Jim Pangrazio: 23 books

The President is cornered. He is being raked over the coals by both parties and traitors among his own staff. Seeing no way out he is at the point of resigning when through a family connection he is united with a brilliant trio who have developed a detailed plan to defeat his enemies by way of an assault from the high ground.

As a way to delay, if not prevent, the reporting of a robbery, two college students have been taped together, naked. She wants them to free themselves and avoid publicity because it might damage her post-graduate ambitions. He primarily wants to be freed from the awkward situation and is angered that...

It's 1894. The Pullman strike has led to a national rail strike led by Debs' American Railway Union. Because of the financial crisis, workers of all sorts are motivated to join the fight. While centered in Chicago, the most serious challenge is in the West. In central California two men...

Vera thinks the world is going to hell and wants to build a revolutionary party that is free from past mistakes and that uses modern methods to get the message across. Justin, her liberal brother, attempts to stop her by arguing that it's all just a symbolic attack on their capitalist father....

Gwen, Alex and Elena are discussing the near impossibility of maintaining one's honest in a largely dishonest environment when Gwen's boyfriend, Donald, drops by to announce that has been appointed a lecturer in botanical science at the university. That lead to an impromptu celebration during which...

An MTA train operator reacts violently when he finds a noose hanging in his cab. He slugs the person he thinks was responsible. Subway supervisors call for a meeting of all involved at the Grand Central subway platform. The result is a confusing series of exchanges regarding who did what, various...

Recently there has been a rash of campus sex harassment reports. Surprisingly, many have been tied to that backwater of the humanities, University Philosophy Departments, where students are taught about justice, morality and other high-minded things. When a prominent Yale University professor is implicated as a serial seducer, the women professors in the department decide they need to talk.

The US invaded Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq a couple years later. Both were expected to be walk-over wars for the most powerful country in the world. Instead, in 2004 both easy victories had blown up in the invader's faces. The people we were trying to subdue showed remarkable ingenuity and tenacity....

Prison inmate Clem has been selected to participate in a debate on gun control before his fellow inmates. His opponents will be expert academic debaters. Since Clem is serving time on a gun felony he is afraid that the better his argument the worse are his chances for an early parole. But his friend...