In a close-up look at the politics of urban life, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Friday Night Lights follows the struggle of Mayor Ed Rendell to confront the many and diverse problems of his troubled city, Philadelphia.

Follows the story of refugees' son Tor Baz, who travels throughout the remote tribal regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan and witnesses the effects of extreme culture and geography on the lives of those he encounters.

After sixty years of living in the upstate New York town of Thomaston with his wife of forty years, indomitable mother, and grown son, Louis Charles and his wife Sarah prepare for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy to visit his childhood friend, an artist who had fled his hometown many years earlier, where he hopes to come to terms with the secrets of small-town life and their individual fates.

The shocking true story of the biggest police corruption scandal in Philadelphia history, a tale of drugs, power, and abuse involving a rogue narcotics squad, a confidential informant, and two veteran journalists whose reporting drove a full-scale FBI probe, rocked the City of Brotherly Love, and earned a Pulitzer Prize.

When five million bucks in a suitcase is dropped into the trunk of the wrong car, a whole convoy of homicidal wackos follows in hot pursuit, with a stop in Miami to take in the last game of the Series. By the author of Hammerhead Ranch Motel.

Living temporarily in a dilapidated cottage in Exile, Florida, and taking a job as a lowly fact checker for an insurance company while recovering from bankruptcy, Frank Cole is called in to investigate the hit-and-run death of a young man, only to become convinced that the man was murdered and that the case is tied to major corruption in local industry.