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Cloud computing has created virtual realms where games exist and play out endlessly. On another level is a parallel universe inhabited by people whose images existed in the cloud. The Internet controls all communications and systems in the material world but it is vulnerable to terrorists seeking to control it. They infect the games with viruses that disturb the Internet and create havoc in transportation, communications and all business and private lives. Doctor Voslov and virus control experts exist in the parallel universe and fight the terrorists but cannot enter the game realms. Jason Albright is taken from his physical life and brought into the virtual world where he is shown that civilization is threatened by forces intent on replacing democracy with Sharia. Jason is convinced to go into the realm of games encouraged and rewarded with the love of Leah, a virtual woman, who had fought and died in the struggle. Jason is sent to find and neutralize the software viruses in a series of increasingly difficult games. Each success leads to a new level that must be solved. As he moves between the virtual world and the real world his life becomes complicated as his family and friends wonder about his strange behaviour. He must satisfy the needs of a beautiful wife while loving Leah who exists only in the realms of danger and pleasure. The price of Leah's charms is his life. Diabolically clever the terrorists' technology surpasses that of the experts in the real and virtual worlds to the point where their victory is assured. Can the free world be saved from a dedicated desert Sheik?

The “lively and engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) story of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles built an underground network determined to take down Hitler and destroy the Third Reich. Agent 110 is Allen Dulles, a newly minted spy from an eminent family. From his townhouse in Bern, Switzerland, and in clandestine meetings in restaurants, back roads, and lovers’ bedrooms, Dulles met with and facilitated the plots of Germans during World War II who were trying to destroy the country’s leadership. Their underground network exposed Dulles to the political maneuverings of the Soviets, who were already competing for domination of Germany, and all of Europe, in the post-war period. Scott Miller’s “absorbing and bracing” (The Seattle Times) Agent 110 explains how leaders of the German Underground wanted assurances from Germany’s enemies that they would treat the country humanely after the war. If President Roosevelt backed the resistance, they would overthrow Hitler and shorten the war. But Miller shows how Dulles’s negotiations fell short. Eventually he was placed in charge of the CIA in the 1950s, where he helped set the stage for US foreign policy. With his belief that the ends justified the means, Dulles had no qualms about consorting with Nazi leadership or working with resistance groups within other countries to topple governments. Agent 110 is “a doozy of a dossier on Allen Dulles and his early days spying during World War II” (Kirkus Reviews). “Miller skillfully weaves a double narrative of Dulles’ machinations and those of the German resistance” (Booklist) to bring to life this exhilarating, and pivotal, period of world history—of desperate renegades in a dark and dangerous world where spies, idealists, and traitors match wits and blows to ensure their vision of a perfect future.

After ten years wandering the world, Agustinus Wibowo has finally come home. He is now forced to face a reality that he has always feared. His mother is on the brink of death, as cancer ravages her body. Not unlike Scherazade who reads through one thousand and one tales over as many nights, the traveller recounts his journey to his ailing mother, who has barely ever left their little village in Java, Indonesia. He talks about the illusory homeland of China, the holy Tibet, the spiritual Nepal, the dramatic India, the struggling Pakistan, and the surviving Afghanistan. And along with these stories, his mother nally nds a voice to recount her own life journey. Fragments of their lives come together, two distinctive roads spanning time and distance only to converge, to become a heart-wrenching tale of love and survival. “Relating his travels to his dying mother, Wibowo beautifully captures the bittersweet experience of solo travel. The excitement of discovery, the shadow of a changeling identity and the low-grade thrum of the road not taken combine to produce this lyrical journey through time and place.” –Elizabeth Pisani, author of Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation

Big Bob McAllister, an ex-SAS officer, and Richard Morgan, a disgraced former policeman, seem an unlikely pair, but they form a detective agency together in London. They complement each others' strengths and work well together. Their first client, a successful and charismatic nightclub businessman, is receiving death threats. When they try to trace the sender, they get surprising results. Their client's family relationships are complicated and intense, so the two detectives tread carefully. The case tests the new partnership to its limits. Just as they are congratulating themselves on bringing their first investigation to a successful close, their client is arrested for murdering his estranged wife. His new wife was the couple's au pair. In clearing their client's name, the investigation takes Richard to the French Alps and Northern Spain as he seeks to discover the real killer. What he uncovers will rock his client's family and expose their Secret Lives. Author Carol Day grew up in London and now resides in Southwest France and in Wiltshire, England. This is the second book in her detective series, which began with Sahara to Shame. Publisher's website: http: //www.eloquentbooks.com/SecretLives-AChallengingCaseForMcAllisterAndMorgan.htm

The New York Times bestselling series based on the blockbuster Xbox® games! Centuries before the Human-Covenant War would rage across the galaxy, a similar conflict erupted between the Prophets and the Elites—two alien races at odds over the sacred artifacts left by the powerful Forerunners, who disappeared eons ago. Although they would eventually form a stable alliance called the Covenant, there are those on both sides who question this fateful union. From an Elite splinter group rebelling against the Covenant during the time of its founding...to a brave Prophet caught in the machinations of the new leadership...to the root of the betrayal that would ultimately shatter the Covenant many years later, this is the untold chapter of the most unexpected heroes emerging from a realm filled with shocking treachery and ceaseless wonder. Copyright © 2014 by Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Microsoft, Halo, the Halo logo, Xbox, and the Xbox logo are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.

Anger and Beyond is the story of one mans fight within himself. Richardan excellent detective, a likeable guy, but recently always so angry. A drink helps, or does it? The end of his relationship and police career. A bleak interlude for himself and ex-partner Gerry, who, in running away from their relationship, finds herself in terrible danger. A moment of reflection on a park bench leads to a surprise opportunity, and a new successful period in Richards life begins. Big Bob McAllister and Richard Morgan seem an unlikely pair; however, they complement each others strengths and work well together. Their first client, a successful and charismatic nightclub businessman, receives death threats. Then members of his family are kidnapped, or are they? Richard and Bob are congratulating each other on bringing their first investigation to a successful conclusion when their client is arrested on suspicion of murder. In clearing their clients name, the investigation takes Richard to the French Alps and Northern Spain as he seeks to discover the real killer. What he uncovers will rock his clients family and expose their secret lives.