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This is your first day in the military. You have been walking around in your underwear most of the day. You have been taking test after test. Finally, you take the Oath. You are now officially in the military. At one p.m. someone shows up in a van and drives you to your basic training site. Who are you? You are Army recruits I’ve had the privilege of driving to either Fort Knox, Kentucky, or Fort Jackson, South Carolina; or maybe you’re a Marine recruit going to Parris Island, South Carolina. But you will all be one of a thousand young men and women I had the privilege of transporting to their basic training stations over a period of three years. For, I am “the man who drives the van.”

Lt. Colonel Jon Frasier, Delta Force, squadron commander is due career wise in the Army for a staff assignment and is sent to an advanced secret base as the project manager for the DARPA Army Warfighter Individual Soldier Body Armor Program. In this new world Jon almost immediately runs into enemies and problems to overcome. In the process he has to face massive changes in the technology he is used to. Paradigm shifts become common as even simple everyday activities are changed. If paradigm shifts and assassins are not enough, Jon and the other inhabitants of this place called Omega 11 suddenly have to deal with surviving the end of the world as we know it and the resulting turmoil. In this case California falls into the Pacific which also ignites the Pacific Ring of Fire. Massive amounts of volcanic ash and dust fill the upper atmosphere preventing air travel. As time goes on that same ash and dust starts lowering the temperature outside. But Omega 11 and the other Omega sites were designed just for this task. Now to see if all of General ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan’s planning and the people of Omega are up to the task.

When a team of army rangers makes a trip into Cambodia, looking for Americans believed to still be held prisoner, they are ambushed and half their team lost. They had safely made these trips a half dozen times without incident, so know they were set up. But who would do such a thing? Few people knew of their incursions into Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. After an attempt on their lives back in The States, they know someone, for some reason wants rid of them. It becomes a dangerous game of cat and mouse with their unknown pursuers. The remaining seven team members, all master sergeants, bring their commanding officer home to bury, then Mitch goes to see Colonel Eddie McCains sister in Southern Illinois. She has a packet of information for Mitch that her brother left with her, knowing Mitch would come to see her if anything happened to him. The information contained in the packet is a list of people thought to be trafficking in heroin from the Far East. Also, a Senators name, whom Eddie evidently trusted is in the packet. When Eddie goes to Indianapolis to see the senator, another attempt is made on his life. When the senator is killed, Mitch knows he is into something far-reaching and, evidently, involving far more than heroin traffic. After the senator is murdered, a CIA operative, who had worked with the senator, approaches Mitch and his team. Mitch tends to trust the man, but is wary of everyone. It seems everywhere they turn, someone tries to take them out. They have been given new identification cards by Walter Hixon, their CIA contact. It turns out the cards are miniature locator beacons, but Mitch believes Hixon when he tells him although someone at the agency has to be involved in the plot to kill them, he has no knowledge of who or why. The trail leads them to an army missile storage depot in Kentucky, where a number of cruise missiles are missing. People from an electronics firm located in Dallas had recently been to the depot to do modifications on the missiles. When Mitch and his team avoid the people laying in wait for them on the trip to Dallas, they find that a large number of the electronics firm employees are missing. They do make contact with two women employees who had been at the missile depot and who had survived whatever had happened to the other employees. Eventually, Mitch learns the electronics company is actually a CIA owned company. The story involves much more than he could have imagined. Crooked deals being made with Mexican officials, who soon mysteriously disappear a high level conference of European Industrialists a plot to use the missing cruise missiles against an array of targets but who is behind all of it, and most importantly, why do they need to kill Mitch and the remaining members of his team? What could they possibly know that would interfere with the plans of one of the worlds most powerful industrialists to take over control of the major portion of the worlds oil supply? FD Gialmo not only owns a dozen senators, but is involved in more crooked schemes than can be counted to become even wealthier. His father began FDs financial empire with one sailing vessel and a dogged determination to succeed at becoming a billionaire at any cost. FD is completely devoted not only to his old mans business acumen, but also to his ruthlessness in establishing the financial giant which FD inherited and enha But, that fucking, worthless son of his! What the hell could he do about that skirt chasing little prick? After all the troubles problems he had endured all his life to double and redouble the fortune the old man left him, why couldnt this stupid little bastard understand it would be up to him to continue building the company?

In this collection of supplemental short stories, Kristopher takes the reader on a behind-the-scenes journey into the rest of the world he's created in the main series. From the first known zombie incursion ("Outbreak One: Washington Territory"), to Nazi-created monstrosities ("The Coldest Winter"), through the 1981 Libyan Crisis ("Blood and Sand") and the story of what befell one of our favorite characters ("Whatever Happened to Thomas J. Reynolds?").

This book will take you on a journey, a journey through Oxford and a journey through the lives of ten roguish males. All of the men have at least two things in common: a strong association with Oxford, and some claim to be a rogue. They are all famous in some way or another, some tending towards infamy. All but one has spent time at one of Oxford’s famous colleges, though only a few obtained an academic award during their stay in the city. The stories in this book are rich in human interest, from the sexual romps and salacious poetry of Lord Rochester to the elopements and romantic poetry of Percy Shelley. From the marriages and drinking of actor Richard Burton, to the expulsion and explorations of his Victorian namesake, Sir Richard Burton. From the trail of whoring and infidelity of author Graham Greene to the double-talk and double-dealings of ex-president Bill Clinton. From the drug dealing and identity fraud of Howard Marks to the claims of William Davenant to be the son of Shakespeare. From the greed and arrogance of Robert Maxwell to the addictive gambling of the author of The English Rogue, Richard Head. The devil would have to cast his net very widely to entrap this lot, though they could all be found within the intriguing streets and eminent building of Oxford at some time in their lives. Those lives are linked by the locations that most characterised their stay in Oxford, thus creating a unique trail through the ‘city of dreaming spires’ and an opportunity to stop and wonder at the buildings that grace its golden heart. The men of this book are as complex as the city, their characters forming a patchwork upon which to establish a trail that is quite unique. Their lives are differently characterised by: aesthetics, creativity, humour, intoxication, romance, licentiousness, avarice, desire, ambition, daring and lawlessness. And through them all runs this roguish streak, a trait that charms forgiveness from those who are damaged by them - though not always. Like the streets of Oxford, rogues can turn. A charming alleyway can become the scene of a rape; a poet can suddenly take out a loaded pistol. A friendly pub can suddenly become the scene of a riot; a night of love can be the seed of a wasting disease. A leafy tree can fall and crush a beautiful young woman; a happy drunk can become a pugilist. It is this edge that makes a rogue dangerous to live with – yet interesting to read about.

Return to Innocence Elizabeth Roane Sometimes the keys to our future are held in the past, in things ignored but not silent. When war ended in Europe, Roger, like most young men, returned to his life in Newcastle, married his sweetheart, and began his life of peace after years of turmoil and danger. Then night terrors started, and the distant carnage of World War II invaded his home, his marriage, and his mind. Roger Whitehead's story continues in this long-awaited sequel to In Search of Honor. It maps his journey with God as he wades through war's debris of fragmented memories and half-truths. Riddled with unanswered questions about the family he knows and the one he stumbled into in France, he returns to the continent in search of answers and to silence his ghosts. Join Roger as he faces life's great conflicts between love and hate, life and death, justice and forgiveness, heaven and hell. Travel with him as he unearths his lost history, revealing its beautiful story of lasting love and divine purpose. Witness miraculous convergences between heaven and earth interlocking his past, present, and future into a testimony of ordained destiny. Then experience triumph as a victorious messenger alters the lives of all his loved ones. 1

The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance. It weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and films, poetry and sculptures, graveyards and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.