A New York Times Book Review Summer Thriller Pick. “With its crisp pace and superb timing, Clean Hands is a special treat to read.”—The Wall Street Journal Corporate lawyer Elizabeth Carlyle is under a lot of pressure. Her prestigious New York law firm is working on the most high-stakes case in company history, defending a prominent bank. When Elizabeth gets the news that one of her junior associates has lost his phone—and the secret documents that were on it—she needs help. Badly. Enter ex-CIA officer Valencia Walker, a high-priced fixer who gets called in when governments, corporations, and plutocrats need their problems solved discretely. But things get complicated when the missing phone is retrieved: somebody has already copied the documents, and now they’re blackmailing the firm. When the situation gets murkier still—hinting that darker forces may be churning below the surface—Elizabeth and Valencia must maneuver and outmaneuver whomever is behind this, and, most importantly, keep their hands clean. This is a world of private security, private diplomacy, and private justice. A sharply drawn cast of characters—dirty lawyers, black-market traders, Russian criminals, and extra-judicial actors, all take part in this breakneck tour through New York. Authentic, tense, and impossible to put down, Clean Hands gives a vivid look at the connections between corporations, government, and the underworld. “It becomes increasingly clear that the whole thing is far more complicated, with much higher stakes, than most of the pawns in this grand chess game understand. The fun is in the details.”—The New York Times Book Review
The author of The White Van delivers “everything you could want in a thriller—lightning pace, dead-on dialogue, and a twisting, high-torque plot” (Award-winning author Carl Hiaasen). Patrick Hoffman burst onto the crime fiction scene with The White Van, a bank heist thriller set on the back streets of San Francisco and a finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. Now he returns with his second novel, Every Man a Menace, the inside story of a ruthless ecstasy-smuggling ring. San Francisco is about to receive the biggest delivery of MDMA to hit the West Coast in years. Raymond Gaspar, just out of prison, is sent to the city to check in on the increasingly erratic dealer expected to take care of distribution. In Miami, the man responsible for getting the drugs across the Pacific has just met the girl of his dreams—a woman who can’t seem to keep her story straight. And thousands of miles away in Bangkok, someone farther up the supply chain is about to make a phone call that will put all their lives at risk. Stretching from the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia to the Golden Gate of San Francisco, Every Man a Menace offers “a mind-bending, attention-demanding narrative as full of shocks and surprises as an LSD party” (The Wall Street Journal).
A desperate cop and a wanted woman cross paths with a dirty California underworld in a thriller “stuffed with truly shocking twists.” —Entertainment Weekly At a dive bar in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, drug-hustling Emily Rosario is downing whiskey and looking to escape her dicey lifestyle. When a Russian couple approaches her with a proposition, Emily thinks she might have found her exit. But a week later—drugged, disoriented and wanted for robbery—Emily finds herself on the run for her life. Veteran cop Leo Elias has heard about the unsolved bank heist , and the stolen money is too strong a temptation. A series of bad investments has left him broke, alcoholic and anxious for a way out of debt. That means finding Emily and the money before anyone else does. It’s a plan that soon spins out of control, forcing Elias to do things that can never be undone. Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, The White Van “unfolds in a pulsating series of betrayals, blackmail, bad decisions, and worse luck . . . the stuff of Dashiell Hammett’s best nightmares” (Mark Haskell Smith, author of RAW: A Love Story)—and “a gritty, exhilarating . . . quick and scary . . . hell of a ride” (The Wall Street Journal, Best Book of the Year pick).
Presents detailed information on illicit drug use and heavy alcohol use among full-time U.S. workers. Shows the percentage of full-time workers, ages 18-49, who reported illicit drug and heavy alcohol use, by specific occupation and industry categories. Presents information on trends in prevalence over time, employee drug testing, absence from work, and prevalence among part-time workers. Also: information on employment, age, race-ethnicity, marital status, health status, and problems associated with use. The employment data includes current status (e.g., full-time or part-time employees), detailed occupation and industry classifications, work history, and drug testing at work. Tables.
This is a coffee table art book and biography of Yippie Jerry Rubin. This overstuffed coffee table book is not only the first biography of the infamous and ubiquitous Jerry Rubin―co-founder of the Yippies, Anti-Vietnam War activist, Chicago 8 defendant, social-networking pioneer, and a proponent of the Yuppie era―but a visual retrospective, with countless candid photos, personal diaries, and lost newspaper clippings. It includes correspondence with Abbie Hoffman, Norman Mailer, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Eldridge Cleaver, the Weathermen, and interviews with more than 75 of Rubin’s friends, foes, and comrades. It reveals Rubins' and the Yippies’ historical-and-bizarre personal interactions with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Charles Manson, Mick Jagger, and other iconic figures of the era.
Learn how CRT is helping our society is in the midst of many epidemics-obesity, diabetes, depression, heart disease, cancer, and addiction-to name a few. But in reality, there is only one epidemic-and it threatens our entire way of life. It's the root cause and driving force behind every other epidemic our nation faces. This neurological epidemic is an unforeseen consequence of the 21st Century high-tech, stressed-out lifestyle that has our nervous systems reeling as daily stress forces our bodies to pump out stress hormones in near-lethal amounts, causing anxiety, depression, insomnia, weight gain, and susceptibility to disease. It's a national crisis of epic proportions. Brain-based wellness and the new health paradigm Fortunately, leaders in the field of mind/body health have spent more then two decades researching the problem and developing safe, drug-free methods for undoing the damage caused by excess stress while creating a flourishing brain. How might your life improve if you could consistently reduce or eradicate stress and worry while gaining emotional stability and mental harmony? What if you could eliminate sleep disturbances so you sleep well every night and awaken rejuvenated and energized? What if you could do away with unwanted habits, fears, and phobias while reactivating your creativity, memory and cognitive skills? Within these pages you will learn a new paradigm for health based on brain balance and mind/body wellness, one that provides our society the single best antidote to the neurological epidemic.
The goal of this project was to fill knowledge gaps with respect to treatment of estuarine water supplies using existing and advanced technologies, and disinfectant combinations. The aim was to meet current and future regulations, as well as utilities¿ water quality treatment goals. Specific objectives included: Investigate effects of multiple disinfectants/oxidants including chlorine; Determine optimum disinfectant combination(s) ; Investigate and evaluate a selection of advanced technologies and determine their impact on distribution system water quality in terms of DBP formation; Determine threshold levels of source water quality and disinfection requirements; Provide a comparative cost analysis for the proposed solutions, Literature and current and future regulations were reviewed, and data analyzed from the participating water districts which utilize supplies from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in California. Pilot and bench-scale studies are discussed along with details of the conclusions. Includes CD with Appendices.
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