Action and Suspense Have Never Been So SexyReaders say the Jack Lazar Series "is like James Bond meets Fifty Shades of Grey"In this third gripping thriller, Jack ventures to Egypt where he investigates a crash-landed World War II airplane that was recently found in the Sahara desert. But something remarkable was left onboard, and people will stop at nothing to obtain it, throwing Jack into the middle of a hornet's nest.The situation grows even more complicated as Jack becomes entangled with Dalia, an exquisite blue-eyed woman of Egyptian and British heritage whose father is the Egyptian Head Consul to the UK, not to mention a formidable covert agent with the Mukhabarat. The man's skills and weapons come in handy as he and Jack join forces to battle a faction with plans to kill millions of innocent people and subject the world to their twisted ideologies.It's a race against time as the trail leads to Northern Europe, where all hell breaks loose. And before long, it's up to Jack and Jack alone to cheat death as he struggles to save Dalia, her father, and scores of unsuspecting people from the plot of a deranged madman.
Lazar's Challenge is the second action-packed thriller in Kevin Sterling's sexy Jack Lazar Series.Jack's best friend, Zachary Taylor, is roused out of bed in the middle of the night at his apartment in Paris and taken away at gunpoint, but not before he sends Jack a safety deposit key with a note saying he's in trouble. If only he had given a clue regarding the location of the box, its contents, or what the hell is going on. Jack tries to call, but Zach's cell phone goes straight to voicemail. Clearly, something sinister is afoot in the City of Lights.Jack heads for Paris to investigate, and in no time he's accosted by the bad guys. But Jack Lazar isn't the sort to back down, so he sets up shop in Zach's Paris flat on a mission to solve the mystery and find his friend.Enter Michele, one of Zach's sexy flight attendant girlfriends, who is upset to discover Zach is missing, but her idea of being consoled is to shed her clothes, plant herself in Jack's arms, and tantalize him. She's ostensibly off-limits, of course, which wedges Jack between his growing obsession with her and his allegiance to Zach. It's a sure prescription for disaster...and some really hot sex.With a little ingenuity, Jack locates and opens the safety deposit box, but the only thing in there is an old bottle of Cognac. Still, it doesn't take long before people are chasing after the Cognac, and they're willing to kill for it, too.But the eau-de-vie is just the tip of the iceberg, and soon Jack finds himself working with French law enforcement and British Intelligence to stop something truly unthinkable.
Meet Jack Lazar, a wealthy businessman whose battles are usually fought in the boardroom over mergers and acquisitions, not on the street for his life. But an evening on the beach at the brink of a raging storm changes all that as Jack witnesses the shooting of a beautiful woman, saves her life, and thrusts himself into the middle of a corrupt DEA investigation.To make matters worse, Jack was just blackmailed into leaving his lucrative job by one of the firm's senior partners, and now he discovers the event is somehow connected to the DEA's case. How is that possible? But the DEA won't tell Jack anything, so he sets off on his own mission to solve the mystery, and every step digs him deeper into trouble.A Beretta 9-millimeter and classroom martial arts skills don't exactly qualify someone to be a secret agent, and Jack finds out the hard way. But he gets wiser and tougher with every death-defying experience, so he might just become the hero we're all looking for.Then there's Sarina, the exotic agent Jack rescued, who gets a little out of hand when it comes to sex, and Jack is immediately hooked as any red-blooded male would be. That's probably why Jack pushes so hard for them to join forces. But Sarina has a knack for disregarding orders and creating havoc, so it doesn't take long before people want to kill her...and Jack, too.Lazar's Intrigue is the completely rewritten first installment of Sterling's Jack Lazar Series. It's an action-packed thriller that will keep you guessing to the very end as Jack and Sarina struggle to stay alive, piece together what's going on, and hopefully take down the bad guys before it's too late.
