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 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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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....

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...

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 ...

Systems fail. People pay. Jonah Pike never wanted a war. He wanted steady work, honest miles, and a crew that came home breathing. But when powerful interests decide Sector 7 is expendable, neutrality stops being an option. As shipping lanes choke, food disappears, and corporate-backed enforcers tighten their grip, Jonah and the crew of Pier Pressure find themselves doing what the system won’t—protecting civilians, sharing intelligence, and standing between ordinary people and the cost of someone else’s greed. This isn’t a story about heroes charging into battle. It’s about ...

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, ...

For a century, magic has been dead. Now, a street scavenger's spark could set the world on fire. Seventeen-year-old Kai Calder survives in the undercity ruins of Dunewall by scavenging scrap — and enduring a mysterious, sarcastic System interface that mocks him daily over an impossibly large Mana Debt he can't explain. The Church rules what's left of the world with an iron fist, enforcing the Eternal Lock that sealed magic away a hundred years ago to punish humanity for the Cataclysm. When Kai accidentally triggers a dormant mana well and the System confirms his bloodline as a Veilbreaker...

The blood always remembers who spilled it. In the world of Elthara, magic is not a gift. It is a transaction. Blood is currency. Debt is doctrine. And the Red Church holds the ledger. Nyxa Reddane was raised at the margins, an orphan taught hedge magic by a hedge priestess, in a village that tolerated them both but never trusted them. She learned early to stay small, stay quiet, and never bleed where a Collector could see. Then she saved a life she should have left to the ledger. Now she is Excommunicate Maleficaria, the highest crime the Red Church can name. Marked a heretic. Hunted by ...

La corrupción de los poderes públicos es una tradición universal y milenaria. En México, tuvo un papel histórico: apaciguar a los caudillos insurgentes del siglo XIX y revolucionarios del XX, entronizando al presidente como Supremo Dador. La corrupción no fue una característica lamentable del llamado Sistema Político Mexicano: fue el Sistema Político Mexicano. A pesar de lo cual, circulan explicaciones rudimentarias. Por ejemplo: que la corrupción está en los usos y costumbres del país como expresión de los genes de los mexicanos.

Fear was supposed to break him. Instead, it revealed something dangerous. Jonuke has survived the Darke Forest by staying quiet, careful, and unseen. As a Drek—one of the banished—being noticed has never been safe. But when he’s dragged into the Elemental Trials, an arena designed to reward fear and obedience, hiding is no longer an option. Jonuke doesn’t fail the test. He breaks it. Branded dangerous and cast into the lowest work imaginable, Jonuke uncovers a truth no one wants exposed: his power doesn’t belong to any Element. It belongs to something older—and far more ...

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...

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”: ...

Justice never dies—unless time runs out. When hot-shot attorney Gavin Cross is murdered, he wakes up on a mortuary slab—invisible, incorporeal, and staring at a spectral clock that says he has twelve hours to solve his own homicide before he’s erased from existence. His only lifeline: rookie cop Evie Reed, the last person to touch his body and the target of the same conspiracy that killed him. Bound together by an unbreakable ghost tether, Gavin and Evie plunge into a labyrinth of rigged patrol cars, hacked drones, and a secret cabal that treats souls like corporate assets. Every clue...

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 subject of ethics has been debated by ancient philosophers and continues to be debated today because, although ignored by many, it permeates the core of our interactions and is present in the choices we make and how those choices affect us. We might even say that ethics is the Greek counterpart to the study of the Indian concept of dharma, or the understanding of the relationship between causes, consciousness, and their effects. The study of ethics is not merely a study of morality, but an important advance in the direction of our own consciousness. The more we know about what makes us ...