Investigating a grisly murder in the park, Lieutenant Hastings finds that the victim had some secrets of her own San Francisco’s first murder of the year takes more than two weeks to come, but when it does, it’s ugly. June Towers is seventeen, a high school senior just six months from graduation, when the police find her dead in the park. She’s lovely, in the patchwork jeans and rainbow palette favored by the city’s youth, but her hair is matted with blood. Was the murderer a mugger, a rapist, a serial killer—or someone the young girl called a friend? In search of answers, Lieutenant Frank Hastings digs into June’s past and finds that she was many things to many people. Her mother thought she was a good girl—a fine student with a future—but to a certain class of her peers, June Towers was something else altogether. Hastings has little time to come to grips with this strange personality before another good girl turns up dead.
DIVDIVAfter an ice pick is used for murder in San Francisco, the Washington elite comes down on Hastings/divDIV It starts as an everyday fender bender: Two cars collide in heavy evening traffic. But when the police arrive to take statements, the occupants of one car take off running. They leave another man behind, slumped in the backseat, dead of a single stab wound to the chest. Lieutenant Frank Hastings abandons a family dinner to take charge of the scene, which rapidly devolves into chaos. The police corner one of the runners in an abandoned building, capturing him after a standoff. The night’s excitement may be over, but the real trouble has yet to start./divDIV The dead man is Eliot Murdock, a washed-up political commentator who came west from DC to chase the scoop of his career. As Hastings digs into Murdock’s story, he finds himself hemmed in by Washington big shots—formidable men who have made the mistake of underestimating the strength of one very tenacious cop./div/div
DIVDIVThe most famous televangelist in America declares “total war” on the sinners of the earth/divDIV Austin Holloway came to Los Angeles in the 1930s with nothing but a briefcase, a few hundred dollars, and a letter of introduction to a local radio station. The son of a revival tent preacher, Holloway wanted to bring the good word to the airwaves, first radio, and then television. He had no idea he was starting an empire./divDIV Decades later, Holloway is the richest man of God in the country; his sermons broadcast coast to coast every Sunday. But fame and fortune are not enough. He wants to share the love of Christ with those who have never tasted it before—the oppressed people of Communist China. Standing in the way of history’s most ambitious mission trip is his failing health, and his family—which includes an alcoholic wife, an out-of-control son, and a daughter with a rebellious streak. The kingdom of heaven is open to Holloway—but getting there will mean a trip through hell./divDIV/div/div
DIVDIVHastings chases a serial killer who preys on the glitterati/divDIV Tony Frazer takes a wide berth when he sees the homeless man. A millionaire playboy, he does not consort with street people, and is in the process of skirting the derelict, eyes averted, when the stranger calls his name. The king of the society pages turns just in time to be struck by three silenced bullets, slumping to his knees and dying there in the gutter./divDIV Although witnesses insist the killer was a homeless man, homicide lieutenant Frank Hastings sees signs of a professional at work—the kind who kills quietly, then disappears into the night. In fact, as Hastings learns, the killer thinks himself a crusader—a kind of Robin Hood with a pistol—and he has many more assassinations planned. San Francisco society had better take cover, for this killer has a thirst for blue blood./divDIV/div/div
DIVDIVHastings investigates a murder among a set of wealthy adulterers/divDIV By the time Haney and the woman get to her apartment, they are so drunk they can hardly get through the door. They undress and begin to fool around, but before they make it to the bedroom, they have an argument. Haney is about to leave when the woman starts to laugh at him. He spins around and slugs her as hard as he can. His head is beginning to clear by the time he makes it home. He’s just sober enough to notice the glint of a dagger before it’s buried in his gut./divDIV Haney’s wife finds his body at the foot of the stairs. She calls the police, but cannot tell them the truth about the evening—that she and her husband were both in other people’s beds. Lieutenant Frank Hastings has no trouble interrogating criminals, but untangling this web of marital lies will be one of the trickiest cases of his career./divDIV/div/div
