Covert Obsession, A Thrilling Military Romance, SEALs of Shadow Force: Spy Division, Book 6

Covert Obsession, A Thrilling Military Romance, SEALs of Shadow Force: Spy Division, Book 6
Author: Misty Evans
Publisher: Beach Path Publishing, LLC.
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2023-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 194868697X

Moe has lived in the shadows since his mother abandoned him as a baby. Will saving Parker bring him into the light? Moe “Henley” Bouchard, renowned as SFI's top tracker, possesses an extraordinary talent for finding the lost. Yet, when his past collides with a high-stakes rescue mission, he’s faced with a revelation that challenges everything he knows about himself, and worse, the fallout may cost him the woman he loves. Parker Jeffries, the formidable leader of the spy division, discovers she’s entangled in a web of dangerous lies when a devastating truth about Moe emerges. The promising future she once envisioned with him shatters, and trust becomes a fragile commodity in a race against time. The two operatives must navigate a treacherous landscape where their loyalty is tested to the breaking point and their hearts are the only thing that can save them. Can Parker be the lifeline that Moe needs, or will their love become the very downfall that threatens to consume them both? One-click and read this heart-pounding thriller of love, secrets, and redemption today!

Covert Tactics, A Thrilling Military Romance, SEALs of Shadow Force: Spy Division, Book 5

Covert Tactics, A Thrilling Military Romance, SEALs of Shadow Force: Spy Division, Book 5
Author: Misty Evans
Publisher: Beach Path Publishing, LLC.
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2023-05-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1948686872

Their attraction can't be denied, but will giving in to it cost them everything? Amelia Thorpe and Rory Tephra are struggling to move on from their pasts and dancing around their mutual and oh-so-steamy attraction. Shifting from being Rory’s physical therapist to his girlfriend is no easy task for Amelia. When she’s mugged on her way to her first date with him and left with partial amnesia, she wrestles with more than her recall. Rory, the former SEAL and undercover agent, is avoiding his feelings for the sassy physical therapist who has given him back the use of his legs, but becomes convinced the attack wasn’t random and her lost memories hold the key to why. Working together, they expose a dangerous child abduction ring—and Amelia begins to remember things from her past better left forgotten. With danger lurking around every corner, trusting each other becomes paramount. The strength of their relationship is tested beyond the breaking point, but as they draw ever closer to the truth, they must put their lives on the line and confront a killer from her past. Grab your copy today!

Blindsight

Blindsight
Author: Peter Watts
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2006-10-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429955198

Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Covert Affairs

Covert Affairs
Author: Misty Evans
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781948686778

She can't remember what happened that night in Berlin. He can't forget it. NSA psychologist, Dr. Genevieve Montgomery, broke her one cardinal rule-don't fall in love with a SEAL. As a therapist to special operatives and spies, her brain is filled with secret identities and covert intelligence. When her own cutting-edge therapy is used on her, she's branded a traitor, and the man sent to terminate her is the same one she's fallen in love with. Ian Kincaid understood what he would face when he became a Navy SEAL. Knew the enemies he would be tasked to eliminate to protect his country, the challenges he would confront. Never did he imagine one of them would be the woman he trusted with his secrets. One night changes everything between them. Once lovers, they're now enemies. Can Genevieve prove she's innocent? Or will Ian have to eliminate this threat to his country-and his heart?

The Woman Left Behind

The Woman Left Behind
Author: Linda Howard
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2018-03-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 006241903X