Action and Suspense Have Never Been So SexyReaders say the Jack Lazar Series "is like James Bond meets Fifty Shades of Grey"In this fifth, sexy, edge-of-your-seat thriller, one of Jack's closest friends is getting married at a villa in Tuscany, and Jack's best man speech seems like the most taxing part of the trip. But things get complicated when he romps with the maid of honor, Francesca, an Italian lingerie supermodel. She has a brother at the Vatican who's in a difficult jam, and she easily convinces Jack to help him out.It doesn't take long before Jack gets entangled with a dark conspiracy against the pope, and the group behind it will kill anyone who gets in their way. To make matters worse, their top henchman, Diego, has his own horrendous scheme going on, elevating the evil tempest of death to something even more appalling.
“James Bond Meets Fifty Shades of Grey”Immerse yourself in the world class novels that combine action, mystery & suspense with tantalizing and tastefully written erotica. You'll find all your sensibilities roused at once with Kevin Sterling's ultra-sexy, action-packed Jack Lazar Series.In this fourth action-packed thriller, Jack travels to Denmark for a business venture, but what seems to be a textbook transaction turns into a nightmare after he gets involved with Katarina, a vivacious Danish girl who apparently lacks a moral compass, not to mention an off button. After naively believing their liaison was just a random encounter, Jack discovers she's connected to his business deal, and there's a dangerous political group with skin in the game, too.Katarina makes a convincing case of being a victim, not part of the conspiracy, but can Jack really trust her?The firestorm gets out of control as Jack digs deeper, unearths the convoluted plot behind it all, and discovers that innocent people are being heartlessly killed. He's not only horrified by the reason why it's happening, but how it's being done, and there appears to be no way to stop it from occurring again.Then the scheme's real objective emerges, launching Jack into action with intelligence operatives to prevent it. But that's not so easy with assassins on Jack's tail, forcing him to struggle for survival while trying to prevent Katarina from getting caught in the crossfire.Scroll up and grab a copy of Lazar's Target today.
Action and Suspense Have Never Been So SexyReaders say the Jack Lazar Series “is like James Bond meets Fifty Shades of Grey”In this seventh edge-of-your-seat thriller, Jack is in desperate need of a break and heads to Hawaii for a little fun and relaxation. But instead, he stumbles upon a malicious conspiracy against the US and finds himself sucked into the middle of the action. As the details unfold, it's painfully clear that the threat is real, imminent, and horrifyingly lethal.Could this be the end of the United States as we know it? Is there really a weapon out there, against which the country has no defense? Apparently so, and it's up to Jack to stop it.The problem is, NCIS and the police both suspect Jack is the bad guy in all this—a murderer with some sort of plot against the Pacific Missile Range Facility—and there's a ruthless terrorist organization that wants him dead, too. Then, as if all that weren't enough, add a raging hurricane, an infiltrated Navy missile cruiser, and a maritime war exercise to the mix.At least there's one bright spot. Enter Leilani, a stunning girl of mixed Chinese and American heritage who opens Jack's eyes to new experiences and extraordinary ideas about sex. But when she's taken away by the worst terrorist of them all, can he possibly rescue her?
Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African Diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural borders. Be it focused on the make-up of the blackface ganguro or the haiku of Richard Wright, Rastafari communities in Japan or the black enka singer Jero, the volume turns its attention away from questions of representation to ones concerning the generative aspects of transcultural production. The contributors are interested primarily in texts in motion—the contradictory motion within texts, the traveling of texts, and the action that such kinetic energy inspires in readers, viewers, listeners, and travelers. As our texts travel and travail, the originary nodal points that anchor them to set significations loosen and are transformed; the essays trace how, in the process of traveling, the bodies and subjectivities of those working to reimagine the text(s) in new sites moderate, accommodate, and transfigure both the texts and themselves.
