An overly ambitious Secretary of State, who lusts to be the first woman President of the United States, is handed a once in a lifetime opportunity to make her dream come true. Abetted by her father, she enlists Irish and Islamic terrorists, the North Korean Navy and a Chicago mobster to assassinate, within a twenty-four hour time frame, the four men standing in her path to glory. An inquisitive intelligence analyst's interest is piqued by recurrent references to specific colors in the message traffic that he reads from the above areas of the world. A retired intelligence and submarine Flag office, a former SEAL, and a former All-American football star, now a computer super whiz, are called upon to solve the puzzle of the messages, formulate plans to counter the threats and to deliver justice to the perpetrators. They have only SIX weeks the defeat the conspiracy!!
Crime fiction’s biggest names have been rounded up for a truly impressive collection of 2008’s best short stories. Featuring authors like Michael Connelly, Charlaine Harris, and 2009 Edgar Award winner T. Jefferson Parker, this volume should be on the shelf of every mystery fan.
Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Evan Hunter also writes under the pen name Ed McBain. Evan Hunter wrote the screenplays for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and Strangers When We Meet, and the novel The Blackboard Jungle. As Ed McBain, he has written fifty 87th Precinct novels, the blueprint series for police procedurals. His short stories take you onto the gritty and violent streets of the city and into the darkest places in the human mind. This collection of eleven stories showcases the mastery for which the San Diego Union-Tribune dubs him the unquestioned king.
Transcending Greatness, “The Experience” Student Edition was written to support the Common Core State Standards and embed the College and Career Readiness Standards. This workbook will encourage reflection and encourage students to increase their chances at GREATNESS. This workbook is designed to be used with the book "Transcending Greatness" by Lawrence Perkins.
The last untold story of Watergate—by the FBI director who maintained his silence for more than thirty years L.Patrick Gray III was the man caught in the middle of the Watergate scandal. He was a lifelong Republican, but Richard Nixon considered him a threat. Closing in on the conspiracy, Gray became the target of one of Watergate's most shocking acts—Nixon's "smoking gun" attempt to have the CIA stop the FBI investigation. And when the U.S. Senate focused its attention on Gray in April 1973, the White House threw him to the wolves; John Ehrlichman famously advised that he be left to "twist slowly, slowly in the wind." This book is Gray's firsthand account of what really happened during his crucial year as acting director of the FBI, based on a never-before-published first-person account and previously secret documents. He reveals the witches' brew of intrigue and perfidy that permeated Washington, and he tells the unknown story of his complex relationship with his top deputy, Mark Felt, raising disturbing questions about the methods and motives of the man purported to be Deep Throat. Gray's book was completed and expanded by his son, the journalist Ed Gray, who has supplemented the text with revelatory excerpts from documents, tape transcripts, and third-party accounts. Every other major figure has told his story, and now Patrick Gray's unique inside account will change the way we think about the crisis that destroyed the Nixon presidency.
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