For 150 years, LAPD officers have pinned on a badge, holstered a gun and traveled the corridors of history, leaving behind the rich traditions that are today's LAPD. Guardians of Angels is a penetrating history of the Los Angeles Police Department since 1850. Thoroughly researched over eight years, containing scores of interviews and illustrated with hundreds of rare photographs, this book details how the department evolved from six officers administering frontier justice to today's high-tech professionals. It brings to life the accomplishments and disappointments of the men and women who unselfishly gave of themselves as the Guardians of Angels.

The US goes to war against Iran in the Military Thriller by 7 time award-winning author

FROM THREE-TIME AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR JAMES BULTEMA - The gripping follow-up to the best seller, Sea of Red As the US eliminates top-tier terrorists in the heart of the Middle East, Iran plots retaliation, leveraging American Hezbollah operatives to unleash an insidious Attack from Within. Collaborating with a ruthless, narcotics-fueled Lebanese gang from Dearborn, Michigan, they brew a recipe for catastrophe. On leave from the Navy, Sarah "Danger" Freeman and her boyfriend, Jessie Hampton, both carrier pilots, have finally decided to tie the knot until they find themselves in the middle of an international terrorist plot. Retired Marine Gunnery Sergeant Harley Jennings, now a terrorist expert with the FBI, traded in his tank for a Ford. With his Lebanese partner, they lead the fight against those who threaten the US. From terrorist camps in Iran to the streets of America to the halls of power in the Middle East and Washington, this suspenseful page-turner takes the fight against terrorism right to the heart of this nation.

Ripped from today's headlines, Unsolved is the first ever book to examine the sacrifices made by American's heroic law enforcement officers who were murdered while their killers escaped justice. Building on years of comprehensive nationwide research, Bultema puts a story behind some of the names etched on police monuments across this country.

A town on the brink. A police force outmatched. A chief with everything to lose. After LAPD brass scrutinized his split-second decision in a deadly bank shootout, Detective Jake Dalton left the city behind for his hometown-Fairview, Oklahoma. But his return to small-town life is anything but quiet. Taking over a struggling four-person police department, Jake believes he's left big-city crime in the past-until the Chinese mafia moves in, turning Fairview into the hub of a ruthless billion-dollar marijuana empire . When Jake sounds the alarm, federal agents dismiss him, and local officials look the other way. Outgunned and outnumbered, he stands alone as the last line of defense against a brutal syndicate determined to seize total control. One wrong move could cost him everything. Written by a retired LAPD officer, Invaders of the Heartland is a gritty, high-stakes police procedural brimming with real-world authenticity, crime, and conspiracy. The story may be fiction, but the crisis is very real.

Sea of Red is an action-packed Military Thriller involving a war between China and the U.S. in their fight over Taiwan. With Chinese hypersonic cruise missiles thundering toward the aircraft carrier USS Reagan, the captain has only minutes to decide how to save his crew of 5,000 before they all end up at the bottom of the South China Sea. As the battle rages, under the sea, U.S. fast attack submarines silently maneuver against the PLA Navy while jet fighters battle for air superiority. On the ground, Marines fight for control of Chinese-held Woody Island. A Taiwanese tank squadron confronts a superior attacking force on Kinman Island in a courageous attempt to halt Chinese forces. In the White House, the president strategizes with his National Security Council on overcoming China's advantage in ballistic missiles and ships. His counterpart, the president of China, develops a daring plan to destroy America's fleet of aircraft carriers. Sea of Red is a must-read, powerful new Techno-Thriller with warriors you won't soon forget.

It was a battle for the control of an emerging Los Angeles that was fought by gangsters, pimps, vice lords, crooked politicians, and cops. Like a war, bodies dotted the city like so much-discarded trash.If you liked Guardians of Angles: A History of the Los Angeles Police Department, you will enjoy this closer examination of a corrupt city and the chiefs of police who fought back. Leaders such as James E. Davis and August Vollmer who fought City Hall and the gangsters that flourished during Prohibition and the Great Depression. To tell the history, Bultema skillfully weaves an entertaining narrative by using the actual dialog from the protagonist as the battle for control of Los Angeles raged for five decades. It was only in 1950 that LAPD's savior, William H. "Bill" Parker, rid Los Angeles of corruption and professionalized the Los Angeles Police Department, allowing its elite standing among law enforcement agencies worldwide.

A photographic history of police departments in the United States with the use of over 300 select images.

The Protectors takes the reader down the streets of police history with over 300 rare and thought-provoking images taken from across the country. Police officers are at the front lines of history, and with the advent of photography in the 1850s, the journey of these men and women has been captured one shutter frame at a time. The Protectors uses the magic of the camera to present a compelling portrait of police officers throughout the United States simply doing their jobs. Relive America's story as it unfolds through the eyes of police officers, and partner with the brave souls who are the protectors of a nation.