The Unknown Enemy

Exposes the fallacy that an increased degree of socio-cultural understanding leads to a greater chance of success in counterinsurgency operations.

Neighbors John and Carl had become good friends. One night John heard the reverberation of gun shots and everything changed. Soon law enforcement agents would be searching for a serial killer who was targeting vulnerable women and both men are suspects. While police are investigating these murders, both friends are pitted against each other as evidence is unearthed. Will they ever discover who the perpetrator is? Will John and Carl remain friends? Find out in an all new mystery novel that will have you on the edge of your seat.

THE BODYGUARD For professor Ginny Anderson, translating a set of ancient tablets could be the coup of her career--or more danger than she can handle. Someone doesn't want the secrets of the artifacts to be revealed...and they'll kill to bury her discoveries. But former Secret Service agent Colin Tapping refuses to let anybody hurt Ginny and appoints himself as her protector--whether she wants one or not. Colin has made mistakes in the past, and keeping Ginny safe could be just what he needs to prove he's still a capable agent and win back his job. But is he willing to risk paying the ultimate price to reclaim his former life?

Western counterinsurgency doctrine proposes that cultural intelligence is an important requirement for those forces operating amidst the unfamiliar socio-political structures often found in distant conflict zones. Yet while the determination to understand the intricate nature of alien societies may appear a rational undertaking in such circumstances, Christian Tripodi argues that these endeavours rarely help deliver success. The frictions of war and the complex human, cultural and political 'terrain' of the operating environment render such efforts highly problematic. In their attempts to generate and instrumentalize local knowledge for the purpose of exerting influence and control, western military actors are drawn into the unwelcome realm of counterinsurgency as a form of political warfare. Their operating environment now becomes a space charged with phenomena that they rarely comprehend, rarely even see and which they struggle to exert any meaningful control over. All in pursuit of a victory that might literally mean nothing.

Southern Afghanistan in the early 1990s was in even greater chaos than it is now. The Russians, who had occupied the country throughout the 1980s, were long gone. The disparate ethnic and religious leaders who had united to eject the invaders - the famous mujaheddin - were at each others' throats. For the rural poor of Kandahar province, life was almost impossible. On 12 October 1994 a small group of religious students decided to take matters into their own hands. Led by an illiterate village mullah with one eye, some 200 of them surrounded and took Spin Boldak, a trucking stop on the border with Pakistan. From this short and unremarkable border skirmish, a legend was born. The students' numbers swelled as news of their triumph spread. The Taliban, as they now called themselves - taliban is the plural of talib, literally 'one who seeks knowledge' - had a simple mission statement: the disarmament of the population, and the establishment of a theocracy based on Sharia law. They fought with a religious zeal that the warring mujaheddin could not match. By February 1995, this people's revolt had become a national movement; 18 months later Kabul fell, and the country was effectively theirs. James Fergusson's fascinating account of this extraordinary story is be required reading for anyone who wishes to understand the situation in Afghanistan, now and for the future...

For twenty years, the Taliban was the number one enemy of Western forces in Afghanistan. But it was an enemy that they knew little about, and about whose founder and leader, Mullah Omar, they knew even less. Armed with only a fuzzy black-and-white photo of the man, investigative journalist Bette Dam decided to track down the reclusive Taliban chief a decade back. But in the course of what had seemed an almost impossible job, she got to know the Taliban inside out, realized how dangerously misinformed the global forces fighting it were, and made a startling discovery about the elusive Omar's whereabouts. The outcome of a five-year-long pursuit, Looking for the Enemy is a woman journalist's epic story that takes the reader deep into the dangerous mountains and war-ravaged valleys of Afghanistan as it throws up several unknowns about an organization that is now once again at the helm in one of the world's most fragile states.

**Novella-length** Trouble at the Green Dory Inn Landon Smith vowed never to return to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Despite her faith, the memories might undo her. But a shadowy figure has been skulking around the Green Dory Inn—seen only by her friend Anna. Loyalty demands she stand by this woman who’s been a second mother to her. No matter the cost. With the police unable to find solid clues, and the incidents escalating, Landon must help Anna discover the truth about the prowler and stop him. Before he turns violent. **A short read that kicks off the Green Dory Inn mystery/suspense novels** ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Welcome to the Green Dory Inn, a fictional bed & breakfast set outside the real town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Meet Landon, a young Christian woman with a traumatic past. And Anna, recently widowed, who owns the inn. Meet Roy, their wisecracking elderly neighbour, and his adult grandson Bobby, who writes space novels. And meet the cats, fastidious Timkin and the battle-scarred marmalade stray. Come for the clean, faith-based mysteries. Stay for the characters. TITLES IN THE GREEN DORY INN MYSTERY SERIES: Unknown Enemy (novella length) Who is the secretive prowler harassing innkeeper Anna? Hidden Secrets (novel length) What secrets has the inn's original owner left behind, and how far will Anna's enemy go to find them? Bitter Truth (novel length) Who would want Ciara dead? And why? And more TBA... If you like clean Christian mystery and suspense, visit the Green Dory Inn today!