Steven Bateman has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors. The most-rated is Hero to Zero, 2nd Edition.
CurbCheK
Summary
Curbchek is the story of a damaged cop, Zach Fortier. Fortier worked in the police department for the city where he grew up. One foot in the world of the cops, courts and legal system; the other in the world of gangs, drugs, thugs and street violence. Where the laws and rules are made by the strongest, the schemers and the most brutal. Listen about the transformation of Fortier from a green rookie to a damaged paranoid veteran seeing danger in every situation. Follow along as he walks this tight rope. Trying to make difference, breaking the laws he promised to enforce. This is a story of law and order uncensored.
©2013 Zach Fortier (P)2013 Zach Fotier
SEO Marketing Tips
Summary
SEO Marketing Tips is a book aimed at the small business owner looking to expand their customer base by improving their web presence. It’s also intended for those businesspeople who may or may not be - how do we put this - not the most savvy internet users out there. Even if right now you hardly know a link from Linux, by the time you have finished listening to this book, you’ll have a competent grasp over all the basics of SEO, and you’ll be ready to either create an optimized website or at least hire someone who won’t be able to sell you a bunch of digital snake oil! SEO Marketing Tips explains the lingo of the trade and it gives step-by-step explanations for various SEO processes. The language is clear and concise and easy for folks at any level of computer literacy to process. And hey, you might just find it fun to read, too! SEO is short for Search Engine Optimization, and it’s the single greatest way to drive online traffic to your website. In other words, it is the superior way to get potential customers thinking about your business. A properly optimized site is much easier for web browsers to find when folks go searching for things online; if a website is like a net hanging out in a river, the better your SEO, the bigger your net! And it’s as simple as that. But it ain’t easy! Having a website with pages properly optimized for browsers (that’s Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. by the way) means a whole heckofalot more than just a site that looks nice. It means great content, proper keyword placement, superlative navigability, and great ranking. If all that is essentially gibberish to you, don’t worry: it will all make perfect sense after you have finished reading.
©2013 Erik Devash (P)2013 Erik Devash
StreetCreds
Summary
StreetCreds is a look inside the world of street gangs and the cops that work them. I worked the street for many years before I entered the Gang Task Force, joining it with the idea that I could rise to the level of violence of any banger I encountered - a really stupid idea. I wanted to "earn back" the respect of the citizens for the police; I grew up in this city, and I worked its streets the best way I knew how, feeling that I had a firsthand understanding of what the citizens were experiencing. The increasing frustration at gang crimes, drive-bys, robberies, never feeling safe with your kids in your own neighborhood - I wanted to do what I could to make that fear go away. Once I was inside the task force, though, the reality was a rude awakening for me. The task force was poorly managed and staffed by detectives mostly out for themselves, and the internal politics made success incredibly difficult and almost impossible - almost, but not quite. Witnessing bad cops, brutal crimes, and realizing the department had been compromised, the cost was much higher for me personally than I anticipated. I left the unit two years later, severely broken, edgy, and dangerously damaged. StreetCreds is the story of how all that came to be. Hold on for a reality check.
©2012 Zach Fortier (P)2013 Zach Fortier
Hero to Zero, 2nd Edition
Summary
Zach Fortier is back with more true crime accounts from the streets. This time he deals with the subject of cops gone bad, including an account of one cop that made the FBI's ten most wanted list for a brutal, quadruple murder. It's hard to believe - and read - about so many police officers that fall from grace and make every mistake possible: theft, murder, fraud, drug abuse, and more. Not to mention the cops sent to prison, proving that "anyone is capable of anything given the right circumstances." Get a rare insider's look at what cops rarely talk about - true accounts of cops gone bad. It's a ride on the dark side of law enforcement you won't forget. b>Hero to Zero has been ranked #2 in True Crime best sellers, #1 in Hot new releases in true crime and #1 in Hot new releases in true accounts on Amazon.com
©2013 Zach Fortier (P)2014 Zach Fortier