DIVDIVInvestigating an ex-cop’s death, Hastings gets drawn into a family conspiracy/divDIV It was just after he made lieutenant that Frank Hastings told Charlie Quade to resign. They had known each other at the academy, and Quade was a rotten cop from day one. Dogged by rumors of corruption, Quade left without protest, eking out a living doing security work. When Hastings hears Quade has been shot dead, he doesn’t blink. The only surprise is the place the ex-cop died./divDIV Alexander Guest is one of the wealthiest lawyers in the city, and Hastings can’t understand why he would hire a thug like Quade to protect his grandson from the father-in-law who wants to kidnap him. When Quade’s body is found, the grandson is long gone, and the father-in-law is the natural suspect. But Hastings knows better than to trust the rich, and he refuses to accept the easy answer./div/div
DIVDIVIn the shadows of the Golden Gate Bridge, Hastings investigates a glamorous murder/divDIV The killer is long gone from the crime scene when he realizes his mistake. It went perfectly, right until the end. He lured Lisa to the oceanfront park, entered her car on the passenger side, shot her twice, and escaped without being stained by her blood. He took the gun with him, as planned—but he forgot her purse, the crucial detail meant to make the crime look like a robbery. It was a simple mistake, but it could cost him everything./divDIV It does not take long for Lieutenant Frank Hastings to notice the purse—nor is he slow to notice the victim’s beauty. Lisa Franklin was a self-described courtesan, a would-be poet who paid her rent by lavishing affection on San Francisco’s rich and powerful. As Hastings combs through her client list, he is confronted with one vital question: Which captain of industry was foolish enough to leave the purse behind?/divDIV/div/div
DIVDIVAn old friend is murdered, and Hastings will do anything he can to avenge her/divDIV When Frank Hastings knew Meredith Powell, she was a gawky ten-year-old without a care in the world. More than two decades later, she has grown into a stunning beauty—but the gleam in her eye is gone. Over lunch, Meredith confesses that she lives in terror of her emotionally abusive boyfriend, a possessive, rage-filled man named Charles. Hastings, a homicide lieutenant with the San Francisco police department, offers to help her escape. She refuses, and they part ways—unaware that Charles has been watching them the whole time./divDIV By the next morning, Meredith has been strangled, her body dumped in the park. The realization that he could have helped her, that he may actually have caused her death, tears Hastings to pieces. Obsessed with revenge, he quickly learns why homicide detectives are prevented from investigating the murders of their loved ones. But he will not rest until Charles is brought to justice—even if it costs him his badge./div/div
DIVDIVA John Doe murder spurs Hastings to confront the leader of a Satanic cult/divDIV For homicide lieutenant Frank Hastings, the day starts with an assassination attempt. During a rally in San Francisco’s Civic Center, someone takes a potshot at the governor, sending the whole of downtown into chaos. Once he has taken control of the scene, Hastings chases down the gunman—a Mexican immigrant with a political bent—and captures him after a tense standoff. Miraculously, no one is killed. But Hastings’s long day is just getting started./divDIV He’s barely had time to catch his breath when the call comes in from Noe Valley, where an unidentified man has been found dead on a nude model’s floor. All signs point to a simple case of death by jealousy until a second killing upends the investigation, setting Hastings on a collision course with the charismatic leader of a Satanic cult. For this homicide lieutenant, saving the governor will have been the easy part./div/div
