Brady Nash was one of those men. When his friend Duff Coleridge is killed in Vietnam, Brady recognizes the mysterious circumstances and is compelled to search for the truth. With an extraordinary ability to shoot and a hard-nosed determination, Brady must face life and death through the scope of a rifle when he gets involved with a clandestine organization. Caught in a web of espionage and black-ops, Brady attempts to find the identity of Duff's killer. However, once he digs too deep, he'll soon find himself on the hit list. While "truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie," Brady will quickly discover his search for truth is leading him to become more and more like the people he despises. Rick DeStefanis' The Gomorrah Principle: A Vietnam Sniper's Story is an exciting new thriller that blurs the line between right and wrong. Filled with gripping espionage and rigid tension, this enthralling story will have readers hooked from the opening pages. Historical fiction mixed with thrilling action, Brady's journey will engross and entertain with its ambitious story and complex themes. Filled with complex characters that eschew traditional cliches, The Gomorrah Principle is an exciting story that grabs readers with thrilling action and espionage but truly captivates them with its surprising depth. Not only perfect for action and thriller fans, this tantalizing novel will fit wonderfully in any casual reader's collection. A page-turner in every sense of the phrase, this mesmerizing story proves easy to pick up and hard to put down. With action, intrigue, and suspense set against a tumultuous time in United States history, The Gomorrah Principle has all of the ingredients to become an instant classic.

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    Since then, Eve’s life has become an obsession to find her daughter’s remains. Only one man—a brilliant, ruthless killer—knows the truth about what happened to Bonnie. But taunting Eve might be his first and last mistake… Blood Game When a Georgia senator’s daughter is found dead and drained of blood, Eve enters the world of a twisted psychopath—a man whose name appears on Eve’s shortlist of killers connected to her own missing daughter, Bonnie. Eight Days to Live It all begins with a painting called Guilt. Eve Duncan’s daughter, Jane, has no idea why she painted the portrait of the chilling face that now hangs in a Paris gallery. But those who belong to a powerful cult—one that dates back to the time of Christ—know both the face and the significance behind it… Chasing the Night A CIA agent’s two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Nine years later, Catherine Ling’s instincts—maternal and professional—tell her that her son is still alive. But she needs the help of someone as driven and obsessed as she is to find him. That person is Eve Duncan.

    Their existence is as essential as it is illegal. Commissioned at the highest level of the U.S. government. Protected from the prying eyes of Congress and the media. Built around the top operators from across the clandestine, intelligence, and special forces landscape. Designed to operate outside the bounds of U.S. law. Trained to exist on the ragged edge of human capability.Pike Logan was the most successful operator on the Taskforce, his instincts and talents unrivaled-until personal tragedy permanently altered his outlook on the world. Pike knows what the rest of the country might not want to admit: The real threat isn't from any nation, any government, any terrorist group. The real threat is one or two men, controlled by ideology, operating independently, in possession of a powerful weapon. Buried in a stack of intercepted chatter is evidence of two such men. The transcripts are scheduled for analysis in three months. The attack is mere days away. It is their bad luck that they're about to cross paths with Pike Logan. And Pike Logan has nothing left to lose.

      In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double-agent who infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking revelations from inside the terrorist network and now promised to help the CIA assassinate Osama bin Laden’s top deputy. Instead, as he stepped from his car, he detonated a thirty-pound bomb strapped to his chest, instantly killing seven CIA operatives, the agency’s worst loss of life in decades.   In The Triple Agent, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Joby Warrick takes us deep inside the CIA’s secret war against al-Qaeda, a war that pits robotic planes and laser-guided missiles against a cunning enemy intent on unleashing carnage in American cities. Flitting precariously between the two sides was Balawi, a young man with extraordinary gifts who managed to win the confidence of hardened terrorists as well as veteran spymasters. With his breathtaking accounts from inside al-Qaeda’s lair, Balawi appeared poised to become America’s greatest double-agent in half a century—but he was not at all what he seemed. Combining the powerful momentum of Black Hawk Down with the institutional insight of Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side, Warrick takes the readers on a harrowing journey from the slums of Amman to the inner chambers of the White House in an untold true story of miscalculation, deception, and revenge.