Jina Modell works in Communications for a paramilitary organization, and she really likes it. She likes the money, she likes the coolness factor—and it is very cool, even for Washington, D.C. She likes being able to kick terrorist butts without ever leaving the climate-controlled comfort of the control room... But when Jina displays a really high aptitude for spatial awareness and action, she’s reassigned to work as an on-site drone operator in the field with one of the GO-Teams, an elite paramilitary unit. The only problem is that she isn’t particularly athletic, to put it mildly, and in order to be fit for the field, she has to learn how to run and swim for miles, jump out of a plane, shoot a gun . . . or else she’ll be out of a job. Team leader Levi, call sign Ace, doesn’t have much confidence in Jina—whom he dubbed Babe as soon as he heard her raspy, sexy voice—making it through the rigors of training. The last thing he needs is some tech geek holding them back from completing a dangerous, covert operation. In the following months, however, no one is more surprised than he when Babe, who hates to sweat, begins to thrive in her new environment, displaying a grit and courage that wins her the admiration of her hardened, battle-worn teammates. What’s even more surprising is that the usually very disciplined GO-Team leader can’t stop thinking about kissing her smart, stubborn mouth . . . or the building chemistry and tension between them. Meanwhile, a powerful congresswoman is working behind the scenes to destroy the GO-Teams, and a trap is set to ambush Levi’s squad in Syria. While the rest of the operatives set off on their mission, Jina remains at the base to control the surveillance drone, and the base is suddenly attacked with explosives. Thought dead by her comrades, Jina escapes to the desert where, brutally tested beyond measure, she has to figure out how to stay undetected by the enemy and make it to her crew before they’re exfiltrated from the country. But Levi never leaves a soldier behind, especially the brave woman he’s fallen for. He’s bringing back the woman they left behind, dead or alive.

Surprise, Kill, Vanish

Surprise, Kill, Vanish
Author: Annie Jacobsen
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2019-05-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0316441406

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units. Surprise . . . your target. Kill . . . your enemy. Vanish . . . without a trace. When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA's Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective, black operations force in the world. Originally known as the president's guerrilla warfare corps, SAD conducts risky and ruthless operations that have evolved over time to defend America from its enemies. Almost every American president since World War II has asked the CIA to conduct sabotage, subversion and, yes, assassination. With unprecedented access to forty-two men and women who proudly and secretly worked on CIA covert operations from the dawn of the Cold War to the present day, along with declassified documents and deep historical research, Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen unveils -- like never before -- a complex world of individuals working in treacherous environments populated with killers, connivers, and saboteurs. Despite Hollywood notions of off-book operations and external secret hires, covert action is actually one piece in a colossal foreign policy machine. Written with the pacing of a thriller, Surprise, Kill, Vanish brings to vivid life the sheer pandemonium and chaos, as well as the unforgettable human will to survive and the intellectual challenge of not giving up hope that define paramilitary and intelligence work. Jacobsen's exclusive interviews -- with members of the CIA's Senior Intelligence Service (equivalent to the Pentagon's generals), its counterterrorism chiefs, targeting officers, and Special Activities Division's Ground Branch operators who conduct today's close-quarters killing operations around the world -- reveal, for the first time, the enormity of this shocking, controversial, and morally complex terrain. Is the CIA's paramilitary army America's weaponized strength, or a liability to its principled standing in the world? Every operation reported in this book, however unsettling, is legal.

Los Angeles Magazine

Los Angeles Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2003-11
Genre:
ISBN:

Los Angeles magazine is a regional magazine of national stature. Our combination of award-winning feature writing, investigative reporting, service journalism, and design covers the people, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, fashion, art and architecture, and news that define Southern California. Started in the spring of 1961, Los Angeles magazine has been addressing the needs and interests of our region for 48 years. The magazine continues to be the definitive resource for an affluent population that is intensely interested in a lifestyle that is uniquely Southern Californian.

Bring Up the Bodies

Bring Up the Bodies
Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2012-05-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429947659

Winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Award The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice. At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over three terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies follows the dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally with his natural enemies, the papist aristocracy. What price will he pay for Anne's head? Bring Up the Bodies is one of The New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2012, one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012 and one of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2012

The Circle

The Circle
Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385351402

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair). When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

A Little History of the World

A Little History of the World
Author: E. H. Gombrich
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300213972

E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in almost thirty languages. Gombrich was of course the best-known art historian of his time, and his text suggests illustrations on every page. This illustrated edition of the Little History brings together the pellucid humanity of his narrative with the images that may well have been in his mind's eye as he wrote the book. The two hundred illustrations—most of them in full color—are not simple embellishments, though they are beautiful. They emerge from the text, enrich the author's intention, and deepen the pleasure of reading this remarkable work. For this edition the text is reset in a spacious format, flowing around illustrations that range from paintings to line drawings, emblems, motifs, and symbols. The book incorporates freshly drawn maps, a revised preface, and a new index. Blending high-grade design, fine paper, and classic binding, this is both a sumptuous gift book and an enhanced edition of a timeless account of human history.