Books like Chameleon by Dorothy Proctor

Investigative journalist Phoebe Eaton separates man from myth, journeying past cartel checkpoints up to El Chapo’s remote hometown hideout in the Sierra Madre. She meets Chapo's family and reveals the surprising telenovela details of his childhood, discovering exactly how this third-grade dropout, Mexico’s most controversial narcotrafficker, rappelled his way from the rock pile that is La Tuna, Sinaloa, onto Forbes magazine's big-time billionaire list, governing a $14-billion empire even as he was on the lam, living in simple pine shacks with plastic folding chairs where the phone service went down if it was raining. She discovers the Pentecostal faith his mother (and he) credit with keeping him alive all these years and helping him escape jail and the authorities numerous times, the gift his mother and sisters (and perhaps even he) have of speaking in tongues. Including many never-seen-before color pictures from Chapo's haunts in La Tuna in Badiraguato, the surprising seat of his empire, and also rare material from his 12-week Brooklyn court trial where he was convicted on ten felony counts before shipping off to a life term in Colorado's Supermax prison.

She was haunted by his lovemaking... Television actress Siobhan Ryan was electrified -- and dismayed -- by the news. Producer Jake Deerfield wanted to meet her! Would he remember her as the hot-tempered waitress who had once silenced his insults with a lemon pie? That stormy incident two years earlier had been followed by a night of unforgettable delight. Jake was the demanding lover who had swept into her heart -- for one brief interlude. At last she was about to face him again. And this time on her own terms!

"Your mother could handle men better than anyone I've ever met. She knew exactly what she was doing. You don't." "I can learn." "Can you?" He came at her with that lean-hipped walk she found so intimidatingly masculine. "What are you going to do the first time a man stalks up to you and puts his hand on you like this?" At his touch she went rigid and sucked in an audible gasp of air. "What if he backs you up against a wall?" He pinned her against the soft velvet of the door curtain. "You have made your point, Mr. Hays. . . ." THE BEQUEST When Gabrielle Antoine arrives in the rough mining town, the convent-bred beauty is shocked by the decadence she finds there--and stunned to learn she has just inherited a bordello from the mother she never knew. Worse, her mother's business partner, Jordan Hays--a rugged, cynical loner--embodies everything Gabrielle fears . . . and secretly desires. Determined to transform the house of ill repute into an honorable enterprise, Gabrielle soon locks horns with an unscrupulous rival. And as Jordan seeks to shield her from this unexpected danger, Gabrielle finds herself swept away by a passion as tempting as sin itself. . . .

A thrilling final Modesty Blaise collection where the charismatic spy and her deputy confront gangland intrigue, global conspiracies, and a daring jungle rescue of their friends in Central America.

A powerful, unvarnished chronicle of Rosa Lee Cunningham’s life and her family’s struggle with poverty, drug addiction, and urban hardship in Washington, D.C., as seen through the sustained journalistic eye of Leon Dash.