    Follow counterterrorism operative and ex-SEAL Scot Harvath’s action-packed exploits, and discover why Brad Thor has been called “America’s favorite author” (KKTX). The Lions of Lucerne ​​ On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the President of the United States has been kidnapped and his Secret Service detail massacred. Only one agent has survived: ex–Navy SEAL Scot Harvath. He doesn’t buy the official line that Middle Eastern terrorists are behind the attack and begins his own campaign to find the truth and exact revenge. But now, framed for murder by a sinister cabal, Harvath takes his fight to the towering mountains of Switzerland—and joins forces with brilliant Claudia Mueller of the Swiss Federal Attorney’s Office. Together they must brave the subzero temperatures and sheer heights of treacherous Mount Pilatus—where their only chance for survival lies inside the den of the most lethal team of professional killers the world has ever known. Path of the Assassin After rescuing the president from kidnappers in Brad Thor’s roaring bestseller The Lions of Lucerne, Navy SEAL turned Secret Service Agent Scot Harvath shifts his attention to rooting out, capturing, or killing all those responsible for the plot. As he prepares to close out his list, a bloody and twisted trail of clues points toward one man—the world’s most ruthless terrorist. One problem remains: Harvath and his CIA-led team have no idea what the man looks like. With no alternative, they recruit a civilian—a woman who has survived a brutal hijacking and is now the only person who can positively identify their quarry. From the burning deserts of North Africa to the winding streets of Rome, Harvath must brave a maelstrom of bloodshed and deception before a madman’s twisted vision engulfs the world in the fires of all-out war. State of the Union America’s worst nightmare has just become a brutal reality. The most unlikely terrorist enemy of all now holds a knife against the country’s throat. With both diplomatic and conventional military options swept from the table, the president calls upon Navy SEAL turned Secret Service agent Scot Harvath to disable a brilliantly orchestrated conspiracy intended to bring the United States to its knees. Teamed with talented Russian Intelligence agent Alexandra Ivanova and a highly trained CIA paramilitary detachment, Harvath embarks on an adrenaline-fueled search that spans the world—and leads to a final, deadly showdown on American soil, with a lethal enemy from the past.

     From 1941 to 1944, Bignor Manor, a farmhouse in Sussex provided board and lodging for men and women of the French Resistance before they were flown by moonlight into occupied France. Barbara Bertram, whose husband was a conducting officer for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), became hostess for these daring agents and their pilots during their brief stopovers in their house. But who were these men and women that passed through the Bertram’s house? And what activities did they conduct whilst in France that meant that so many of them never returned? Edward Wake-Walker charts the experiences of numerous agents, such as Gilbert Renault, Christian Pineau and Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, and the networks of operatives that they created that provided top-secret intelligence on German defences and naval bases, U-boats, as well as Hitler’s devastating new weapons, the V-1 and V-2 flying bombs. A House For Spies provides fascinating insight into the lives of SIS agents and their Lysander pilots who provided invaluable intelligence to Allied forces. This is a much-forgotten aspect of the Second World War that is only now being told by Edward Wake-Walker. “Utterly fascinating, very moving and funny. I couldn't have enjoyed it more.” — Hugh Grant “Edward Wake-Walker's meticulously researched chronicles of desperate resistance, audacity, duty, determination and daring are a valuable addition to the history of World War II” — Bel Mooney, Daily Mail “It kept me up at night as I wanted to know what happened to all the various characters [brought] so admirably back to life” — Russell England, Director of Bletchley Park: Codebreaking's Forgotten Genius and Operation Mincemeat

    Maloney traces a lethal conspiracy from the frontlines of battle to the backrooms of Washington to a single assassin's bullet. . . Termination Orders Once a trained killer for the CIA, Dan Morgan has built a new life for himself. But when he receives a desperate plea from his former Black Ops partner--reportedly killed in a foreign battle zone--he flies to help. It should be a routine mission, extracting a human asset from the region. But it's not routine; it's an ambush. Now Morgan is running for his life, holding crucial evidence. With his contacts dead and family in danger, Morgan must take on a full-scale conspiracy in the highest echelons of a vast global network that plays by its own rules--when it suits them. For Dan Morgan, it's about to come to an end in Washington, D.C., on a national stage, in the crosshairs of a killer. . .While Leo J. Maloney was serving in the army in 1966, he was recruited by a United States government clandestine agency and received highly specialized Black Ops training. Among his assignments in the decades that followed were asset extraction, espionage, and numerous missions still too secret to divulge. Now retired, he lives in the Boston area.

