Jock

It was the sort of mission Batman had run a thousand times. From high above the sweltering summer streets of Gotham, Batman would escort the GCPD as the dangerous metahuman supervillain known as E.M.P. was transferred from a temporary holding cell to his permanent home at Blackgate Prison in Gotham Harbor. E.M.P.'s electrical powers posed a dangerous threat, but the situation was well in hand. Until it wasn't. Now every light in Gotham is out, the...

A pack of wild attack dogs are tracking down and killing joggers. After the fourth victim is slaughtered, the Police Chief of Southampton, Long Island, whose daughter was the first victim, is determined to avenge her death. He suspects there is a serial killer behind these tragic killings. But it is the Chief's son and girlfriend who discover a horrifying fact-someone from a Long Island high school is purposely tracking and hunting down students in...

The book is a series of rounds (Chapters) containing short stories with the author enjoying life with Scotland's greatest ever boxer, Ken Buchanan. Stories of general life in the company of the great man long after his boxing career finished. Travel, meeting other great fighters at corporate events etc. The book will appeal to all adults, all athletes, all military individuals, and the general-public, looking for a no holds barred account of a great...

In June 2005 Jock Soto, at forty years old, gave his farewell performance as a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. The program, an event of unprecedented ambition, showcased pieces from five legendary choreographers, and it capped one of the most storied careers in ballet history-an ascent that be­gan when Soto was just three years old. After retiring, Soto was determined to embrace a new future, but he found himself obsessed with questions...

No matter how ambitious they may be, most novice journalists don't get their start at the New York Times. They get their first jobs at smaller local community newspapers that require a different style of reporting than the detached, impersonal approach expected of major international publications. As the primary textbook and sourcebook for the teaching and practice of local journalism and newspaper publishing in the United States, Community Journalism...

Your sixth sense can warn you of imminent danger; whether it's to yourself, your family or your business; whether it's personal hostility, potential robbery, or even terrorist attack. The Power of the Sixth Sense is, written by an experienced psychic medium, a top security consultant, and a teacher of the Japanese martial arts of the Ninja and Samurai. Many times in his life as an undercover agent, working with law enforcement and Special Forces throughout...

A chance meeting with an orphaned young woman in a seedy port bar, leads a well-seasoned, salty old dog into a chaotic adventure on the high seas involving money, drugs and violence, with a little bit of romance thrown in for good measure. The fishing vessel he becomes trapped on, is not all that it appears to be at first sight, whilst its owner, the Fat Russian, displays a cruelty and cunning well beyond the norm. A climactic conclusion will leave...

Charlie Jardim has just trashed his legal career in a spectacular courtroom meltdown, and his girlfriend has finally left him. So when a colleague slings him a prosecution brief for the remote coastal town of Dauphin, Charlie reluctantly agrees to go. The case is murder. The victim was involved in illegal abalone trading and even more illegal drug trafficking. And the witnesses aren't talking. As Dauphin closes ranks around him, Charlie finds his...

A father's obsession. A daughter's quest. Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern-too old, now-for marriage, she looks out for her reclusive father, Joshua, and wonders about his past. There is a shadow there: an old enmity. When Joshua Grayling is offered the chance for a reckoning with his nemesis, Eliza is horrified. It involves a sea voyage with...

In The Settlement, Jock Serong reimagines in urgent, compelling prose the ill-fated exploits of George Augustus Robinson at the settlement of Wybalenna-a venture whose blinkered, self-interested cruelty might stand for the colonial enterprise itself. On the windswept point of an island at the edge of van Diemen's Land, the Commandant huddles with a small force of white men and women. He has gathered together, under varying degrees of coercion and...