DIVDIVHastings chases a serial killer whose deranged letters hold a city for ransom/divDIV The doctor comes through his front door as he always does, a bundle of mail in hand. He’s about to walk up the stairs when the bullet passes through his back, puncturing his heart and leaving him dead in his front hall. By the time Lieutenant Frank Hastings arrives, rigor mortis has set in, and the doctor’s body rolls easily away from the wall. Pinned beneath him is a note that begins, “Doctor, Lawyer, Merchant, Chief . . .” Pay $100,000, writes “the Masked Man,” or a lawyer will be the next to die./divDIV There are too many lawyers in San Francisco to protect them all, and as Hastings and his team hunt for the Masked Man, the city is whipped into a frenzy of fear. As the killer’s demands mount, the homicide department starts to wonder—after the merchant is killed, will the chief of police be next?/divDIV/div/div
DIVDIVA surgeon is gunned down in the street—but who is the woman who wanted him dead?/divDIV Brice Hanchett is a brilliant surgeon, and those who work alongside the man consider him either godlike or devilish. After years of success, he has begun to believe his own legend, and soon goes too far—toying not just with life and death, but with the heart of every woman he meets. He has a wife and a mistress, as well as the attention of all the nurses in the hospital. One of them is waiting for him when he goes out to his Jaguar, a gun in her hand. It takes only two shots to remind Brice Hanchett that even the finest surgeon cannot cheat death./divDIV Investigating the case falls to Lieutenant Frank Hastings and the boys in San Francisco Homicide. Learning that the killer was female should narrow the search, but with a victim like Hanchett, any woman—in scrubs or out—could be a suspect./divDIV/div/div
DIVDIVA senator’s life is in danger—and anyone in San Francisco could be a killer/divDIV Senate majority leader Donald Ryan is a kingmaker, with the power to make or break presidencies, and the ability to reshape the country with a flick of his pen. He is also a very sick man, recovering from a heart attack that must be kept secret at all costs. But when a series of death threats jeopardizes his planned return to public life, the FBI calls in San Francisco police lieutenant Frank Hastings to find the would-be assassin. He has one week until the senator’s next public appearance—and hundreds of thousands of possible suspects./divDIV Because Ryan’s recent heart attack is considered a state secret, Hastings is forced to withhold crucial details from his fellow detectives. Any degree of stress could stop the senator’s fragile heart, which means that even if a bullet misses, the sound of the gunshot might be enough to kill him. To save the lawmaker, Hastings may have to put himself in the line of fire./divDIV/div/div
DIVDIVFor the sake of his lover, Hastings risks his career and chases a stalker/divDIV For the past few weeks, Lieutenant Frank Hastings’s girlfriend has sensed that she was being watched. They are on their way home from a too-chic party when Hastings spots something moving in the bushes—a shadowy figure who appears to have a gun. He should call for backup; he should stay in the car. But to protect Ann, this detective is willing to risk everything. After a chase, Hastings apprehends the lurker, but what he thought was a gun turns out to be a shotgun mike. Is someone recording Ann?/divDIV Shut out of the case because it concerns his girlfriend, Hastings focuses on the murder of Flora Esterbrook Gaines—a seventy-year-old woman found murdered in her garage. Greed is the obvious motive, but finding a suspect proves tricky. Hastings divides his energy in a desperate attempt to uphold the law while at the same time protecting his beloved./divDIV/div/div
A gay man’s murder leads Hastings to a blackmail plot Charles Hardaway climbs the hill to his house, immediately missing the bright lights and conversation of the bar and dreading the return to his lover, who is slowly dying of AIDS. But Hardaway’s self-pity is interrupted by a pipe-wielding stranger, who crushes his skull before slipping away. It’s nighttime in the Castro, and another gay man has been sent to his grave. Homicide lieutenant Frank Hastings is tempted to write the killing off as another heinous instance of gay-bashing, but witnesses say the killer was alone, and seemed to know the victim. Digging into Hardaway’s past, Hastings finds evidence that he was a blackmailer who pushed one of his targets to the breaking point. In a neighborhood where disease and hatred claim more and more lives every day, it seems one man has been done in by plain old-fashioned greed.
