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Rodney K. Harrison LLC

Harrison R: The Commissioner

The Commissioner

From Street Cop to Top Cop in the NYPD, and the Inside Story of the Hunt for the Gilgo Beach Serial Killer

From two of the world’s leading intelligence and espionage historians comes the definitive—and most unsettling—account of the assassination of Leon Trotsky. <ul> <li>features almost 100 images, with dozens of archival photographs</li> <li>includes graphics outlining Trotsky's compound as well as the multiple attempts on his life</li> <li>an exploration of every person involved, from a bodyguard with a muddled allegiance to Frida Kahlo herself</li> <li>an exclusive hands-on recounting of how the infamous ice pick was discovered and retrieved</li></ul> Exiled from the Soviet Union and living under constant threat, Leon Trotsky believed that by 1937 he had found sanctuary in Mexico City. What he did not see was the vast clandestine machinery Stalin had already set in motion—one that beyond Europe and, crucially, into the United States itself. Drawing on newly uncovered evidence, this book reveals the previously untold role played by Stalin’s agents operating in America who helped make the assassination possible. At the center of the plot stood Ramón Mercader, a disciplined Soviet assassin using multiple false identities. Guided by his formidable mother, Caridad Mercader, he avoided overt violence in favor of patience, manipulation, and emotional infiltration. His most powerful weapon was not the ice axe he ultimately wielded, but trust—carefully cultivated through friendships, sympathies, and a romantic relationship with Sylvia Ageloff, a Brooklyn-born social worker whose true role in the assassination is reassessed here with startling clarity. Based on unprecedented access to classified documents in Mexico, the United States, and Russia, as well as unpublished correspondence from Trotsky’s personal guards, Nigel West and H. Keith Melton expose the fatal blind spots in Trotsky’s own security and thinking. His lifelong faith in personal loyalty, his dismissal of internal betrayal, and a measure of revolutionary hubris proved decisive in the final hours of his life. More than merely the story of how Leon Trotsky was murdered, this is a sweeping history of espionage, ideology, love, betrayal, and fatal miscalculation; it is the complete, never-before-told account of an assassination that changed the course of modern history.

Espionage, Scandal, and the Crime of the Century

The Assassination of Leon Trotsky

What if the less-than-ideal environment you grew up in was actually the most expensive education money can't buy? Many people from humble beginnings spend their entire lives running from their past. Hiding it. Downplaying it. Feeling like it's a stain they can't wash off. That's completely unnecessary. What if the barefoot walks to school, and the nights with no electricity, were quietly building something inside you that no Ivy League degree, no privileged upbringing, and no corporate training program can replicate? The Author walked that path from barefoot to boardrooms in Nairobi, Johannesburg, Harare, Singapore, London, New Orleans, Cleveland, and Charlotte. He didn't just survive the journey. He thrived in rooms where people like him were never supposed to sit. Your past is not a scar to cover up. It is armor that protects you in battles that others cannot win. Kunda pulls back the curtain on a life lived across continents, cultures, and crises. This is not a polished motivational speech. This is raw, honest, and deeply personal. It is the real story of a man who used every hardship as fuel, every setback as a lesson, and every moment of scarcity as specialized training for life ahead. It will change the way you see your own story forever. Inside you will find. The Scar Mark of Endurance - how the physical and emotional hardships of your childhood quietly built mental calluses that make corporate rejection, workplace politics, and high-stakes pressure feel completely manageable. The Grit Dividend - the hidden competitive edge that only people who grew up with nothing truly possess, and exactly how to deploy it in social and professional settings. The Advanced Loss Aversion Advantage - how the memory of having absolutely nothing transforms into a fierce, laser-focused drive to protect and maximize every single career opportunity that comes your way. How to transform silent family sacrifices and humble parental hopes into an unstoppable internal engine that keeps you moving when everyone else quits. Homegrown innovation that translates directly into problem-solving skills that no MBA program teaches. How growing up around real danger develops a gut-level threat detection system that makes you a fearless, intuitive decision-maker in high-stakes social and business environments. How exposure through travel broadens horizons and builds a rare cultural intelligence that makes people valuable in any multicultural team. The Meritocracy Mindset - How to apply ruthless efficiency, zero tolerance for shortcuts, and discipline to build a personal brand that earns respect in competitive markets. The Art of Leaving Well - the often-ignored leadership skill of knowing when to move on, how to hand over with grace, and why how you leave a role is just as powerful as how you led it. Never burn bridges. Resign with Grace, not friction. The Full Circle Principle - how to stop seeing your starting point as the beginning of a disadvantage and start seeing it as the foundation of a world-class life, proving once and for all that grace always follows grit. This book is not just a memoir. It is a practical, actionable guide written for every person who grew up with less, worked twice as hard, and still wonders whether their background is holding them back. It will walk you through the entire journey, from the bundus to the boardroom, with real stories, hard-won insights, and concrete steps you can apply immediately. It will help you get unstuck from the shame of your past and step fully into the power of your story. Your complicated history is not a liability. It is the most valuable professional armor you will ever own. And this book will show you exactly how to wear it. If you want to turn your humble beginnings into your greatest competitive edge and finally stop feeling like your background is something to hide or overcome. Enjoy the Book.

