Bøger af S Watts Taylor

Three hundred years after Christ's birth, Christianity struggles to survive in the unforgiving environment of the Roman Empire. Four powerful men, the Tetrarchs, administer the sprawling empire, maintaining control through a mix of political cunning and military might. A generation later, one emperor rules in the Tetrarch's place-an emperor who will raise Christianity from the catacombs of Rome to the official religion of the empire. After the son of wealthy Roman governor Sabinius dies during the siege of Alexandria, his widow and son, Paul, mysteriously vanish, along with their servants. Assigned to locate and retrieve Sabinius's grandson is a young centurion named Constantine. Rescuing a tortured and mutilated Paul from slavers, Constantine unwittingly provides the young man with a front-row seat to a pivotal point in Western politics and religion. A fast-paced historical novel, The Tetrarchs combines faith, political schemes, and mystery to tell Constantine's tale-a tale of a remarkable man who cast off centuries of tradition to embrace an inspiring new religion.

Following the end of the First World War, a trio of scientist meet Nikola Tesla. One is the son of a wealthybanker. One is a black educator who has survived the war, and the last one is a young nurse, who has a gift formathematics. Together they help Tesla develop his greatest invention, an invention that makes people happy.Unfortunately, the world is not ready to be happy. Prejudice and ignorance hold the inventors back. Finally, athe second generation of inventors, their children, bring the invention to fruition with the help of Eleanor Roosevelt,Queen Marie of Romania, and a host of world leaders including Harry Truman and Woodrow Wilson.

The suicide of a gay man leads a seasoned reporter to investigate the unsavory side of Washington politics where murder and crimes abound.Tom Clark, a reporter with the White House press corps, is on assignment when he learns that his childhood friend, Simon Neville, has committed suicide aboard an Amtrak train. When three FBI agents inform Clark that he, along with three others, is the recipient of a suspicious package delivered to his office, he is unexpectedly propelled into a media frenzy that forces the government to shut down the capital. Anxious for a good story, Clark's editor assigns him to investigate Neville's suicide. It is not long before Clark learns that Neville was harboring a secret of monumental proportions. A victim of sexual harassment, Neville's case in federal court had just been denied by Richard Ignatius, a conservative judge who is hiding his own unsavory secrets. As soon as Clark reads the incriminating contents of Neville's diary, he is led straight to a rightwing religious organization in Washington just as a series of seemingly related murders occur with one common thread: Judge Ignatius.In this action-packed thriller, Clark is unwittingly caught in a web of corruption, deceit, and desperation as he attempts to take down powerful culprits who want to teach him one important lesson that life can change in an instant.