witnesses

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Edge

a novel
2010
Kessler, a Washington, D.C. police officer, becomes the target of a lifter who will stop at nothing to get the information needed from Kessler, and as the FBI and the rest of Kessler's department scramble to protect him and his family, Corte, the personal security agent assigned to the case, risks everything to track the lifter and bring him to justice.

Child witnesses

fragile voices in the American legal system
1994
Discusses children as witnesses in court cases, suggesting legal reforms to ensure accurate testimony and to protect the child witness from trauma.

The alias program

1977
Discusses the U.S. Department of Justice's witness relocation program and some of the two thousand Americans who are living under secret identities.

The kitchen boy

2003
A historical novel in which Leonka, an old man who served as a youth as kitchen boy in the Ipatiev House where the tsar and tsarina, Nicholas and Alexandra, were imprisoned, finally reveals what he saw, and what he did on the night the Imperial Family was executed in 1918.

Sister act

2001
A lounge singer witnesses a mob crime and is forced to hide out in a convent.

Chasing the crown

2011
Carter Mason is excited to accompany her best friend, Queen Rosalinda, to the White House for a formal dinner, but while there she discovers that another young royal, Princess Alice Catherine, is in danger of losing her throne to an ambitious cousin and decides to see what she can do to help Alice keep her crown.

Snitch

a novel
2011
Young bus driver Andre Bolden witnesses a murder on his route and finds himself torn between keeping the code of silence enforced on the streets of Jersey City or telling what he knows to the police.

Zach's lie

When Jack Osborne is befriended by his school's custodian and a Basque girl, he begins to adjust to his family's sudden move to Elko, Nevada, after entering the Witness Security Program, but the drug cartel against which his father will testify is determined to track them down.

The Ideal Man

2012
After she witnesses the fatal shooting of an FBI agent, Dr. Ellie Sullivan is targeted by a shadowy criminal couple called the Landrys; and, after Agent Max Daniels pledges to protect Ellie until she takes the witness stand, the two of them find their close quarters leading to passionate feelings.

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