The Gemini Agent

In The Gemini Agent, as first-year final exams week kicks off, several incident reports with serious allegations against James T. Kirk end up on the Commandant of Midshipmen’s desk. None of the allegations are true, of course… or are they? Kirk is being plagued by mysterious blackout periods, so he finds the allegations difficult to refute. During these blackout periods, he has no recollection of what he did, save for some very disturbing and disjointed memories. Kirk needs his friends, Bones and Uhura to help prove his innocence. Who is targeting Kirk, and why is he being targeted? And how far are they willing to go? Someone close to Kirk holds the answers to all of these questions, but can he put the pieces together before it’s too late?

A superspy meets her match in New York Times bestselling author Lilith Saintcrow's latest romance! As a genetically enhanced assassin for a secret agency, Cal has one mission: to recapture the sultry rogue superspy who calls herself Trinity. Yet when he finds her, Cal will risk everything to keep her out of his superiors' deadly hands. Despite a computerlike brain and the ability to heal herself, Trinity has no memory of her life before the agency. She's desperate to uncover her identity. Every bit of trust she places in gorgeous, sexy Cal seems to bring back a little of her humanity. But her secrets might destroy them both, before the agency even gets a chance.

The year is 2088... Turmoil has plagued the Colonies... Mega-Corporations jockey for position as they continue to expand beyond the outer most reaches of the Frontier...After his recent termination with the Centauri Mining Guild, Captain Vince Olson; a misfit bounty hunter for C.A.D. Corps(Centauri Aerospace Defense Corps) finds his ship the Reaper ransacked by a deadly mercenary in search of vital information left behind by his late father. The E.T.A.(Earth Terran Authority) is immediately called in to investigate when he is approached by an agent of a clandestine operation known as the Gemini Continuum. Captain Olson's world is about to be shaken when he is faced with a diabolical truth.

Nineteenth Century British archaeologist Sir Austin Henry Layard discovers twenty-five thousand clay tablets buried deep in an ancient Sumerian Library. After years of tedious study of the tablets, Sir Henry begins to pen a journal, evidencing Man’s birthplace and manipulation by a ruling class of Blue Bloods. Today in the midst of a deadly H1N2 outbreak, twelve elite Financiers hold a Summit in Western Europe, headed by the Marquis de Illuminati. Their secret agenda for a microchipped population takes shape until the World Bank refuses to back the loans needed for the human implantation process. When Doc Mitchell, Senior Intelligence Officer with the National Security Agency, learns of the Illuminati’s agenda, he assigns Guy Fox, a mind controlled assassin, to eliminate key players at the Summit. Doc knows this mission will implicate the President of the United States (his close friend and Masonic Brother) in a vast criminal conspiracy involving top politicians and investors. At the same time, Guy Fox fights for freewill, the truth about his past and his own life when he becomes the target of the Illuminati’s madness. His world unfolds into the vast global conspiracy reaching back to ancient Sumeria. Meanwhile, millions are dying daily from the flu outbreak and something must be done.

11 Book Synopsis An American pilot shot down over North Korea in 1972 learns “the art of the ultimate Human.” When he returns to the States sixteen years later, he hunts criminals as the ultimate martial artist. Cameron St. James is a talented high-altitude recon pilot. When one of his missions takes him over North Korea, his plane goes down. Atop a mountain peak he meets another American, Bull Beauchamp, who has learned to be the ultimate human from an ancient book written by a Korean mystic. Bull tutors St. James for sixteen years until he too is a Master. In 1988, North Korean troops seek out the two Americans. St. James escapes and travels to Seoul during the Olympic Games. Through a case of mistaken identity, he is able to return to the States and discovers his life’s mission is to eradicate true evil. St. James’ missions bring him to the attention of two deadly government agents from the H.O.P.E. division of S.E.C.T., who are every bit as ultimate as he is, as well as a lone FBI agent who doesn’t know exactly what she’s tracking. Their destinies become intertwined as their Paths Cross.