    48 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more – everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Separation of Power. This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on Separation of Power by Vince Flynn.

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    The James Bond Omnibus collects some of Ian Fleming’s literary adventures in comic strip form for the first time in a single volume. This mammoth edition is packed with thrilling action as James Bond faces enemies both old and new. In the classic stories On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and You Only Live Twice SPECTRE returns along with Bond’s greatest adversary Ernst Stavro Blofeld, meanwhile in The Man with the Golden Gun the secret agent finds himself in the sights of deadly assassin Francesco Scaramanga. These, plus other classic stories from the James Bond comic archive, make this volume a must have package!

    Survival from assassins and the discovery of a secret Jihadist plot unknown to our intelligence services forces Jack into an unsanctioned mission, which ultimately takes him to our nation’s capital. Details emerge and elevate the plot to the highest level. The Jihadist mission’s success will upset the global political balance and eliminate America’s influence in the Middle East with no support from her allies. Faced with an imperative to negate the threat, Jack deals with a dilemma. His opposition reaches high into the White House hierarchy and he trusts no one. Filled with twists and turns, Jack’s rogue mission races to a dramatic finale.

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    They were dropped in behind 'enemy lines' ten months after the Second World War had ended and remained operating their intelligence-gathering missions until the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. During this period Berlin was a hotbed of spying between East and West. BRIXMIS was established as a legitimate channel of communication between the Red Army and the British Army on the Rhine, they were trusted by the Russians. Its 'clean status' made BRIXMIS a key part of the Cold War. However, their missions were covert and they acted behind the shadows to steal advanced Soviet equipment and penetrate top-secret training areas. This unique history of this most elite of units offers a new understanding of the British role in the Cold War. The Rules of Touring Rule One - There are no rules. Rule Two - Think sneaky 'cos sneaky's best. Rule Three - Beware the wandering Sov, 'cos he's the one that's going to f*** you. Rule Four - Write it down now. You'll forget it later. Rule Five - The truth is a very powerful weapon. There is nowhere to go from the truth.

    This typical Welsh underfed type became the first of the great double-cross agents who were to play a major part in Britain's victory over the Germans. When the stakes could not have been higher, MI5 sought to build a double-cross system based on the shifting loyalties of a duplicitous, philandering, and vain anti-hero who was boastful and brave, reckless and calculating, ruthless and mercenary . . . but patriotic. Or was he? Based on recently declassified files and meticulous research, Snow reveals for the first time the truth about an extraordinary man.Nigel West is an author specializing in security, intelligence, the secret service, and espionage.Madoc Roberts is a director, producer, and film editor.

    More than a year after her career-ending injury, she still can’t get the hang of it. This is wearing thin on her lover, Russian FSB Agent Aleksey Khovechkin, who tricks Kathrin into seeing a psychiatrist specializing in post-military/espionage patients. The therapy doesn’t go exactly as Aleksey hopes, but before he can react, Russia recalls him to make him an offer he can’t refuse. Before his departure, Aleksey reveals his deepest, darkest secret to Kathrin. Had he, in fact, used her to escape his duties in Russia, or was his allegiance to her genuine? Determined to see justice served, Kathrin hatches a scheme to help Aleksey while at the same time reviving her career in espionage. The Vancouver Winter Olympics could be the perfect venue for her plan, but can she pull it off without destroying their relationship, causing an international incident, or getting either of them killed?

    No prior training and nothing in his imagination prepared Roofman for what he faced during the sensitive time when the United States and the Soviet Union were at each others throats.This true story includes 63 minutes of taped conversations between Roofman and his spy handlers. A reader will see and be part of the real world of spying: of talking to the Feds, the Russians, and always watching one's back.