A Memoir Of Unbreakable Resilience & Tenacity

Grace Follows Grit

A quiet village. A shared garden. A threat that arrives politely and grows impossible to ignore.When new neighbours move into the building next door, life in Marrowick begins to change in ways that are easy to dismiss and difficult to escape. Arguments bleed through walls. Police visits become routine. Fear settles slowly into a home already shaped by care, disability, and responsibility.As the situation escalates, a man who has always believed in calm, honesty, and proportion finds himself living on constant alert. Not violent, but vigilant. Not reckless, but permanently on guard. When a line is finally crossed, restraint itself becomes a risk.Next Door is a restrained, first-person account of prolonged neighbour conflict and the quiet erosion of safety. It explores how ordinary people are changed by sustained threat, how systems fail slowly, and what it costs to protect a family when walking away is not an option.Based on a true story. Readers interested in Adam's other work can explore his adult nonfiction and children's titles through his Author Page.

Based on a True Story of When Home Stops Being Safe

Next Door

Der Graf und der Clochard - zwei Männer, verbunden durch ein gemeinsames Geheimnis aus den Tagen der Fremdenlegion. Als
die Vergangenheit in ihr Leben zurückkehrt, geraten Liebe, Freundschaft und gesellschaftliche Fassaden ins Wanken.
Was als Begegnung zweier Gegensätze beginnt, wird zu einer Geschichte über Schuld, Loyalität und die späte Suche nach Familie.
Ein emotionaler Roman über das, was uns trennt - und das, was uns unauflöslich verbindet.

Zwischen Ehre und Verrat

Blutsbrüder

Guntis Blums

Undercover and Autistic is the memoir of a former Queensland Drug Squad officer who came to recognise autism in his early seventies. It reveals how lifelong masking, vigilance and observation became unexpected advantages in undercover policing, and what maintaining those adaptations eventually cost him.Raised in a violent and emotionally barren home, Guntis Blums learned to watch from the edges, conceal confusion and reveal as little as possible. Long before he understood autistic masking, he had learned to become difficult to read.Those childhood adaptations later found an unlikely purpose in the Queensland Police. After entering the Drug Squad in the 1970s, he discovered that dangerous situations could sometimes feel clearer than ordinary life. Observation, restraint and pattern recognition helped him move through drug networks, false identities and shifting loyalties. His undercover work eventually extended beyond Queensland to an international heroin operation in Bangkok.Competence did not protect him from the accumulated cost. Violence, compromised operations, grief, institutional pressure and years of concealed strain contributed to depression, PTSD and medical retirement. When policing ended, he lost the structure that had given his abilities a purpose and began searching for an explanation.Psychology provided partial answers, but none explained the whole person. Decades later, the possibility of autism revealed a continuity beneath the apparent contradictions of his life.This is not simply a police memoir or a story of late autism recognition. It is an account of survival, usefulness and the hidden cost of becoming whatever the moment required.

From a Violent Childhood to the Queensland Drug Squad and a Forty-Year Search for Clarity

Undercover and Autistic

In August 1969, members of charismatic leader Charles Manson’s countercultural "family" mur­dered some of Hollywood’s "beautiful people," most famously Sharon Tate, eight and a half months pregnant at the time. The killers left be­hind evidence intended to implicate Black radi­cals and to trigger an apocalyptic race war. What happened instead was that the gruesome murders placed the entire counterculture un-der suspicion and then came to mean, in Joan Didion’s formulation, the end of the sixties. They have been a cornerstone of the true crime genre ever since. Drawing on newly released archival material of case transcripts, Love and Terror recasts the Manson case as an exemplary site for historical scholarship. The book shows how the standard story of the murders came to be told the way it was. In place of this shopworn narrative, Clau­dia Verhoeven presents a kaleidoscopic history at the center of which is a far stranger portrait of Manson, the man who became the ultimate murder mastermind in the American mythos. Based on years of investigative research, Love and Terror rewrites the Manson murders as a prism of American culture, an event framed by global avant-gardist movements and revolu­tionary violence, and an early sign of our age of spectacle. This history is confused, tumultuous, and pell-mell; it is carnival-esque; and it is a downward spiral into terror that, however, is simultaneously thrilling and repetitively compulsive, which is why the song’s refrain about the repeat experience of going up and down the helter skelter is also an apt metaphor for the endless retelling of the murders and the never-ending produc­tivity of the Manson industrial complex/culture industry.

The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders

Love and Terror

COPE OR DIE

This is a true story about a street cop and the challenges he faced while trying to deal with the pitfalls and tragedies of life. The author of this "tell all" book writes of his experiences on the streets during years within the Law Enforcement community. Sometimes embarrassing, sometimes hilarious, and often raw. It's about the lifestyle, the addictive lure of the chase, and the emotional and physical costs endured along the way. The author uses some of the actual cases and real-world situations he encountered while pursuing his dreams and that elusive peace we all need so desperately. In all walks of life, we must learn to either cope or die. Follow Louis Schwiebert down the path to discover "the missing link." My name is Louis J. Schwiebert. I was born in California and went to Cuesta College and Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. My careers were in Law Enforcement and consulting. My hobbies are working-out at the gym and firearms training. Finding Jesus brought me to Christian ministry work 28 years ago and was the inspiration for my book.

