Written “in the manner of a good crime thriller” (The Wall Street Journal), the inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI created its own tech start-up to wiretap the worldIn 2018, a powerful app for secure communications called Anom took root among organized criminals. They believed Anom allowed them to conduct business in the shadows. Except for one thing: It was secretly run by the FBI.  Backdoor ac...

In issue 6: Nancy Christopherson, Melinda Coppola, Terry Cox-Joseph, Kaitlyn Davis, John Dorroh, Laura Hart Home, Linda Imbler, Laura Lee, Luisa Kay Reyes, Emily Martin (Children's Poetry Section), Eduard Schmidt-Zorner, Melanie Simms, Wesley Sims, Susanne Thomas, and Diane Vogel Ferri.Plus: Social media tips, useful writing tools, and Haiku-Interview with Camilla Downs. Readers are also challenged to write some sixku, kindku and pareiku, the poetry forms editors Cendrine Marrouat ...

If you are a manager, you may wonder how your behavior toward your staff affects their productivity and your department’s contribution to profit. If so, this book is for you. The author had many loathsome jobs. Apathetic managers aggravated poor work conditions. He was aggrieved enough to spend most of his adult life deciphering the real-world (bottom-line) metrics from bosses’ behaviors toward those under their care. The absence of accountability for ill-treatment of staff, with consequen...

Written “in the manner of a good crime thriller” (The Wall Street Journal), the inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI created its own tech start-up to wiretap the worldIn 2018, a powerful app for secure communications called Anom took root among organized criminals. They believed Anom allowed them to conduct business in the shadows. Except for one thing: It was secretly run by the FBI.  Backdoor ac...

In the heart of India's vibrant landscape, where lush jungles whisper secrets and ancient traditions intertwine, a forbidden love blossoms. The Jungle Flower, a captivating tale by Laurence Hope, unveils the poignant story of Maira, a beautiful Indian princess, and Trevelyan, a British officer. Their forbidden romance defies societal norms and ignites a passionate flame that threatens to consume them both. As their love faces insurmountable obstacles, Maira and Trevelyan must navigate a tr...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award * Bronze Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award (Council on Foreign Relations)"Written in the hot, propulsive prose of a spy thriller" (The New York Times), the untold story of the cyberweapons market-the most secretive, government-backed market on earth-and a terrifying first look at a new kind of global warfare.Zero-day: a sof...

From the award-winning author of Sandworm comes the propulsive story of a new breed of investigators who have cracked the Bitcoin blockchain, exposing once-anonymous realms of money, drugs, and violence. “I love the book… It reads like a thriller… These stories are amazing.” (Michael Lewis)Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrency. Crime lords inhabiting lawless corners of the internet have operate...

The much anticipated follow-up to the bestseller that exposed the escalation of organised crime in New Zealand.Gangster's Paradise is about drugs, guns, gangs and money. Lots of money.A gang which took over a small rural town. A police officer shot and killed in a routine traffic stop. A port-worker who helped a gang whisk a shipping container off a wharf in the middle of the night. A crew of corrupt baggage handlers smuggling meth into the country during ...

With an experienced CIA officer as your teacher, you’ll gain the knowledge and necessary tools to protect yourself and the ones you love.No matter where we go, we leave tracks and clues of our existence without even knowing. Our electronic footprint becomes our invisible trail. In this day in age where the world seems to be at our fingertips and social media plays a huge role in our daily lives, it’s hard not to leave part of our digital selves for others to find.

Protect Your Privacy in the Information Age with This Revised and Updated Essential GuideIn this thoroughly revised and updated third edition of his immensely popular guide How to Be Invisible, J.J. Luna shows you how to protect your personal security in a world where new innovations in information gathering have left the average person's private life open to scrutiny and exploitation. Luna, an expert and highly trained security consultant, reveals the sho...

Two men photographed each other stealing thousands of dollars from gambling machines. An armed man successfully robbed a pharmacy and was captured after he boasted about it on social media. A burglar spent time cleaning the house he was robbing and even restocked some groceries before he was discovered fast asleep in the homeowner’s bed. Two drunken louts stole a penguin from an aquarium and tried to release it into a canal once they were sober (the creature was returned to the polar enclo...

Hitmen for hire, drugs for sale. Inside the dangerous world that lurks beneath the bright, friendly light of your internet screenDark...A kingpin willing to murder to protect his dark web drug empire. A corrupt government official determined to avoid exposure. The death of a dark web drugs czar in mysterious circumstances in a Bangkok jail cell, just as the author arrives there.Who is Variety Jones and why have darknet markets ballooned tenfold sinc...