    Farrell takes on the Kennedy assassination and the involvement of Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Texas "machine" that he controlled. Farrell says that a coalescence of interests in the military industrial complex, the CIA, and Lyndon Baines Johnson's powerful and corrupt political machine in Texas led to the event culminating in the assassination. Without the help of the Dallas police chief and others of the Texas underworld, including Jack Ruby, the Kennedy assassination could not have taken place. Farrell analyzes the data as only he can, and comes to some astonishing conclusions. Topics include: Oswald, the FBI, and the CIA: Hoover's Concern of a Second Oswald; Oswald and the Anti-Castro Cubans; The Mafia; Hoover, Johnson, and the Mob; The FBI, the Secret Service, Hoover, and Johnson; The CIA and "Murder Incorporated"; Ruby's Bizarre Behavior; The French Connection and Permindex; Big Oil; The Military; Disturbing Datasets, Doppelgangers, Duplicates and Discrepancies; Two Caskets, Two (or was that Three?) Ambulances, One Body: The Case of David S. Lifton; Two (or is that Three?) Faces of Oswald; Too Many (or Was That Too Few?) Bullets; Too Many Films, with Too Many, or Too Few, Frames; The Dead Witnesses: Jack Zangretti, Maurice Brooks Gatlin, John Garret "Gary" Underhill, Guy F. Bannister, Jr., Mary Pinchot Meyer, Rose Cheramie, Dorothy Mae Killgallen, Congressman Hale Boggs; The Alchemy of the Assassination: Ritual Magic and Murder, Masonic Symbolism, and the Darkest Players in the Death of JFK; LBJ and the Planning of the Texas Trip; LBJ: A Study in Character, Connections, and Cabals; LBJ and the Aftermath: Accessory After the Fact; The Requirements of Coups D'Etat; more."

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    Trained to be a top-notch undercover agent for British Intelligence, she never expected to one day settle down and raise a family. However, a chance meeting in a bar one night turns her life upside down. A tale of action, intrigue, espionage, globe-trotting and nappies!Mark Cooper is a 37 year old civil servant, father of three and life-long lover of the strange and bizarre. When he isn’t trying to understand the greater mysteries of the universe or how to synch his iPod to his laptop he can be found in various comic book stores in the central regions of England spending money his wife doesn’t know about.

     Book I: The Perfect Candidate Book II: The Perfect Weapon Book III: The Perfect Angel Book III.5: en el Medio - A Lance Priest / Preacher Episode ---------------------------------------------------- Meet Lance Priest. He is 21, a college student and part-time used car salesman. He is also a talented liar, a gifted storyteller and a human chameleon with an ironic nickname – Preacher. He may just be the one person CIA legend Geoffrey Seibel has been seeking for decades. Lance may be THE PERFECT CANDIDATE. To prove he has what it takes, Lance must pull off impossible covert missions and defeat deadly operatives plotting to sell nuclear warheads to a murderous regime on the eve of Operation Desert Storm. There is no guarantee Lance will succeed, let alone survive. If Seibel’s training doesn’t kill him, a deadly Saudi assassin and a pair of lethal former KGB agents just might. And then there is Marta Sidorova, a rogue KGB operative who kills almost everyone she meets. Things will get messy. Life will never be the same for Lance. But in a perilous world where ruthless killers don’t play by the rules, it is good to have a natural born killer like Lance on your side. From Tulsa, Oklahoma to Dallas to Washington, D.C. to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to Baghdad, Lance travels a path he never imagined. He joins the Army as his cover, trains with elite espionage operatives and uses his innate skills to learn Russian and Arabic. His journey, always guided by Seibel, takes him far from home and deep into a world few will ever see. Spies, assassins, terrorists, Delta Forces, and others populate this secret, clandestine and dangerous world where life and death are separated by the razor sharp edge of a blade or the sound of a silenced bullet. Lance will need to master this world using his unique talents. Preacher's ability to see the environment around him like looking down on a map gives him a unique perspective. A lifetime of running gives him a fitness level above most, as well as a "cranial clock" always keeping time. The almost constant soundtrack playing in his head sometimes gets in the way, but that's just Lance. ---------------------------------------------------- Reviews for Metcalf Books: Metcalf has really delivered a great series. I highly recommend all of the "Preacher" books. They are all a little strange, but they are great stories filled with twists and turns that will keep you up late at night turning pages. -conquistador I read a lot of books and only feel compelled to write a review on those books that stand out for some reason and this book rose to the top of my list as one of the best books I’ve read in a while. -The Book Lady Finally an author has created a unique character. No he doesnt have the requisite green eyes that are so trite. No he is not suave and yet rugged. His character is unique. As is this author. This is a book to save and to savor. -Craig S. Parker The lead character in The Perfect Candidate - Lance Priest - is fascinating, compelling and often difficult to like. Priest's training, skills and assignments have revealed his unique combination of assets and liabilities and the story of his development and performance is utterly riveting. The Perfect Candidate is a thrilling read that never allows the reader to catch his breath. -Kelja10

