Books with author Robert Ryan

The Place Names of New Mexico is an invaluable guide to the state's geography and history. It explains more than 7,000 names of features large and small throughout the state--towns, mountains, rivers, canyons, counties, post offices, and even abandoned settlements--as well as providing relevant information about location, history, and current status. The revised edition contains more than fifty expanded and updated entries. The accounts are also journeys into New Mexico's past, offering glimpses of the lives and values of the people who named the place. Humor, tragedy, mystery, and daily life--they can all be found in this book.

A terror of new kind is winding its way through the backstreets and crime networks of New York City a culmination of decades of unrest, an unholy alliance of age-old grudges, and a newly-sophisticated syndicate of evil which promises to spread fear and mayhem throughout the country. How will the NYPD and FBI cope when so many of their worst fears are realized? The Author drops his readers once again in the heart of New York City’s darkest corners - a city on edge, its citizens somehow aware of the terror which is bubbling beneath the surface of its streets and systems, and yet unknowing of how deep the threat actually goes. The city has been rocked by a series of ISIS atrocities, which have lit a rocket beneath Joey Galeno, Jimmy Boy Craig and the Joint Terrorist Task Force, firing them into action on a mission to bring the responsible to justice. However, a drastic and unexpected twist awaits: there’s a deep and hateful connection between the Islamist attackers and the fearsome INFA - the Irish National Freedom Army - who are flying the flag of the IRA in the heart of Queens, New York. Could it be that ISIS and the IRA have joined forces against a common enemy, in an effort to bring New York to its knees? This breathless thriller packs in more twists and turns than a high-octane rollercoaster, and takes off from where the author left us at the end The Last Day, his readers still reeling from the annihilation and danger that haunted the pages of that award-winning thriller. We rejoin the newly promoted NYPD Deputy Chief Ellen Tomlinson, Lieutenant Joey Galeno, and FBI Agent Jimmy Craig - who have barely recovered from their previous brushes with death and the criminal underworld - on a new mission, even more deadly, terrifying, and far-reaching than anything they’ve faced before. From the very first pages, readers will be thrown into a series of literary explosions and shocking twists which leave their pulses racing and their eyes eager for more. This is a crime novel which takes the thriller genre to a whole new level, and consistently shocks, surprises, amazes, and intrigues with each and every chapter. Robert L. Bryan is a powerhouse of storytelling, and The Last Apostle is his best work yet. Buy The Last Apostle to see how the threat continues!

Fate is not finished with Brand … and his future is beyond imagining. The city of Red Cardoroth lives up to its name. Blood stains its mighty battlement. Countless bodies, the remains of the horde’s spent attacks, lie without. Yet the dark host still lays siege, a seething mass of hate-filled enemies, and nothing but total slaughter will sate their lust for revenge. The king can no longer just defend – or the relentless swords of the enemy will be victorious. He must seek a way to pluck victory from inevitable defeat. And Brand, newly aware of his great destiny, must choose whether to embrace it, or to run. This is the final book of the Durlindrath Series.

Police Officers are not the only force protecting the citizenry. For over 80% of the critical infrastructure in the United States, the first line of defense is a private security officer. Private security shares many similarities with policing, but in too many instances security officers are not recognized as the protectors and upstanding citizens that they are. Another commonality between police officers and security officers is that rarely, if ever, are they seen as funny. However, when one stops to think about it for a second, it becomes clear that police officers are not alone in encountering some of the craziest, most eccentric, and most unexpected aspects of everyday society as a fundamental part of their job. Security officers also experience the strange, bizarre, and funny on a regular basis. Author Robert L. Bryan is in a unique position to comment on the dark humor found in both occupations. As a former NYPD Captain, Bryan has written extensively in the Dark Knights series about the strange and humorous situations and people he encountered throughout his career. In Dark Knights 5 Bryan shares the equally funny stories from his experience in the world of private security and while conducting security training classes. Sometimes, a man has just got to laugh at the ridiculousness of it all, and with his talent for turning a phrase and spinning a good yarn, Dark Knights: The Dark Humor of Security Officers spins plenty of hilarious stories which range from the horrifyingly funny to the downright weird. Dark Knights: The Dark Humor of Security Officers manages to not just be a fantastic piece of light entertainment for those curious about the laughs within the world of private security, it also offers a truly fascinating insight into the profession. This darkly funny and somewhat twisted collection of tales and memories will not only make you laugh, it will also get you thinking about the role of private security in society today. Buy Dark Knights today for an inside look at world of a security officer.

