citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective story, instantly fascinating [and] astonishingly gripping" (Smithsonian). Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized user on his system. The hacker's code name was "Hunter" -- a mysterious invader who managed to break into U.S. computer systems and steal sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own: spying on the spy. It was a dangerous game of deception, broken codes, satellites, and missile bases -- a one-man sting operation that finally gained the attention of the CIA...and ultimately trapped an international spy ring fueled by cash, cocaine, and the KGB.

    PBS will be airing a Mystery! series based on the trilogy this winter.

    They want Jack Hummel to cut through it--so they can unleash a devastatingly brilliant plot that threatens global disaster.Now a Delta Force veteran and a think-tank defense wizard must get inside South Mountain--by defeating their own super-security systems and a darkly ingenious enemy leader . . .. . . while Jack Hummel's torch burns closer and closer to the launch key . . . while the clock ticks closer to midnight--and Armageddon.Praise for The Day Before Midnight"Rockets toward a shattering climax like an incoming missile."--Stephen Coonts, author of Flight of the Intruder and Final Flight"Nonstop action and mounting tension."--The New York Times Book Review"Slam-bang action and relentless suspense."--The Washington Post"The novel crackles and jolts."--Chicago Tribune"The one to beat this year in the nail-biter class . . . an edge-of-the-seat doomsday countdown thriller."--Daily News, New York

    Only one man--Forsyth's most  unforgettable hero yet--can prevent the plan from succeeding.  His name is Quinn. He is the  Negotiator.President Cormack is  bent on a signing a sweeping U.S.-Soviet  disarmament treaty, and the master conspirator is  determined to stop him. The kidnapping of a young man on a  country road in Oxfordshire is but the first  brutal step in the explosive plot engineer the  president's destruction. Enter  Quinn.  Quinn plays the  kidnappers like a master musician. . . until, in a shocking  tumabout, he discovers that ransom was not their  objection after all--and that he has been lured  into a cunningly woven web. Now he must draw upon  his deepest strengths--to save not only the victim  but the entire free  world.

    Death for many, slavery for some was the curse these new rulers brought. Only the intervention of the goddess Slya Fireheart saved Brann herself from such a fate. For Slya had marked the young woman for a special purpose, and brought two companions to help her fulfill it.Yaril and Jaril were beings of energy in their own dimension, demonic shpaeshifters to the people of Brann's world. Change children, they transformed Brann into their Drinker of Souls, able to drain the energy from the living so that they might feed on it and survive. Together, under the protection of Slya and aided (erratically) by Tungjii--the male/female god of chance and luck--Bran, Yaril and Jaril set out to free those of her family enslaved by the enemy Temueng. Before their quest was done, it would lead them to distant lands that were home to witches, murderious villains, and the ever-present ghosts of the restless dead.Yet the search for those lost to her was just the beginning of Brann's adventures. Other gods besides Slya and Tugjii had designs upon her. They would remorselessly plunge the Soul drinker into a battle against the most powerful wizard to ever curse the lands of men, forcing her to stand with allies from worlds beyonbd her own, gifted with talents that defied all the laws of magic.But even if Brann did triumph, she would remain all too vulnerable to a power that had sworn to break free of its gods-created prison at any cost. Hovering on the verge of total dissolution, the Chained God would call upon Brann and her comrades to undertake an impossible mission--to obtain six magical orbs from strongholds no one had ever been able to breach. And the price of failure would be greater than Brann's world and people could ever pay.

    Included are the original patents by Epstein, Segal, Moore, Cooke and others, as well as info on pick guns used by the FBI and intelligence agencies. Photos depict improvised devices made out of coat hangers and clothespins. For academic study only.

    Black Tom, the huge depot loaded with ammunitions destined for the Allies to use against the Central Powers, had been blown up. With terrifying suddenness, the Great War raging overseas had suddenly come to America. Witcover provides irrefutable evidence that German saboteurs were the perpetrators.

    Army Intelligence Corps.

    When a combat exercise over the Norwegian Sea turns terrifyingly into the real thing, the rivals in Number One squadron find their lives in each others' hands.

    

    

    Thirty-five, overweight, sedately employed and unhappily married, he is given the chance to escape to a new life in South America.There he runs the English Bookshop and discovers a different kind of existence: anarchic staff, a beautiful prostitute called Theresa, intrigue at Maria's Tango Club (the local house of pleasure) and a country heading for a bloody coup. Wooding discovers that the country's young president is an old school friend and as a consequence finds himself recruited by the mysterious Mr Box of British Intelligence to investigate what is going on…Tango is a hugely enjoyable mixture of sexual escapades, revolutionary politics, and intelligence-gathering in exotic landscapes. It confirms Alan Judd as the contemporary successor to Evelyn Waugh.'Very entertaining…it makes you want to turn the pages. No mean achievement' Sunday Telegraph'Well-constructed, witty and at times moving' Independent'An enjoyable book which made me laugh out loud… Alan Judd has a real gift for satire' New Statesman'The breezy satirical blend of carnival and cruelty is never less than nicely judged' Observer

    "[A] dramatic, affecting account..".--Publishers Weekly

    

    The story of Australian Nancy Wake who escaped from France to England when World War II broke out.