DIVDIVA pair of murders leaves Hastings torn between following his orders and listening to his gut/divDIV After nearly a decade as a San Francisco cop, Frank Hastings is becoming something of a stranger to kindness. He feels perfectly at home in the Draper household—a rundown Victorian not far from the streets on which he grew up—where a social worker has been beaten to death by a man hiding in the bushes. The crime looks like a mugging, but something in the husband’s manner tells Hastings there are secrets hidden in this shabby middle-class home./divDIV He’s closing in on the answers when a double homicide in posh Pacific Heights draws his attention away. Fearing bad publicity, his superiors tell him to drop everything and focus on this new killing, but Hastings can’t get his mind off the death of Susan Draper. As he divides his time between the two murders, Hastings finds that for a man at home with cruelty, kindness can be terrifying./divDIV/div/div
DIVDIVStalked by a nighttime killer, a woman does whatever it takes to survive/divDIV He calls himself Tarot. His first victim was a mother, killed while her daughter slept in the next room. His second was a truck-stop waitress, murdered—like the first woman—while she slept. After each one, he sent letters to the newspapers, boasting of his crimes and promising more to come. The third victim will die soon, he tells them. But first, she must be warned./divDIV Joanna is drinking her morning coffee when she finds the switchblade on the floor, dropped through her newspaper slot in the middle of the night. Was it left there by a neighborhood prankster with a dark sense of humor? Or is this the warning of Tarot? Her husband has left her, making Joanna the sole caretaker for their son. Until Tarot is caught, neither of them can count on a good night’s sleep./divDIV/div/div
DIVDIVAfter a concert, a goddess of rock is shot dead backstage/divDIV It’s the finest performance of Rebecca Carlton’s career. The show is dedicated to her father, and the most famous woman in rock does everything she can to honor him. She gives the crowd at San Francisco’s Cow Palace arena four encores before finally retiring backstage. The applause is still thundering through the stadium when Rebecca Carlton is shot dead./divDIV Lieutenant Frank Hastings has been fighting with his girlfriend when he gets the call. Their idol dead, Rebecca’s fans refuse to disperse from the amphitheater, and a riot seems imminent. It takes a special plea from David Behr, the singer’s producer and former husband, to convince the audience to go home. As the crowd files out, Hastings turns to the body. Rebecca Carlton may have been a star, but there was nothing glamorous about her murder./divDIV/div/div
DIVDIVA dying art collector asks Bernhardt to revisit him in his darkest hour/divDIV The first time Betty Giles went missing, her employers wanted her dead. They hired Alan Bernhardt, theater director and sometimes PI, to find her, but when he discovered their scheme, he drew a sawed-off shotgun to save her life. Now Betty’s missing again, hiding somewhere in Europe, and her old bosses want her found. Will Bernhardt deliver her to the man who once tried to have her killed?/divDIV It certainly isn’t easy to refuse Raymond DuBois, a billionaire art collector who insists his feud with Betty was nothing but an innocent misunderstanding. He’s dying, and promises he can clear her name if Alan can only locate her. The case seems like a trap, but the director has one thing working for him. Unlike last time, he knows that trusting anyone could be suicide./divDIV/div/div
DIVDIVTo honor a dying don’s last wish, a mob lieutenant searches for hidden diamonds/divDIV After seven years ruling his empire from prison, Don Carlo remains as powerful as ever, but his heart is beginning to fail. On the verge of death, he begs his right-hand man, Bacardo, to look after his family. Not his wife and children, the don explains, but Louise and Angela—his daughter and granddaughter from a beloved mistress who died long ago./divDIV To Louise, the don bequeaths one million dollars in diamonds, hidden in a cemetery in a tiny California town. Securing her inheritance will mean mortal danger for Louise, Bacardo, and the private investigator they hire to help them—a moonlighting director named Alan Bernhardt. Bernhardt understands the risks, but also knows that the theater and the mafia have two things in common: the understanding that a professional is only as good as his word, and that the only way to survive is to act without fear./divDIV/div/div
DIVDIVTo unlock the secrets of a homicide, Bernhardt must connect with a terrified child/divDIV Dennis tells the police he was sleeping when his wife was killed. Connie stumbled upon a prowler, he says, and paid for the mistake with her life. The police believe his story, but this cold man’s crocodile tears cannot convince Connie’s sister, Janice. She suspects her brother-in-law of a heinous crime, and it will take an unusual investigator to prove her right./divDIV Alan Bernhardt is a theater director in San Francisco who pays his rent with the odd bit of private detective work. Searching for the man who strangled Connie, his biggest obstacle isn’t Dennis, but John—the dead woman’s seven-year-old son. He may have witnessed something crucial on the night of the murder, but this sensitive child is too frightened to speak. Coaxing words out of John will be the toughest assignment of Alan’s directing career, but not half as hard as keeping the boy alive./divDIV/div/div
