In "Shadows of Deception," Ella, a 35 year old retired CIA agent turned entrepreneur, as she navigates a treacherous world of espionage, love, and redemption. With her past haunting her and her heart torn between past loves and newfound ones, Ella must embark on a daring mission to stop a terrorist threat that threatens the world's very existence. As secrets unravel and loyalties are tested, Ella must harness all her skills and courage to confront her demons and forge a future where love and justice prevail.
In "Shadows of Deception," Ella, a 35 year old retired CIA agent turned entrepreneur, as she navigates a treacherous world of espionage, love, and redemption. With her past haunting her and her heart torn between past loves and newfound ones, Ella must embark on a daring mission to stop a terrorist threat that threatens the world's very existence. As secrets unravel and loyalties are tested, Ella must harness all her skills and courage to confront her demons and forge a future where love and justice prevail.
Keep your asset safe at any cost... When combat-hardened Justin Hall and his partner Carrie O’Connor, CIS’ deadliest field operatives, narrowly foil a suicide bombing in Berlin, one of the cell members escapes and Justin is the only one that can identify him. Dispatched to track the fugitive at all costs, the terrorist hunt begins to reveal an unsettling game of deception and betrayal implicating top officials in opposing intelligence agencies. The trail leads them down dark alleys and dead ends inside terrorist-infested Jordan, Syria, and Iraq. While the world watches as Israel and Palestine are desperately working towards a peace treaty, Justin discovers that the Israeli prime minister is marked for assassination ... by one of his own... With unlikely allies and unstoppable powers, can Justin and Carrie undo the plot before the Middle East explodes into an all-out war? Reviews ★★★★★ “Ethan Jones is terrific at story telling. Shadow Agents is another example of his skill. The character's feelings, personalities and descriptions are constructed with extraordinary detail. Love his two Canadian Intelligence officers, Justin and Carrie.” ★★★★★ “I liked the detail put in by the author, like the narrative of moving down an alley with terrorists on either side. I felt like I was there. On to the next book!” ★★★★★ “I never get tired of reading stories by Ethan Jones with Justin and Carrie. The plots are always full of twists and turns. Lots of action and characters that are believable.” ★★★★★ “Nice intermingling of characters in ever changing story line and country. A global chase with good geopolitical background as Justin must work with team members he does not know or trust.” ★★★★★ “Shadow Agents proves why Ethan Jones belongs to the genre of the top thriller writers. The pace doesn't let up, and the chemistry and understanding between Justin and Carrie is remarkable. A not to be missed book.” The Justin Hall Series Ethan Jones’s masterpiece of suspense, Shadow Agents, is the sixth thriller in the international espionage Justin Hall series with hundreds of five-star reviews and thousands of sales and downloads. Each book is a self-contained story without cliffhangers and can be enjoyed on its own. If you like Baldacci, Fleming, or Flynn, you’ll love Shadow Agents. Scroll up, click/tap and get lost in the adrenaline-drenched world of Justin Hall now! If you love assassinations, conspiracies, crime, espionage, military, political, psychological, technothrillers, terrorism, suspense, spy thrillers, secret agents, clandestine covert missions, and action & adventure with series favorites such as Jack Storm, Justin Hall, Javin Pierce, Carrie O’Connor, or Max Thorne… You’ll love this book.
The world's most infamous hacker offers an insider's view of the low-tech threats to high-tech security Kevin Mitnick's exploits as a cyber-desperado and fugitive form one of the most exhaustive FBI manhunts in history and have spawned dozens of articles, books, films, and documentaries. Since his release from federal prison, in 1998, Mitnick has turned his life around and established himself as one of the most sought-after computer security experts worldwide. Now, in The Art of Deception, the world's most notorious hacker gives new meaning to the old adage, "It takes a thief to catch a thief." Focusing on the human factors involved with information security, Mitnick explains why all the firewalls and encryption protocols in the world will never be enough to stop a savvy grifter intent on rifling a corporate database or an irate employee determined to crash a system. With the help of many fascinating true stories of successful attacks on business and government, he illustrates just how susceptible even the most locked-down information systems are to a slick con artist impersonating an IRS agent. Narrating from the points of view of both the attacker and the victims, he explains why each attack was so successful and how it could have been prevented in an engaging and highly readable style reminiscent of a true-crime novel. And, perhaps most importantly, Mitnick offers advice for preventing these types of social engineering hacks through security protocols, training programs, and manuals that address the human element of security.
The years between roughly 1760 and 1810, a period stretching from the rise of Joseph Haydn’s career to the height of Ludwig van Beethoven’s, are often viewed as a golden age for musical culture, when audiences started to revel in the sounds of the concert hall. But the latter half of the eighteenth century also saw proliferating optical technologies—including magnifying instruments, magic lanterns, peepshows, and shadow-plays—that offered new performance tools, fostered musical innovation, and shaped the very idea of “pure” music. Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow is a fascinating exploration of the early romantic blending of sight and sound as encountered in popular science, street entertainments, opera, and music criticism. Deirdre Loughridge reveals that allusions in musical writings to optical technologies reflect their spread from fairgrounds and laboratories into public consciousness and a range of discourses, including that of music. She demonstrates how concrete points of intersection—composers’ treatments of telescopes and peepshows in opera, for instance, or a shadow-play performance of a ballad—could then fuel new modes of listening that aimed to extend the senses. An illuminating look at romantic musical practices and aesthetics, this book yields surprising relations between the past and present and offers insight into our own contemporary audiovisual culture.
This volume examines how local actors respond to Africa’s high dependence on donor health funds. It focuses on the large infusion of donor money to address HIV and AIDS into Malawi and Zambia and the subsequent slow-down in that funding after 2009. How do local people respond to this dynamic aid architecture and the myriad of opportunities and constraints that accompany it? This book conceptualizes dependent agency, and the condition in which local actors can simultaneously act and be dependent, and investigates conditions under which dependent agency occurs. Drawing upon empirical data from Malawi and Zambia collected between 2005 and 2014, the work interrogates the nuanced strategies of dependent agency: performances of compliance, extraversion, and resistance below the line. The findings elucidate the dynamic interactions between actors which often occur “off stage” but which undergird macro-level development processes.
In this World War II military history, Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv, and the SS is ready for action. Espionage brought the Nazis this far, but espionage can stop them—if Washington wakes up to the danger. As World War II raged in North Africa, General Erwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans and weaknesses. In the summer of 1942, he led his Axis army swiftly and terrifyingly toward Alexandria, with the goal of overrunning the entire Middle East. Each step was informed by detailed updates on British positions. The Nazis, somehow, had a source for the Allies' greatest secrets. Yet the Axis powers were not the only ones with intelligence. Brilliant Allied cryptographers worked relentlessly at Bletchley Park, breaking down the extraordinarily complex Nazi code Enigma. From decoded German messages, they discovered that the enemy had a wealth of inside information. On the brink of disaster, a fevered and high-stakes search for the source began. War of Shadows is the cinematic story of the race for information in the North African theater of World War II, set against intrigues that spanned the Middle East. Years in the making, this book is a feat of historical research and storytelling, and a rethinking of the popular narrative of the war. It portrays the conflict not as an inevitable clash of heroes and villains but a spiraling series of failures, accidents, and desperate triumphs that decided the fate of the Middle East and quite possibly the outcome of the war.
