With tainted meat the weapon and corporate greed the motive, The Knowland Retribution is an extremely topical suspense-revenge thriller. Walter Sherman, a/k/a the Locator, is a tracker who honed his skills in Vietnam. The colorful cast of characters also includes Sherman's two friends--a bartender with a mysterious past and an old black man who smokes like a chimney; a feisty young woman who writes obituaries for the New York Times; a southern lawyer who has lost everything and has only one thing to live for; and a group of Wall Street investment bankers who make a deadly decision. The action takes the reader from a tiny Caribbean bar on the island of St. John to the editorial boardroom of the New York Times, from the gleaming skyline of Atlanta to the isolation of northern New Mexico, from Adirondack hideouts to Manhattan suites to Mississippi backwoods. This complex and compelling mystery thriller is the first in a series featuring Walter Sherman as the Locator.
As seen on national television, Troy Dunn and the International Locator, Inc./BigHugs.com now make available for the first time all of their secrets for finding lost friends, family, and loved ones--anywhere, anytime. If you are one of the nine out of ten people looking for someone in your past, you need the information in this book: How to search successfully on the Internet How to obtain essential government records How to gather all-important adoption records How to access millions of public records FREE How to make effective phone calls How to write letters that get a positive response How to decide where to look, when, and why How to be sure that your reunion will be as rewarding as it can be The Locator not only provides all the above information, but also includes sample documents that indicate where crucial information might be "hidden in plain sight"; sample letters to follow when making those all-important contacts; a complete listing, including addresses and telephone numbers, of all essential agencies throughout the world; information on how to get help from the International Locator itself. As Dunn has said, if you know the name of the person you're looking for, he's not lost, he's just misplaced. If this is the case, THE LOCATOR will help you find the one you've misplaced as quickly as possible. But even if you don't know the name of your lost loved one--if you're an adoptee or the birth parent of one--THE LOCATOR will show you how to work within the system, cut through the red tape, and put together all the clues you'll need to find the person you've lost. Troy Dunn walks you through the process, from the day of decision until the final phone call, explaining what questions to ask yourself and others; how to keep records; what agencies, organizations, and government offices to contact; and how to word telephone queries and letters to receive the best results. Extensive appendixes provide the names, addresses, and phone numbers of all the agencies you will need to contact, throughout the United States and around the world. And, most important of all, Dunn includes a wealth of actual documents, indicating how to read the disparate information they provide, and put it all together until the puzzle is completely solved. -->
Finding people who don't want to be found is a young man's game. But when a beautiful celebrity begs semi-retired Walter Sherman to locate her nephew, he can't refuse. In his search for Harry Levine, Walter soon discovers that others are desperate to find him and willing to kill for what he has: the written confession by the mastermind behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Among those clamoring for the confession are the Kennedy family, renegade Russians seeking the Czar's gold, and a powerful man with connections to the CIA. Finding Harry is one thing, but hiding him from professional killers pushes Walter's aging skills to the limit. It's a wild chase across Europe, Mexico, and the Caribbean in Richard Greener's heart-stopping thriller that offers an unexpected twist on existing JFK conspiracy theories.
Book 1 of the Locator Series, Supernatural Suspense What if you touched an object and could see the last three days of the person's life that touched it last? Demi Hagen can and this is her story. They called her outcast, different, quiet. That is until they realized there’s more to seventeen-year-old Demi Hagen than meets the eye. Now, everyone in Elmer Point, GA calls her a hero. Her ability to locate missing persons just by touching a personal item has made her a local legend. When she befriends a gypsy palm reader, online, they have an instant connection. But unlike Demi, Perci’s abilities are used to help her family raise money as part of a traveling act. Soon after agreeing to meet in person, Perci’s sister goes missing and she enlists Demi’s help to find her. As Demi struggles to make sense of what happened, all clues lead in a strange direction. Can she see past the mixed messages and solve the case before it’s too late? For readers who love books about ordinary people with extraordinary gifts.
The biggest challenge facing many game programmers is completing their game. Most game projects fizzle out, overwhelmed by the complexity of their own code. Game Programming Patterns tackles that exact problem. Based on years of experience in shipped AAA titles, this book collects proven patterns to untangle and optimize your game, organized as independent recipes so you can pick just the patterns you need. You will learn how to write a robust game loop, how to organize your entities using components, and take advantage of the CPUs cache to improve your performance. You'll dive deep into how scripting engines encode behavior, how quadtrees and other spatial partitions optimize your engine, and how other classic design patterns can be used in games.