DIVDIVFor the sake of his lover, Hastings risks his career and chases a stalker/divDIV For the past few weeks, Lieutenant Frank Hastings’s girlfriend has sensed that she was being watched. They are on their way home from a too-chic party when Hastings spots something moving in the bushes—a shadowy figure who appears to have a gun. He should call for backup; he should stay in the car. But to protect Ann, this detective is willing to risk everything. After a chase, Hastings apprehends the lurker, but what he thought was a gun turns out to be a shotgun mike. Is someone recording Ann?/divDIV Shut out of the case because it concerns his girlfriend, Hastings focuses on the murder of Flora Esterbrook Gaines—a seventy-year-old woman found murdered in her garage. Greed is the obvious motive, but finding a suspect proves tricky. Hastings divides his energy in a desperate attempt to uphold the law while at the same time protecting his beloved./divDIV/div/div
DIVDIVHastings chases a serial killer who preys on the glitterati/divDIV Tony Frazer takes a wide berth when he sees the homeless man. A millionaire playboy, he does not consort with street people, and is in the process of skirting the derelict, eyes averted, when the stranger calls his name. The king of the society pages turns just in time to be struck by three silenced bullets, slumping to his knees and dying there in the gutter./divDIV Although witnesses insist the killer was a homeless man, homicide lieutenant Frank Hastings sees signs of a professional at work—the kind who kills quietly, then disappears into the night. In fact, as Hastings learns, the killer thinks himself a crusader—a kind of Robin Hood with a pistol—and he has many more assassinations planned. San Francisco society had better take cover, for this killer has a thirst for blue blood./divDIV/div/div
DIVDIVThe most famous televangelist in America declares “total war” on the sinners of the earth/divDIV Austin Holloway came to Los Angeles in the 1930s with nothing but a briefcase, a few hundred dollars, and a letter of introduction to a local radio station. The son of a revival tent preacher, Holloway wanted to bring the good word to the airwaves, first radio, and then television. He had no idea he was starting an empire./divDIV Decades later, Holloway is the richest man of God in the country; his sermons broadcast coast to coast every Sunday. But fame and fortune are not enough. He wants to share the love of Christ with those who have never tasted it before—the oppressed people of Communist China. Standing in the way of history’s most ambitious mission trip is his failing health, and his family—which includes an alcoholic wife, an out-of-control son, and a daughter with a rebellious streak. The kingdom of heaven is open to Holloway—but getting there will mean a trip through hell./divDIV/div/div
DIVDIVA murder witness flees to California for protection, taking refuge in the theater/divDIV Diane Cutler is half drunk and half stoned when she sees her stepfather carrying the body out of the house. She and her boyfriend look on, horrified, as real estate tycoon Preston Daniels loads his dead mistress into the car. Unable to resist their curiosity, they follow him, and watch as he dumps the poor woman’s body in the rocks and sand of the Cape Cod landfill. Diane doesn’t know what to do with this dark knowledge, but her boyfriend sees it as an opportunity for blackmail—and is nearly beaten to death for it./divDIV Terrified of her stepfather, Diane flees to the West Coast to ask theater director and sometimes private detective Alan Bernhardt for help. Alan is unavailable, but recommends his girlfriend and protégé, Paula, for the job. Paula may be an excellent actress, but playing PI will prove to be one of the most dangerous performances of her career./divDIV/div/div
A gay man’s murder leads Hastings to a blackmail plot Charles Hardaway climbs the hill to his house, immediately missing the bright lights and conversation of the bar and dreading the return to his lover, who is slowly dying of AIDS. But Hardaway’s self-pity is interrupted by a pipe-wielding stranger, who crushes his skull before slipping away. It’s nighttime in the Castro, and another gay man has been sent to his grave. Homicide lieutenant Frank Hastings is tempted to write the killing off as another heinous instance of gay-bashing, but witnesses say the killer was alone, and seemed to know the victim. Digging into Hardaway’s past, Hastings finds evidence that he was a blackmailer who pushed one of his targets to the breaking point. In a neighborhood where disease and hatred claim more and more lives every day, it seems one man has been done in by plain old-fashioned greed.
Richard Cameron, Frank Johnson, Jack Hasta, and Philippe Stargazer have returned from their incredible adventure in the 51st century, but the Space Star Silver Streak is nevertheless still badly damaged from the terrifying battle with the Hyron Admiral Mordrax and his mighty Terminator battleship. Moreover, Mordrax continues to press the attack. In an attempt to repair the dilapidated starship, Cameron steers the Silver Streak to a long-established French colony in hopes of finding an infrastructure sophisticated enough to help. What our stalwart heroes find is completely unexpected. The colony has regressed to a pre-industrial, superstitious level--and lording over the colony is an awesome entity known as Shalonn--the most powerful life form the crew has ever encountered! And their only contact with the mysterious being is Celesta, a woman who bears an astonishing resemblance to Stargazer's descendant, Servanne, who was left to perish in the 51st century.
