Deadly Cross

Author : James Patterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1538703564

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Deadly Cross by James Patterson Pdf

The murder of a glamorous DC socialite becomes Alex Cross's deadliest case since Along Came a Spider. Kay Willingham led a life as glamorous as it was public--she was a gorgeous Georgetown socialite, philanthropist, and the ex-wife of the vice president. So why was she parked in a Bentley convertible idling behind a DC private school, in the middle of the night, with the man who was the head of that school? Who shot them both, point blank, and why? The shocking double homicide is blazed across the internet, TV, newspapers--and across Alex Cross's mind. Kay had been his patient once. And maybe more. While John Sampson of DC Metro Police investigates the last movements of Christopher Randall, the educator killed along with Kay Willingham, detective Alex Cross and FBI special agent Ned Mahoney find unanswered questions from Willingham's past, before she arrived in DC and became known in DC society as someone who could make things happen. They travel to Alabama to investigate Kay's early years. There they find a world of trouble, corruption, and secrets, all of them closed to outsiders like Cross and Mahoney. Kay had many enemies, but all of them seemed to need her alive. The harder the investigators push, the more resistance they find when they leave behind the polite law offices and doctors' quarters of the state capital. Alex Cross will need to use all his skills as a doctor, a detective, and a family man to prevent that resistance from turning lethal . . . again.

Author : James Patterson
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316497992

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Deadly Cross by James Patterson Pdf

The murder of a glamorous DC socialite becomes Alex Cross’s deadliest case since Along Came a Spider. Kay Willingham led a life as glamorous as it was public—she was a gorgeous Georgetown socialite, philanthropist, and the ex-wife of the vice president. So why was she parked in a Bentley convertible idling behind a DC private school, in the middle of the night, with the man who was the head of that school? Who shot them both, point blank, and why? The shocking double homicide is blazed across the internet, TV, newspapers—and across Alex Cross's mind. Kay had been his patient once. And maybe more. While John Sampson of DC Metro Police investigates the last movements of Christopher Randall, the educator killed along with Kay Willingham, detective Alex Cross and FBI special agent Ned Mahoney find unanswered questions from Willingham's past, before she arrived in DC and became known in DC society as someone who could make things happen. They travel to Alabama to investigate Kay's early years. There they find a world of trouble, corruption, and secrets, all of them closed to outsiders like Cross and Mahoney. Kay had many enemies, but all of them seemed to need her alive. The harder the investigators push, the more resistance they find when they leave behind the polite law offices and doctors' quarters of the state capital. Alex Cross will need to use all his skills as a doctor, a detective, and a family man to prevent that resistance from turning lethal . . . again.

Author : James Buckley, Jr.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781465458254

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DK Readers L4: Spiders and Other Deadly Animals by James Buckley, Jr. Pdf

What are the most deadly animals in the world and where do they live? Find out in Spiders and Other Deadly Animals! Learn about the animals that can kill us through life-threatening true stories! Filled with amazing photography and clear text, Spiders and Other Deadly Animals is a fascinating look at the world's scariest animals. Make sure you know how to identify and avoid these creatures with Spiders and Other Deadly Animals. Perfect for 9-11 year olds reading independently, reading becomes a fact-discovering adventure with these Level 4 readers. Supporting and encouraging a lifetime love of reading, nonfiction subjects are clearly explained, described vividly, and brought to life with true encounters, fascinating statistics, and dramatic photographic images. Additional information spreads are full of extra fun facts, developing the topics through a range of nonfiction presentation styles, such as articles, journals, and timelines. Trusted by parents, teachers, and librarians, and loved by kids, DK's leveled reading series is now revised and updated. With shiny new jackets and brand new nonfiction narrative content on the topics kids love, each book is written and reviewed by literacy experts, and contains a glossary and index making them the perfect choice for helping develop strong reading habits for kids ages 3-11.

Author : Robert Mandel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313028113

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Deadly Transfers and the Global Playground by Robert Mandel Pdf

Mandel's comprehensive study provides an integrated, explanatory analysis of the new global security environment, which he terms the global playground, and the consequent blossoming of ominous flows or deadly transfers. It includes an analysis of the behavior of rogue states, terrorist groups, transnational criminal organizations, and deviant individuals. Mandel begins with a discussion of the general nature of the emerging global situation and the transborder activities that occur within it, then turns to an overarching analysis of the intractable causes, pernicious consequences, and futile cures associated with these ominous transnational flows. Such activities include clandestine conventional arms, illegal human migration, illicit drugs, hazardous materials, lethal diseases, and information disruption. Both national and international organizations are fundamentally weak when it comes to dealing with such transfers. In contrast to the prevailing view that more deterrence-oriented coercion is necessary to stop these flows, this study suggests that a bottom-up approach involving changes in mass attitudes is crucial. It does not shy away from pointing directly at potential areas of security dysfunction at all levels of policy making. In taking a largely theoretical rather than case-specific approach to exploring these issues, it hopes to avoid the usual laundry list of shocking anecdotal incidents to develop a broader understanding of the new security dilemmas confronting us all. Finally, in demonstrating the futility of existing remedies and in suggesting an alternative, preliminary set of ideas to cope with these transactions, Mandel attempts to give security policy makers a wider arsenal of options from which to choose.

