"Our work will not be finished until every man, woman, and child alive has three square meals a day, a roof over their heads, access to quality health care, personal security, an education and a job." - Michael Douglas Carlin It all began with the book "A Prescription For Peace" continued with "Peaceful Protests" and is developed further in "Rise a Knight." What if a billion people took an oath never to discriminate against any human for any reason? The world would be a better place for all of us. Rise a Knight empowers people everywhere to live a life of service. In the pages of Carlin's books you will find essays about the nuts and bolts of how we can have peace on earth. You can follow Michael Carlin into Border Mexico in the documentary film, American Federale, about the only American ever to serve as a Mexican Federale. The film is available on iTunes, Amazon, and GooglePlay. Recently Carlin spent two years with former LAPD Homicide Detective Russell Poole investigating the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. Russell, R.J. Bond, and Carlin wrote Tupac:187 an encyclopedia about the murders. Russell and Carlin continued to distill the information with the attempt to get law enforcement on board with reopening the cases. What they created can be seen in Chaos Merchants. Carlin set up a meeting through Sheriff Jim McDonnell for Russell to meet with a homicide investigator at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Poole and Carlin had uncovered some disturbing information related to the cases that implicated one or more of the Sheriff's in a related attempted murder. Poole felt that reopening the Tupac and Biggie cases would make the Sheriff's shine and avoid embarrassment. When Poole showed up to the meeting he was confronted by investigators into the attempted murder instead of just the promised homicide investigator interested in reopening the cases. Mysteriously Poole suffered a massive heart attack in the meeting and perished before he left the room. Learn what Poole and Carlin discovered in Chaos Merchants that cost Russell Poole his life. You can reach Michael Carlin at MichaelDouglasCarlin@gmail.com

As an L.A.P.D. Robbery/Homicide detective, Poole was a lead investigator in the Lyga-Gaines shooting, Enis Cosby murder investigation, and the Biggie Smalls murder case. He was later assigned to the Rampart Investigative Task Force. In 1999, Poole left the L.A.P.D. after 19.5 years on the force. He sued the City and publicly brought the Rampart Scandal to the attention of the world. Two cases stuck in Russell's craw as unsolved murders he felt could have been solved. He continued to work on the Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls murder cases until his last breath. What he uncovered would cost him his life. American News Service calls him an American Hero. He is not just a hero for America but for all of the world.