"Relentless, dynamic, riveting… Vallier employs a slick mixture of intrigue and action to keep the pages turning." - Kirkus Reviews“An exciting and fast-paced international spy intrigue.” - Laurie Marsh“A powerful story of espionage, terrorism, disaster, and one man who stands between the life and death of millions… A riveting read packed with twists and turns that keep readers engaged and wondering to the end.”

“Breathless, first-rate, gripping... A tense, complex, and cleverly plotted work of international suspense with more than enough heroic gusto for future promised installments” - Kirkus Reviews—————————————-“The Falcon is no Saint, he doesn’t have The Saint’s morals; he’s not a Bond, he doesn’t work for MI6. But if they passed in the street they would know each other well enough to say hello…”—————————————-A murder in Berlin… A kidna...

“The Falcon is no Saint, he doesn’t have The Saint’s morals; he’s not a Bond, he doesn’t work for MI6. But if they passed in the street they would know each other well enough to say hello…”≈≈≈≈≈This short story was commissioned by The Trinity Mirror Group, London, for their UK national newspaper The Sunday People in its glossy magazine Love Sunday.≈≈≈≈≈≈It seemed sensible to set the story a couple of months from where Spider 2-3 left off. Jim Peregrine, aka The ...

Françoise Dastur is well respected in France and Europe for her mastery of phenomenology as a movement and her clear and cogent explications of phenomenology in movement. These qualities are on display in this remarkable volume.Dastur guides the reader through a series of phenomenological questions—language and logic, self and other, temporality and history, finitude and mortality—that also call phenomenology itself into question, testing its limits and pushing it in new directions...

In recent years, with the rise of the craft beverage movement, the cider industry has been through a period of rapid commercial and non-commercial growth. Tasting and quality control is a core aspect of successful cider making and it is essential for industry and researchers to characterize cider using a standard, quantifiable metric. This book is a research-based text for understanding both the theory and practice of effectively evaluating the sensory properties of cider. The Professional...

Ryan Lock thought he'd seen it all, but nothing could prepare him for the world he enters when searching for missing teenager Kristin Miller.Teaming up with Angie Garcia, a former trafficking victim turned advocate, Lock plunges into a shadowy realm where young girls are lured, groomed, and sold into sexual slavery.As he races to find Kristin before she disappears into this dark web, Lock confronts the harsh reality that sometimes victims don't want to be saved. With time r...

Military veteran Ty Johnson is charged with protecting the life of a young reporter investigating the decades-old disappearance of a young woman in the Florida Everglades.Like the Everglades themselves, the small town of Darling appears calm. The people are welcoming to the two strangers, no one locks their doors, and crime seems non-existent.But just beneath the hospitable surface lie a series of terrifying secrets.Soon veteran bodyguard Ty finds this straightforwa...

The start of a gripping new crime thriller series introducing Intelligence officer Sophie Racine and featuring ex-SAS officer Aidan Snow!‘Alex Shaw is one of the best thriller writers around!’ Stephen LeatherA TRAITOR WHO CAN’T BE CAUGHTFrench Intelligence officer Sophie Racine is tasked with travelling into the heart of a warzone in Ukraine. Her mission is to assassinate a Russian spy who took the French secret serv...

In the dark underbelly of covert operations, a group of killers is wreaking havoc in the ranks of MI-6.It's the early 1960's - the height of the Cold War - and agents of the British Intelligence are being targeted by an unknown team of assassins. In desperation, the agency sends in their best agent to hunt down the killers.Jack "Gorilla" Grant isn't your typical secret agent. Uncompromising and rough-edged, he doesn't fit in with the elitist and debonair in...

Is "Confessions of Eden" drawn from today's headlines, or are the headlines drawn from what little is visible of Eden's highly classified footprints?> WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award - Best Spy Thriller> WINNER: Literary Titan Book Awards - Gold Medal“Confessions of Eden is told in a powerful voice, featuring streams of consciousness that plunge readers into the protagonist’s turmoil. Fast-...

Detective Damian Arruda thought his partner was just too distraught to accept his wife’s murder as a random act of violence. Then the devastated widower got too close to the truth, and now Damian is grieving his best friend. As his conscience threatens to eat him alive, he’ll stop at nothing to find the killer.Special Agent Melissa Walker’s partner met a violent end as well, and his death is almost certainly connected. When she joins forces with Damian, the investigation takes them...

**“Adventure, political intrigue, suspense, and action galore.”—Steve BerryA MISSION FOR JUSTICE**Explosions rock London, Paris, and Washington. Casualties number in the thousands. The President orders his covert agencies to retaliate with full force. It’s time to launch Operation Blowback.The Defense Intelligence Agency’s Bridget Davenport was in the strike zone when the terrorists attacked. Claiming responsibility is Al-Souri, a ji...