Author: William W. Johnstone
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 0786031352
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
An ex-CIA agent gathers a team of hardened convicts to infiltrate a terrorist training camp in this military thriller by the authors of Home Invasion. Former CIA agent and soldier of fortune “Wild Bill” Elliott thought he was done with impossible missions. But that was before a group of Islamic fanatics teamed up with a Mexican drug cartel to establish a terrorist training camp on America's southern border—and Elliot is tapped by the government to wipe out their base. To do this, Elliott recruits a squad of lifers plucked out of the US maximum security prisons—a terrifying collection of brutal killers, armed robbers, and savage felons. Whipping this ragtag bunch into an assault force capable of infiltrating the terrorist deathtrap will be the greatest challenge Elliott's ever faced. Getting them out alive? That could be an even bigger problem . . .
Suicide Mission (Thriller)
Author: William W. Johnstone
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 0786031352
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
An ex-CIA agent gathers a team of hardened convicts to infiltrate a terrorist training camp in this military thriller by the authors of Home Invasion. Former CIA agent and soldier of fortune “Wild Bill” Elliott thought he was done with impossible missions. But that was before a group of Islamic fanatics teamed up with a Mexican drug cartel to establish a terrorist training camp on America's southern border—and Elliot is tapped by the government to wipe out their base. To do this, Elliott recruits a squad of lifers plucked out of the US maximum security prisons—a terrifying collection of brutal killers, armed robbers, and savage felons. Whipping this ragtag bunch into an assault force capable of infiltrating the terrorist deathtrap will be the greatest challenge Elliott's ever faced. Getting them out alive? That could be an even bigger problem . . .
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 0786031352
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
An ex-CIA agent gathers a team of hardened convicts to infiltrate a terrorist training camp in this military thriller by the authors of Home Invasion. Former CIA agent and soldier of fortune “Wild Bill” Elliott thought he was done with impossible missions. But that was before a group of Islamic fanatics teamed up with a Mexican drug cartel to establish a terrorist training camp on America's southern border—and Elliot is tapped by the government to wipe out their base. To do this, Elliott recruits a squad of lifers plucked out of the US maximum security prisons—a terrifying collection of brutal killers, armed robbers, and savage felons. Whipping this ragtag bunch into an assault force capable of infiltrating the terrorist deathtrap will be the greatest challenge Elliott's ever faced. Getting them out alive? That could be an even bigger problem . . .
Making Sense of Suicide Missions
Author: Diego Gambetta
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199297975
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
"Suicide attacks are a defining act of political violence and an extraordinary social phenomenon. This book investigates the organizers of suicide missions and the perpetrators alike"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199297975
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
"Suicide attacks are a defining act of political violence and an extraordinary social phenomenon. This book investigates the organizers of suicide missions and the perpetrators alike"--Provided by publisher.
The Bleeding Edge
Author: William W. Johnstone
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 0786030291
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The USA Today–bestselling authors of Home Invasion return with another timely thriller that puts readers on the frontlines of the battle for America. The Shady Hill Mobile Home Park isn't shady or hilly—this is West Texas after all. To military vet John Howard Stark, it's home. And worth fighting for. When a vicious drug cartel starts terrorizing the residents of Shady Hill, the Feds and the local police run for cover. But the good people of Shady Hill make a stand, electing Stark as their chief of police. Once a rancher, always a Texan, Stark and his fellow patriots send the cartel into a bloodthirsty fury by daring to fight back. When the bad guys start slaughtering innocent high school students, the God-fearing folks of Shady Hill find themselves deep in the heart of a bloody battle. It’s a desperate fight for survival that can only end in liberty . . . or death.
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 0786030291
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The USA Today–bestselling authors of Home Invasion return with another timely thriller that puts readers on the frontlines of the battle for America. The Shady Hill Mobile Home Park isn't shady or hilly—this is West Texas after all. To military vet John Howard Stark, it's home. And worth fighting for. When a vicious drug cartel starts terrorizing the residents of Shady Hill, the Feds and the local police run for cover. But the good people of Shady Hill make a stand, electing Stark as their chief of police. Once a rancher, always a Texan, Stark and his fellow patriots send the cartel into a bloodthirsty fury by daring to fight back. When the bad guys start slaughtering innocent high school students, the God-fearing folks of Shady Hill find themselves deep in the heart of a bloody battle. It’s a desperate fight for survival that can only end in liberty . . . or death.
