To Live and Die in L.A. is a harrowing tale, which has become a major motion picture, of cult status, depicting the dark underside of America's "West Coast" metropolis. Two U.S. Treasury agents, both partners and antagonists, are drawn into a matrix of violence and corruption, L.A. style, a journey through a sunlit hell. At the end, they become experts on the thin line which separates what it takes to live - and to die - in L.A.

To Live and Die in L.A.

Literature & Fiction

Petievich, Gerald

Contemporary

Virtual Pub Group Inc

As a former Secret Service Agent, Gerald Petievich brings to fiction the genuine, gritty authority of the insider. In Shakedown, his latest novel, he explores the sinister underworld of Las Vegas, where prostitutes, informers, hitmen and hustlers mix in the neon glare. One of its denizens is Eddie Sands, ex-cop, ex-con, a shakedown artist whose one weakness is that he's in love with a beautiful girl who happens to be a con artist supreme herself. 
When Eddie decides to shake down a famous Hollywood star whose sex life could ruin his screen career, he sets off a chain of events that leads straight to the white-hot centre of crime and punishment inLas Vegas, and brings down on himself the attentions of Tony Parisi, the mob's kingpin in Las Vegas, and FBI Agent John Novak, a disillusioned law enforcement officer with bulldog tenacity. 
Layer by layer Novak uncovers a plot which takes him to the highest levels of law enforcement, even to the steps of the White House itself, as he gradually becomes aware that his own superiors may be betraying him, and that his own career, even his life, may be at stake. 
Petievich has written a taut and captivating thriller, set in America's capital of sin and easy money - Las Vegas, a city where loyalty and love are the biggest gambles of all.

Shakedown

Comics & Graphic Novels

William F. Nolan

George Clayton Johnson

Graphic Novels

In The Quality of the Informant, Charles Carr, T-Man, depends heavily on informants in his pursuit of pushers, passers, and makers of "paper" - all those in the thriving business of counterfeiting. Informants are as much a part of the seamy, violent Los Angeles underworld as are the crooks they inform on, and they are crucial to Carr's effort to track down Paul LaMonica, a smooth thug whose skill at manufacturing paper is matched by his murderous amorality. There are a great many victims in the bloody chase LaMonica leads Carr, a trail that runs from L.A. to Houston to San Diego to Ensenada, Mexico - and the informants are among them; informing is a dangerous game. As readers of Gerald Petievich's earlier books know, the excitement of the pursuit is matched by the vivid authenticity of the gritty world he depicts. Conventional morality is irrelevant in this world, whether for the crooks or for the lawmen - though this taut novel is indeed a powerfully moral tale.

The Quality of the Informant

US Treasury Agents Charlie Carr and Jack Kelly, investigating a counterfeiting ring, are tipped off by Detective Travis Bailey of the L.A. police - a cool, ruthless cop with some strange tastes in sex and women - who warns them of a plot to murder their prime witness. Unwittingly, they are involved in a phony stake-out in which Kelly is seriously wounded. Deeply suspicious and determined to avenge his partner, Carr puts his life and career on the line in order to build a case against Bailey, and sets out to prove that he is the mastermind behind a series of robberies from the area's wealthy residents. Carr's mission draws him into the depths of moneyed Beverly Hills, as well as into the underworld of have-nots, hungry for a piece of the Rolls-Royce action. TO DIE IN BEVERLY HILLS is a masterly, original and harrowing thriller. Gerald Petievich once again successfully demonstrates both his talent for convincing characterization and his inside knowledge of the U.S. Secret Service.