Author : James Patterson
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316499163

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Fear No Evil by James Patterson Pdf

Caught in a web of assassins, Alex Cross enters the final battle with the all-knowing genius who has stalked him and his family for years. Dr. Alex Cross and Detective John Sampson venture into the rugged Montana wilderness—where they will be the prey. They’re not on the job, but on a personal mission. Until they’re attacked by two rival teams of assassins, controlled by the same mastermind who has stalked Alex and his family for years. Darkness falls. The river churns into rapids. Shots ring out through the forest. No backup. No way out. Fear no evil.

Author : Wu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004453272

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On Metaphoring by Wu Pdf

Metaphor familiarizes things strange with things familiar to enrich old things with things newly made familiar. Thus metaphor is an effective intercultural highway without shared thinking-way, for each culture is a specific thinking-way. This volume shows such intercultural communication.

Author : John F. Schmutz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786453672

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The Battle of the Crater by John F. Schmutz Pdf

The Battle of the Crater is one of the lesser known yet most interesting battles of the Civil War. This book, detailing the onset of brutal trench warfare at Petersburg, Virginia, digs deeply into the military and political background of the battle. Beginning by tracing the rival armies through the bitter conflicts of the Overland Campaign and culminating with the siege of Petersburg and the battle intended to lift that siege, this book offers a candid look at the perception of the campaign by both sides.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Highway research
ISBN : UCBK:C100991849

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Public Roads by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Alan Green
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798823082976

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Death in the Hills by Charles Alan Green Pdf

1937 dawned over the golden sun kissed lands of Spain, upon a divided country and a vicious and bloody Civil War. The war had, originally, begun as a simple military coup, back in mid-July of the previous year. At first it looked as though it would carry the day, but due to the early up-rising in the Spanish protectorate of Morocco, the timing of the revolt on the mainland was thrown into disarray, and due to this certain areas didn’t commence their planned revolts at the designated time. In particular, the major cities of Barcelona and Madrid were both critically effected by the timing of these events, and the whole of the 18th July was spent in inactivity. It was this delay, to the originally planned timetable, that enabled the republican government, but more importantly, especially in Barcelona, the unions and other forces on the left, to organise some sort of resistance. It was this fact, which meant that they were able to defeat the rebellion in these, and several other vital towns and cities. By the end of the 20th July, after the first two days of the rebellion, and bitter fighting throughout the length and breadth of the country, the battle lines had been drawn, and Spain was a nation split into two basic zones. The areas that remained loyal, under the control of the government, and the rest of Spain, which was now under the command of the rebel’s or nationalist’s as they were to become known.

Author : Denis Judd
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571300105

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Lord Reading by Denis Judd Pdf

Rufus Isaacs was in his day the first commoner to rise to the rank of marquess since the Duke of Wellington. Born into a lively Jewish family, he left school aged 14, yet made his name as a brilliant QC before being elected to the Commons as a Liberal in 1904. Smeared during the Marconi scandal of 1913 he survived to be appointed Lord Chief Justice, and elevated to the peerage in 1914. He would go on to be Ambassador to the United States, Viceroy of India, and Foreign Secretary. For this major work, first published in 1982, Denis Judd drew upon private papers in order to place Rufus Isaacs' complex career in perspective and so provide an overdue reassessment of one of the most outstanding public figures of the twentieth century. 'Excellent.' A.J.P. Taylor, Observer 'A lucid and revealing book' Geoffrey Moorhouse, Times 'The best biography [of Lord Reading] to have appeared so far.' Robert Blake, Evening Standard

Author : Eve Morrison
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788551472

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Kilmichael by Eve Morrison Pdf

The Kilmichael Ambush of 28 November 1920 was and remains one of the most famous, successful – and uniquely controversial – IRA attacks of the Irish War of Independence. This book is the first comprehensive account of both the ambush and the intense debates that followed. It explores the events, memory and historiography of the ambush, from 1920 to the present day, within a wider framework of interwar European events, global ‘memory wars’ and current scholarship relating to Irish, British, oral and military history. Kilmichael: The Life and Afterlife of an Ambush features extensive archival research, including the late Peter Hart’s papers, as well as many other new sources from British and Irish archives, and previously unavailable oral history interviews with Kilmichael veterans. There has always been more than one version of Kilmichael. Tom Barry’s account certainly became the dominant one after the publication of Guerilla Days in Ireland in 1949, but it was always shadowed and contested by others, and in this book, Eve Morrison meticulously reconstructs both ‘British’ and ‘Irish’ perspectives on this momentous and much-debated attack.

