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It began when Larry Kent’s old boss at the CIA asked him to come back for one more assignment – to a kill a double-agent who also happened to be one of his closest friends. Larry couldn’t go through with it…and it was just as well that he didn’t, because nothing was as it appeared to be. An enemy of the United States had perfected a terrifying mind-manipulation drug – and after that, it became Larry’s job to find out just who that enemy was. The trail took him first to Mexico City, then on to Australia, where he met up with an old love....

Before Civil War greenbacks and a national bank network established a uniform federal currency in the United States, the proliferation of loosely regulated banks saturated the early American republic with upward of 10,000 unique and legal bank notes. In Bank Notes and Shinplasters, Joshua R. Greenberg shows how ordinary Americans accumulated and wielded the financial knowledge required to navigate interpersonal bank note transactions.

Ex-Air Force pilot, Jackie Taylor, has returned to her home state of Arizona to operate one of the most dangerous businesses in the world. Az Fire Flight, her late father's company, was struggling and lately, business wasn't as good as she would like it to be. When the gorgeous Sam Autry shows up with his movie star good looks seeking a job, things get much more complicated and quickly take a deadly turn.

Eleanor Gesualdi was a friend, that’s all. At least that’s what Larry Kent kept telling himself. But when he received a long-distance call from Eleanor, and learned that someone was trying to kill her, he realized his feelings went a whole lot deeper than that. Then Eleanor just vanished...and Larry spared no effort in trying to find her...or what had become of her. The trail led to a husband with a secret, a Mob connection, a hard-nosed cop who became a faithful ally...and one violent death after another...

When Larry Kent said good-bye to Eve Delmar, she was alive. The next morning she turned up dead - shot to death. But who wanted to kill her, and why? The chief suspect was her estranged husband...but he was a friend of Larry’s, and when he denied murder, Larry believed him.

Drawing on a host of recently declassified documents from the Reagan-Thatcher years, A Diplomatic Meeting provides an innovative framework for understanding the development and nature of the special relationship between British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and American President Ronald Reagan, who were known as "political soulmates". James Cooper boldly challenges the popular conflation of the leaders' platforms and proposes that Reagan and Thatcher's summitry highlighted unique features of domestic policy in their respective countries.

The Flores brothers thought they were very smart. Vicious, evil bandidos, they laughed at the law. They laughed, too, when they first saw Colin Farquharson, for they had never come across a kilted Scotsman before. “What is it, a man or woman?” one of them whooped. Seconds later Adàn Flores lay dead, and though he escaped immediate retribution, from then on the Flores gang had one idea in mind—the killing of Colin Farquharson.

A scientist in Switzerland had perfected a synthetic fuel that was cheaper and cleaner than oil, and everyone wanted to get their hands on it. Some wanted to make it available to the world. Others wanted to make sure the formula never saw the light of day again. The key to finding it lay with private eye Larry Kent, who was pressed back into service by his old masters at the CIA.

Reena Avery was caught up in the skin game. That’s why her husband killed her. Or so it seemed. But when Larry Kent looked Phil Avery in the eye, he was as sure as he could be that the man was innocent. From that moment on, he set out to find the real killer. But the real killer was always one step ahead of him, and every time Larry found a witness...the witness turned up dead!

Alcatraz Screw is a firsthand account from a prison guard’s perspective of some of the most storied years at the infamous U.S. Penitentiary at Alcatraz. Without glamorizing or demonizing either the staff or the convicts, Alcatraz Screw provides a candid portrayal of corruption, drug abuse, and sexual practices, as well as efforts at reform and unrecorded acts of kindness. Various incidents in the memoir convey the fear, hatred, frustration, boredom, and unavoidable tension of being incarcerated.

What happens when a 6' 9" kid from Lobelville, Tennessee is recruited by legendary basketball coach Bob Knight? Kirk Haston’s life was changed forever with just a two-minute phone call. Containing previously unknown Knight stories, anecdotes, and choice quotes, fans will gain an inside look at the notoriously private man and his no-nonsense coaching style. Which past Hoosier basketball greats returned to talk to and practice with current teams? How did the players feel when Knight was fired? In this touching and humorous audiobook, Haston shares these answers and more.

We need heroes. We need examples of what right looks like, where we can see a principle put into action and then observe the results. The farmer's law is eternally true, “You reap what you sow”. What are the consequences of a life lived with audacity, integrity, and thankfulness? We can look to Patton, Regulus, and Helen Keller to find out. What is the outcome if we persevere, and live nobly, with zeal? Ed Coan, George Washington, and Amelia Earhart show us. They say, you sow a thought; you reap an action.

Terror grips the Selden Texas community in 1925, when two boys on a hunting trip wander upon an old abandoned storm cellar. Inside, they find a decapitated human head - a boy about their age. The headless victim remains unidentified for days, and then the unimaginable happens. Aaron Martin’s simple farm life is turned upside down when the frightening news of the discovery spreads like wildfire.

Best Short Stories: Book Two by AZ Writers contains 34 captivating stories by over 20 different authors possessing an outstanding range of talent. Unlike many other short story collections, in this audiobook, the listener will experience the writing voice and style of many authors. In most other collections the listener is confronted with a dozen or more stories by one author who writes stories with the same voice, the same style, and usually with the same plot which, after a story or two, become quite boring.

The Green Hornet Streetcar Disaster tells the riveting tale of this calamity. Combing through newspaper accounts as well as the Chicago Transit Authority’s official archives, Craig Cleve vividly brings to life this horrific catastrophe. Going beyond the historical record, he tracks down individuals who were present on that fateful day on State and 62nd: eyewitnesses, journalists, and even survivors whose lives were forever changed by the accident.

Author Marques Lewis delivers uplifting messages in Never Settle...Never Again. A relationship book for women to know their worth and stop settling for less. Never Settle...Never Again will bring powerful discussions and different point of views between you and your girlfriends.

Reflective and literary and also entertaining and funny, David Stevenson's accounts move across the great climbing locations of the Western United States, with forays into the spires of the Alps and slip freely in time from the author's childhood when he could not wait to head west to his adulthood, with a wife and two sons, in which he still feels compelled by a longing to scale the heights.

Someone has a fetish for murder. Detective Kate Dawson is willing to go undercover to catch a serial killer. But this time, undercover may be exactly what the killer wants. Two very rich and powerful men in San Francisco have been murdered by a mysterious woman, nicknamed “The Angel of Death” by the press. Stephen Collins is targeted as the third victim. Naked, Collins welcomes a red-headed woman, dressed as a dominatrix, into his Pacific Heights home, and together they engage in sadomasochistic play.

The 1890s was the peak of the American bicycle craze, and consumers, including women, were buying bicycles in large numbers. Despite critics who tried to discourage women from trying this new sport, women took to the bike in huge numbers, and mastery of the bicycle became a metaphor for women’s mastery over their lives. Spurred by the emergence of the “safety” bicycle and the ensuing cultural craze, women’s professional bicycle racing thrived in the United States from 1895 to 1902.

When Tom Cummings is selected to be the foreman of a murder trial, little does he realize how it will alter his life forever. It costs him his business, his career, and nearly the love of his life. Based on true events, this is an edge of your seat murder mystery with deep political intrigue.