Machiavelli in America traces the influence of the Florentine thinker on American politics, from the Founders (c. 1770s) through today's rough-and-tumble political panorama. Machiavelli's ideas have been re-interpreted internationally as 'real-politik.' He proposed that the 'ends justify the means,' and that any manner of fraud, violence or corruption must be utilized in attaining and retaining power.People, he assured us, are so mean, small and selfish that they will only...

Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes the Trans Flight 52, a supersonic passenger jet bound for Japan. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, three survivors must achieve the impossible. Land the plane. From master story-teller Nelson DeMille and master pilot Thomas Block comes MAYDAY - the classic American bestseller that packs a supersonic shock with every turn of the page, the most terrifyingly realistic air disaster thriller you will ev...

**"Fascinating and furiously paced...unrelenting suspense." - New York Times Book Review"[Demille is] a true master." - Dan Brown, #1 bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code**Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes a jumbo passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, three survivors must achieve the impossible. Land the plane. From master storyteller Nelson DeMille and master pilot Thomas Block comes...

Perciville Socrates Hammond, born and raised in the city of Boston by his overprotective mother and an elderly aunt who viewed the entire world as evil, was clueless when it came to the 'outside world'. Tall, gangly, and with a face only a mother could love, he was content to live in solitude, only leaving home for work or church.Then, out of the blue, he receives a shocking bit of information when he is contacted by an attorney about the death of his maternal grandfather—a man he ...

Perciville Socrates Hammond, born and raised in the city of Boston by his overprotective mother and an elderly aunt who viewed the entire world as evil, was clueless when it came to the 'outside world'. Tall, gangly, and with a face only a mother could love, he was content to live in solitude, only leaving home for work or church.Then, out of the blue, he receives a shocking bit of information when he is contacted by an attorney about the death of his maternal grandfather—a man he ...

Air Traffic Control is one of the most misunderstood occupations in the world, and yet it effects anyone that has ever...or will ever fly in an aircraft. This book tells it all. you will never look to the sky in the same way again.

Perciville Socrates Hammond, born and raised in the city of Boston by his overprotective mother and an elderly aunt who viewed the entire world as evil, was clueless when it came to the 'outside world'. Tall, gangly, and with a face only a mother could love, he was content to live in solitude, only leaving home for work or church.Then, out of the blue, he receives a shocking bit of information when he is contacted by an attorney about the death of his maternal grandfather—a man he ...

Perciville Socrates Hammond, born and raised in the city of Boston by his overprotective mother and an elderly aunt who viewed the entire world as evil, was clueless when it came to the 'outside world'. Tall, gangly, and with a face only a mother could love, he was content to live in solitude, only leaving home for work or church.Then, out of the blue, he receives a shocking bit of information when he is contacted by an attorney about the death of his maternal grandfather—a man he ...

Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes a jumbo passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, three survivors must achieve the impossible. Land the plane. From master storyteller Nelson DeMille and master pilot Thomas Block comes Maydaythe classic bestseller that packs a supersonic shock at every turn of the page . . . the most terrifyingly realistic air disaster thriller ever. Like a growing tidal wave, the escaping air was gathering...

Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries -- and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind.Suddenly they're forced to crash-land at an ancient desert site. Here, with only a handful of weapons, the men and women of the peace mission must make a desperate stand against an army of crack P...

IT STARTED AS A SIMPLE SPY HUNT.IT BECAME A DESPERATE BATTLE TO SAVE THE WEST.For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret: the Russians have a mole -- code-named Talbot -- inside the CIA. At first Talbot is suspected of killing European agents. Then a street-smart ex-cop uncovers a storm of espionage and murder on the streets of New York, while in a Long Island suburb a civic demonstration against the Russian mission masks a desperate duel of ne...

An Irish-American police officer and a British intelligence officer face off against a dangerous terrorist who's holding people hostage in Saint Patrick's Cathedral.St. Patrick's Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act the seizure of Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman ...