"Smuggler" is a riveting memoir that chronicles the extraordinary life journey of a man navigating the clandestine world of illegal activities, intricate relationships, and life-threatening situations. From his humble beginnings as an orphan to his rise as a skilled operator in various underground enterprises, the protagonist shares candid reflections on the values, decisions, and experiences that shaped his identity and shaped his path. Through tales of high-stakes maneuvers, unexpected a...

Boeing 737 Captain Patrick Strack is assigned to fly a plane load of high denomination treasury bills on their way to be burned. A fire fight occurs on the aircraft and he is forced to fly a severely damaged aircraft to Venice Florida where the hijackers remove all the money and disappear. When the police arrive,an injured Patrick, is the only survivor, and is blamed. No one believes his tale of being hijacked, he is slated to go to jail after he recovers from his injuries. While he is rec...

Ernest Dowson: Lyric Lives is the first full-length critical study of this canonical writer to appear in English. It challenges the many myths that have surrounded Dowson's life and work for more than a century, contending that, in his distinct theory of muse-fired inspiration; his authentic Catholic confessionalism; his deep love of France, its literary tradition, and its culture; his prolonged battle with tuberculosis; and his final abandonment of creative writing, Dowson is amo...

This book was written to show that we all have the right to be loved and show love to others. We are not allowed to change nature or to harm others by our actions. I have life experience as well interviews from drug dealers, abused wives, hurt husbands, disenfranchised children, and homosexuals who are hurting because of the lack of love. I have noticed in life that both men and women have misused one another in the name of love. I hope this book will be a looking glass and shed some light...

A thrilling coastal adventureRetired DEA pilot Cale Coleman’s life has slowed to a leisurely pace of running a small charter operation and living the life of a recreational waterman. Coleman is both wrapping up a reunion for childhood friends and battening down the hatches for an approaching hurricane when his life gets a jolt of adrenaline.Francisco Escobar, nephew of Columbian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, has spent the last two decades maintaining a low pr...

My experience at Pan American World Airways during the mid '60s and early '70s was far more than just a job. It was a whole series of adventures. I was snowbound and buried in baggage at Kennedy Airport for 3 days during the Christmas Blizzard of '66. I was on special assignment in Paris during the infamous general strike of '68. I survived three years of martial law in Guatemala after Ambassador Mien was executed while escaping from terrorist kidnappers. My plane caught fire and lost its ...

The first in the explosive and bestselling Dewey Andreas series.The largest oil-platform in the Western Hemisphere and a major hydroelectric dam are destroyed in a coordinated terrorist attack. The West's energy supplies risk total failure.But when the terrorists strike a rig off the coast of Colombia, slaughtering the crew and destroying the oil field, there's one factor they don't take into account: former special forces operative Dewey Andreas....

Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon crew are hired to save a wealthy Indonesian businessman's son from the influence of the Taliban in this #1 New York Times-bestselling adventure series.Jungles come in many forms. There are the steamy rain forests of the Burmese highlands. There are the lies and betrayals of the world of covert operations. And there are the dark and twisted thoughts of a man bent on near-global domination. To pull off their latest missi...

"Aspects of the Novel" by E.M. Forster is a celebrated work of literary criticism that explores the art and craft of the novel. Originally delivered as a series of lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1927, this book offers insightful perspectives on various aspects of novel writing.Forster delves into essential elements of the novel, including plot, characters, narrative voice, and pattern, providing nuanced analyses of classic and contemporary works to illustrate his points...

Somewhere over the passing years and changing culture, women have lost their way. This book is written to lead them back home. Regardless of how you began your marriage or how dark and lonely the path that has brought you to where you are now, I want you to know that it is possible today to have a marriage so good and so fulfilling that it can only be explained as a miracle. Follow Debi Pearl as she takes the wisdom and experience of her own marriage and confirms it with the wisdom of scri...

Chairman of the Corporation Juan Cabrillo and his mercenary crew steer theOregon into battle against a militant leader and his cult-like followers in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. Still smarting from a weapons-trade gone bad and a dou...

The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages; and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied landscape that invites exploration rather than a linear journey. In The Novel: A Biography,...