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Dan Stone, a contract assassin for the CIA, a man alone with few friends, is sent out on what may be a suicide mission. Dan is dropped into the Chihuahuan desert to assassinate the head of the Sinaloa cartel. His mission suddenly becomes more complex and dangerous. When his extraction is botched, he flees into the desert, where he gets lost and death by dehydration threatens. There, he meets a shaman who shows him the spiritual dimension to life and how Dan is part of a larger story going on - a battle between good and evil, light and darkness.

Detective Tony Fernandez is called out to a small home in an idyllic Phoenix neighborhood, but finds an unspeakable horror - one of the most disturbing crime scenes of his career. With little to go on, and a confusing list of people connected to the victim, he finds the truth to be elusive. Is he on the trail of a serial killer, or is the murderer someone much closer to home? In what becomes the supreme test of his investigative skills, Tony must find the tiny details that will reveal his killer and solve a troubling case of Phoenix Homicide.

Introduction to Conducting Private Investigations provides the essential tools you need to become a successful private investigator. From conducting straightforward background investigations to more complicated cases involving accidents and fraud, you will learn the critical skills needed to conduct all types of investigations and build a thriving business. Specifically tailored to meet the requirements established by the Department of Criminal Justice Services, this easy-to-use resource offers an excellent balance between theory and practice.

The best one-volume biography of Madison’s life, Ketcham’s biography not only traces Madison’s career, it gives listeners a sense of the man. As Madison said of his early years in Virginia under the study of Donald Robertson, who introduced him to thinkers like Montaigne and Montesquieu, "all that I have been in life I owe largely to that man." It also captures a side of Madison that is less rarely on display.

The dead body of a young college student reignites an investigation into a series of bizarre murders that remain unsolved and a killer who has returned with a vengeance. In the career of every detective, there is that one case that haunts them. For some investigators, it's an unsolved murder. For others, it's the victims and the suffering they endured. For Vince Wills, it's a combination of the two, but at least he believed the killings had stopped. Now, he knows he was wrong. Everything is on the line as he attempts to solve his biggest case of New Orleans homicide.

A woman and her daughter return home from a night out celebrating the coming holiday. They make a terrifying discovery that will change this Christmas and every one that comes after. Called to the scene is detective Sean Sparks - the fresh face on the homicide team - and this will be his first case as the lead investigator.

The discovery of a young woman's naked body sends Jason out to a disturbing scene. What he finds is a case with no shortage of twists and a growing list of suspects. Vanessa is back, and together they'll struggle to sort through the wreckage of a fatal affair.

A 911 call sends Jason and Torres out into the early morning darkness. What they find will be their worst nightmare. Identification of the body, and the discovery of who the 911 caller was, will send Jason down a dark path of suspicion, accusations, and fear. Ultimately, he must prove things are not as they seem, and more importantly, remove his own Shadow of Doubt.

Michael Blac - a CIA deep-cover operative - will stop at nothing to keep the United States out of war. This motive lands him in Al Mukalla, Yemen, infiltrating the ranks of the most dangerous Al Qaeda officer in the Middle East. His task: gain access to commanding officer Khalid Batarfi, find the weapon source, assassinate Khalid Batarfi. When a hailstorm missile desolates a cruiser boat that he had intended to be on, he realizes that he's been sold out by the CIA.

Called out to the scene of a house fire, Jason and Vanessa begin the task of solving their biggest case yet. Starting with little to go on, soon, one shocking clue after another has them playing catch-up to a sinister killer. Their new case will change everything and everyone around them, as Jason and Vanessa attempt to sort through the destruction of a killer whose life is burning down.

Jason and Vanessa are called out to a robbery where political connections are complicating an already tense situation. The case quickly takes an ominous turn, and they must find a missing girl before it's too late.

A watcher in Venice tells Dan Stone, a CIA assassin, to take a job he doesn't want: rescue a runaway girl and kill her captor. Against the wishes of his handlers, he plunges ahead. Dan's decision leads him on a mad chase through Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria with a drug-addled girl and two killers on his tail. He's following a dark and deadly labyrinth of deceit, treachery, and depravity that ends with a deadly terrorist attack. Will Dan be able to disrupt it in time?

Jason and Vanessa are sent out to a bloody crime scene with two bodies. The discovery of a file folder in one victim's possession will propel them into a complex case filled with murder and intrigue. The investigation weaves its way through a conspiracy hidden deep within a web of deceit.

Seeing Teddy again takes my breath away. He wants us to be friends. Well...I want whatever he wants, whatever he needs. I’m not sure that he can want an alpha like me again - too much history between us, too much time since I broke his heart. But when he takes me to bed, I can’t help but wonder if there’s a second chance for us. And when he falls pregnant with my kid? It makes me the happiest alpha in the world.

On a warm summer evening like so many others, Jack Richardson comes home to learn his little girl is missing. Though Jack and his wife Sarah have no way of knowing it, they're at the flashpoint of an inferno that will leave everyone and everything within their idyllic life scorched beyond recognition. Suspicion, betrayal, and murder will burn through the lives of everyone who is Missing Chloe.

Logan: From the moment I first saw him, I knew I was screwed. Bennet Long wasn’t just any handsome Omega with sinfully blue eyes and an body that could make an Alpha like me ache long after I’d watched him go. He was off limits. Completely forbidden. I was 55. He was barely old enough to buy his own beer. And then there was the other catch...the one that turned Bennet Long from a no-go zone into the juiciest piece of forbidden fruit I could imagine...

In What Universities Can Be, the high-profile educator Robert J. Sternberg writes thoughtfully about the direction of higher education in this country and its potential to achieve future excellence. Sternberg presents, for the first time, his concept of the ACCEL model, in which institutions of higher education are places where students learn to become Active Concerned Citizens and Ethical Leaders.

On June 25, 2013, the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting rights law. The decision - the culmination of an eight-year battle over the power of Congress to regulate state conduct of elections - marked the closing of a chapter in American politics. That chapter had opened a century earlier in the case of Guinn v. United States, which ushered in national efforts to knock down racial barriers to the ballot.

In Geneva, a highly valued product with the power to cause major destruction is stolen from the CERN. Eighty kilometers from the Austrian border, a young girl becomes the key that controls the will of the man with the power to create and destroy. In the mountainous regions of Switzerland, a hostile force from a pariah regime attempts to extract a scientist from a fast-moving train.

There are dozens of unforgettable characters, and scores of authentic scenes in Brandywine's War. From behind the headlines and the front-line dispatches has come this Rabelaisian novel. Chief Warrant Officer Vaughan completed Brandywine's War while serving his second of three tours of duty in Vietnam.