Power Corrupts

A city shaken by murder. A teenager trapped in the justice system. And a lawyer willing to risk everything for the truth. When a pregnant woman is murdered in a brutal drive-by shooting in New Orleans, the city demands justice. The police claim they have the killer. They claim they know the facts. They claim that justice will be served. But in Louisiana, justice is rarely straightforward. Eighteen-year-old Amon Jennings was caught on camera sitting in the passenger seat of the vehicle used in the drive-by. Within hours, prosecutors charged him with two counts of murder and threatened to ...

From bestselling author Will Witt, this thought-provoking exposé shows readers how to break free from the control of America’s corrupt ruling class. The America you grew up in is no longer here. Our country is in sharp decline. Yet we often fail to truly call out the culprits responsible for...

She was serving her time. Until she became the block’s most willing asset. New inmate Elena thinks keeping her head down is the key to surviving Block F—until she learns the true purpose behind her high visibility orange uniform and the mandatory satin throat ribbon. Thrown into an experimental rehabilitation unit with no solid cell doors, she transforms from a terrified arrival into a shamelessly open display under Officer Vance and Guard Miller's ruthless oversight. Perfect for fans of Evelyn Wild, Madison Faye, and Jade West who crave strict power dynamics, dark institutional ...

She pulled the trigger to save him. Seven years later, she’s forced to marry the man who survived it. Isabella Costa has spent years burying the girl she used to be—the one who loved too deeply, trusted too easily, and paid for it in blood. In her world, love is a weakness, and weakness is something her family does not survive. So when a masked man known only as The Phantom dismantles her father’s empire and demands her as his bride, Isabella does what she has always done— She says yes. Because saying yes keeps her alive. Because saying yes protects the one secret she would die to ...

This “captivating illustration of the follies of trying to model and forecast the unpredictable world” (Financial Times) is both “empowering” (The New Statesman, UK) and “compelling” (New Scientist) as it challenges our most fundamental assumptions—by social scientist and Atlantic...

When loss, betrayal, and power collide, love becomes the most dangerous gamble of all. Samantha’s world is torn apart, leaving her trapped between survival and the dark pull of a man she should fear. Oscar Bonanno is powerful, relentless, and bound by a past soaked in blood, but when fate ties them together, neither can escape the fire they ignite. Secrets, passion, and danger intertwine in a story where trust is deadly, loyalty is fragile, and love is the most unpredictable weapon of all. A steamy mafia romance with a protective alpha boss, a strong heroine, betrayal, and heart-pounding ...

Corruption isn’t random. It’s engineered. Architecting a Corrupt State map how modern corruption is built like a system: incentives, gatekeepers, cover stories, and paper trails designed to look “normal.” It’s not just bribes its procurement as theater, regulations as weapons, institutions as shields, and accountability as a performance. This book walks you through: • How corruption becomes a network strategy, not a “bad people” problem • The power stack: influence, contracts, permits, enforcement, and narrative control • The mechanics of “legal corruption”: ...

You will root for her. You will be ashamed that you did. And you will never get to watch her fall. Rome, A.D. 980. The papacy is for sale, the city is starving, and the Pope is a drunk who does whatever his sister tells him. He wears the tiara. She holds the leash. From a cold stone house above the Tiber, Stephania of the Sabellani makes popes and unmakes rivals, and every man who learns too much goes down the conduit beneath her floor and into the river before the bells have finished ringing. She will charm you first. You will admire the cold precision of her mind, forgive the first body, ...

Resonant Minds Book Two of The Gridborn Chronicles A post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller of evolution, alien technology, and the future of human identity The Harmony Grid is awake—and it’s rewriting the rules of life. In the ruins of a fractured Earth, survivors cling to what little remains of the old world. But beneath the ash and silence, something alien is stirring. The Harmony Grid—an ancient bio-digital network once buried and forgotten—is pulsing with new life, infecting minds, memories, and entire ecosystems. Aria Valenzuela, hardened scavenger and reluctant leader, has seen ...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s life as a writer and icon is now explored in the CNN Films documentary Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story! The dangerously beautiful Lucky Santangelo—star of two of Jackie Collins’s previous smash, international bestsellers, Chances and...