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    In today’s interconnected world, espionage plays a role in the competition for resources and know-how. The drama comes from masterful mind games and encompasses the humanity, fallibility and the passions that drive people in the murky world of espionage, where things do not always turn out the way one expects. It is an engaging spy thriller and makes for compelling reading by portraying the intrigue of agents, double-agents and those who get caught in between. It shows how cynicism can dominate discourse between countries.Set in present-day Washington, D.C., the story revolves around Russian agent Alexey Petrov and his quest to infiltrate U.S. government agencies by using single women or so-called ‘secretary-spies’ in order to obtain and transmit classified information to Moscow.

    Even as the American and British Armies were invading Germany from the West and Soviet troops from the East, rapidly closing in upon the shattered capital of Berlin, the Third Reich's Nazi leaders refused to surrender and unleashed a desperate plan of survival designed to bring them ultimate victory.One man alone, Jaime Wellington Arantes, stood between the Nazis and success. The handsome and elegant heir to a great banking dynasty and vast fortune, Arantes was a fabled international playboy, who appeared loyal to Nazi Germany, but all along was in reality the most effective secret agent the Allies ever had. A dedicated anti-Nazi determined to bring down the Third Reich whatever the risk or personal cost to himself.With the war raging savagely on all fronts, and Berlin under around-the-clock bombardment, Jaime Wellington Arantes battled against time and the Soviet Union's most deadly spy-master to uncover the one missing document - the key to the grandest prize of all and the Third Reich's ace-in-the-hole in a lethal game in which no one could be trusted and love was the most dangerous game of all.

    Wright gives readers a bold espionage thriller in his debut historical fiction novel, Beyond Ultra, a book that examines the complex relationship between fathers and sons, and what happens to nationalists and hardliners during times of war. World War I gives Karl Hoffman an opportunity to escape his rigid Prussian heritage and create a new life with childhood sweetheart Pilar Ortega. He volunteers for service in Kamerun, a German colony in Africa, just before the war begins, in order to be near Pilar, who's in the adjacent, neutral colony of Spanish Guinea helping her father establish a cocoa plantation. Their love is true, but Fate has much in store for Karl, his new wife, and their families-extended and immediate. As he helps to build a Spanish empire with his wife's family, he becomes estranged from those he left in his native Germany, only to find that reconciliation is what will haunt him. As European tragedies mount, one family member immigrates to the United States, yet Franco's Nationalists plague any semblance of peace, forcing Karl, Pilar, and their three sons to make tough choices. With unforgettable characters, pitch-perfect prose, and a sharp eye for historic details, Wright weaves a truly dynamic tale of loss to show what happens when war leaves men without options.

    This book scrutinizes the ambivalent and shifting attitudes toward the movement held by the major Italian political parties and the State, caught up as they were in an ambitious project to build a new nation out of the ruins of Fascism and the Second World War. Using a wide array of texts, Cooke bridges the gap between historical and cultural studies and shows how Italian politics, history, and culture have interacted over the long term. Fusing historical and cultural analysis, this is a unique contribution to our understanding of modern Italy.