The Missing Link

Tradd Street Press

My Experience at Scotland Yard

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES No.1 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A defining book of our time' - The Times 'The master of the non-fiction narrative' - The Sunday Times 'A masterpiece' - The Observer 'Compulsive' - The Guardian 'Exquisite . . . a masterpiece' Financial Times 'Breathtaking' - Jon Ronson 'Completely engrossing' - Louis Theroux 'Phenomenal' - Emily Maitlis 'More addictive than any box set' - Sathnam Sanghera A book of the summer in The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Irish Times, The New York Times, Financial Times and The Atlantic From the Baillie Gifford Prize-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing comes a riveting story of wealth, violence and deceit at the heart of a glittering city. In 2019, a London teenager, Zac Brettler, fell to his death from a luxury apartment building on the banks of the Thames. On a desperate quest to understand how their son had died, his grieving parents made a terrible discovery: Zac had been leading a fantasy life, posing as the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch. Patrick Radden Keefe follows Zac's parents on a dark journey to find out what brought him to the balcony that night - and how a teenager's life of make-believe drew him into the city's terrifying underworld.

A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth

London Falling

What if the legend is not the answer-but the gap?Appalachian Disappearances is an investigative nonfiction book about missing persons, mountain folklore, wilderness danger, and the unfinished record behind one of the internet's most durable warnings: don't go alone in Appalachia. Rather than treating every rumor as proof or every official explanation as closure, this book examines the tense space between documented cases, viral fear, practical outdoor risk, and the stories that grow where certainty ends.Across the Great Smoky Mountains, the Appalachian Trail, and the wider Appalachian imagination, unresolved disappearances have become more than case files. Dennis Martin, Trenny Gibson, Polly Melton, Derek Lueking, Gerry Largay, Shenandoah violence, damaged trails, failed searches, and fragmented records all contribute to a larger public question: why do some wilderness cases refuse to go quiet? Is the unease created by terrain, weather, water, poor visibility, and search limits-or by the feeling that the record never tells the whole story?This book follows that question with caution. It separates verified information from allegation, folklore, internet amplification, and unsupported conspiracy claims. It looks at "rules of Appalachia" warnings, mimic stories, wild-man rumors, hidden-predator theories, missing-person data problems, park-search realities, and the cultural habit of turning Appalachia into a haunted stage. The result is not a book that asks readers to believe blindly. It is a book that asks what can be known, what remains unresolved, and why uncertainty is so easily mistaken for evidence.For readers drawn to Appalachian mysteries, wilderness disappearances, missing-person investigations, regional folklore, public-land safety, and conspiracy-adjacent nonfiction, Appalachian Disappearances offers a grounded, atmospheric, and evidence-aware reading experience. It explores how a real landscape becomes a theory, how a safety warning becomes folklore, and how ordinary hazards can feel extraordinary when the official record stops before the human need for answers does.The mountain may not be hiding a monster. But the record has never been complete enough to make the legend go quiet.

Missing Persons, Mountain Folklore, and the Unfinished Record Behind the Appalachian Wilderness Conspiracy

Appalachian Disappearances

"When Scott Payne was growing up, he never envisioned a future that included what happened on Halloween night 2019. Out in the woods of Georgia, he tried desperately to save a goat from being sacrificed in a ritual by a group of neo-Nazis without revealing that he was actually an undercover agent. Now, this retired FBI agent reveals how and why he infiltrated the rapidly growing American Nazi group The Base. Known as the 'Hillbilly Donnie Brasco,' Payne was guided through some of the most terrifying and risky assignments in the FBI's history by his devotion to his family and his Christian faith. [His book] is an unflinching look at one of biggest threats in national security, as well as an inspiring memoir from an American hero"

How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis

Code Name: Pale Horse

A brand new Dr. David Hunter novel from international bestseller Simon Beckett

*THE BRAND NEW DR DAVID HUNTER NOVEL - the David Hunter television series THE CHEMISTRY OF DEATH debuts on Paramount+ on 19 Jan 23 * "The dead didn't frighten me. It was the living that gave me nightmares." An atmospheric and utterly gripping mystery set in the shadows of the Welsh mountains, that will chill the reader to their very bones Driving back through Wales in a fierce winter storm, forensic anthropologist David Hunter is forced to seek shelter at a remote village in the Eryri mountains. But a one-night stop-over becomes something very different after a gruesome discovery in depths of the local forest. With communications down and the only road washed out by the storm, Hunter is unsure who - if anyone - he can trust. And as long-buried secrets begin to emerge, he's knows that, whatever dark past the isolated community might be hiding, there's no one he can call on for help. This time he's on his own. Forensic anthropologist David Hunter is back in this pulse-pounding thriller that explores the wildness and danger of rural life and the intensity of small-town claustrophobia.

An Atmospheric, Chilling Thriller From The Sunday Times Bestselling Author

The Bone Garden

The Commissioner

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