"...this fleet-footed novel will keep you rooted to your seat until the closing pages...Broken Pledges promises a killer good time!" - Indies Today A fraternity pledge dead. His pledge brother being investigated for murder. A Father trying to prove his Son's innocence. In 1993, while attending South Cuthbert University, Chase Dempsey made the fateful decision to pledge the Kappa Chi Rho Fraternity. That's when a hazing event gone wrong would change his life forever. His pledge brother, Chris Wilbanks, was now dead, and many believed that Chase was to blame. The stigma would follow him for years, even after he was cleared of all wrongdoing. Nearly thirty years later, Chase is now a Homicide Detective in Philly, and has put the events of that night behind him, or so he thought. One phone call would thrust Chase back into a world that he hoped to never see again. His son, Scott, now himself a student at SCU and pledging Kappa Chi Rho, has found himself fighting the same battle that his Father fought so many years before. He is being investigated for the murder of his own pledge brother. Chase is now working the most important case of his life - a case that will lead him right back to the one responsible for the death of Chris Wilbanks. Can he find out the truth before it's too late?

Examination of the ritual of hazing practiced by college students, high school clubs, and adult organizations and societies.

Despite numerous highly publicized incidents and widespread calls for reform, hazing continues to plague many of the nation's institutions. In this volume, noted hazing researcher Hank Nuwer presents 15 essays that can help all of us, parent and professional alike, better understand the culture of hazing.

" 'No single issue has divided Canadians so sharply as conscription for overseas service.' This is the argument that Granatstein and Hitsman make in Broken Promises: A History of Conscription in Canada, the first study of compulsory military service as it has been employed, rejected, or argue about in Canada from the French regime through to the unification debate of the 1960s. Most of the book is devoted to the conscription crises of the Great War and the Second World War, and new evidence from the papers and records of the participants is presented on the events of 1917 and 1944. The unhappy resolution of the conscription crises tells Canadians much about the reasons for French- Canadian dissatisfaction with Confederation."- Publisher