Emergency Characterization of Unknown Materials, Second Edition is fully updated to serve as a portable reference that can be used in the field and laboratory by workers who are responsible for a safe response to and management of unknown hazardous materials. As with the first edition, the book emphasizes public safety and the management of life safety hazards, including strategies and emerging technologies to identify the hazards presented by an unknown material. When responding to a hazardous material emergency involving an unknown substance, firefighters and HAZMAT teams are primarily interested in protecting public safety. The book details risk analysis procedures to identify threats and vulnerabilities, analyzing them to determine how such risks can be eliminated or reduced. If an unknown material can be identified with a high degree of confidence, that can considerably change the response, and measures to be taken. In addition, the book covers practical field applications with updated and additional examples of field instruments. The hazard identification methods presented are intended for use by frontline workers. The test methods presented involve manipulation of small sample amounts – using, literally, a hands-on approach. The three technologies used by first responders and military personnel to identify unknown chemicals, Raman spectroscopy, FTIR spectroscopy and high-pressure mass spectroscopy, are covered in depth. Features Presents how to identify unknown materials and, if identification is not possible, to characterize the hazards of the material Offers practical examples to introduce new first responders to hazardous materials response Provides up-to-date field applications of the latest developments in commercially available instrumentation Details practical sample manipulations to help the reader successfully identify materials with popular high-end instrumentation Includes several examples of spectra and describes ways in which the reader can utilize data to inform decision making New coverage to this edition includes a chapter and content that focuses on sample manipulation and separations using instruments developed and revised since the first edition was published. These sample manipulations may be performed in the field with a very simple toolkit, which is fully outlined and explained in detail. Identifying the hazards of the unknown substance is essential to plan for response, contingencies and sustained actions. As such, Emergency Characterization of Unknown Materials, Second Edition will be a welcome and essential resource to all response and safety professionals concerned with hazardous materials.

Salonika, Greece: December 1939. In the dead of night, a clandestine order of monks embarks on a desperate mission: to transport a mysterious vault to a hiding place high in the Italian Alps. The sinister cache, concealed for centuries, could rip apart the Christian world. Now, as the Nazi threat marches inexorably closer, men both good and evil will be drawn into a violent and deadly hunt, sparking a relentless struggle that could forever change the world as we know it. Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Gemini Contenders “[Robert Ludlum’s] most ambitious novel . . . Its twist and turns carry the reader on a fast bobsled run. . . . A marvelously unflagging imagination.”—The New York Times “A winner . . . one of those books you intend to put down after just one more chapter . . . suddenly it’s two in the morning and you’ve read the whole thing.”—United Press International “A skyrocket of a book . . . The action never stops for a second.”—The Plain Dealer “Packed full of excitement.”—The Denver Post

Cameron St. James is an American high-altitude reconnaissance pilot who was shot down over North Korea in 1972. Running for his life, he meets another American, a man who discovered an ancient book that shows the path to become the ultimate human. He returns to the U.S. in 1988, embarking on a mission to eradicate pedophiles, serial killers, and drug lords. This second installment of the Gemini Masters series takes place in 2016. After completing a mission on the outskirts of Albuquerque, St. James fortuitously meets Monica Ridge, the FBI special agent in charge of the Albuquerque FBI office. Their meeting unexpectedly turns into a romance that surprises them both. Unknown to them, Monica’s ex-husband is stalking her, intent on killing her. Seeing St. James in the picture only adds fuel to his plans. Meanwhile, Master Gin and Boswell, who work for Dr. Morris Thorpe at the HOPE SECT, learn that a computer genius from the 1960s, a man who designed the software that changes the nuclear codes, may have created a back door into the nuclear arsenal, deciding that civilization cannot be saved. Sooner or later, she was going to have to tell him that she had been chasing him for years, even though until yesterday she had no idea who he was. Over the years, her FBI crime statistics had shown an irregular spike in the violent deaths of drug lords, pedophiles and serial killers …