In The Debt, criminal defense attorney Peter ChAvez is summoned by the man who saved his life more than thirty years earlier in Vietnam to defend the man’s son on charges of murder and rape of a beautiful Russian journalist in the mysterious and corrupt Russian Far East. Despite his pending presidential nomination to the U.S. District Court bench, the debt that ChAvez owes to the man makes refusal impossible. The setting is the Island of Sakhalin in the Russian Far East, a territory that Russia and Japan still dispute–a place rich with oil and gas, and where the remnants of communism contest with the new corrupt capitalism of post-Soviet Russia. The author is the former Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, now a Distinguished Jurist in Residence at Willamette University College of Law, and before ascending to the bench, a successful trial and appellate attorney.

A desperate mother seeks the help of Jack to find the men who kidnapped her twelve-year old boy. When local police and FBI class him as a runaway and refuse to help, Jack takes the job. When another boy goes missing, he soon realizes that the two disappearances might be connected to something far bigger and sinister than he could have ever imagined.

A wealthy businessman hires Jack Winchester to rescue his daughter from a dangerous group but with Special Agent Baker breathing down his neck, they may be the least of his troubles.

From Florida to Chicago,Lima to the Amazon rainforest, Angel of Death is a fast paced thrillerthat grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go until the very lastpage.

Read all 5 Debt Collector Books

The Debt Collector
Debt Collector: Vengeance
Debt Collector: Reborn
Debt Collector: Hard to Kill
Debt Collector: Angel of Death

Former mobster and hitman Jack Winchester must rely on his old skills to save a brother and sister smuggled into Los Angeles from Hong Kong. When Jack travels to Skid Row in order to put the past behind him, he is forced to contend with the Triads.

Jack Winchester is a drifter. A ghost to those who pursue him and a danger to those who confront him. Once a notorious hitman for a New Jersey crime family, Jack is now a fugitive trying to right his wrongs. Wanted by the FBI and hunted by one of the Sicilian Mafia’s top assassins, he travels to New Orleans to reconnect with an old flame. But things aren’t what they seem. Not only must he cross paths with a ruthless drug lord just as Hurricane Danielle makes landfall, but he’s about to discover that he may be the only one that can save his ex and daughter.

Mobster and hitman Jack Winchester thought he had put his past behind him. When he returns to New York City and finds his friend murdered, and his sister kidnapped, Jack goes to war against the Sicilian Mafia.

In the wake of the global financial crisis, most of the discussion has been focused on questions of debt. And the response, almost uniformly, has been austerity and privatization: cuts to services that have been painted as forms of reckless spending by a bloated public sector. In Debt or Democracy, Mary Mellor turns the whole conversation upside down, showing that the important question is not who owes what, but who controls the creation and circulation of money in the first place. When the problem is examined from that angle, it becomes clear that privatization, far from being the answer to our problem, is the very source of it—the subordination of public finance to private interest.
 
A direct challenge to conventional economic thinking, Debt or Democracy offers a bracing new analysis of our economic crisis and offers cogent, radical alternatives to create a more just and sustainable economic future.