The Scorpion Sanction
Author: Gordon Pape
Publisher:
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780417060002
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Author: Gordon Pape
Publisher:
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780417060002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Opie
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Published: 2011-04
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 1609761340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA breathtaking novel of danger, intrigue, suspense, terror and world chaos. Al Aqrab - The Scorpion Cell - is destroying the House of Saud using oil as its weapon. CIA Special Agent Jon Gold is yanked from a round of golf. Little does he know the danger he is walking into in the high stakes worlds of oil and terrorism. About the Author: Author John Opie is a heart surgeon and lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/ScorpionSanction.html
Author: K. van der Toorn
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-07-17
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 900435445X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dick Nelson
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Published: 2014-10-31
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 1478741430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the highly anticipated sequel to The Trojan Horse Conspiracy, Brad Tilsdale—former Navy SEAL, FBI agent, CIA operative, and now National Security Advisor to the President—expands his influence over the U.S. government’s clandestine operations, while a weak President looks the other way. As Tilsdale weaves his way through the Washington bureaucracy to head off a massive Al-Qaeda attack, his sharply etched character begins to evolve in sinister ways, revealing a dark and ruthless side of his personality. Tilsdale plots and schemes to protect the United States, often from itself. His unorthodox alliance with the two most influential women in Washington—a romantic triangle with treacherous implications—becomes a struggle for control of the nation’s Special Operations and clandestine services, exposing layer upon layer of personal agendas and an insatiable pursuit of power. In a final cataclysm of violence and duplicity, Tilsdale’s character emerges as a flawed hero who will kill without remorse in order to achieve his secretive goals, aided by a beautiful, powerful woman who is irresistibly drawn to his strength. The Prince and the Scorpion is a gripping, action-packed tale of political intrigue, assassination, and heroism—a tale that will leave the reader with an entirely new view of their government in Washington…and the people who manipulate it.
Author: Gary Goertz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780742525900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a punctuated equilibrium framework for understanding the nature of policy decision-making by governments as well as a theory of the creation, functioning, and evolution of international norms and institutions.
Author: James Oakes
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014-05-19
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0393239934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the Civil War and the anti-slavery movement, specifically highlighting the plan to help abolish slavery by surrounding the slave states with territories of freedom and discusses the possibility of what could have been a more peaceful alternative to the war.
Author: Michael Stackpole
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Published: 2022-10-25
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1975360893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA nameless undead awakens in an ancient crypt, and thus does the journey begin. Drawn mysteriously toward the horizon, he ventures into a land of perils beyond death. A once shining kingdom has been fractured, and mindless Hollows prowl the dark corners. To see it united and restored, the old king must be freed by his get-the youth Balarion. The undead and his companions, surviving champions of the halcyon era, accompany Balarion on this journey to release his father, battling foes both monstrous and clever. Yet it is not their enemies that give them doubt, it is their quest. Can a world so troubled truly be set right again, or is it fated to vanish into the dark?
Author: Reeva S. Simon
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-11-15
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0292723008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIlluminating a powerful intersection between popular culture and global politics, Spies and Holy Wars draws on a sampling of more than eight hundred British and American thrillers that are propelled by the theme of jihad—an Islamic holy war or crusade against the West. Published over the past century, the books in this expansive study encompass spy novels and crime fiction, illustrating new connections between these genres and Western imperialism. Demonstrating the social implications of the popularity of such books, Reeva Spector Simon covers how the Middle Eastern villain evolved from being the malleable victim before World War II to the international, techno-savvy figure in today's crime novels. She explores the impact of James Bond, pulp fiction, and comic books and also analyzes the ways in which world events shaped the genre, particularly in recent years. Worldwide terrorism and economic domination prevail as the most common sources of narrative tension in these works, while military "tech novels" restored the prestige of the American hero in the wake of post-Vietnam skepticism. Moving beyond stereotypes, Simon examines the relationships between publishing trends, political trends, and popular culture at large—giving voice to the previously unexamined truths that emerge from these provocative page-turners.
Author: Gordon Pape
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 1996-07-01
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780888821645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGordon Pape's family's tribulations – a shower that won't stop leaking, a wine cellar that smells like a paint factory, and a stove handle that ended up costing more than $50,000 – will keep readers chuckling from start to finish.
Author: Zahid Hussain
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-11-16
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1439157863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA deeply reported account of the war against Islamic extremists in Pakistan and battles being fought in the remote tribal regions. The war in Afghanistan has raged on longer than any war in US history, and far from suppressing the insurgency being waged by radical Islamic militants, it has led to stronger alliances among al Qaeda, the Taliban, and a host of once-autonomous militant groups and has inspired a flood of new recruits. In addition to reclaiming control of substantial territory in Afghanistan, the militants have now taken the fight deep within Pakistan—threatening to totally destabilize that nuclear-armed state—and are launching attacks on the US homeland. Why has the insurgency been so irrepressible? Is this a war that can be won? Can we expect a wave of attacks within the United States more sophisticated than the attempted bombing in Times Square? Nothing can be understood about the prospects for the war and the threat to the US homeland without understanding how Pakistan has become the epicenter of the insurgency and why the rise of militant groups there has escalated out of control despite major offensives by the Pakistani military and an intensive secret US Predator drone war against them. Based on extensive reporting inside Pakistan’s dangerous lawless regions and exclusive interviews with militant leaders as well as high-level military and intelligence sources, Zahid Hussain, one of the most respected reporters working out of Pakistan, chronicles how and why the Islamic extremist groups based in Pakistan’s remote tribal territories have greatly increased their power since the start of the war and unleashed a reign of terror on US forces in Afghanistan and on both the military and civilian population within Pakistan. He is the first to reveal how a loose constellation of tribal groups has now come together to form a distinctive Pakistani Taliban, working closely with al Qaeda and the Afghani Taliban to launch increasingly sophisticated and deadly attacks on both sides of the Af-Pak border. He discloses how they draw support and a steady flood of recruits from deeply entrenched support networks in major Pakistani cities, and how they have recruited would-be US attackers, including Faisal Shahzad and Adnan Shukrijumah, accused of plotting to bomb the New York City subway. He is also the first to chronicle in detail the still unacknowledged US war carried out in Pakistan by remote Predator drones, and, reporting from the scenes of a number of drone missile strikes and interviewing a number of attempted suicide bombers, he reveals the shocking extent of anti-Americanism the strikes have stoked in Pakistan, across the range of the population, due to civilian deaths, driving a new breed of highly educated, professional, and middle-class Pakistanis into the militant groups. His gripping and revelatory account is an urgent wake-up call about the blowback effects of the US war in Afghanistan and the drone campaign in Pakistan, about how volatile the situation in the Af-Pak region has become, and about the deeply troubling limitations of the current military strategy in ever gaining decisive ground against the insurgents.