Her first Foreign Service assignment - on a mission so secret her entire staff consists of one Air Force missile expert - and it has to be Litania, a backwater Mediterranean island-nation isolated so long the people haven't even heard of the USA. With grim determination, knowing the fate of the free world is in her hands, Ambassador Elizabeth Sullivan Wexford Adams sets out to sell the Litanians on "The American Way." But how does one convince a people to change their ways when they believe everything is perfect? She is succeeding until... Russians... bringing gifts and menace. Suddenly two lonely Americans find themselves engaged in a battle of wits and intrigue, a battle for licentious hearts and bewildered minds.
Benjamin Roan is co-owner of a company that provides security for high-tech industry located In the high-society sunbelt of Newport Beach, California. When one of his guards, Ben's fiance, is found dead, everyone says, "accident." But Ben suspects "murder." To find proof, Ben takes over her guard duties at a high-tech Industry where, despite attempts to kill him, he discovers ruthless schemes involving pornography, espionage, and high-tech murder--and a Latina bombshell named Samantha. In an exciting climax, Ben tracks down the mysterious killer with unusual--and deadly--results
Over half of all people working on behalf of any given organization are typically not their own employees. Some are freelance contractors working in their own right. A significant proportion is employed to provide these services by another firm, under agency or outsourcing service agreements. The services they perform under these agreements are often vital in supporting the organization’s customer relationships, reputation and brand identity. Yet, remarkably, little attention has been paid to how these ‘non-employees’ are managed, motivated and meaningfully engaged. Management protocol generally sees them as outside the organization’s remit or control. The law paints them as victims. This ground-breaking book challenges both these assumptions. Through a combination of pioneering legal analysis and rigorous case-study research, it demonstrates that non-employees are often the organization’s most important hidden resource. Patricia Leighton and her collaborators highlight the limited good practice that is available, based on examples in large corporations, public sector organizations and smaller firms in a variety of countries. More importantly she clearly sets out the issues and imperatives employers should address, supported by new management concepts and models of effective practice developed specifically for the book. Far from being victims, she argues, non-employees often choose flexible working patterns for their own intrinsic ends and have ambitions, career aspirations and workplace needs that can be responded to and exploited by forward-looking employers. “Looking at the role they now play, these people are no longer marginal, atypical or peripheral as they are still termed and regarded by both legal and management practitioners. They are, however, still in the shadows in terms of the literature available on how best to develop and motivate them. This book aims to rectify this.”
To Benjamin Roan, the secret mission seems simple: save the life of the President of the United States. The president is dying of leukemia. With no close relatives, a bone marrow donor cannot be found. Then--a confession: he has a secret daughter, the result of a liaison when he was in college. He has had no contact with her since. His only hope is for Roan to find her. But the mission must be kept secret--if she is not a match, the scandal can be kept quiet. Also, there are people who want the President dead--if they knew Roan's mission, they would try to kill her. Roan's regrets begin the minute he meets the girl. She is gorgeous, opinionated and suspicious. The regrets escalate when people begin trying to kill them, and really get out of hand when he begins falling in love ... --From publisher description.
Europe in Flames. A B-17 bombardier must choose fear or duty, hate or love. RUSH TO GLORY lays open the lives of two rival brothers, Hal and Luke Bailey, opposites in every way, Hal, determined to do his duty for his country, enlists in the Air Corp, is trained as a bombardier, and finds himself assigned to his older brother's command in England. Luke, worried that Hal will somehow diminish his rise to the top, takes a tough stance with Hal and places him at the mercy of not only the German war machine but also at the mercy of his comrades-in-arms. Hal's situation becomes even more perilous when he falls in love with a lovely British reporter who is determined to use Hal to wreak revenge on the enemy who had killed her brother. "If I were ever to consider authoring a novel about World War II, this is the one I would like to have written." Review by Freddie Saundby "Filled with vivid detail, peopled with rich, compelling characters and spiced with an intriguing love triangle, RUSH TO GLORY keeps the tension high." "Robert L. Hecker has created a memorable story rich with emotions. His characters so life-like they remain with you long after you finish the book." "RUSH TO GLORY has all the elements of a Greek tragedy: blind ambition, betrayal and redempion, lust and compassion...
This book contains fourteen numbers of the renowned Wheel Publication series, dealing with various aspects of the Buddha’s teaching. 281: Colonel Olcott—B. P. Kirthisinghe & M. P. Amarasuriya 282–84: Going for Refuge & Taking the Precepts—Bhikkhu Bodhi 285–86: Buddhism and Social Action—Ken Jones 287–89: Buddhist Stories—Eugene Watson Burlingame 290–91: Buddhism in Psychotherapy—Seymour Boorstein, M.D.& Olaf G. Deatherage, Ph.D 292–93: Buddhist Women at the Time of the Buddha—Hellmuth Hecker 294–95: The Buddhist Layman—R. Bogoda, Susan Elbaum Jootla, and M.O’C. Walshe
Recruited by the DEA, Brent Thomas goes undercover to investigate an ex-army buddy, Pat Frankie, who runs a boxing gym but who the DEA suspects is a drug dealer. Brent becomes an instructor in Frankie's gym. Frankie thinks he has the making of a champion and arranges fights for him. Brent, to everyone's surprise, wins the fights, eventually having a shot at the championship. Unfortunately, he also falls in love with Maria, Frankie's daughter. Then, entering the dangerous world of drug dealers, Brent must fight with his gun and his wits as well as his fists. An action-packed conclusion forces Brent into a traumatic choice: either a lie that will bring him Maria's love and a shot at the boxing title, or the truth that will cost him everything.