    Jack wants to play a little game with Vasquez. An outcast within DCPJ, she decides to enlist the help of César Prada -- a small-time criminal informant -- whose unlikely expertise on the works of William Shakespeare guides them through a labyrinthine maze of snitches, drug dealers, and prostitutes... International espionage, and, above all, Human Trafficking -- on a collision course with a mysterious organization known only as...THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT.There are figures haunting Salinger's dreams, mysterious assassins who reside within the doorways of her mind. Growing is the knowledge that she may be one of them: Acheron. A genius-level IT expert with ungodly skills.Eight of Jacks is a thriller about women. Specifically two women, who don't take jack from anyone.

    An economist in the American embassy, she thinks she knows the town. She thinks she is safe. She’s wrong. Colonel Dimitri Danilov is irritated that Harris had to die on his watch. The peculiarities of the murder promise an interesting case, but American involvement will make everything needlessly complicated. Gumming up the works is William Cowley, the head of the FBI Russian desk, whose job is to keep men like Danilov from sweeping the murders of Americans under the rug. But as a serial killer terrorizes Moscow, the two must work together to thwart not only the killer, but also the corrupt city that protects him. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.In the Name of a Killer is the first book in the Cowley and Danilov Thrillers, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

    

    Yet SMERSH was a real organization, as diabolical as its fictional counterpart. No information was available on this organization until the fall of the USSR. Its importance to WWII history is relatively unknown to scholars. Ostensibly a military counterintelligence organization dedicated to fighting Nazis, it spent considerable time & effort terrifying its own, including writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was arrested for writing to a fellow officer. Its activities often strayed into political spheres, exemplified by the arrests of political leaders & foreign diplomats in Eastern Europe, including the famous rescuer of Hungarian Jews, Raoul Wallenberg, at WWII's end. While formally part of the Defence Commissariat, SMERSH wasn't under the control of the military hierarchy. In reality it was a secret service independent of other security organizations. Its head, Viktor Abakumov, a powerful shadowy figure whose biography is revealed here for the 1st time, reported directly to Stalin on a daily basis. Based on many Russian documents & memoirs, this book details all its known activities—its clever �radio games, which used captured officers to lure German intelligence into traps, mass vetting of Soviet troops who'd been German prisoners, arrest & persecution of Red Army generals, infiltration of Nazi spy schools, participation in military tribunals & the �NKVD's Special Board, & participation in the Nuremberg trials & the �Sovietization of Eastern Europe. Now, after a decade of research, a critical missing piece of the history of WWII & the Soviet secret services is finally exposed.ForewordAcknowledgmentsNotes on Transliteration & Archival MaterialsIntroductionThe big pictureThe roots of SMERSHMilitary counterintelligence: July 1941-April 1943German intelligence services at the Eastern front The birth of SMERSH SMERSH in action: 1943-44Towards Berlin The end of WWIISMERSH after the war: 1945-46Epilogue: the road to the top: Abakumov becomes a ministerNotesIndex

    Now, he's an unhappy lawyer in an unhappy marriage. His life is going nowhere ...until an old friend of Ryan's is found comatose on a park bench. This old friend, Steve, vanished from work earlier that day with a quarter of a million dollars. The money is mysteriously missing and the police have no clues.Dazzled by Steve's gorgeous young wife, who may or may not be as innocent as she seems, Ryan risks everything to find the truth behind his friend's coma. His quest leads him to the California wine country, to a strange scientific experiment in Wisconsin, to the halls of power in Washington, and finally to a small island in the Caribbean.On the island, Ryan stumbles into a CIA plot to capture a rogue agent in the act of selling a terrifying new weapon to a foreign government. Will Ryan's search for the truth botch the CIA's operation? Ryan's life and the world's balance of power are at stake in this fast-paced thriller.

    Persus. Cu Chulainn. Joan of Arc. Their names ring through the millenia. They were called gods, heroes, the sons and daughters of divinity. Today we know their kind by another word: Superhero.Jordan Law is the best sniper that the British Secret Intelligence Service has ever seen. Possessing a singular talent for slipping in and out of places that no human should be able to. She is a woman with a secret. Possessing superhuman strength, speed, and reflexes, and the ability to make herself seemingly disappear into thin air, she is the perfect operative, an unstoppable assassin.After a successful mission to eliminate a terrorist leader, Jordan's secret is discovered by a shadowy organization within British Intelligence. She is drawn into a secret war where superhuman soldiers struggle to keep their own kind from preying on normal humans. Faced with the greatest challenge of her life, Jordan must push herself beyond the limits of what she though she could do to protect her family, her teammates, and the world from a threat that has worked behind the scenes since the earliest days of humanity.

