A ghostly specter is casting deadly shadows across the cities and plains of our nation...the shadows of greed. Driven by monumental profits and a lust for the exhilarations of power the producers and traffickers of illegal drugs prey upon the addictions and hedonistic pursuits of countless millions of Americans to accumulate incredible wealth and expanding power. Deke Gannon'¦agent extraordinaire for InterTel'¦and sidekick Cross join forces to terminate the three major Mexican drug cartels responsible for manufacturing and moving their products of death and personal destruction. In a series of daring solo forays into the wilds of Mexico supported, by the vast high tech resources of InterTel, Deke Gannon confronts the dealers of death on their own ground. It is a deadly game for InterTel, the drug users and suppliers...and someone must lose'¦or die trying!
In the wake of the cataclysmic events of September 11, 2001, a new terrorist threat to the United States looms ominously. Deke Gannon is activated to search out sleeper agents and thwart their plans before another crippling blow can be struck by those who hate America and all it stands for. Deke and InterTel co-agent Cross combine forces to prevent another disastrous attack on the American people. With several world notables flying into Florida within a close time frame, it's a guessing game to determine if one, or all, of the VIPs are targets. The death of any one of them would send shattering repercussions around the world, and one of them is POTUS, the President of the United States. It's a race against time for Deke and Cross to find twelve deadly SAM missiles before one or more death blows can be struck.
A ghostly specter is casting deadly shadows across the cities and plains of our nation...the shadows of greed. Driven by monumental profits and a lust for the exhilarations of power the producers and traffickers of illegal drugs prey upon the addictions and hedonistic pursuits of countless millions of Americans to accumulate incredible wealth and expanding power. Deke Gannon'¦agent extraordinaire for InterTel'¦and sidekick Cross join forces to terminate the three major Mexican drug cartels responsible for manufacturing and moving their products of death and personal destruction. In a series of daring solo forays into the wilds of Mexico supported, by the vast high tech resources of InterTel, Deke Gannon confronts the dealers of death on their own ground. It is a deadly game for InterTel, the drug users and suppliers...and someone must lose'¦or die trying!
This is an updated edition of the now-classic original of the same title. It has three new substantial chapters: a prologue, a chapter on new evidence on World War I, and an epilogue. The updated edition contains the now-famous typology of international crisis, the original critique of deterrence, the emphasis on agency, and the turn to political psychology to explain sharp departures from rational policy-making. The new chapters update and reevaluate these arguments and approach a critical hindsight assessment in light of post-Cold War developments.
DIVDIVA thrilling, poignant, and bold memoir of the early years and accomplishments—both musical and sexual—of renowned contemporary composer Ned Rorem/divDIV Ned Rorem, arguably the greatest composer of art songs that America has produced in more than a hundred years, is also revered as a diarist and essayist whose unexpurgated writings are at once enthralling, enlightening, and provocative. In Knowing When to Stop, one of the most creative American artists of our time offers readers a colorful narrative of his first twenty-seven years, expertly unraveling the intriguing conundrum of who he truly is and how he came to be that way./divDIV /divDIVAs the author himself writes, “A memoir is not a diary. Diaries are written in the heat of battle, memoirs in the repose of retrospect.” But careful thought and consideration have not dulled the sharp point of Rorem’s pen as he writes openly of his life and loves, his missteps and triumphs, and offers frank and fascinating portraits of the luminaries in his circle: Aaron Copland, Truman Capote, Jean Cocteau, Martha Graham, Igor Stravinsky, Billie Holliday, Paul Bowles, and Alfred C. Kinsey, to name a few. The result is an early life story that is riveting, moving, and intimate—a magnificent self-portrait of one of the great minds of this age. /div/div
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