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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...
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