Strategic Media Books imprint: 21 books
Buccaneer
The Provocative Odyssey of Jack Reed, Adventurer, Drug Smuggler and Pilot Extraordinaire
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Honored as an Award-Winning Finalist in the True Crime: Non Fiction category of the 2014 USA Best Book Awards, Buccaneer is the stimulating, true account of the life and times of Jack Reed, an All-American boy turned drug smuggler; turned Robinson Crusoe, then infamous prison inmate. For the first time,...
Spook War
A Memoir from the Trenches
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Spook War gives a glimpse and a tour into the primary and collateral events triggered when the Reagan Administration abruptly shifted three decades of American foreign policy to favor the interests of the Arab States to the detriment of our traditional Middle East allies, the Israelis. Have you ever...
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
The Warren Report and Lee Harvey Oswald's Guilt and Motive 50 Years On
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
Beyond Reasonable Doubt examines how conspiracy theories developed after publication of the Warren Commission's 1964 report into the circumstances surrounding the JFK assassination. Using the evidence compiled by the commissioners, the authors demonstrate how and why the report was rejected by the American...
Murder Inc
Mysteries of the Mobs Most Deadly Hit Squad
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Nothing like it before. Nothing like it since. Murder Inc. was the most unusual, brutal and extensive collection of characters the American underworld had ever produced. Culled primarily from Brooklyn's Brownsville and Ocean Hill sections, these official on-call killers of New York's larger crime Syndicate...
Tarnished Heels
How Unethical Actions and Deliberate Deceit at the University of North Carolina Ended The Carolina Way
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Tarnished Heels chronicles the numerous events that have affected the University of North Carolina and seriously brought into question what was once a sterling reputation, both athletically and academically. From the time that knowledge of controversial actions first emerged publicly in 2010, a number...
Patriot Priest
The Story of Monsignor William A Hemmick, The Vatican's First American Canon
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Patriot Priest tells one man's personal experience over several epochs and areas of history. It is also, in part the story of one unique individual, author Patricia Daly-Lipe's great uncle, Msgr. William A Hemmick. Born in Pittsburgh, PA, and raised in Europe, he became fluent in five languages. When...
The White Boy Confessions
The Explosive Story of Marcus Valdespino and San Antonio's Hood
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The White Boy Confessions is the powerful autobiography of Marcus Valdespino and deals with gang life and violence in San Antonio and such controversial subjects as race relations, poverty, and interracial crime. The first 29 years of Valdespino's was compelling and tragic. He witnessed his father's...
Beyond the IDES
Why March Is The Unluckiest Month Of All
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
What do Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, and Ronald Reagan all have in common? HINT: They share the same fateful phenomenon that afflicted the Titanic, the Deepwater Horizon, Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Facility, the Exxon Valdez and so many more. From John Belushi to John Candy, Sharon...
Tweets and Consequences
60 Social Media Disasters and How You Can Avoid a Career-Ending Mistake
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
These days, it seems as if not a day goes by without some breaking news and frequently hilarious social media scandal. Perhaps the most famous example of social media disaster in politics occurred when former Congressman Anthony Weiner rocked the political world with a tweet that included a picture...
Straight From The Hood
Amazing But True Gangster Tales
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2011
Many books have written about the black gangster. They have been, for the most part, lengthy tomes focusing on the kingpins of the gangland scene, gangsters with names like Nicky Barnes, Frank Lucas, Lorenzo Fat Cat Nichols and Kenneth Supreme McGiff. Yet there are many stories about the black gangsta...
Queenpins
Notorious Women Gangsters of the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The cut throat world of organized crime has long been dominated by men, and such macho godfathers and kingpins as Al Capone, John Dillinger, Pablo Escobar and John Gotti have become legendary. Yet, dig deep into the annals of crime and one can find smart, ambitious and ruthless women who have cracked...
Gorilla Convict
The Prison Writings of Seth Ferranti
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Gorilla Convict is a selected compilation of Seth's work that has appeared on his long running blog at gorillaconvict.com. Online since 2005, the blog gives the scoop on street legends, the mafia, prison gangs, hip-hop and hustling and life in the belly of the beast. What makes this collection so...
by George Hassett
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Gangsters of Boston is the first comprehensive account of three centuries of thug life in the city where America began. In chilling new detail, veteran Boston journalist George Hassett reveals the legendary crime stories of Boston - from Prohibition to the Mafia, the Irish Gang War to Whitey Bulger....
Diary of a Motor City Hit man
The Chester Wheeler Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
A case began to unfold like nothing the quaint Detroit suburban area of Orchard Lake had ever seen. In the hours following a near head-on collision between a mysterious sedan and an on-duty patrolman, the frightening truth behind the speeding car's driver would be discovered.
The vehicle was...
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