The Boss Man has an unexpected motive in destroying Mike Wingate, who's worked his way up from the bottom to become a successful home contractor in Lost Hills, California. To protect his family and himself, Mike, who was raised in a foster home, summons his only friend from those days, the formidable Shep, who has grown up to be a career criminal of considerable skill.

This video highlights the OHS obligations of all parties when it comes to employing contractors.

"This suspenseful story will appeal to readers who enjoy hard-nosed investigative reporters such as Brad Parks's Carter Ross."-Library Journal STARRED review Meet Geneva Chase, veteran crime reporter: she's driven, tenacious, and on the losing end of the bottle. That is, until Geneva catches a break. Veteran reporter Geneva Chase is at the end of her professional rope. Battling alcoholism and bad choices, she's lost every major news job she's had;...

When John Deal accepts an offer to be part of a major building project in Miami, his family and life are threatened by a corrupt government agency.

Miami building contractor John Deal finds himself getting mixed up with Chinese gangsters after his new building contract requires him to spy on the local Mafia and report back to the Feds. To make matters worse, his best friend Barbara Cooper commits suicide after revealing her movie star sister was adopted. Not convinced her death was a suicide, John begins to investigate what really happened to Barbara and discovers connections between both cases....

Many professionals work together to create a house, long before it becomes a home. Explore the careers of an architect, general contractor and interior designer and other related professionals. Learn how their combined knowledge turns the idea of a house into a reality. See what each job entails-from planning to meeting with clients, to solving problems and completing a project. Discover the role business skills play and the type of education required....

Lured to Cuba for a potentially lucrative construction project, contractor John Deal soon realizes he's being blackmailed into helping a freedom-fighting group free a prisoner who holds highly sensitive information that is valuable to the American government.

Reluctant sleuth and Miami developer John Deal is the last of his kind - a builder who appreciates his craft. His friend Arch Dolan was the last of his kind, too, a Miami bookseller who sold books because he loved them. Now someone has killed him for it. And he's only the first body to fall. In quick succession the CEO of a huge bookstore chain and a local lawyer meet violent ends...and Deal starts finding connections. Still, it's not easy for Deal:...

Taking over the casework of a recently disappeared attorney, Dismas Hardy and detective Abe Glitsky tackle an unexpectedly challenging appeal to overturn the life sentence of a National Guard reservist who has been convicted for a double murder.