Wintering
Author: Kate Moses
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466869135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This is the story of a woman forging a new life for herself after her marriage has foundered, shutting up her beloved Devonshire house and making a home for her two young children in London, elated at completing the collection of poems she foresees will make her name. It is also the story of a woman struggling to maintain her mental equilibrium, to absorb the pain of her husband's betrayal and to resist her mother's engulfing love. It is the story of Sylvia Plath. In this deeply felt novel, Kate Moses recreates Sylvia Plath's last months, weaving in the background of her life before she met Ted Hughes through to the disintegration of their relationship and the burst of creativity this triggered. It is inspired by Plath's original ordering and selection of the poems in Ariel, which begins with the word 'love' and ends with 'spring,' a mythic narrative of defiant survival quite different from the chronological version edited by Hughes. At Wintering's heart, though, lie the two weeks in December when Plath finds herself still alone and grief-stricken, despite all her determined hope. With exceptional empathy and lyrical grace, Moses captures her poignant, untenable and courageous struggle to confront not only her future as a woman, an artist and a mother, but the unbanished demons of her past.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466869135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This is the story of a woman forging a new life for herself after her marriage has foundered, shutting up her beloved Devonshire house and making a home for her two young children in London, elated at completing the collection of poems she foresees will make her name. It is also the story of a woman struggling to maintain her mental equilibrium, to absorb the pain of her husband's betrayal and to resist her mother's engulfing love. It is the story of Sylvia Plath. In this deeply felt novel, Kate Moses recreates Sylvia Plath's last months, weaving in the background of her life before she met Ted Hughes through to the disintegration of their relationship and the burst of creativity this triggered. It is inspired by Plath's original ordering and selection of the poems in Ariel, which begins with the word 'love' and ends with 'spring,' a mythic narrative of defiant survival quite different from the chronological version edited by Hughes. At Wintering's heart, though, lie the two weeks in December when Plath finds herself still alone and grief-stricken, despite all her determined hope. With exceptional empathy and lyrical grace, Moses captures her poignant, untenable and courageous struggle to confront not only her future as a woman, an artist and a mother, but the unbanished demons of her past.
Suicide Squads
Author: Richard O'Neill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780345304391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780345304391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Countdown Bin Laden
Author: Chris Wallace
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982176539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Chronicles the final months of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982176539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Chronicles the final months of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden.
Bombers, Bank Accounts, and Bleedout
Author: Brian Fishman
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437918484
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A report by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point (CTC), which launched the Harmony Project in order to release and analyze documents from DoD¿fs classified Harmony Database. The Harmony Project unearths and releases documents that reveal the inner¿]functioning of al¿]Qa¿fida, its associated movements, and other security threats. This report introduces new documents and new analysis to provide a better picture of al¿]Qa¿fida in Iraq¿fs operations and its prospects for the future. Illus.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437918484
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A report by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point (CTC), which launched the Harmony Project in order to release and analyze documents from DoD¿fs classified Harmony Database. The Harmony Project unearths and releases documents that reveal the inner¿]functioning of al¿]Qa¿fida, its associated movements, and other security threats. This report introduces new documents and new analysis to provide a better picture of al¿]Qa¿fida in Iraq¿fs operations and its prospects for the future. Illus.
The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism
Author: Erica Chenoweth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191047139
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism systematically integrates the substantial body of scholarship on terrorism and counterterrorism before and after 9/11. In doing so, it introduces scholars and practitioners to state of the art approaches, methods, and issues in studying and teaching these vital phenomena. This Handbook goes further than most existing collections by giving structure and direction to the fast-growing but somewhat disjointed field of terrorism studies. The volume locates terrorism within the wider spectrum of political violence instead of engaging in the widespread tendency towards treating terrorism as an exceptional act. Moreover, the volume makes a case for studying terrorism within its socio-historical context. Finally, the volume addresses the critique that the study of terrorism suffers from lack of theory by reviewing and extending the theoretical insights contributed by several fields - including political science, political economy, history, sociology, anthropology, criminology, law, geography, and psychology. In doing so, the volume showcases the analytical advancements and reflects on the challenges that remain since the emergence of the field in the early 1970s.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191047139
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism systematically integrates the substantial body of scholarship on terrorism and counterterrorism before and after 9/11. In doing so, it introduces scholars and practitioners to state of the art approaches, methods, and issues in studying and teaching these vital phenomena. This Handbook goes further than most existing collections by giving structure and direction to the fast-growing but somewhat disjointed field of terrorism studies. The volume locates terrorism within the wider spectrum of political violence instead of engaging in the widespread tendency towards treating terrorism as an exceptional act. Moreover, the volume makes a case for studying terrorism within its socio-historical context. Finally, the volume addresses the critique that the study of terrorism suffers from lack of theory by reviewing and extending the theoretical insights contributed by several fields - including political science, political economy, history, sociology, anthropology, criminology, law, geography, and psychology. In doing so, the volume showcases the analytical advancements and reflects on the challenges that remain since the emergence of the field in the early 1970s.