Everything has an origin. For a police officer, that starting point is the Police Academy. It is the months of training at the police academy that prepares the new cop mentally and physically to handle the complex, sensitive, and dangerous life on patrol. It is also the first taste of the dark cop sense of humor. Humor is a very important stress relieving tool for a Police Officer. In the prior volumes of the Dark Knights series, the author draws on his career as a Police Officer and Border Patrol Agent to illustrate how funny cops can be, even in situations that may appear to be dark and tragic. In this volume of Dark Knights, the author details his time as a Police Academy instructor and supervisor to demonstrate that the dark cop sense of humor is not reserved for patrol - it begins at the Police Academy. Buy DARK KNIGHTS 4 today and see where the cop sense of humor begins.

The Place Names of New Mexico is an invaluable guide to the state's geography and history. It explains more than 7,000 names of features large and small throughout the state--towns, mountains, rivers, canyons, counties, post offices, and even abandoned settlements--as well as providing relevant information about location, history, and current status. The revised edition contains more than fifty expanded and updated entries. The accounts are also journeys into New Mexico's past, offering glimpses of the lives and values of the people who named the place. Humor, tragedy, mystery, and daily life--they can all be found in this book.ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORSRobert Julyan is the author of numerous travel and New Mexico-related books. He resides in Albuquerque.ACCLAIM"A truly wonderful book. . . . packed full with the history, geography, sociology, and anthropology of New Mexico." -- Names"An indispensable guide to the state's geography and history." -- Tradición Revista"Julyan gives readers a treasure far surpassing the fabled golden cities." -- New Mexico Magazine"Tour de force comes to mind. . . . Don't travel in New Mexico without this book." -- Southwest Missions Research Center

Police work is heroic, dangerous, tragic, and stressful. It is also funny. I spent twenty years with the NYC Transit Police and NYPD and without a doubt, the funniest stories I ever heard were from cops. Cops can find something funny in almost anything, regardless of how dark or morbid. Dark humor is a necessary defense mechanism in policing. It allows police officers to cope with the insanity they deal with on a daily basis.

Gorgeous words and stunning illustrations combine in a beautiful tale, the first in a trilogy, by the Prince of Papercuts, Rob Ryan <P ">This is a story about a prince. He lived in a palace that seemed to have been specially designed to make someone who already felt small feel even smaller. He rarely saw his parents, who were always busy being the King and Queen; and, unlike other children, the Prince never spent time dreaming about what he would be when he grew up because he knew that when his father died, he would become King. It was his destiny. The only person who treated the Prince like a normal child was the Bootman. Understanding that everyone needs something to call their own, the Bootman gave the Prince a pen with invisible ink and a special torch that allowed him to create a world that only he could see. One night, as the Prince was drawing on the curtains that surrounded his bed, he noticed a small hole and beyond that a trapdoor, which led to the attic. And in the attic he found a window and a way to sneak out of the palace and experience the real world. This is a story about a small boy, a big imagination, and learning to be your own person.

Brand is a warrior . . . but he fights a battle beyond any skill of blades. The forces of the Dark are rising, and the Light is not gathered to oppose them. Brand takes up the task, but he is a simple man, already grappling with a great burden. To survive, he must become more than he is, but in doing so he will open himself to powers that will change him forever. In the north, the enemy lays siege to the city he loves and threatens all who bravely defend it. Time slips away, for even great courage has limits. To the south, the Dark grows and reaches across the land. But Brand strikes out to the west, for that way lies his only hope. But hope is a perilous thing. In this case it takes the form of a mysterious girl. In her he trusts. She alone can help him, and he alone can help her. Yet she also has a task. And her choice, of Light or Dark, is not yet made . . .

Daisy Spangler is the most talented soccer player in Japonica Falls or any of the suburbs around it, but playing the game that could shape her future is not her favorite thing to do. That honor would go to spending time with her best friend, Tristan Holcombe, who lives in the only one-story house in the entire neighborhood, and spends warm evenings skateboarding around, getting lost in his fantastic imagination, taking Daisy with him. Together, they've made an unspoken pact to always help one another out like best friends should, and a spoken one to someday go searching for a mythical ibex, long rumored to be living in a nearby, abandoned quarry. As the summer fades and problems arise, however, these promises take on new urgency, bringing the two of them face to face with the disappointment that comes as a part of growing up, and forcing them to face new ways of dealing with it. The mysterious, electrical force of something called El Sidney could be the key.