Operation Wormwood

Author : Helen C. Escott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771177071

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Operation Wormwood by Helen C. Escott Pdf

An elderly man is carried into the emergency department of the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's, setting off a chain of events that leaves doctors mystified. He is the first of many victims suffering from severe nosebleeds and excruciating pain. Dr. Luke Gillespie and Nurse Agatha Catania investigate their symptoms but are unable to diagnose them. The only thing they have in common is Sgt. Nicholas Myra, an investigator with the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary. Dr. Gillespie and Sgt. Myra join forces to solve this twisted mystery. But the story takes a critical turn when Sister Pius, a nun from Mercy Convent, informs them about Wormwood: a disease she believes is created by God to kill perpetrators of the most heinous crimes. Wormwood becomes an international media storm when parish priest Father Peter Cooke holds a news conference on the steps of the Basilica of St. John the Baptist and announces that God has unleashed a plague upon the earth. Is God truly punishing these criminals, or is a serial killer targeting them? Dr. Gillespie and Sgt. Myra race to find answers, while the Roman Catholic hierarchy starts bringing people back to the Church in droves . . . by cashing in on what it claims to be a miracle.

Author : Helen Esscott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771177519

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Operation Wormwood by Helen Esscott Pdf

Long before there was a National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, or a National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, there were just missing and murdered women and children. At the same time the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary executed Operation Wormwood in St. John's, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police launched Operation Vanished, a province-wide investigation into missing and murdered women and children. RCMP Corporal Gail McNaughton has just transferred into the Major Crime Unit at headquarters in St. John's. As the newest investigator, she is given a stack of missing people and murder files from the 1950s to "sharpen her skills." This is standard procedure for the new kid on the block. These files are challenging and difficult to investigate. Most of the witnesses have died or have aged. Memories fade, scenes were never secured, and DNA testing was not available. Closing any of these files would be near impossible without a confession. Corporal McNaughton befriends Larry Morgan, the son of one of the murdered women, and who is a Newfoundland and Labrador historical expert. Together they put together a list of transient people who would have visited the communities where each victim lived but would have gone unnoticed. From this list, McNaughton creates a list of suspects and begins to dig up ghosts from the past. She discovers that the files may be linked and sets out to prove her theory that a serial killer may have been operating in Newfoundland during the 1950s. Throughout the novel, Corporal McNaughton balances the care of her mother, who suffers from dementia, the jealousy of a sergeant who constantly belittles her, and night terrors that haunt her dreams

Author : Escott Helen C.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771177527

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Operation Vanished by Escott Helen C. Pdf

Author : Helen C. Escott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 177117708X

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Operation Wormwood by Helen C. Escott Pdf

A Newfoundland and Labrador Crime Thriller An elderly man is carried into the emergency department of the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's, setting off a chain of events that leaves doctors mystified. He is the first of many victims suffering from severe nosebleeds and excruciating pain. Dr. Luke Gillespie and Nurse Agatha Catania investigate their symptoms but are unable to diagnose them. The only thing they have in common is Sgt. Nicholas Myra, an investigator with the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary. Dr. Gillespie and Sgt. Myra join forces to solve this twisted mystery. But the story takes a critical turn when Sister Pius, a nun from Mercy Convent, informs them about Wormwood: a disease she believes is created by God to kill perpetrators of the most heinous crimes. Wormwood becomes an international media storm when parish priest Father Peter Cooke holds a news conference on the steps of the Basilica of St. John the Baptist and announces that God has unleashed a plague upon the earth. Is God truly punishing these criminals, or is a serial killer targeting them? Dr. Gillespie and Sgt. Myra race to find answers, while the Roman Catholic hierarchy starts bringing people back to the Church in droves . . . by cashing in on what it claims to be a miracle.

Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062093592

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The Screwtape Letters (Enhanced Special Illustrated Edition) by C. S. Lewis Pdf

This book is enhanced with content such as audio or video, resulting in a large file that may take longer to download than expected. The Deluxe Illustrated Edition of a Timeless Classic Now with this enhanced edition, readers can gain additional insight through video interviews, audio excerpts and letters from C. S. Lewis. First published in 1942, The Screwtape Letters has sold millions of copies world-wide and is recognized as a milestone in the history of popular theology. A masterpiece of satire, it entertains readers with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to “Our Father Below.” At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account of temptation—and triumph over it—ever written.

Author : Yevgeny Zamyatin
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9791041807635

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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin Pdf

Author : Helen Escott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771178175

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Operation Wormwood by Helen Escott Pdf

Sgt. Nicholas Myra is back with a vengeance, and he is out for blood. Years of investigating horrific crimes have become too much, and Myra's PTSD is intense and out of control. He can't unsee the images that race through his dreams. Now as he investigates the biggest case of his career, he is in a constant state of fight-or-flight. The hunt continues for a serial killer who is targeting the most heinous of criminals, making them die a slow, painful death. Sgt. Myra partners with Dr. Luke Gillespie in a hunt for a killer targeting criminals who everyone wants dead. On the day of reckoning, everyone is called to account for their actions. Award-winning author Helen C. Escott, a former civilian member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, offers an exciting new voice in crime fiction and conducts a thorough investigation into why evil against the most vulnerable goes unpunished. Operation Wormwood: The Reckoning is the explosive follow-up to the bestselling crime thriller Operation Wormwood, which was a 2019 Arthur Ellis Awards finalist for Best First Crime Novel. "Yet another action-packed crime thriller from Helen C. Escott! Not since the Book of Revelation itself has so much theology, intrigue, and suspense been poured into one book." -- Rev. Robert Cooke, Rector, Parish of St. Mark's Anglican Church, St. John's "A reckoning with a vengeance! Operation Wormwood: The Reckoning is a roller coaster ride with many twists and turns. It holds you from the start and forces you to sit until you turn the last page." -- R. A. "Bob" Morgan, Sgt. Ret. Royal Newfoundland Constabulary

Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : Signal
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771000928

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Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre Pdf

For readers of World War II history, espionage, fans of John le Carré and Alan Furst, and of Ben Macintyre's more recent books. Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. In 1941, after training as German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into Britain with a revolver, a wireless, and a cyanide pill, with orders from the Abwehr to blow up an airplane factory. Instead, he contacted M15, the British Secret service, and for the next four years, Chapman worked as a double agent, a lone British spy at the heart of the German Secret Service. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began. Based on recently declassified files, Agent Zigzag tells Chapman's full story for the first time. It's a gripping tale of loyalty, love, treachery, espionage, and the thin and shifting line between fidelity and betrayal.

Author : Tom Gruchy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 177117711X

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The Murder of Minnie Callan by Tom Gruchy Pdf

The true story of retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police offiicer Thomas Gruchy from Newfoundland and the case that changed his life forever.

Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345809667

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The Innocent by Ian McEwan Pdf

The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life—and to lose his unwanted innocence. The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team, while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love and sex by Maria, a beautiful young German woman. It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening—a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed.

Author : L. D. Nelson,Nelson L. D. Nelson
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426927157

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The Wormwood Ultimatum by L. D. Nelson,Nelson L. D. Nelson Pdf

Much has changed not only in his own life but also within the world as Erik Roskov, a special agent for the British intelligence service, leaves England to investigate a secret project taking place in the mountains just two hours from Moscow. Greta Burkov, a principle member of the project, is nearly out of her mind with worry. Her husband has been missing for well over six months and when Erik storms through the back door of her cabin with his pistol in hand it seems as though Thomas Burkov has simply disappeared into thin air. But somebody wants Greta dead. After she accepts her friend Otto Zorkov's invitation to stay in his mountain cabin where she hopes she will be safe, Otto and Greta soon learn that national security is in jeopardy just as Erik and his team discover the mysterious Wormwood files. Led to a select group of ecologists who, combined with a group of rogue military officers, are about to carry out a covert military operation that could disrupt the entire social and governmental structure of the world, Erik and his team must try to abort the diabolical plan and save the world government before it is too late.

Author : Erlan Karin
Publisher : Momentum Books LLC
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1911475533

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Operation: Jusan by Erlan Karin Pdf

Between January and September 2019, the government of Kazakhstan carried out five humanitarian missions to repatriate more than 600 of its citizens from Syria. Thirty-three were adult males; the rest were women and children. The women had left Kazakhstan to become part of Islamic State - either out of personal conviction, or at the request of their jihadi husbands. Some of the children had gone with them. Others had been born amidst the horror of the war in Syria and Iraq, and the consequences of violent ideology; they knew nothing else of life. Collectively, these missions were known as Operation: Jusan (the jusan shrub, or wormwood, is symbolic for Kazkahs of home on the steppe). Erlan Karin's involvement took him from the planning stages to the extensive de-radicalisation and rehabilitation programmes that followed the airlifts. Here he reveals the full story of a high-stakes mission that required sensitive diplomacy, meticulous timing and great courage. Drawing on extensive first-hand accounts from the returnees, Karin also examines their motives in joining the would-be Caliphate, and the role of women and children within it, finally weighing up the risks of returning trained terrorists to their mother country. This is an adventure story, told with authority and insight - but above all, it is a statement of hope and compassion in the face of one of humanity's most disturbing crises.

Author : Stephen Kinzer
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250140449

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Poisoner in Chief by Stephen Kinzer Pdf

The bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and ’60s. The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturer—the agency’s “poisoner in chief.” As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He made pills, powders, and potions that could kill or maim without a trace—including some intended for Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders. He paid prostitutes to lure clients to CIA-run bordellos, where they were secretly dosed with mind-altering drugs. His experiments spread LSD across the United States, making him a hidden godfather of the 1960s counterculture. For years he was the chief supplier of spy tools used by CIA officers around the world. Stephen Kinzer, author of groundbreaking books about U.S. clandestine operations, draws on new documentary research and original interviews to bring to life one of the most powerful unknown Americans of the twentieth century. Gottlieb’s reckless experiments on “expendable” human subjects destroyed many lives, yet he considered himself deeply spiritual. He lived in a remote cabin without running water, meditated, and rose before dawn to milk his goats. During his twenty-two years at the CIA, Gottlieb worked in the deepest secrecy. Only since his death has it become possible to piece together his astonishing career at the intersection of extreme science and covert action. Poisoner in Chief reveals him as a clandestine conjurer on an epic scale.

Author : Garth Ennis
Publisher : Avatar Press Tp
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-27
Category : Antichrist
ISBN : 1592910424

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Chronicles of Wormwood by Garth Ennis Pdf

Wormwood is the anti-Christ, no way around it, his dad is Satan and his demonic powers help him fit right into New York. His best friend is Jesus, who is a black, mentally-challenged man that just isn't performing many miracles these days. The pesky Armageddon is coming right up, and it doesn't look like Pope Jacko is going to be any help in stopping it.

Author : William Jennings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Chinese poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:32044060349537

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The Shi King, the Old "Poetry Classic" of the Chinese by William Jennings Pdf