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Immerse yourself in the thrilling first book of author Juliane Viskup ́s suspense trilogy. Misdirection chronicles the story of trial lawyer Dallas Russell, who finds herself neck deep in a political campaign. Expecting to find an opportunity to make a difference, she instead finds an environment of mistrust and manipulation. When the campaign ́s computers are hacked, she begins to suspect the campaign ́s computer security expert, a bitter loner who is caught copying campaign files. Dallas takes on an investigation for truth and makes a startling emotional discovery. More than an entertaining political thriller, Misdirection will leave you with thoughts to ponder.
Stortorget Square, Stockholm, 1945. "In a side street, Peter waited near the car with Evdokia dressed in a grey raincoat. Her head was covered with a black cloth bag. A car stopped on the opposite side of the square. Two men emerged. Peter recognized one of them as the NKVD head of station, Major Vladimir Petrov, in a business suit and a fedora. He led the way, followed by a second man wearing a workman’s cap over his white hair. The hand-off was to happen in the middle of the square. Evdokia stumbled badly on the cobblestones in her heels as Peter brought up his Webley revolver to show the Russians he was taking no chances. “Mr Faye. Thank you so much for bringing my wife,” Vladimir s...
DEA Special Agent Keith Heiden is up on charges for brutality. He faces an investigation by Internal Affairs. He is ordered to have a psycho review, as he would call it. With pressures at home from his cheating, abusive wife, disrespectful teenage children, and a vengeful drug lord lurking in the shadows, Agent Heiden is heading towards destruction! But worst of all his unhappy childhood memories are crawling to the surface. So dealing with all these issues at the same time is making Special Agent Heiden a very unhappy camper.
A wartime memoir from Christine Keith, who left the sheltered world of academia towards the end of WWI to live and work among soldiers as a lecturer in Classics with the army's education scheme in France.
Some of history's greatest dramas have unfolded in the stories of kings and their sons in early modern Europe; and their conflicts presaged in some ways today's tensions in family-run businesses. In several notorious cases, the kings despised their sons to the point of committing murder, thus killing their own heirs. Prof. Konnert shows that these tragic dramas actually represent an extreme of the normal state of affairs rather than unusual occurrences. They are different in degree, not kind. This book is the first to look at these episodes in a systematic and comparative fashion. The stories are moving in themselves, but viewed in their historical context, they illuminate aspects of a past ...