Irrepressible individualist and iconoclast Pat Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract in May 2002 to enlist in the United States Army. Deeply troubled by 9/11, he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in Afghanistan. Though obvious to most on the scene that a ranger in Tillman's own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively maneuvered...

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven, Don Lattin's Jesus Freaks is the story of a shocking pilgrimage of revenge that left two people dead and shed new light on The Family International, one of the most controversial religious movements to emerge from the spiritual turmoil of the sixties and seventies. Some say The Family International-previously known as the Children of God-began with the best intentions. But their sexual...

When a fanatical sniper takes aim at women entering family planning clinics, Val risks everything to protect her closest friend.Val Dawes and the WAVE Squad get called into action after Clayton's family planning clinics receive ominous threats: Close the clinics, or else.WAVE Squad member Valorie Dawes takes this threat personally, as her closest friend since childhood, Beth, discloses that she's pregnant and is considering an abortion.Can Val support...

"Under the Banner of King Death explores the sub-culture and resistance of eighteenth-century pirates, telling the tales of John Gwin, an African American fugitive from bondage in South Carolina; Ruben Dekker, a common seaman from Amsterdam; and Mark/Mary Reed, an American woman who dressed as a man and went to sea"--