CREATIVITY WITHIN THE LINESFinancial communication has changed, but expectations haven't moved, even as platforms accelerate and audiences expand.For RRs, IARs, and RIAs, the challenge is constant: how do you communicate clearly, stay compliant, and still sound like yourself?Built on Clarity, Balance, and Responsibility shows you how to create public-facing content that moves through review with fewer revisions and connects with the people it's meant to rea...

If the good guys can't save you, call a bad guy.When viral video of an explosive terrorist attack on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge reveals that a Federal witness long thought dead is still alive, the organization he'd agreed to testify against will stop at nothing to put him in the ground.FBI Special Agent Charlie Thompson is determined to protect him, but her hands are tied; the FBI's sole priority is catching the terrorists before they strike again. So Charlie calls ...

From molecular biologist turned Anthony Award-winning author of The Killing Kind comes a fact-based thriller about our species’ next great existential threat—perfect for fans of Michael Crichton**.**It began four years ago with a worldwide uptick of bacterial infections: meningitis in Frankfurt, cholera in Johannesburg, tuberculosis in New Delhi. Although the outbreaks spread aggressively and proved impervious to our drugs of last resort, ...

A master thief must build a team to escape a correctional center in this fast-paced, hard-boiled crime novel by the author of Firebreak.With Parker locked up and about to be unmasked, Breakout follows his Houdini-like escape from prison with a team of convicts. But when a new heist and new dangers—con artists, snitches, busybodies, eccentrics, and cops—loom among the dark alleys and old stone buildings of the big city to which they've fled, Parker ...

The exploits achieved by the units that flew these jets into combat is detailed in this volume, the third of three titles published in the Combat Aircraft series on what has been dubbed by many TACAIR insiders the 'Hornet's War'.Some 84 of the 250 Hornets committed by Central Command to Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) proudly bore MARINE titling on their rear fuselages. A further 14 were marked with the distinctive kangaroo roundel of the Royal Australian Air Force (...

This book has everything: Ghosts, goldfish, pirates, a cat with criminal tendencies, UFOs, a burglar, an awful lot of stuff about avoiding death and the police, bats, badgers... and it’s all very, very silly. What more could you ask for in a book? But... who said YOU could read it? Eh? Hm?

Two books, one anthology.The grift. The scam. The double-cross. Blackmail and burglary; murder and larceny. Blood Business tracks the underbelly of human nature as it drags itself through the muck of our lesser angels in twenty-seven crime stories set in this world... and beyond.

Michael Hendricks kills people for money. That aside, he's not so bad a guy.Once a covert operative for a false-flag unit of the US military, Hendricks was presumed dead after a mission in Afghanistan went sideways. He left behind his old life -- and beloved fiancée -- and set out on a path of redemption...or perhaps one of willful self-destruction.Now Hendricks makes his living as a hitman entrepreneur of sorts -- he only hits other hitmen. For ten times the price on your ...

Calgary has seen a lot in its relatively short history.Residents have endured conflicts, challenges, epidemics, explosions, and floods. The 1988 Winter Olympics, the Calgary Zoo, and the Hart wrestling dynasty put the city on the world stage.Into all these moments saunters a little grey cat with odd eyes, a curiously expressive tail, and too many toes, touching Calgarians and changing their lives.This composite nove...

When a remote Arctic research station falls silent, the official explanation is equipment failure.The truth is far worse.A covert response team arrives at Facility NIGHTFALL expecting malfunctioning systems and frightened scientists. Instead, they find an intact station, warm lights, untouched personal belongings - and no people.As the team investigates, evidence reveals a chilling sequence: security cameras disabled with precision, communications deliberately cut, ...

Meet Sam Thornton, Collector of Souls.Sam's job is to collect the souls of the damned, and ensure their souls are dispatched to the appropriate destination.But when he's dispatched to collect the soul of a young woman he believes to be innocent of the horrific crime that's doomed her to Hell, he says something no Collector has ever said before."No."

Fear spreads faster than truth. And the algorithm is hungry.When investigative journalist Tess Calder stumbles onto a viral TikTok challenge called #FeedTheDark, she expects another pointless internet fad. What she finds instead is a pattern - whispers in abandoned places, impossible shadows appearing for exactly nine frames, and teenagers vanishing without a trace.The more Tess investigates, the more the darkness evolves. ...