A magical machinist becomes a spy to unearth a dangerous plot that spans past, present, and future in the third installment of this isekai adventure. In the years since Liam was mysteriously transported to a new land to live as the noble son Percival Shadestone, he's learned many things: how to...

The algorithm decides who goes to prison. The database tracks who paid for the verdict. When forensic auditor Rachel Mercer uncovers a hidden file tied to SentinelScore—a powerful artificial intelligence used in courtrooms nationwide—she realizes a whistleblower’s fatal accident was actually a targeted assassination. The justice system is rigged. The verdicts are bought. And Rachel holds the only copy of the proof. Exposing a billion-dollar cover-up means going to war with an elite syndicate that has already killed to keep its secret secure. If she steps forward, she becomes their ...

When a militantly armed group kills roughly a thousand people, the response is often cast — rightly or wrongly — as “self-defense.” But when a state power responds by killing tens of thousands — overwhelmingly civilians — and is excused by most of the world, we see the blinding hypocrisy at the heart of our global order. The 2023–2025 war in Gaza has exposed how deeply corrupted are international institutions, how brittle is the rule of law, and how skewed moral standards have become. What’s presented as “defending against terror” is often complicity in mass suffering ...

Power built the garden. Secrets watered it. Blood made it bloom. When political strategist Evelyn Hartman steps into the Rose Garden, she believes she’s entering the center of power. Instead, she walks straight into a trap woven by the man she married — a man whose charm hides a ruthless ambition and a plan that could burn the entire city to the ground. After a failed escape and a lockdown that turns a political compound into a maze of danger, Evelyn discovers the truth her father died protecting: a hidden failsafe capable of dismantling the Syndicate that controls the city from the ...

The scaffolding still stands, a wound that Skarfell refuses to heal. Three weeks after the events of Scar, Draven Duskvar’s fragile peace is shattered when a rift tears open inside the fortress walls, an impossible breach that defies every law of the Veil. As Draven races to uncover the truth behind engineered rifts and the shadowy Hollow Choir, old oaths fracture and forbidden magic stirs. His guardianship of the boy Fenn, immune to the Veil’s horrors, draws dangerous attention. Political factions tear at Skarfell’s weakened council, while a deadly romantic triangle threatens the few...

Expose the mechanics of systemic political corruption and empower your civic action to reclaim a broken government. Whether you are commuting to work feeling disillusioned by gridlock or searching for an urgent, eye-opening political science guide, this audio provides the exact answers you need...

From Bestselling Author P.S. Power Comes Something Incredibly Different... There is power in being totally committed to anything. Ben Epson is learning this one personally. After throwing in with an anti-government rebellion that probably won’t work, he’s been changed. Altered to be stronger, faster, intensely psychic and more than a little insane. Now it seems that he’s not the only one that’s going to have to deal with that, since the whole world seems to be going mad around him, as terrorist that don’t seem to be from the local area are trying to kill them all. Everyone in the ...

A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020 The gripping, untold story of how Saudi Arabia's secretive and mercurial new ruler rose to power. Even in his youth as a prince among thousands of princes, Mohammed bin Salman nurtured sweeping...

When you look through the history books, even those of more recent years, the pages are full of wars, and whether between ancient dynasties or modern states, the horrific consequences always leave readers wondering how such atrocities can happen. However, to learn from the past is of vital importance for the generations that follow, despite on occasion, humanity, seeming to make the same mistakes, over and over again. In fact hindsight is of course a wonderful thing, and this is never truer than when considering the major conflicts of the 20th Century and the Second World War in particular....

Friendship, loyalty, compassion, greed, rape, and, murder: the makings of Dillon. This is a twenty-year history of a small town, Dillon, Colorado, a large corporation, Dillon Inc., and the man who owns them both, Mr. William Dillon. A prospering town, a thriving corporation, and a man who leaves nothing to chance, the three all but inseparable from one another. And this is the story of Mr. Dillon's four grandchildren. Twin grandsons, William and Walter James, who appear willing to do whatever it takes to be the one to inherit all of Dillon. Mr. Dillon's only granddaughter, Miss Ann, who, ...