First in the gritty police series: “In the mold of Joseph Wambaugh . . . Characters that transcend cop-show stereotypes” (Booklist). Jack Warren, a young officer who’s been working in a virtually crime-free area, is now moving into Toronto’s notorious 51 Division. Suddenly, he’s entered a dangerous downtown world where drugs and prostitution are rampant—and he’s immediately thrown into a brutal war against a dealer intent on taking over the city’s trade. Warren soon discovers that no one is safe from the dealer’s quest for domination when the war turns horrifically personal. Working with the division’s elite major-crime unit, Warren learns there is an imperceptible yet enormous difference between the law and justice—and being a police officer and surviving in the 51. “Canadian policeman Pilkey writes from firsthand experience in his gritty procedural debut . . . Charts the stresses the dangerous job puts on Jack’s marriage, the us-against-them mentality that binds patrol cops, the off-duty cop parties to blow off steam, and the way the 51 can change good cops to bad.” —Publishers Weekly “Loaded with insider info and a cop’s-eye view of the city. Devotees of urban cop tales will eat this up.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

"A short literary essay on the nature of rage."--Provided by publisher.

"Transferred to 53 Division--a sleepy, neighbourhood of Toronto--Officer Jack Warren yearns to return to 51, the gritty downtown core where catching murderers and drug dealers is an average day's work. Someone named Randall Kayne has been committing violent, bloody crimes yet he has managed to stay a step ahead of the cops. Jack gets dragged back into the Kayne case, ultimately forcing a confrontation that only one of them can win."--Page [4] of jacket.

In these two crime novels, a veteran Toronto cop puts his firsthand experience on the page—“characters ring true, and the gritty side of Toronto shows” (Library Journal). Lethal Rage New to Toronto’s infamous 51 Division, officer Jack Warren finds himself thrown into a brutal war against a crack-cocaine dealer determined to dominate the city’s drug trade. Working with the division’s elite major-crime unit, Jack soon learns the unspoken difference between law and justice—and how cops manage to survive in the 51. Savage Rage Transferred to 53 Division—known as the “Sleepy Hollow of Toronto”—after the murder of his partner, Jack is desperate to return to 51 Division, where his former colleagues are battling a criminal mastermind. Randall Kayne’s bloody crimes are hitting close to home in 51 Division, yet he manages to stay just one step ahead of the police. Although Jack’s wife wants him to leave the force entirely, an old enemy soon drags him into the Kayne case—and a deadly confrontation that will either change his life or end it.

After watching her father get brutally murdered, young Victoria Henry turned to painting to escape the painful memories of her childhood. Over three decades later, a house fire destroys her Texas mansion and takes the life of her cheating husband, unleashing a series of events that open up the dark past she’s tried so desperately to forget. Former Navy SEAL, Police Lieutenant Danny Dabrowski, suspects arson and while questioning the sexy, alluring wife of the late William King, he becomes suspicious when Victoria shows no signs of emotion other than a fiery attitude toward him. As Danny’s perception of Victoria becomes clouded by desire, all bets are off when he finds out that the past and present are linked to a dangerous cartel that only wants one thing from Victoria. The one thing she doesn’t even know exists. And they’re willing to kill for it.

Pride. Anger. Envy. Slothfulness. Lust. Greed. Gluttony. Is this an out-of-date list of sins preached against by a behind-the-times church? Or are these sins a challenge and a stumbling block for those of us who are living at the dawn of the twenty-first century? Pastor Ed Young, Jr. says, "I believe you can not only live what the world calls a 'good life,' but you can live what God calls a 'right life.' You can be free of the things that are hanging you up. But to be free, you can and must own up to the distractions described in this book."

“Pilkey’s extensive knowledge of police and policing makes this series a winner” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto). After the murder of his partner, Jack Warren’s been transferred to 53 Division—known as the “Sleepy Hollow of Toronto.” But he yearns to return to 51 Division, where his former colleagues are busy pursuing a criminal mastermind. Randall Kayne has been committing violent, bloody crimes, yet he manages to stay just one step ahead of the police. Although Jack’s wife wants him to leave the force entirely, an old enemy soon drags him into the Kayne case—forcing a confrontation with Kayne that only one of them can survive . . . Savage Rage is the second in the action-packed and gritty series from an author who creates “characters that transcend cop-show stereotypes” (Booklist).

War wounds the soul. It is not only the violence that warfighters suffer against them that harms, but also the violence that they do. These soul wounds have come to be known as moral injuries: psychic traumas that occur from having done or condoned that which goes against deeply held moral principles. It is not surprising that the committing of atrocities or the accidental killing of the innocent would hurt the soul of warfighters. The problem is that many warfighters at least tacitly follow the commonplace belief that killing another human being is always wrong--it's just that sometimes, as in war, it is necessary. This paradoxical commitment makes the very business of warfighting morally injurious. This problem is also a crisis. Clinical research among combat veterans has established a link between killing in combat and moral injury and between moral injury and suicide. Our warfighters, even those who have served honorably and with the right intentions, are dying by their own hands at devastating rates--casualties not of the physical threats of war, but of the moral ones. It does not have to be this way. The just war tradition, a moral framework for thinking about war that flows out of our Greco-Roman and Hebraic intellectual traditions, is grounded in the basic truth that killing comes in different kinds. While some kinds of killing, like murder, are always wrong, there are other kinds of killing that are morally neutral, such as unavoidable accidents, and still other kinds that are morally permitted--even, sometimes, obligatory. The Good Kill embraces this tradition to argue for the morality of killing in justified wars. Marc LiVecche does not deny the morally bruising realities of combat, but offers potential remedies to help our warfighters manage the bruising without becoming irreparably morally injured.

If you missed the first eight titles in MUP's acclaimed Little Books on Big Themes series, this is your chance to collect the whole set. Released in time for Christmas, the ON-nibus brings together eight 10,000-word essays on the big themes in life by leading Australian thinkers. Featured authors are Germaine Greer ('On Rage'), David Malouf ('On Experience'), Blanche d'Alpuget ('On Longing'), Barrie Kosky ('On Ecstasy'), Don Watson ('On Indignation'), Gay Bilson ('On Digestion'), Malcolm Knox ('On Obsession') and Anne Summers ('On Luck').

An unearthly adversary descends on an idyllic fantasy world, corrupting magic against good and slaughtering innocents, and only a single man can stop him.