Young Maddie Van der Wald inherits a mansion complete with rumors of buried treasure on an isolated part of Catalina Island. She will lose it if she doesn’t follow the terms of the will. Problems cause her friends and island residents turn against her.With nobody to help, Maddie wonders if her trip here was a boat ride to Hell.
During a car rally, photographer Ben DeCastro discovers an abandoned car in the California desert with a headless corpse in the trunk. As a volunteer firefighter, he joins in the search for the car’s missing drivers. His life veers off course when their fingerprints are found on his garage door. The FBI looks at Ben as a suspect. This hurts his professional reputation, and cramps his dating efforts with the women in his building. An assortment of friends and neighbors try to help him out of his predicament, causing more problems in the process. How does he get out of this mess?
A comprehensive discussion of operational requirements for future naval operations with sufficient detail to enable design and development of technical solutions to achieve the advanced information fusion and command and control concepts described. This book provides a unique focus on advanced approaches to Naval ISR and the critical underlying technologies to enable Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO). Also describing the approach of distributed Naval ops and role of ISR applying advanced technologies and addressing future conflict, new U.S. Naval maritime approaches, distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) and the newest U.S. Navy operational concept. This is a great resource for Naval officers in the ISR, Intelligence, Space, ASW, EW and Surface Warfare, disciplines who seek an in-depth understanding of advanced ISR operations and technologies as well as Navy and industry managers and engineers planning and developing advanced naval systems.
TRB s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 832: State DOTs Connecting Specialized Transportation Users and Rides, Volume 1: Research Report provides resources for agencies and organizations with practices for connecting specialized transportation users with the rides they need to access daily services. Within this report are the findings from a literature review, interviews with employees overseeing existing linkage programs, as well as research into the coordination, marketing, and evaluation of current programs. The report also contains an analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities presented by each type of linkage program." -- Publisher's description
Skylar Drake is hired as a bodyguard for two young starlets. He delivers the actresses home after the Emmy Awards ceremony, but stumbles onto the murder of Silver Brovor-Smith, the mother of one of his charges. The FBI is on-scene. He wonders why they are there for a simple murder.Drake and his partner, Casey Dolan, are now on the case as suspicion shifts between the victim's husband and her three brothers. Drake and Dolan are misled while kidnapping and mysterious deaths take them into the world of Hollywood backroom deals. They must keep the high-profile family from becoming front page news. Drake meets the perfect woman to help him move on, but is she a suspect? The letters P-E-G-O seem to appear everywhere. He thinks they may be connected to the crimes.Follow Skylar Drake to Hollywood parties where the forbidden is accepted and games played are for keeps.
Titles included in this collection include: Umbrella Walking to Hollywood The Butt Dr Mukti and other Tales of Woe How the Dead Live Tough Tough Toys for Tough Tough Boys
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Shark and it's acclaimed prequel Umbrella Titles include: The Quantity Theory of Psychosis Cock & Bull My Idea of Fun Grey Area Great Apes The Sweet Smell of Psychosis
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