It is the forty-first century. Falling prey to unimagined solar processes, the sun has exploded and destroyed the Earth. Thousands of survivors move outward into space aboard the Space Star Silver Streak. Thirteen years have passed as they search for habitable planets to colonize. Now, with the ship almost emptied, the mission nearly at an end, the most recently established colony signals distress. Something huge, ominous, mysterious, and inexplicable is wandering through the galaxy. Ten years ago Captain Richard Cameron resigned from command. Faced with a new and completely unexplained crisis, he returns to the bridge, reunites his old crew, and sets off on a voyage that may mean the end of his career or the salvation of civilization--or both! A voyage to the limits of knowledge, a voyage to the height of human potential... A voyage into the unknown!
Earth's sun cannot supernova-and yet it did. For twenty-one years, scientists have wondered why. Now, entering a new sector of the galaxy, the Space Star Silver Streak encounters an alien race known as the Valdor-belligerent, crab-like beings who reveal the astonishing information that the supernova was no natural phenomenon-but was deliberately induced by mysterious creatures known as the Thermians! Faced with the possibility of abandoning the long mission to settle colonies on other planets, Captain Richard Cameron must redirect the Silver Streak's future. In the midst of establishing the first space-based colony, Station Post One, Cameron suddenly faces a new and more personal menace in the form of his arch enemy, the Hyron commander Mordrax. The Thermians' latest target is Hyron, and if the Hyrons are destroyed, so will Cameron's young daughter Keilah. If the Thermians think Richard Cameron is going to take this lying down, they are sorely mistaken!
Admiral Mordrax, the Hyron commander whose bloodlust has pursued Richard Cameron and the Space Star Silver Streak across the galaxy for thirteen years, returns with an awesome new warship to finally destroy his old enemy! In this, the biggest, most awe-inspiring Voyage Into the Unknown adventure ever, the Silver Streak is brought to the brink of destruction! When the bridge is shattered, Richard Cameron, Frank Johnson, Jack Hasta, and Philippe Stargazer awaken...a thousand years later! Trapped aboard a battered remnant of the Silver Streak which is disintegrating around them, the old friends must work with their own descendants to try to find a way home--even if it means killing their daughters in the process!
DIVDIVA moonlighting director finds his sideline more dangerous than he expected/divDIV Alan Bernhardt is just starting rehearsal when his pager goes off. No one in the small San Francisco theater minds—they know that to make it on the stage, you have to be prepared to do all sorts of odd jobs off of it. But this director’s job is odder than most. He works for Herbert Dancer, head of a boutique private investigation service. A corporate secretary has vanished with a sheaf of valuable documents, and it will take an off-Broadway sensibility to bring her home./divDIV Bernhardt is just closing in on the woman and her boyfriend when he learns that she isn’t running for a profit, but for her life. To save her from the men who hired him, Bernhardt must find her and protect her—because his artistic vision does not include blood on his hands./divDIV/div/div
A profound exploration of how to hold on to hope when our unchanging faith collides with a changing culture, from two respected Christian storytellers and thought leaders. “Offers neither spin control nor image maintenance for the evangelical tribe, but genuine hope.”—Russell Moore, president of ERLC As the pressures of health warnings, economic turmoil, and partisan politics continue to rise, the influence of gospel-focused Christians seems to be waning. In the public square and popular opinion, we are losing our voice right when it’s needed most for Christ’s glory and the common good. But there’s another story unfolding too—if you know where to look. In Gospelbound, Collin Hansen and Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra counter these growing fears with a robust message of resolute hope for anyone hungry for good news. Join them in exploring profound stories of Christians who are quietly changing the world in the name of Jesus—from the wild world of digital media to the stories of ancient saints and unsung contemporary activists on the frontiers of justice and mercy. Discover how, in these dark times, the light of Jesus shines even brighter. You haven’t heard the whole story. And that’s good news.
