L.A. FBI agents are up against an unstoppable cop killer in this thriller by the PEN West Award–winning author Four Kinds of Rain.Jack Harper and Oscar Hidalgo are two of the smartest, toughest FBI agents in Los Angeles. But they've met their match in diamond smuggler Karl Steinbach. Arrested during a sting operation, Steinbach tells the team of agents he will kill them all. Coming from a man who's about to go to prison, it sounds like an empty threat. The...

This original anthology of noir fiction set in Maryland's Charm City includes new stories by David Simon, Laura Lippman, Jim Fusilli, and more.As fans of the HBO series The Wire have known for years, Baltimore is home to a rich and diverse underworld that is matched by an equally rich and diverse literary tradition. This is the city where Dashiell Hammett worked as a Pinkerton agent. It's also where Zelda Fitzgerald came...

Broke, recently divorced, and a total deadbeat, Bob Wells has spent his life as a psychiatrist only doing good in the world. When one of his patients with clear paranoid delusions starts to lose a grip, Bob has no choice but to intervene. Emile Bardan is haunted by demons, and he believes that someone is trying to steal his most prized possesion, the legendeary Mask of Utu. Bob thinks it’s all part of Emile’s imagination until he discovers that Emile is telling the truth a...

This classic of Robert Louis Stevenson, charts the tale of David Balfour in the Year 1751: Who upon arriving at his uncles house upon his Fathers death, is then promptly Kidnapped on his orders. All seems lost until a chance encounter with one Alan Breck, which leads to adventure, shipwreck, and a journey across the Highlands of Scotlands, pursued by Redcoats in a land still rife with unrest in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745.Believed to based in parts on the real life...

A fed's debt to a sexy snitch leads to a darkly funny nightmare of double-crosses and sinister motives: "Ward is simply the best" (Michael Connelly).All FBI Agent Jack Harper wants is a heavenly vacation in Baja: sand, surf, and fishing. Then he gets a phone call from hell: it's his for-lack-of-a-better-word girlfriend, Michelle Wu. The hot con-artist, and irresistible chop-shop queen needs Jack's help in finding her kidnapped sister, a nurse working a posh Taos he...

Do You Believe In Dragons? In This Practical Guide On Dragons Untold Secrets About Dragon Bound, Dragon's Oath, Dragon Breath, Chinese Dragons and Dragon Facts Will Be Revealed.

Stock market is where millions of pounds are made and lost in a year. I am sure you would have heard stories of people making a killing at the stock market and be tempted to invest in the UK stock market.I am an investor based out of London and have invested and made money in the share market. I cannot say that I have not lost in shares however I have done reasonably well on the London Stock Exchange. Of course there was no one to help me out so trial and error was my best friend i...

Detective Rafael Navarro walks a razor-thin line between corruption and conscience in the shadowy underworld of Seattle. A cop on the take, his life spirals into chaos when he's pulled into a dangerous conspiracy involving a stolen mind-control serum. His path collides with ruthless corporate figures, an enigmatic pop star, and a brilliant scientist whose groundbreaking work could change humanity forever.As Rafael's mission leads him through violent streets, shady deals, and brutal...

The advance of meteorology as a school study has been much hampered by the lack of a published outline of work in this subject which may be undertaken during the school years. There are several excellent text-books for more advanced study, but there is no laboratory manual for use in the elementary portions of the science. In many secondary schools some instruction in meteorology is given, and the keeping of meteorological records by the scholars is every year becoming more general. There ...

In the unending daylight of Anchorage's surreal summer, Katrina Muckerton is haunted by a past stained with blood and violence—and a contract to profit from it. But the brutal murder of her mentor, Gus Onalak, ignites a fire for vengeance that drags her into a relentless pursuit of his killers. Every shadow conceals a new enemy, every neon-lit street whispers secrets of a conspiracy that spans from crumbling urban decay to the claustrophobic corridors of a mysterious ferry.Katrina'...

When Red Baker, a Larmel steel worker in Baltimore, Maryland, gets laid off from his job he goes crazy: boozing, attempted philandering, running away from his future. Filled with unforgettable characters from Red’s angry but loyal wife, Wanda; his basketball-star son, Ace; his lifelong friend Dog, a casualty of the layoff; and Crystal, the go-go dancer at Lily’s bar who embodies Red’s fantasies of escape. Red Baker is a classic American novel about a man with no i...

An introduction to the complex world of options that every investor can useToo many books on options trading make the mistake of assuming that readers can already tell a delta from a sigma summation. Options and Options Trading breaks the code that envelops the often-foreign language of options, providing an accessible introduction into how the options market works as it explains the rules that traders must understand if they hope to take part in this high...