Codename Snake Iii

From the author of the award-winning CodeName:Snake, The Evil We Kill, comes the third volume of the dramatic story of an assassin driven by revenge. The Nazis killed his family and his mission in life has been to seek out Nazis who escaped Germany at the end of WWII. Inadvertently, Stefan Hirsch has uncovered massive fraud among high-ranking US government officials. He is a danger to them and must be eliminated. Agents are sent to make him “disappear.” Stefan tries to fight back but the resources used against him are overwhelming and closing in. His tormentors are unrelenting and death can be seconds away. And now they are also after his wife and child. He cannot let his guard down and knows he must strike back, but how, against such massively overpowering odds? Author Picture (use the same picture on the previous Xlibris novel – CodeName: Snake – II Trust No One)

From the author of the award-winning CodeName: Snake, The Evil We Kill, comes the third volume of the dramatic story of an assassin driven by revenge. The Nazis killed his family and his mission in life has been to seek out Nazis who escaped Germany at the end of WWII. Inadvertently, Stefan Hirsch has uncovered massive fraud among high-ranking US government officials. He is a danger to them and must be eliminated. Agents are sent to make him "disappear." Stefan tries to fight back but the resources used against him are overwhelming and closing in. His tormentors are unrelenting and death can be seconds away. And now they are also after his wife and child. He cannot let his guard down and knows he must strike back, but how, against such massively overpowering odds? Author Picture (use the same picture on the previous Xlibris novel - CodeName: Snake - II Trust No One)

From the author of the award-winning CodeName:Snake, The Evil We Kill, comes the second volume of the dramatic story of an assassin driven by revenge. The Nazis killed his family, and now his mission in life is to seek out Nazis who escaped Germany at the end of WWII. The Cold War is in full swing as Stefan Hirsch goes behind the Iron Curtain, a spy, to slow Russian development of their space program and eliminate Nazis working under Russian protection -- Nazis who worked on the V-2 rocket program and now are helping the Russians. But a traitor turns Stefan in and he has only seconds to escape. The Russians mount a massive search for the assassin known as The Snake. Stefan knows that in the treacherous game he is playing, his life is on the line, and as the Russians close in, he can trust no one, and they have orders to shoot to kill.

A Jewish Assassin operating in Berlin during World War II.

From the early gung-ho posturing of John Wayne in The Green Berets to the psychedelic rites of Apocalypse Now and the stark horrors of Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, Search & Destroy is a guide to the way Hollywood has progressively portrayed the Vietnam war. From Travis Bickle in Scorsese's classic Taxi Driver to the brutal rapist of hardcore porn movie Forced Entry, psychotic vietnam veterans have been wreaking screen havoc from the early '70s onwards. Dennis Hopper in Tracks, Sylvester Stallone in First Blood, Robert Ginty in The Exterminator; these disparate characters are all driven by the same demons and blood-drenched flashbacks, haunted by the spectre of Nam. In graphic films such as Jacob's Ladder, Troma's Combat Shock, and Antonio Margheriti's Cannibal Apocalypse, Viet vets are subjected to the horrors of physical or mental mutation after being exposed to chemical warfare and experimentation in Nam. Search & Destroy contains illustrated essays on these and hundreds of other movies, ranging from the combat traumas graphically displayed in documentaries such as Army Medicine In Vietnam, to underground classics to the most garish exploitation movies and gun-fixated redneck trash. Search & Destroy is the ultimate guide to the cinematic legacy of Vietnam, a harrowing trip into the heart of darkness Book jacket.

The most comprehensive account to date of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and aftermath, this volume includes unprecedented details on the impact on the Pentagon building and personnel and the scope of the rescue, recovery, and caregiving effort. It features 32 pages of photographs and more than a dozen diagrams and illustrations not previously available.

The complex material histories of the Nintendo Entertainment System platform, from code to silicon, focusing on its technical constraints and its expressive affordances. In the 1987 Nintendo Entertainment System videogame Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, a character famously declared: I AM ERROR. Puzzled players assumed that this cryptic mesage was a programming flaw, but it was actually a clumsy Japanese-English translation of “My Name is Error,” a benign programmer's joke. In I AM ERROR Nathan Altice explores the complex material histories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (and its Japanese predecessor, the Family Computer), offering a detailed analysis of its programming and engineering, its expressive affordances, and its cultural significance. Nintendo games were rife with mistranslated texts, but, as Altice explains, Nintendo's translation challenges were not just linguistic but also material, with consequences beyond simple misinterpretation. Emphasizing the technical and material evolution of Nintendo's first cartridge-based platform, Altice describes the development of the Family Computer (or Famicom) and its computational architecture; the “translation” problems faced while adapting the Famicom for the U.S. videogame market as the redesigned Entertainment System; Nintendo's breakthrough console title Super Mario Bros. and its remarkable software innovations; the introduction of Nintendo's short-lived proprietary disk format and the design repercussions on The Legend of Zelda; Nintendo's efforts to extend their console's lifespan through cartridge augmentations; the Famicom's Audio Processing Unit (APU) and its importance for the chiptunes genre; and the emergence of software emulators and the new kinds of play they enabled.