    "Show her the world. Promise me. If you ever loved me, promise me this." And Graham Conner Stone promised.So from an Air Force lab he spirits away Joyce -- the world's only sentient computer -- and ships her aboard his oceangoing sailboat where he can keep her safe. But while Joyce holds secrets that can change the balance of world power, who is safe? Certainly not Stone and Joyce, who now have the CIA and the DOD hot on their trail. Not to mention a beautiful Russian agent and a Chinese spy who will stop at nothing to get his hands on such a prize.They give no quarter.They expect no favor.And none will be forthcoming from a . . . Heart of Stone.

    After Nick Chevalier stumbles across a plane crash in the middle of the desert, the dying pilot slips him military secrets that a ruthless terrorist is determined to possess.

    Determined to discover the truth behind the grisly murder of his dear friend, he departs for Peru where his key witness has mysteriously fled. With the help of the Peruvian intelligence services and a beautiful Peruvian special agent, Clark hunts down clues that bring him into direct confrontation with those who possess the means and the will to crush any opposition. Mercilessly and completely. This is a powerful story about courage, commitment, and personal loss. But it is also a story about regenerative hope and how it can restore one to wholeness. From tragic ashes, a fate battered phoenix arises and promises justice for its victims, and healing for a noble, tortured soul.

    Mayhem. Robots. Strippers. Thank you for calling tech support.Forget Silicon Valley - the information age was born in the late 1990s in Austin, Texas, ushered in by Elliot Storm, founder and president of Storm Computer Corporation.Phinnaeus Webb just started his job for Storm as a technical support specialist. But soon Phin has more questions than the hapless techno-weenies calling him for help.What is going on in the basement?Why are the hallways patrolled by a robotic spider?Why do Phin's fellow technicians (along with dancers from a local gentleman's club) keep disappearing?What does this have to do with Elliot Storm?And will Phin's computer skills be enough to unravel all the tangled threads in time?

    This is a special comic book issue of 100 pages, reprinting "Planetary/Authority: Ruling the World" and "Planetary/JLA: Terra Oculta" collecting both in this same edition.

    So if you want the real work, this is the book.So what's all the fuss about?Cold Reading is the most powerful inter-active psychological technique in the world. It is useful in selling, business negotiations, interviews, presentations and even romance! If you want to influence what another person thinks and feels about you, cold reading is the most effective technique in the world.Cold reading is also often used by people who pretend they give 'psychic' readings, and it enables them to give 'amazingly accurate' readings to complete strangers. Read more about What is cold reading?.I have given more test conditions demonstrations that cold reading works than anyone else in the world. On a BBC documentary, two women said my readings were "99.9%" and "95%" accurate! See Demonstrations under test conditions. In my demonstrations, I always tell the truth in the end so that no-one is left thinking I'm really psychic.This is the definitive book on cold reading. It explains everything there is to know about this limitless technique! How can you apparently tell complete strangers about names, dates and events that mean something to them? In business, how can you seemingly get inside the mind of every lead, customer, client, colleague and rival? This book explains all, and is the most authoritative ever written on the subject.Contents include:* The Setup: how the cold reading process begins before one word of the reading is spoken* The Reading Itself: what to say and how to say it* 38 different elements from which any reading can be made* Presentational Points: factors which add to the illusion* The 'Win-Win Game': how psychics are right even when wrong!* Coping with sceptics: how psychics handle 'difficult' clients

    Based in Switzerland, Foote was responsible for maintaining the network and forwarding information to the Centre in Russia. Foote describes how the network operated, including codes and secret transmissions, hiding from Swiss and German authorities, recruiting and funding, and eluding double agents. All the while, Foote watched Soviet Russia, presumably an ally to the free nations, become more and more like the Fascists Foote opposed. Eventually captured by Swiss police, Foote was debriefed in Russia, but managed to escape home to Britain after persuading the Soviets to send him on another mission. This is a fascinating story that illuminates a key part of the secret espionage networks undertaken during World War II.