The Love of the Game is a fascinating look at the numbers that make up the history of baseball in America. With style and a passion for the details of this great sport, the authors present the statistics of such great players as Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio as well as new stars like Derek Jeter, Joe Mauer, Buster Posey, Manny Ramirez, Jose Reyes, Mark Teixiera, Frank Thomas, and Tom Glavine . A must read for anyone interested in the numbers behind American baseball

In Los Angles, on the eve of Thanksgiving, the streets and freeways are always jammed. But this year the city will be plunged into unimaginable chaos and disorder by two single-minded and ruthless men. A criminal mastermind, Doc Simpson, has spent months planning the theft of priceless Van Gogh paintings from L.A.'s Modern Art Museum. He has assembled a hardened team of international criminals - resourceful, cunning and callous. Jed Foster, a young, passionate - and deranged - ecologist, is determined to demonstrate the destructiveness of motor vehicles by creating the world's biggest traffic jam. Jed succeeds - the city spirals out of control. Marauding bands of looters raid store after store; gangs fight other gangs and the police; major explosions ground police helicopters; ambulances and fire trucks can't get to where they're needed. As the anarchy peaks, Doc Simpson's team emerges from the Museum with their stolen paintings, to find their getaway barred by urban chaos. Jed cold-bloodedly escalates the turmoil and the robbers become ever more violent in preserving their stolen fortune. Without even being aware of it, the two men are battling each other. But through the choked streets, the fires, the rioters and looters, rides a CHP motorcycle cop - Mac McEwen. Ultimately it will be this unlikely hero - struggling to get the traffic moving, saving lives, stopping fights, and getting into shoot-outs with black and Hispanic gangs - who will finally confront Jed and Doc and destroy both of them and their criminal enterprises...

When Walker's brother Al committed suicide, Walker decided to become a serial killer. You see, Al was one of the victims of the 2008 recession, one of those millions of Americans who lost their jobs, their businesses, their houses. But the recession was not a natural disaster like an earthquake or a hurricane - it was a man-made disaster. And there's no secret about the identity of the men who made it: they were members of Congress, Government officials, Wall Street bankers. We know their names The thing that enraged Walker was that they all got away with it - not one of those bankers, Congressmen or Government officials was punished. Walker's brother was a decent guy who played by the rules, the American way to the American Dream - but now while the men who destroyed the economy were luxuriating in their penthouses, on their yachts and on their private jets, Al was six feet under. Once Walker understood that these men were criminals who had ruined lives on a greater scale than any terrorist group the United States has ever faced, and that the Justice Department had publicly stated that they were not going to prosecute any of them, he decided that Al and all the others, the 99%, could not go unavenged. He would deal with it in his own way. In the service of his country he had learned all the skills he needed to carry out his plans. At first, when the bankers and others began to die in 'accidents', nobody linked their deaths to the work of a serial killer, and by the time they did - it was too late...