John Crawley

Good Guys. Bad Guys. is a collection of three Novellas each dealing in its own way with good and evil. The first novella, A Fresh Set of Eyes, follows a small town, detective trying to solve a very cold case. He is assisted by a young, energetic urban partner. The two have little in common except their desire for justice. They don't have much to go on - just a pile of bones washed up on a weather-buffeted shore. The second novella, Buried Deep Within, is the case of Benny Hart's disappearance told from three different people, who offer three diverse perspectives on the crime. You be the judge and jury trying to cypher just what happened to Benny? Lastly, The Whistle Blower, The Preacher and The Con Man, a story told to reporter, Scott Keen, uncovering one of the largest investment scams ever in America. But was a crime committed? Was anyone injured?

Award-winning author, John Crawley, returns to his Texas roots to bring us a pulsating love story shrouded in a dark mystery. Beneath Us, his twentieth book, is the tale of Jack Lawrence, a successful author swimming up from his on-again, off-again affair with the bottle, and his former secret lover, Missy Rusk, a celebrated actress and fashion model, being reunited at a family funeral after twenty years of separation. What caused their estrangement? What was the unspeakable incident that drove them apart two decades earlier? Can they find forgiveness for each other, as well as atonement from their unsettling history? Set with the backdrop of the famous slant-hole drilling days of the East Texas Oil Field, believed to be the largest unsolved crime in the history of American business, Beneath Us is the story of lost love mingling with the dark secrets of two families from different rungs on a very congested social ladder and the deceit that occurred 3,500 feet beneath them in the world's richest oil field.

The Ripple Effect: It is the 13th of November and Lincoln, Texas will never be the same. Shortly before noon, some fifty people, workers and diners, are in a food court at Lincoln Mall in a small town in East Texas. Others are drifting in for a quick lunch, while they shop for a last-minute gift for a sister's birthday or a new belt, or a new pair of shoes. A young gunman appears out of the dark shadows of the mall and begins shooting; his assault rifle firing shell after shell until mass carnage flows. A class of preschoolers. Three old ladies meeting for their weekly hour of gossip about children and grandchildren. Burger cooks. Ice cream dippers. A salad store employee. A Texas Ranger. A man trying to find an anniversary gift for a wife that he is slowly losing, because he works too much. The reader is introduced to the people who will be in that food court in a matter of minutes. Some will live. Others...will not.

One Elephant Too Many is the story of a young black woman, right out of NYU Law School and recently hired by the Global Justice Project. She has been sent to The World Court in The Hague to represent the elephant species in the legal fight against African poachers. Watching over her is not an angel, not even a legal mentor; but rather, a witch and two bumbling warlocks, just earning their degrees in the dark arts.

Poetry is much like a photograph. It captures for an eternity a fleeting moment. Verse captures those moments in the lines of verbal expression. Focused just as softly or as sharply as any photographer would do. Of Poets and Old Men seizes the loss of life and the fading of dreams in much the same way, hopefully without melancholy or sadness, but instead with an understanding that change is inevitable.

1975: A young Irish-American man joins an elite US Marine unit to get the most intensive military training possible -- then joins the Irish Republican Army, during the days of some of the bloodiest fighting ever in the Irish-British conflict . . . The Irish "Troubles" were at a murderous fever pitch when John Crawley volunteered for the IRA. Bloody Friday, Bloody Sunday, the bombing of the British Houses of Parliament, and other deadly incidents had recently unfolded or were about to ... Civilian casualties were common as British soldiers, Republican militants (who wanted the UK out of Northern Ireland) and Unionist police and militants (who wanted to remain in the UK), engaged in gun battles and car bombing throughout Northern Ireland. The death toll numbered over 1,000. The IRA split over how to react between the old-line IRA, and the new Provisional IRA -- the Provos, mostly impassioned young men who were not hesitant to resort to violence. In a powerful, brutally honest, no-holds-barred recounting of his experience, John Crawley details, first, the grueling challenges of his Marine Corps training, then how he put his hard-earned munitions and demolitions skills to use back in Ireland in service of the Provos. It is a story that will see him running guns with notorious American mobster -- and secret IRA fundraiser -- Whitey Bulger; running, under cover of night, from safe house to safe house in the Irish countryside, one step ahead of British troops; being captured, imprisoned, and being part of a mass escape attempt; fending off a recruitment offer from the CIA; and being one of the masterminds behind a campaign to take out London's electrical system. Along the way, Crawley is blisteringly candid about the memorable people he worked with, including behind-the-scenes portrayals of revered IRA leader Martin McGuinness, and of the psychopathic Whitey Bulger, as well as others in the Boston IRA support network. There are vivid portraits of colleagues and enemies, and Crawley is unflinching in his commentary on IRA leadership and their tactics, both military and political. Through it all comes the steadfast voice of a man on a mission, providing an evocative, detailed, and passionate recounting of where that mission led him and why -- as well as why, to this day, he remains ready to serve.

