criminals

Contains thirteen essays that provide varying perspectives on issues related to DNA data banks, including the benefits and burdens of DNA databases, governmental intrusion on private information, securing privacy, physical profiles, and more.

A collection of the best crime journalism of the past year includes contributions by some of the masters of true crime writing, including Nadya Labi, Calvin Trillin, and Jeffrey Toobin.

Jean le Flambeur, a post-human criminal, mind burglar, confidence artist, and trickster, is rescued from the Dilemma Prison by the mysterious Mieli, and she offers him freedom in exchange for his help in finishing a heist he never managed to complete.

Elizabeth Waring, a high-level official in the Organized Crime Division of the Justice Department, enters an uneasy alliance with Butcher's Boy, a professional killer who offers to give her the information she needs to solve a murder case in exchange for telling him who sent a Mafia hit team to take him out.

After escaping Camp Twilight, eighteen-year-old Carl Hobbes and Beth, his girlfriend, begin a new life in London, England, where he attempts to program Sphynx Cargo's highly intelligent supercomputer to help protect them from the CIA and assassins.

Chronicles the life of Elaine Bartlett, a woman who spent sixteen years in prison for selling cocaine, tracing her steps as she is released from prison and tries to reconstruct her life.

Collects issues 1-6 of the comic "Plastic Man, " in which criminal-turned-hero Plastic Man sets out to clear himself of a frame-up with the help of his sidekick, Woozy Winks.

A collection of Batman comics, originally published in thirteen monthly installments, following the efforts of the costumed crime fighter to save Gotham from a serial killer, a crime lord, and assorted gangsters and freaks.

In mid-nineteenth-century London, young, mistreated, and destitute Ivy, whose main asset is her beautiful red hair, comes to the attention of an aspiring painter of the pre-Raphaelite school of artists who, with the connivance of Ivy's unsavory family, is determined to make her his model and muse.

A collection of ten novellas by a variety of crime and suspense authors, including Joyce Carol Oates, Clark Howard, Jeremiah Healy, and others.