Third Strike

Download or read book Third Strike written by Zoe Sharp and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This time, dynamite suspense writer Zoë Sharp’s “must-read heroine of mystery” (Ken Bruen) is down—but not out… The last person that professional bodyguard, Charlotte “Charlie” Fox ever expected to see self-destruct was her own father, an eminent surgeon. But when he admits to gross professional misconduct on a New York news program, Charlie can’t just stand by and watch his downfall. Her father has always been cold towards Charlie, and rejects her help at every turn. The good doctor has never made a secret of his disapproval of Charlie’s career—or her relationship with her boss, Sean Meyer. Now, just as Charlie and Sean are settling in to their new life in the States, her dad seems determined to go down in a blazing lack of glory. But he has not bargained on his daughter’s ruthless streak. And when the game turns deadly, Charlie will need to stake her father’s life—as well as her own—against a formidable foe…

Download or read book The Third Strike written by Mark Bonnie and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonel Qaddafi tried to bring America down. Now he is dead. The newly elected American president now sees an opportunity to end the endless cycle of terror and revenge that has existed between Libya and America for decades. But will he get the chance or is the cycle indestructable?

Download or read book Third Strike written by Z Brewer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joss is given a mission to eradicate vampires in his home town of Santa Carla, where he will need to protect his family including cousin Henry, who still carries a grudge.

Download or read book Third Strike written by Philip R. Craig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eminent mystery authors Philip R. Craig and William G. Tapply team up for a richly nuanced new installment in the Brady Coyne/J. W. Jackson series that is a tribute not only to two witty, smart fictional sleuths but also to the enduring friendship of their creators. It's late August, just when thousands of vacationers on beautiful Martha's Vineyard are preparing to go home so the kids can return to school. There's a problem, though. A union has gone on strike, paralyzing the Steamship Authority, which runs the ferries to "America," and creating panic and anger among many tourists and islanders alike. When an explosion destroys a boat's engine room and kills the striker who apparently planted the bomb, J. W. Jackson, once a Boston cop but now an island man-of-all-work, reluctantly agrees to the widow's pleas that he attempt to prove her husband innocent of the crime. As J.W. begins inquiries, he discovers a complex series of relationships among strikers, scabs, and boat owners, and encounters violence of his own. Meanwhile, Boston attorney Brady Coyne gets a call from a former client now living full-time on the Vineyard, who tells him about a group of armed men loading and unloading mysterious crates at a dock at midnight. Jackson and Coyne get together and discover that not only are their cases connected but that time is running out for them to prevent a crime that could have international ramifications -- and their only hope will be to confront dedicated killers face-to-face....With its winning contrast of page-turning suspense and evocative Vineyard ambiance, Third Strike is crime fiction at its best.

Download or read book Three Strikes Laws written by Jennifer E. Walsh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1990s, policymakers in more than half the states and the federal government responded to escalating crime rates and a series of sensationalized crimes by passing laws that imposed lifetime sentences on repeat offenders. Since then, the Three Strikes and You're Out movement, which embodies the overall get tough with crime approach to criminal sentencing, has generated much controversy. Critics argue that Three Strike laws are disproportionate, costly, and inefficient. Supporters, however, argue that the laws are effective, necessary, and just. Despite the controversy, Three Strike laws are still popular more than a decade after their implementation. Attempts to reduce the scope and/or severity of Three Strike policies have failed and the laws continue to affect thousands of offenders each year. Setting the record straight, Walsh provides a clear, comprehensive overview of the movement and its consequences. Do Three Strikes laws really prevent crime? Do they cost less than releasing repeat offenders time and time again? Are they evenly and fairly applied? These questions and more are answered in these pages through a careful analysis of the costs, benefits, and results of Three Strikes legislation. Walsh analyzes the historical development of the Three Strikes movement in the context of get tough sentencing reforms and provides detail about the various Three Strikes statutes adopted across the nation, while offering an in-depth exmamination of the controversies they have produced. Amid efforts to repeal or revise such statutes, the laws still stand, and this book sheds light on the history of, rationale for, and results of one of the most controversial criminal justice movements of our time.

Download or read book The Third Strike written by Wendi Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When life throws you a curveball, you hit it out of the park.I'd never been as wrong as I was when I assumed the Rogues had betrayed me. Now the true culprits were on my hit list-which was, at the moment, dormant. While an impossibly archaic threat hung over Stella's head, there was nothing to be done but wait.The Rogues were back in my life in private, but I had to endure the public spectacle of those intolerable Roguettes reclaiming their social positions...and my boys. Even though I knew it was a ruse, anger coursed through me every time the queen bee touched my man.Not fearing any consequences, Charlotte and her cronies pushed me past my breaking point. I gave them a beating they won't soon forget, but my satisfaction was short-lived. Jail had a way of sucking the pleasure right out of you.But not the determination.We would break the chains that bound us and be free. Free to be together. Free to live our lives.No more sitting on the bench. It's time to play ball.

Download or read book Three Strike Summer written by Skyler Schrempp and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on"--