For fourteen years the Space Star Silver Streak has ranged through deep space searching for planets to colonize. Now the long voyage is nearing its end. The ship is almost empty. If one more planet checks out for colonization, the last of the great space ark's complement will disembark and the long rebuilding of the human race will begin. But the Hyron commander Mordrax, who has ruthlessly pursued the Silver Streak across the galaxy in his mad desire to kill Captain Richard Cameron, has now ascended to the throne of Hyron. As the Silver Streak prepares for what may be its last planetary survey, Mordrax's Hyron fleet arrives on an apparent mission of peace. Could Mordrax be sincere in his desire for an alliance with his old enemy? Or is this a deadly trap that could spell the end of the human race?
The peace of the galaxy is shattered when the planet Toran explodes, an intelligent civilization driven instantly to extinction. The cause of the explosion is traced to a "naked starship" from the Alternative Alliance-a starship traveling faster-than-light without a gamma ray surge dissipater. Is this a tragic accident-or the first salvo of a doomsday war? Station Post One is alone in the middle of a mounting interstellar crisis. The problems are mounting up. Crew members are abandoning their duty and fleeing across the galaxy. Commander Damon Kramer, now dealing with an aggressive brain tumor caused by the Thermians, must find a way to prepare his small and vulnerable station for the coming war-despite lack of resources, malfunctioning equipment, and his own impending death! The galaxy is turned on its head, the alliance with the Community unraveling, and everything you thought you knew about the Voyage Into the Unknown universe may be a lie...in a cataclysmic and shocking COUNTDOWN TO WAR!
The epic voyage of the Space Star Silver Streak has come to an end. The survivors of the tragic destruction of Earth live contented lives on the colonies the Silver Streak spent so many years establishing. Old friends have gone their separate ways. But then an awesome force enters our galaxy. Emitting radiation more powerful than anything ever seen in our galaxy before, it sweeps away entire planets in its path. Seventeen colonies are wiped out. Those who manage to escape in time are stranded in space in slow-moving vehicles. Only the Space Star Silver Streak and Captain Richard Cameron stand a chance of rescuing the survivors and dealing with this awesome menace. But Hyron worlds have been destroyed too . . . and Mordrax is on his way to a deadly rendezvous with his old enemy!
COMMANDER KRAMER'S LOG: My name is Commander Damon Kramer. Many years ago, the Earth was destroyed by a supernova triggered by extradimensional beings called the Thermians. As commander of Station Post One in the Valdor Sector, I must work with an interstellar consortium known as the Community, and find a way to defeat the Thermians--and save all intelligent life in the universe
The proliferation of harmful phytoplankton in marine ecosystems can cause massive fish kills, contaminate seafood with toxins, impact local and regional economies and dramatically affect ecological balance. Real-time observations are essential for effective short-term operational forecasting, but observation and modelling systems are still being developed. This volume provides guidance for developing real-time and near real-time sensing systems for observing and predicting plankton dynamics, including harmful algal blooms, in coastal waters. The underlying theory is explained and current trends in research and monitoring are discussed.Topics covered include: coastal ecosystems and dynamics of harmful algal blooms; theory and practical applications of in situ and remotely sensed optical detection of microalgal distributions and composition; theory and practical applications of in situ biological and chemical sensors for targeted species and toxin detection; integrated observing systems and platforms for detection; diagnostic and predictive modelling of ecosystems and harmful algal blooms, including data assimilation techniques; observational needs for the public and government; and future directions for research and operations.
Poised to enter a new and unexplored section of the galaxy, the Space Star Silver Streak is intercepted by a massive alien starship. A mysterious being known as Starjudge demands that Captain Richard Cameron surrender himself. The Hyron commander Mordrax, still in hot pursuit of his old enemy Cameron, is similarly arrested in space, and presently the two foes are face-to-face with a giant, centipede-like alien who places them on trial--with their identities at stake! As Cameron and Mordrax battle for their individuality, Science Officer Philippe Stargazer finds himself awkwardly attracted to his daughter Servanne--this as she prepares to become engaged to the handsome young hero Trevor Lansdowne. Personalities clash and deep secrets are revealed in the most stunning and intimate Voyage Into the Unknown adventure of them all!
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