Chris Benner: 7 books

Cold bottle of beer, loyal dog at his feet, and the bedroom window cracked just enough to aim the barrel of his hunting rifle toward the Mexican border...just in case, ya know? Unrepentantly racist and sly as a fox, ol’ Duragard is the prickliest bastard around. But as the sun sets on Sugar...

For nearly two decades, progressives have been dismayed by the steady rise of the right in U.S. politics. Often lost in the gloom and doom about American politics is a striking and sometimes underanalyzed phenomenon: the resurgence of progressive politics and movements at a local level. Across the...

Philadelphia is an army of shadows and a young killer leads the ranks - but when he's wounded in a sudden act of violence, bridges burn and bodies pile up in his bloody fight for survival.

It’s the spring of 1987 and Syd Siegfried has won a mysterious atlas that will take him on an incredible journey—but what starts as an exciting trek through Philadelphia suddenly becomes a perilous adventure into the wildest unknown. With the help of his plucky daughter and an eccentric group...

There is a plan to commit the largest terrorist attack on American soil and the only man able to stop it has been found dead, his lungs disintegrated. But not before he got a single message out... Mr. Ridley has a wonderful family and a calm, content life--until an old enemy sends his world...

Relentlessly pursued by crooked marshals, idiot bounty hunters, and a psychotic pastor, infamous gunfighter Henri Ville takes the first steps in her epic journey to return home.

Breaking new ground in its innovative blend of quantitative and qualitative methods, the book essentially argues that another sort of growth is indeed possible. While offering specific insights for regional leaders and analysts of metropolitan areas, the authors also draw a broader – and quite timely...