Global Collective Action
Author: Todd Sandler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139454269
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This book examines how nations and other key participants in the global community address problems requiring collective action. The global community has achieved some successes, such as eradicating smallpox, but other efforts to coordinate nations' actions, such as the reduction of drug trafficking, have not been sufficient. This book identifies the factors that promote or inhibit successful collective action at the regional and global level for an ever-growing set of challenges stemming from augmented cross-border flows associated with globalization. Modern principles of collective action are identified and applied to a host of global challenges, including promoting global health, providing foreign assistance, controlling rogue nations, limiting transnational terrorism, and intervening in civil wars. Because many of these concerns involve strategic interactions where choices and consequences are dependent on one's own and others' actions, the book relies, in places, on elementary game theory that is fully introduced for the uninitiated reader.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139454269
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This book examines how nations and other key participants in the global community address problems requiring collective action. The global community has achieved some successes, such as eradicating smallpox, but other efforts to coordinate nations' actions, such as the reduction of drug trafficking, have not been sufficient. This book identifies the factors that promote or inhibit successful collective action at the regional and global level for an ever-growing set of challenges stemming from augmented cross-border flows associated with globalization. Modern principles of collective action are identified and applied to a host of global challenges, including promoting global health, providing foreign assistance, controlling rogue nations, limiting transnational terrorism, and intervening in civil wars. Because many of these concerns involve strategic interactions where choices and consequences are dependent on one's own and others' actions, the book relies, in places, on elementary game theory that is fully introduced for the uninitiated reader.
Aircrew Security
Author: Clois Williams
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351959832
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
The events of 11 September 2001 changed the world, and in particular the aviation community, forever. Since then, the terrorist threat continues to dominate international air travel and pose a real and present danger to airline passengers and aircrew across the globe. In line with this, expectations of renewed commitments to aircrew security training increased, however the practical reality of the standard of information and effective training often fell short. This book aims to help redress this problem. Intended to help flight crews' deal with the new complexities they face in the skies, it is designed to inform and enlighten crewmembers on the issues posed by air rage and terrorist activities, using techniques for conflict resolution, assessment of threat, mental and physical preparation and post-incident considerations. The culmination of work accomplished from a lifetime of employment in aviation, security and training, the authors use a progressive approach to explain security issues from a flight crewmember's perspective. Using detailed studies of current airline security practice, verified by interviews with crewmembers worldwide, the book uncovers many of the shortcomings of international aviation security and presents plausible and innovative solutions to the problems crewmembers face. Having worked with aviation industry leaders, regulatory authorities, major airlines and flight training organizations, the authors provide a unique blend of guidance, useful to the development of security programs for crewmembers by airlines, corporations and air charter companies. Government agencies commissioned with overseeing and developing aircrew security can also use the book when seeking a better understanding of the needs of crewmembers and airlines. Readership includes: Airline flight crewmembers (pilots, flight engineers and flight attendants); major universities and colleges with aviation programs; members of organizations such as the Airline Transport Association, International Airline Transport Association, World Airline Transport Association, Flight Safety Foundation, Pilot and Flight Attendant labor unions as well as government agencies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351959832
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
The events of 11 September 2001 changed the world, and in particular the aviation community, forever. Since then, the terrorist threat continues to dominate international air travel and pose a real and present danger to airline passengers and aircrew across the globe. In line with this, expectations of renewed commitments to aircrew security training increased, however the practical reality of the standard of information and effective training often fell short. This book aims to help redress this problem. Intended to help flight crews' deal with the new complexities they face in the skies, it is designed to inform and enlighten crewmembers on the issues posed by air rage and terrorist activities, using techniques for conflict resolution, assessment of threat, mental and physical preparation and post-incident considerations. The culmination of work accomplished from a lifetime of employment in aviation, security and training, the authors use a progressive approach to explain security issues from a flight crewmember's perspective. Using detailed studies of current airline security practice, verified by interviews with crewmembers worldwide, the book uncovers many of the shortcomings of international aviation security and presents plausible and innovative solutions to the problems crewmembers face. Having worked with aviation industry leaders, regulatory authorities, major airlines and flight training organizations, the authors provide a unique blend of guidance, useful to the development of security programs for crewmembers by airlines, corporations and air charter companies. Government agencies commissioned with overseeing and developing aircrew security can also use the book when seeking a better understanding of the needs of crewmembers and airlines. Readership includes: Airline flight crewmembers (pilots, flight engineers and flight attendants); major universities and colleges with aviation programs; members of organizations such as the Airline Transport Association, International Airline Transport Association, World Airline Transport Association, Flight Safety Foundation, Pilot and Flight Attendant labor unions as well as government agencies.