A lost cipher. A race against time to decode it.Marine archaeologists Kate Wetherall and Lou Bates are diving off Howland Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, when a torpedo-shaped object hurtles through the water towards them; the fuselage of Amelia Earhart's lost plane. In the cockpit, they find a corroded metal cylinder the size of a baton.Landing back on US soil, Kate and Lou are arrested and interrogated by special forces, and the cylinder confiscated. Behind the ...

Join the author as he recounts his fascinating life. A risk taker, entrepreneur, steadfast banker, blackjack dealer and a solid government bureaucrat. The careers zig and zag. As a young man, he works with his father as a true American cowboy in Texas. In fact, on a trip to Los Angeles to visit family, he is repeatedly mistaken for a famous actor and asked for his autograph. As a Las Vegas blackjack dealer, we find him meeting one celebrity after another. Most are seeking to maintain anony...

Hello, Here is the Sequel to Stepfather's Manipulation. 1st time the children have witnessed their father after, his long year away. Their father moved into Africa As a specialist in his field. Dangers, Explosive, Secretive, Rewarding, Career. The children have the fortune to explore Africa 3 times a year in their school holidays. These are the reports about their dangerous exciting adventures away from home. As their adventure unfolds developing their experience of global life education a...

This is the sequel of Into Africa. It is based on firsthand actual life experiences. It expresses how a parent nurtures and develops a personality of their child in a story, with authors inserts to express the more difficult situation to bring them into clarity. The incidents and actions continue standing out with heroic justice but are connected with a complete series of a narration of true events of a recently separated family on an intercontinental business trip, including a pleasurable...

This is the first book I have ever written. This is a fiction based on a true story of a manipulative wicked stepfather who captures the heart of a beautiful, innocent married woman with three childrenone boy and two girlsfrom a different class background. The stepfather is hell-bent on jealousy of the younger siblings, especially the boy. The stepfather disregards his own family, leaving behind his wife and his only son, with no regard to contacting them in the future. An expression from ...

TOM WEST, the author of "The Most Interesting Man You Have Never Met now takes you along on his adventures, and yes often times challenges, of driving an over- the-road big truck. This entertaining story covers his travels and that of his sometime sidekick, Le Roy, as they cover 46 of the 48 lower states from the East coast to the West coast and places in between, and navigate through all of the big cities, and some of the wildest backroads in the country.Starting out his truck dri...

People imagine that the authors imagination is invariably at work, as he is perpetually inventing an illimitable supply of occurrences and episodes as he dreams up narratives, pulling conceptions from thin air. Genuinely, the antithesis is true once the public kens that the obnubilate force of art within brings characters and their lives to the author. And with that, I will leave you to read this dark comedy of action, deception, malefaction, murder, and romance as it all came to me throug...

This story will enthral you from the first page to the last as the plot unravels at a speedy pace. It is about the syndicate of art crimes, the life as a cat burglar, and the romance between two professional people within high-class society filled with crime, sex, secrets, surveillance tactics, motorcycles, and murder with a twist, with clues to a secret meeting place. It will cost you 1p for the fun of it.

David slowly opened his eyes and saw that he was now a small child riding on a dragon but not just any dragon, a golden dragon and behind him was a woman holding on to him tightly with tears falling down from her eyes.Before David could raise his head and see the face of the woman the dragon landed, landing in front of a familiar orphanage David recognized from the broken fragments of his memory he was able to recall.David upon seeing the orphanage realized that where he was ...

A tale of the place of death where soul departed from the land of the living go to restA tale of a rebel prince who seeks freedom from his father the king and ruler of allA tale of the end where all things a destined to reachA tale of the forest of dreams but be warned, do not venture out to the lands where nightmares come trueA tale of the god killer, the only man who dares to defy the godsA tale of the evil, ignorant, and indifferent gods, gods who care...

The Battle of Gettysburg is a vivid firsthand account of the most famous battle of the Civil War. Two weeks later, while his memory was fresh and his adrenaline still high, Union lieutenant Frank Haskell—a Medal of Honor recipient—wrote this book, one of the most honest and accurate eyewitness accounts of war ever written.Haskell, an officer in the Army of the Potomac, describes soldiers preparing for and fighting in a battle that—unknown to them—would shape the destiny of...

“[The United States’ goal in Angola] was not to keep out the Cubans and Soviets but to make their imperial efforts as costly as possible to prove that, after Vietnam, we were still capable of response, however insane. It is the story that has been told, and in impressive and convincing detail, by John Stockwell, the former chief of the CIA’s Angola ‘task force.’ His book should not be missed. Since strategic thought survives by ignoring experience, it has a highly professional inte...