Two friends out fishing on Sterling reservoir are suddenly caught up in an earth Quake, a fissure opens swallowing both the reservoir and boat deep into the earth. One man, Kevin is killed in the fall, while Danny is left to find a way out and back to his family. Danny's search leads him to a disc shaped object which fell to earth millions of years ago. The heat from a small fire activates the ship's exterior door and Danny in an attempt to use the ship discovers an alien being, in a cryogenic state of hibernation. He releases the creature and the two become friend's Juno telepathically communicates to Danny that he needs his help and one other to navigate the ship back in time to his world and find out the fate of his own race. Juno can bend space to create a worm hole and travel back in time and rescue both men from the boat. The three form an everlasting bond to survive the trip and rescue Juno's descendants from a warring alien race that has them enslaved.
It's a special Fionna and Cake issue by New York Times bestseller Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer)! Marshall Lee and LSP need to figure out Marshall Lee's musical identity. Oh My Glob! We've unleashed some of the industry's best cartoonists loose in the Land of Ooo to share their most algebraic stories in their own voices!
This Second Edition of the book explains, with precision and clarity, the basic concepts, theories and practices of international financial management. As international transactions form an integral part of economic activities in the modern globalized economic environment, practising managers need to know the fundamentals of international finance. And this book, written by Professor S. Kevin, who has a rich and long experience in teaching international finance, eminently fulfils this need. The book begins with an explanation of the exchange rate mechanism of foreign currencies, factors influencing exchange rate fluctuations, and the trading mechanism in foreign exchange markets. As currency forwards, futures, options and swaps are the instruments of currency derivatives used as hedging and speculative tools, the book goes on to give a detailed description of the use of currency derivatives for hedging as well as speculative functions. It contains an analysis of international financial institutions and their functioning, the participants and instruments of global financial markets where international funds are raised, the many uses of international funds in the form of portfolio investments, and direct investments in host countries. The book is primarily intended as a text for postgraduate students of commerce and management, chartered accountancy (CA) and chartered financial analysis (CFA). It would also be of immense value to practising professionals in the field of international finance. KEY FEATURES • Illustrates the concepts with the help of examples, figures and tables. • Clearly explains risk management tools and techniques. • Discusses the role of international financial institutions in the global financial market. • Is a handy text for self-study. ADDITIONS IN SECOND EDITION • Exchange rates have been revised to current levels • Two new chapters on ‘International Projects and Portfolios’ and ‘ Practices and Problems of International Financial Management’ have been added
When destiny calls, heroes take flight! Billy Chan was having the summer most 12-year-olds dream about—bonding with his very own dragon. But Billy’s friend Dylan has been kidnapped by the Dragon of Death, and the only way to save him is to travel through time with his friends and their dragons. Will Billy, Charlotte, Ling-Fei, and the dragons get to Dylan in time? And can they work together to stop the Dragon of Death from destroying the past?
Raise a glass to the 35th anniversary edition of the definitive guide to understanding and appreciating wine—written by James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Kevin Zraly and with more than three million copies sold. “When it comes to beginners’ wine guides, Windows on the World Complete Wine Course is one of the perennial best.” — TheWall Street Journal Kevin Zraly is America’s ultimate wine educator, and his entertaining teaching style has made this must-have book a treasured favorite for more than three decades. He demystifies every aspect of wine: grape varieties, winemaking techniques, different types and styles of wine, how to read a wine label, and how to evaluate a wine in just 60 seconds. Ranging from the renowned reds of Bordeaux and California to the trailblazing whites of New York and Burgundy, this essential volume features maps of each region, lush photographs, a wealth of infographics, more than 800 of the best-value wines from around the world, over 100 labels—including some new to this edition—to help you find the right wines, and guided tastings. It also highlights the best vintages to savor and includes comprehensive notes on food pairings, frequently asked questions, and quizzes to test your knowledge. In short, Kevin Zraly Windows on the World Complete Wine Course provides all the tools you need to discover and enjoy the perfect wines for you. This revised edition includes new chapters on Prosecco, Rosé, and the wines of Sicily, plus a fascinating chapter written from the author's unique 50-year perspective on how wine and food culture has changed since 1970.
Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country.
The book, in its third edition has been thoroughly updated where necessary. It is a comprehensive textbook covering all aspects of derivatives. It contains a description of the four derivative instruments, namely, forwards, futures, options and swaps; the different types of derivative products such as currency forwards, currency futures, commodity futures, stock futures, index futures, interest rate futures, stock options, currency options, currency swaps and interest rate swaps; the pricing of forwards, futures and options; the process of risk management using derivatives. Beginning with an overview of derivatives and explaining the basic concepts of the four derivative instruments, it describes the features and trading processes of the different types of derivative products used for risk management. The Indian context and environment are highlighted in the explanation of the trading processes in order to familiarize the reader with the Indian derivatives market. The mathematical models used for pricing of futures and options are illustrated with examples. The contents of the text are supported with illustrative examples, diagrams, tables and review questions to reinforce the understanding of the subject matter. NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION • Introduces a new chapter on 'Risk Management with Derivatives' to explain different types of risks and how different types of derivatives are used for hedging the different types of risks. • Updates all examples with current values. TARGET AUDIENCE • MBA Finance • M.Com • Finance Professionals
From an acclaimed independent journalist, this carefully-documented analysis of the government’s case against Julian Assange and its implications for press freedom acts as a crucial, compelling guidebook to Assange’s upcoming trial. Guilty of Journalism is a joint production of The Censored Press and Seven Stories Press. The legal action against Julian Assange is poised to culminate in a trial in the United States in 2023, and this book will help the public understand the proceedings. The establishment media's coverage of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition case has focused on his deteriorating health and what CBS News called his “secret family,” but most of this coverage failed to detail the complex issues at stake against Assange. Guilty of Journalism outlines how WikiLeaks exposed the reality of American wars, the United States government’s unprecedented indictment against Assange as a publisher, and the media’s role in persuading the public to “shoot the messenger.” This new book by Kevin Gosztola, who has spent the last decade covering Assange, WikiLeaks, and the wider war on whistleblowers, tells the full story based on testimony from dozens of witnesses. It examines abuses of power by the CIA and the FBI, including a spying operation that targeted Assange’s family, lawyers, and doctors. Guilty of Journalism offers a balanced and comprehensive perspective on all the events leading up to what press freedom advocates have called the trial of the century.
The 1976 IMF crisis was a seminal event in modern British political and economic history. The seeds of the crisis were sown by the huge OPEC oil price shocks of 1972-3 leading to the potential meltdown of Britain's already weakened economy and seemingly confirming Britain's headlong decline as a major political and economic power. The government was seen as going 'cap in hand' to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to head off disaster - an image which became a long-lasting political icon. Kevin Hickson has mined vital original source material, including interviews with leading players, to probe government economic thought and practice. He questions much received wisdom, especially that the crisis caused a basic shift to monetarist orthodoxy and right-wing economic liberalism - commonly known as 'Thatcherism' - and embraced by successive governments including New Labour.
Discover the 82 greatest hikes within Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Everyone from the avid trekker to family day-hiker will find a new trail to enjoy in the Smokies. Each hike is covered by concise descriptions, detailed maps, and turn-by-turn directions. Set out confidently, and enjoy glorious views and peaceful wilderness.
A New York Times bestseller! Who’s really to blame for America’s catastrophic financial meltdown and devastating national recession? Contrary to what the “Occupy Movement” might tell you, it’s not just greedy Wall Street executives (though they certainly earned their share of scorn). It’s not just failed regulation (even though Washington has failed miserably, both Republicans and Democrats, to protect us). As one of America’s top financial professionals reveals in this shocking new book, the failures of Wall Street and Washington have opened us up to economic warfare, with our foreign enemies exploiting our lurking financial weaknesses. In Secret Weapon, Kevin D. Freeman unveils how all the evidence—including motive, means, and opportunity—points to America’s foreign enemies as deliberately pushing our economy over the brink.
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