arrived on the zombie apocalypse scene well before The Walking Dead and presents a different and unique take on the global nightmare.The epic finale to the first volume of Deadworld as the last three issues (#24-#26) are collected along with the introduction story of The Dead-Killer in Archives Book Six. In addition, “A Christmas in Louisiana” is included from the pages of “A Caliber Christmas” special edition. In the main story, the group decides to make a stand at the fort and lure the zombies in for a slaughter so that they can make their escape across the bridge into the desolated Upper Peninsula. Book Six of the Nine volume series brings all of the original Deadworld saga into print again!