A chillingly plausible near-future military thriller that imagines the unthinkable: the United States invading its former ally, Canada.By 2036, years of political collapse and authoritarian drift have transformed America. When a devastating attack on U.S. soil is blamed on Canadian intelligence, the evidence appears overwhelming. Canada’s allies hesitate, and Washington has the justification it needs for war.But Canada has spent a decade preparing for the p...

Major Alexander Ashcombe thought the danger ended in a clearing outside Bratislava.He was wrong.Sent to recover an off-books weapons ledger from a former arms broker, Ashcombe and his small SAS team expect a deniable raid with a clean exit. Instead, the target is killed, the extraction vanishes, and the men sent to erase the evidence already know where to find them.Someone has compromised the mission from inside the system.Hunted across borders by a professi...

The church fathers displayed considerable interest in the early chapters of Genesis, and often wrote detailed commentaries or preached series of homilies on the Hexameron--the Six Days of Creation--among them Eustathius of Antioch, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Ambrose, John Chrysostom and Augustine.This volume of Ancient Christian Texts offers a first-time English translation of Severian of Gabala's In cosmogoniam and a fresh translation of a ...