To Die in Beverly Hills

In PARAMOUR, an electrifying espionage thriller from the acclaimed author of To Live and Die in L.A. and Earth Angels, Gerald Petievich catapults the reader into a vortex of intrigue and deception that scales the uppermost echelons of government. 
The White House, protected by the ultimate security system, should be the safest spot in the United States. But something has gone wrong. There has been a suicide in a top-secret file room. And ripples of danger and dread begin to spread through the Secret Service as they sense a threat to the President himself.
Jack Powers, a Secret Service agent and presidential bodyguard, has been given a highly sensitive assignment - to keep the brewing crisis from the press. But death is just the tip of the iceberg; espionage is suspected, espionage involving a beautiful woman who may be a spy working for an Arab coalition. A beautiful woman who just happens to be the President's mistress. 
Acting on Presidential orders, Powers follows a twisting trail that leads from Washington to L.A. to Europe...from the inner circle of the Oval Office to the outer fringes of international terrorism.

Paramour

Les Roberts, the award winning Private Eye Writer, continues the series of mysteries in this adventure set in Hollywood, from the boardrooms of network television to the netherworld of dimly-lit bars. Screen actor Saxon, moonlighting as a detective, investigates an acquaintance's explosive death when the police won't. He runs afoul of the minions of Hollywood, and his investigation leads in two directions at the same time. The climax is a sudden and fiery death. Exceptional suspence. Fascinating, fast-paced reading for your electronic reader.

Not Enough Horses

Roberts, Les

Bonewits writes of Witchcraft from its disputed origins, to the Inquisition, to its re-invention in the 20th century. A scholarly, pungent, witty and sometimes personal account. The book is a succinct guide to the many ways the term "witch" has been used over the centuries, and includes a preface by Ashleen O'Gaea (author of "The Family Wicca Book"), a detailed recommended reading list, and an analysis of the standard ritual design used by most Wiccan traditions. It is the fruit of the author's over thirty years of Wiccan research and practice. 
Bonewits, says O'Gaea, "knows Wicca from the inside out, and in this work he shares the definitions and distinctions he's developed from his intimate experience and original research. When you're talking about Neopagan Witchcraft, Bonewits is an author, advisor, and scholar you want - no, let me be stronger: he's someone you need on your side." 
"Bonewits has made it easy to understand Wicca's history and structure meaningfully. Beyond that, he offers one of the best bibliographies I've seen - his reading list alone makes this book indispensable on any serious priest/ess' bookshelf. But there's something else that makes this book special, and that's how reader-friendly it is."

Witchcraft: A Concise Guide or Which Witch Is Which?

Politics & Social Sciences

Bonewits, Isaac

Social Sciences

Amazing Grace

Knightjadczyk, Laura

Philosophy

An innovative, channeled book incorporating humor and tips that help you make effective changes in your daily life. Learn the secrets of living a simple and balanced life. Bring peace and harmony into your world. Hello and welcome to the new world. The new world as you have the ability to make it. Each person can find the balance and free themselves of ego and greed. This will alter the energy around them. The Dalai Lama recently gave a talk about Peace through Inner Peace. This book is not so different. The main difference is that Buddhism promotes peace through meditation. Inner Bridges promotes peace through the individual bringing everything under their control into balance - their own body, mind and spirit. Meditation is only one component. While all living things contain vibrational energy, we cannot alter our surroundings until we have balance and peace inside ourselves. Then, this calm inner peace will be able to merge with energy around us. Not only do we impact our surroundings, we must understand that our surroundings impact us. The channeled information in this book gives insight into the power of your local region, how to travel and maintain modest balance. It also shows you how to use meditation, food, colours, nature, family, social settings to achieve this balance. Once you have gained inner balance, these same tools help balance everything around you.When the information in this book started coming to me more than two years ago, I was astounded by the severity of the information. I was also shocked to realize how much it echoed leaders and speakers around the world. Part of the information received is worth restating: Earth and all creatures are sadly out ofbalance. The only way the Earth can be healed is by all humans getting into balance wi

Inner Bridges

Redfern, Gayle

Religion & Spirituality

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To Live and Die in L.A.

Shakedown

To Live and Die in L.A.

The Quality of the Informant

To Die in Beverly Hills

Paramour

Not Enough Horses

Witchcraft: A Concise Guide or Which Witch Is Which?

Amazing Grace

Inner Bridges