With unparalleled insight into BP and its safety record leading up to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, Tom Bower gives us a groundbreaking, in-depth, and authoritative twenty-year history of the hunt and speculation for our most vital natural resource.
Oil Money, Politics, and Power in the 21st Century
Twenty years ago oil cost about $7 a barrel. In 2008 the price soared to $148 and then fell to below $40. In the midst of...

Nazi Gold is the expose of the fifty-year conspiracy by Swiss bankers to steal deposits by European Jews and help German Nazis hide the money they looted from Jewish victims of the Holocaust. It is also about a group of dedicated Americans with the U.S. Treasury Department - Sam Klaus, Orvis Schmidt, James Mann, and Seymour Rubin, to name a few - who struggled tirelessly for many years following World War II, with little support from the British and...

An attorney's perfect world comes crashing down when her husband is accused of killing innocent civilians during a covert operation 15 years earlier.

Claire is a high-powered attorney whose perfect life comes crashing down around her when her husband is chardged with high crimes of murder. Enlisting the aid of a shrewd military attorney, Claire will risk her career and even her life to find out the truth.

As a mid-aged man's friend dies, Bobby takes a look back at his childhood memories ... When mysterious out-of-towner, Ted, moves into the boarding house that 11-year-old Bobby shares with his self-involved mother, Bobby jumps at the chance to befriend an adult who talks to him straightforwardly. Ted enlists Bobby to read him the newspaper daily--and to keep an eye out for the "low men" bent on capturing Ted, who possesses a strange mind-reading power....

The world has been caught in an epidemic that killed all of the Earth's population. A father and his child begin to navigate this new landscape which is no longer hospitable or safe. Along the way, he must fight off dangers that threaten the family as well as a lack of moral compasses in others they meet. It's a journey of survival that leads to treacherous territories and the ultimate quest.

Set in a time where color roles have been reversed, Louis Pinnock (John Travolta), a poor man of the ghetto, struggles to support his family. When he loses his job at the whim of the factory's owner (Harry Belafonte), Louis decides to take on the system by taking on his former boss.

Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940s art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally.

In the dangerous high-stakes world of illegal keno-pool gambling, veteran ace Nick is enamored of smart, tough, and charming newcomer Diana and is determined to stake her. Diana must prove herself in a man's world to win a match against DuBinion, the world's best shooter. Soon Diana and Nick find themselves in more danger than they ever imagined.