A wrong number. A miss-sent email. An address unknown. Everyday millions of people get messages not intended for them. Sometimes it can change your life. Sometimes, it can change history. Wrong Number is such a story. A dead President. A cover-up at the highest levels of government. And a retired reporter gets an unexplained email sent by accident to him, which begins to unravel the entire sinister plot. Wrong Number by John Crawley is the return to the Scott Keen saga of stories.

Your final act in life is to ask your estranged brother - your only next of kin - to do one last thing for you - let you die in peace. But he refuses. He can't fulfill your requests because God and the Catholic Church are standing in the way. He is a priest and his faith and duty to his calling won't allow it. And you do not share his theology. And he doesn't approve your lifestyle. After all, you are lesbian and he is God's pious servant. You haven't talked in twenty years. And here it is on your deathbed he holds all the power over you. The fight over Death with Dignity comes front and center on the stage of The End.

An epidemic is sweeping America and scientists are not sure what is causing it. Thousands are dying. Journalist, Scott Keen, is put on the story and discovers the dark side of American food production and politics.

Lincoln, Texas is like the town you grew up in, if you grew up in a small town in America. You knew the people around you. Some of them, you knew too well. Others were mysterious to you. Others still came and went almost unnoticed in your small circle. Life in Lincoln, Texas always finds a way to keep on going, even when the tales grow dark and ominous.

Some people grow up with silver spoons firmly planted in their mouths. But others have to teethe on life and its misfortunes. Meet Clare de Fontroy, poet, journalist, underground warrior, civil rights activist, mother, lover and most assuredly, no owner of a silver spoon. She is a woman who has witnessed history being carved out of daily lives of ordinary people, as well as those of the rich and famous. Her letters from Paris comprise and narrative about America's past, as well as its future.

Predawn hours- an out of control forest fire is raging towards Dave's home. He has less than an hour to get out. He must pack up all his belongings that he can, in order to escape with anything valuable. But what is valuable in a situation like this? What carries meaning? What memories are there to save? Throughout his neighborhood, lights are coming on and neighbors are packing and readying their exits. Little time is left. Life, as Dave knew it, is about to change forever.

For decades there has been a myth about the second shooter in Dallas on November 22, 1963. He has been known as the man on the grassy knoll. Now this mysterious figure comes to life in the exciting novel by John Crawley, staged as an interview with Raul Salazar - the Man on the Grassy Knoll.

In recent years mediation has become an increasingly popular approach and powerful technique and has been used successfully in such areas as commercial disputes and customer complaints-handling. Here, for the first time, is an accessible and practical book on mediation at work and in the workplace itself. Packed with real-life examples and cases, it focuses on mediation's positive way of looking at conflict, how it injects a new dimension into people's "conflict zone", and outlines the qualities needed to be a mediating manager. Mediating managers become beacons of positive energy perceived as people capable of holding things together when others are "losing it". They are able to do this because they are enablers, not judge and jury, catalysts not fixers, encouragers not enforcers. Mapping out the overall steps of the mediation process, what mediating managers' core tasks are at each stage, the opportunities offered to those involved, and illustrating different key moments of effectively resolved workplace disputes, the book demonstrates how transferable mediation skills are and how they can be used in a wide range of workplace settings.