Bøger af George Beck

The year is 1933. The economy has collapsed. Joblessness and homelessness have sent families on treks across America seeking the grail of basic survival. Despite refrigeration, which has replaced blocks of ice covered in sawdust and canvas, powerful automobiles, trains, planes and other engineering wonders, the country has turned into one long dusty soup line.Who has money? Not Tucker Hammond, a World War I veteran and ex-cop, or his wife Emma, who land on their lonely trek in Palisades Park, a New Jersey town of sordid trickeries and deceit. The Hammonds have come to meet Michael Fitzgerald, a butcher out to avenge his father's murder and the evil done by his mother, a prostitute, and her lover, a depraved sex fiend.

Princeton loves to sleep with his Mommy and Daddy in their bed. Princeton's parents invite his friends for a sleepover to help teach him a very important lesson about becoming a big kid. Discover the world of Princeton and his friends in this book that encourages children to sleep in their own bed.

Widespread law enforcement or formal policing outside of cities appeared in the early 20th century around the same time the early film industry was developing. This book examines how different on-screen representations shifted public perception of law enforcement from a suspicious or intrusive institution to a power for the common good.

At its heart, Trounce is the pairing of two disparate people, two cultures and two ideologies - Emilio, a Salvadorian illegal, and the beautiful sophisticate Sara, whose dark secret will embroil them both in a sinister plot that the naive young Emilio could never have imagined. Trounce presents a new voice on the fiction front by first time author George Beck, who gives fresh insight into the inner lives of desperate people in the most dangerous of times. George Beck was born and raised in New Jersey. He is a police officer and adjunct professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He lives in Bergen County, New Jersey, where he is busy at work on future novels."