Author : John Wukovits
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101057452

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American Commando by John Wukovits Pdf

Before the Green Berets...Before the Navy SEALs...Before the Army Rangers...There was the Long Patrol. November 1942: in the hellish combat zone of Guadalcanal, one man would make history. Lt. Col. Evans Carlson was considered a maverick by many of his comrades-and an outright traitor by others. He spent years observing guerrilla tactics all over the world, and knew that those tactics could be used effectively by the Marines. Carlson and an elite fighting force-the 2nd Raider Battalion-embarked upon a thirty-day mission behind enemy lines where they disrupted Japanese supplies, inflicted a string of defeats on the enemy in open combat, and gathered invaluable intelligence on Japanese operations on Guadalcanal. And in the process they laid the foundation for every branch of Special Forces in the modern military. Here, for the first time, is a riveting account of one man, one battalion, and one mission that would forever change the ways of warfare.

Author : Neville M. R. LeQuant
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781039135178

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Seal-Binding Society by Neville M. R. LeQuant Pdf

Five centuries ago, the elemental artform of seal-binding was introduced to a world once devastated by senseless conflict. Seal binders—those with the ability to bestow seals—used their powers to bring order to the continents of Armos and Omallia. These lands prospered under the watchful eyes of the seal binders, and with the help of seal wielders—those with the ability to harness the powers of seals—the laws of the Seal-Binding Society were guarded for the years to come. Things changed, however, due to a sudden shift in the monarchy within the last 100 years. By order of a new king, the seal-binding practice was banned, and subsequently, it was decreed that the seal binders were to be executed on sight. With the widespread extermination of the seal binders came a radical increase in poverty everywhere across Armos and Omallia. In this world’s current eye, there is but one seal binder left, living in the capital city of Hitomi and serving—unwillingly—under the new royal family known as Ra. Can the integrity of the Seal-Binding Society be restored? Or will it completely deteriorate back to the ways of chaos and suffering?

Author : C. T. Fox,L. R. Bennett
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452073446

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Seven Days to Heaven by C. T. Fox,L. R. Bennett Pdf

What if you were living in the most prolific times in Revelations and you had to give your life to save another for God's purpose of ushering the war in heaven to earth, would you do it? This is the choice that Senar Baines and several others were faced with. Their destiny lies in their faith and they learned that their life too had a purpose even though they will die in all the chaos and mayhem their souls will not and each of their deaths will further God's will. As with John the Baptist, they will meet one woman (Anyia) who has been given the burden of preparing the way for God's people in the first days of Revelations. While being hunted by demons, aliens, man made cross breeds and Satan himself, Senar finds that faith is everything and to be careful because you might be entertaining an angel. While on this seven day journey, one by one God brings these seven people together to be his warriors; not only to battle those beast which man has made, but they also have to battle aliens whose trying to herd us like cattle; cross breeds, hybrid forms of human beings, demons and Satan himself, but through it all, those individuals chosen by God to fight alongside of Anyia became so full of faith, that they wavered not. They all got to see their purpose and to see God's army of angels save the earth not only from Satan and the other unknown things in our universe, but even from ourselves. This book Seven Days to Heaven, will test your soul, your heart and your faith.

Author : Carol Reardon,Tom Vossler
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469633350

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A Field Guide to Gettysburg, Second Edition Expanded Ebook by Carol Reardon,Tom Vossler Pdf

This special enhanced ebook edition to the newly updated A Field Guide to Gettysburg will lead visitors to every important site across the battlefield and also give them ways to envision the action and empathize with the soldiers involved and the local people into whose lives and lands the battle intruded.. Both Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler are themselves experienced guides who understand what visitors to Gettysburg are interested in, but they also bring the unique perspectives of a scholar and a former army officer. Divided into three day-long tours, this newly improved and expanded edition offers important historical background and context for the reader while providing answers to six key questions: What happened here? Who fought here? Who commanded here? Who fell here? Who lived here? And what did the participants have to say about it later? With new stops, maps, soldier vignettes, and illustrations, the enhanced e-book edition of A Field Guide to Gettysburg adds more human stories to an already impressive work that remains the most comprehensive guide to the events and history of this pivotal battle of the Civil War.