Benjamin Roan, head of Roan Security, is in trouble---again. Cavorting in the California skies in a WWII P-51 fighter plane, the last thing on Ben's mind was murder. In truth he was having a hard time keeping his thoughts off his sexy flight instructor who turns out to be as deadly as she is beautiful when she catapults Ben into the thrilling world of International Air Shows. There, as an exhibition flyer--and a reluctant undercover operator for the DEA--Ben becomes embroiled in drug smuggling and international intrigue. Suddenly flying loses some of its thrill when he finds himself a target for mile high murder. "Author Robert L. Hecker has done it again! He has written a masterful action-packed thriller that keeps the reader turning pages. In my opinion he ranks up there with Ken Follett, Nelson De Mille, and Robert Ludlum in telling a convincing story of intrigue with wonderful, well-drawn characters and details that keep the reader captivated."--Jeannine Van Eperen, Reviewer, GottaWriteNetwork.
Someone wants Francine Devereux dead! She has no idea why. An attempt to kill her is prevented by Jaarl Larssonn, an engineer from Alaska's North Slope oil fields where something mysterious--and deadly--is happening at an experimental pump station. Jaarl thinks Francine's father may be behind the strange events. He wants her to come with him to the pump station to talk to her father. The request stuns Francine. She has not seen her father in twenty years, and, in fact, hates him for abandoning her mother and her when she was an infant. Francine agrees to go with Jaarl for two reasons: she would like to confront the father she despises, and she is more than a little intrigued by the handsome Jaarl Larsson. But at the pump station she finds a dark world as filled with danger as it is with romance, a world where she finds that the attempt on her life was only the prelude to real fear.
Michael Modesto, a hard-living rock star, in a vision is given extraordinary healing powers and is told: "I am the Word and you are My messenger." But he is not told the message, only to "Beware the Antichrist." Torn by doubt because he is not worthy of being God's messenger, and plagued by guilt because he does not want the responsibility, but knowing that the only way he can return to his old decadent life is to discover and deliver the "message," Michael reluctantly takes on the role of healer and evangelist. His quest is complicated when he falls in love, and even more so when the Antichrist sets out to destroy him before he can deliver his prophetic message. Still fighting doubts-and fear-Michael's quest leads him to a showdown with the Antichrist and a surprising fulfillment of his Angelic Prophesy.
Someone using poisoned darts is killing people in Los Angeles and taking their heads! Is it a mad man, or a rogue native of Ecuador's Jivaro tribe of headhunters? Or both?! Det. Henry Warner, with the help of a beautiful anthropologist from Ecuador tries to track down the blowgun killer. And when the killer flees to the deep forests of Arizona, can Apache policemen capture him before he kills them all?!
Someone is trying to kill Ben Roan---again. Was Ben targeted for murder at the Nevada Atomic Test Site? Maybe not. Maybe the victim was supposed to be the gorgeous scientist from India, Taja Singh, and Ben just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time? Finding the truth catapults Ben into the cutting edge of high tech science and the excitement of skydiving while trying to match wits with the most glamorous---and dangerous---woman in the world. Is she the killer or the victim? Will her hypnotic beauty, her world of international intrigue, cost Ben is life, or worse, his heart? Either way, Murder by violence or by romance Is A Lousy Way To Die.
Anna Zorka, half Gypsy and half Hungarian, returns from the U.S. only to have the Nazis sentence her and childhood sweetheart, Eric, to a labor camp. Eric vows revenge for his father's death by the Nazis. He becomes horse groom for the Kommandant, while Anna employs her knowledge of Tarot and palmistry, to become the Kommandant's astrologer and to escape rape. When the Kommandant is transferred to a concentration camp for Jews, he takes Anna with him. Eric vows a blood promise to find her. He escapes camp and begins tracking her.
Armed with good looks, his lucky tie and newly found freedom from the beautiful Scandinavian Amazon Beverly, Calvin was on his way to shimmering Lake Tahoe and a summer job that he hoped would put him right into the arms of Lady Luck. He would be far enough away from home to be anonymous. He was ready! And the ladies did cluster: sensuous, gorgeous movie star Fifi; tempestuous dancer Rosie Blaze; and the lovely, unsettling Connie. So what if Calvin didn't get exactly the accountant's job he'd hoped for at the brassy Toluca Casino. Being a busboy-shill-exotic dancer-Romeo had rewards he'd never dreamed of. Big Time! And the thing with the missing money and gun that made his life worth less than a single cheap poker chip? Even that could and up being part of the best summer job in the whole wide world. All he had to do was live through it.... Author Robert L. Hecker was born in Provo, Utah, but grew up in Long Beach, California. After flying in the Air Force over Europe in WWII, he began writing radio and television dramas, then moved on to writing and producing more than 500 documentary, educational and marketing films which garnered national and international awards. His short stories have been published in numerous magazines, and he is currently working on several movie screenplays as well as other novels. A graduate of Westlake College of Music, recently he has begun songwriting and has songs on country, gospel and big-band albums. Summer Job is rather loosely based upon his own adventures while working in a big gambling casino during summer break while attending the Pasadena Playhouse School of the Theatre.
At night Sandi's perfect life seems less than perfect. The only child of a well-to-do family that runs an art gallery, in the light of day she's beautiful (although she doesn't think so), and engaged to a successful stockbroker. But at night, there are the whispers?
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