EMPIRE OF SIN is the vibrant account of New Orleans in the early 1920s: a remarkable story of the city s thirty-years civil war, which pitted the elite against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. At its center is Tom Anderson, the undisputed czar of the city's vice district, who fights desperately to keep his empire intact. Surrounding him are flamboyant prostitutes, crusading moral reformers, dissolute jazzmen, ruthless Mafiosi, venal politicians, and one extremely violent serial killer, all battling for primacy. Packed with marvelous characters - like brothel madams Josie Arlington and Lulu White, jazz musician Buddy Bolden, and Italian mobster Joseph Monfre - and propelled by an axe-murder mystery, this cinematic history reads like an action-packed novel."

A detailed chronicle of one of America's worst rail disasters describes how, in 1910, two trainloads of people, trapped in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State by a fierce February blizzard, were swept into a mountain ravine by the nation's deadliest avalanche. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

In a novel that unfolds simultaneously amid the frenzied speculation and technological innovation of seventeenth-century London and late twentieth-century New York, an energetic young man heads from the provinces to the city to make his fortune. Reprint.

In a novel that unfolds simultaneously amid the frenzied speculation and technological innovation of seventeenth-century London and late twentieth-century New York, an energetic young man heads from the provinces to the city to make his fortune. 25,000 first printing.

A journey into a rundown Washington, D.C., neighborhood to buy marijuana turns deadly for two middle-class teenagers--one black, one white--when an undercover cop turns up dead and the two boys realize that they have stumbled into a conspiracy of mammoth proportions. Reprint.

A journey into a rundown Washington, D.C., neighborhood to buy marijuana turns deadly for two middle-class teenagers--one black, one white--when an undercover cop turns up dead and the two boys realize that they have stumbled into a conspiracy of mammoth proportions. 25,000 first printing.

Former Chicago police officer Kate Baker searches for her missing husbanda suspected international drug trafficker, murderer, and experimental drug userand becomes entangled with a troubled teenage computer hacker. Reprint.

Former Chicago police officer Kate Baker searches for her missing husband--a suspected international drug trafficker, murderer, and experimental drug user--and becomes entangled with a troubled teenage computer hacker. 75,000 first printing.

Stories present quirky and soulful scenarios that consist of commonplace predicaments requiring more than a character has or is willing to give

This first collection of short stories focuses on families, and individuals, confronted and coping with divorce, remarriage, growing up, disease, and death