“When a freak accident results in the escape of the serial killer known as ‘The Brainiac’, Detective Gail Beamer quickly realizes the only way to prevent a cascade of violence is to emerge from retirement and confront the only enemy she’s ever feared.
“Crime fiction doesn’t have nearly enough droll master thieves like Kidd and his stunning partner in righteous crime, LuEllen.”—Los Angeles Times When Kidd—artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal—learns of a colleague’s murder, he doesn’t buy the official story: that a jittery security guard caught the hacker raiding the files of a high-tech Texas corporation. It’s not what his friend was looking for that got him killed. It’s what he already knew. For Kidd and LuEllen, infiltrating the firm is the first move. Discovering the secrets of its devious entrepreneur is the next. But it’s more than a secret—it’s a conspiracy. And it’s landed Kidd and LuEllen in the cross-hairs of an unknown assassin hellbent on conning the life out of the ultimate con artists....
The story takes an unexpected turn when Christian gets an accident with his bike and Christian gets died to save Julia’s life but, Chris died in the Devil’s arrival time. The Devil the lord of darkness is cursed by the God. The Devil has the power to take control of any lives and act in someone’s life as he wants. The Devil takes control of Christian’s life and made Christian sell his soul to the Devil by giving him extreme pain and at the end Christian had to agree with the Devil to sell his soul because of the Devil’s torture. Chris finds himself in hospital bed after that, with Julia is sitting beside him and caressing his hairs. Chris founds out later that he went to coma for 48 hours after his accident and Chris forgets about all but remember about the torture what the Devil given to him for make him sell his soul. The Devil was watching Chris’s lips with his red eyes and the Devil witnessed Julia’s loves to Chris and how both holy souls enjoy in each other’s presence. The Devil wonders because the Devil was cursed to be hated and be feared by everyone and the Devil wonders and remembers about his past life, where he had the same kind of love but he lost because of his cruelty and cursed by the God. Seeing Chris’s love for Julia and Julia’s love for Chris, slowly the Devil starts to have feelings for Julia too, the Devil wanted to feel loved too even for it if it takes him to murder anyone. The Devil wanted to go near Julia and more close, as only Chris could and one day the Devil succeed after falling in love with Julia. The Devil seen scars in Julia’s lower body. The Devil in the disguise of Chris asks to Julia, how and why the scars are on her body? At first Julia hesitates but at last Julia speaks up and shares about her painful story of ‘Ecclesia Fista’ the Christian School where young students taught for be monks and nuns of Churches. The Devil’s eyes sparkles with the name of the 7 sins of Christianity, “Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, Sloth” Julia wonders by hearing that words from Chris and Julia looks towards Chris but suddenly she sees that Chris is not Chris anymore, a Devil with scary face is sitting beside her and Julia heard that the Devil snorted and as the Devil realizes that Julia is aware of his presence. The Devil gets out of the room with his scary face and his devilish behaviour. Julia tries to follow the Devil but, she failed. The Devil transforms into a crow with bloods are falling from the eyes as bloody tears from the crow’s eyes. The Devil went towards ‘Ecclesia Fista’ and seen his prey for the each Full Moon and New Moon nights. The Devils targets his prey and punishments for the sinners of the 7 sins. For ‘Lust’ Father Ambrose gets burned alive during his fake Exorcism to exploit his student. For ‘Greed’ Reverend Caius Shadowthorn gets crushed by the pillars of the building what he made with low quality materials for put the money on his own pocket and his tragic death throws questions towards the principle, was he a corrupt too? For ‘Sloth’ Edward Joshua Peterson the principle of the ‘Ecclesia Fista’ gets a tragic death by the tools he used to make erotic stone sculptures. He got punished by the Devil for neglecting his important works for his ‘Sloth’ and addictions. He died with a big needle on his forehead as a sign of his punishment of his own procrastination. For ‘Pride’ Nun Veronica Divine gets killed with beating of Devilish ruler and lightning because she had so much pride about her knowledge and he hated and humiliated the people who used to challenge her views for gather diverse knowledge. For ‘Gluttony’ Reverend Thomas Milton gets killed for eating coins with his food and stabbed a fork on his tongue by himself for the Devil’s punishment to him because rich businessman Thomas Milton over eaten food and used to humiliate the poor unfortunate people, who used to ask for money to him. For ‘Envy’ Detective Lucas Smith gets killed with snake’s venom and burning alive as the Devil’s punishment because Detective Lucas Smith tried to get Julia for the night and Lucas was jealous of Chris, who had a person like Julia in his life. After killing the 6 sinners, the Devil looks for kill his seventh prey but as the Devil tries to find the seventh sinner this time Julia gets to know that the Devil is behind the sudden murders in ‘Ecclesia Fista’. The Vatican City gets involved as Julia’s childhood friend Tanya asks help of Father Andrew. The two things Father Andrew suggests is to do an Exorcism with Chris’s body to talk with the Devil or, use the red holy knife, what the God used 2000 years ago for kill the two rulers of the hell. Now this was not only a war between Devil and Chris but, a war between the Devil and the whole Vatican City with Julia and Chris and the Devil is not here for accept a lose. Will the Devil haunt for his seventh prey? Where there’s the Devil is preaching, ‘In this era, the God may not come to save you but, the Devil comes to kill you!’ Step into the world of darkness and lightness and hope with the waves of beautiful lies. Forget the pasts of yours and let the darkness lead you into the light where ignite touches your soul. Get lost in the book where the brightness and the darkness collide and make the ultimate auroras in dark night skies. You have read books where the main character is the hero but, in this case, the main character is a Villain to be told the story from the evil’s side.
Deep within the Canadian wilderness, people have been disappearing for over a century. Archaeologist, Jon Elkheart, goes missing at an abandoned Cree Indian reservation. The search for their father will lead Kyle, Eric, and Shana Elkheart to the dark heart of the legendary forest, where their mission will quickly become a fight for survival.
A cloud of nanoparticles programmed as a predator and capable of self-reproduction escapes from a Nevada laboratory and makes the human population its target.
Model Engineering for Simulation provides a systematic introduction to the implementation of generic, normalized and quantifiable modeling and simulation using DEVS formalism. It describes key technologies relating to model lifecycle management, including model description languages, complexity analysis, model management, service-oriented model composition, quantitative measurement of model credibility, and model validation and verification. The book clearly demonstrates how to construct computationally efficient, object-oriented simulations of DEVS models on parallel and distributed environments. - Guides systems and control engineers in the practical creation and delivery of simulation models using DEVS formalism - Provides practical methods to improve credibility of models and manage the model lifecycle - Helps readers gain an overall understanding of model lifecycle management and analysis - Supported by an online ancillary package that includes an instructors and student solutions manual