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Book Synopsis The Increment: A Novel by : David Ignatius
Download or read book The Increment: A Novel written by David Ignatius and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller: “A remarkably timely and pulse-quickening tale of deception, divided loyalty, and moral haziness.”—Raleigh News & Observer Harry Pappas, chief of the CIA’s Persia House, receives an encrypted message from a scientist in Tehran. But soon the source of secrets from the Iranian bomb program dries up: the scientist panics; he’s being followed, but he doesn’t know who’s on to him, and neither does Harry. To get his agent out, Harry turns to a secret British spy team known as “The Increment,” whose operatives carry the modern version of the double-O “license to kill.” But the real story is infinitely more complicated than Harry understands, and to get to the bottom of it he must betray his own country.
Book Synopsis Agents of Innocence: A Novel by : David Ignatius
Download or read book Agents of Innocence: A Novel written by David Ignatius and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "superlative spy novel" (New York Times) by the author of the bestselling espionage thrillers Body of Lies and The Director. Agents of Innocence is the book that established David Ignatius's reputation as a master of the novel of contemporary espionage. Into the treacherous world of shifting alliances and arcane subterfuge comes idealistic CIA man Tom Rogers. Posted in Beirut to penetrate the PLO and recruit a high-level operative, he soon learns the heavy price of innocence in a time and place that has no use for it.
Download or read book The Increment written by Chris Ryan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a hot summer and the country is suffering an epidemic of road rage. What isn't making headlines is that the SAS's secret assassination squad, the Increment, is killing ex-soldiers. These strands of violence become ever more tightly intertwined as Matt is drawn into an adventure taking him to Russia.
Book Synopsis Body of Lies: A Novel by : David Ignatius
Download or read book Body of Lies: A Novel written by David Ignatius and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel made into the major motion picture released October 2008, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe: "Clever [and] well-paced, Body of Lies is hard to put down."—John Miller, Wall Street Journal CIA soldier Roger Ferris has come out of Iraq with a shattered leg and an intense mission— to penetrate the network of a master terrorist known only as "Suleiman." Ferris's plan is inspired by a masterpiece of British intelligence during World War II: He prepares a body of lies, literally the corpse of an imaginary CIA officer who appears to have accomplished the impossible by recruiting an agent within the enemy's ranks.This scheme binds friend and foe in a web of extraordinary subtlety and complexity. When it begins to unravel, Ferris finds himself flying blind into a hurricane. His only hope is the urbane head of Jordan's intelligence service. But can Ferris trust him?
Book Synopsis The Quantum Spy: A Thriller by : David Ignatius
Download or read book The Quantum Spy: A Thriller written by David Ignatius and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Quantum Spy takes us to a whole new level of intrigue and espionage. It’s also unbelievably timely. In short: David Ignatius knows his stuff.” —Wolf Blitzer A hyper-fast quantum computer is the digital equivalent of a nuclear bomb; whoever possesses one will be able to shred any encryption and break any code in existence. The question is: who will build one first, the U.S. or China? In this gripping thriller, U.S. quantum research labs are compromised by a suspected Chinese informant, inciting a mole hunt of history-altering proportions. CIA officer Harris Chang leads the charge, pursuing his target from Singapore to Mexico and beyond. Do the leaks expose real secrets, or are they false trails meant to deceive the Chinese? The answer forces Chang to question everything he thought he knew about loyalty, morality, and the primacy of truth.
Book Synopsis The Director: A Novel by : David Ignatius
Download or read book The Director: A Novel written by David Ignatius and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller. “If you think cybercrime and potential worldwide banking meltdown is a fiction, read this sensational thriller.”—Bob Woodward, Politico Graham Weber has been the director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents' names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads. Like the new world of cyber-espionage from which it's drawn, The Director is a maze of double dealing, about a world where everything is written in zeroes and ones—and nothing can be trusted.
Download or read book Bloodmoney written by David Ignatius and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You emerge from its pages as if from a top-level security briefing—confident that you have been let in on the deepest secrets." —Washington Post Someone in Pakistan is killing the members of a new CIA unit trying to buy peace with America’s enemies. It falls to Sophie Marx, a young officer with a big chip on her shoulder, to figure out who’s doing the killing and why. Unfortunately for Sophie, nothing is quite what it seems. This is a theater of violence and revenge, in which the last act is one that Sophie could not have imagined.
Book Synopsis A Firing Offense by : David Ignatius
Download or read book A Firing Offense written by David Ignatius and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist becomes a Privvy to sensitive information leaked by a maverick CIA agent, but as his ties to the CIA deepen, he begins to wonder if he has made his paper an unwitting player in a private international trade war.
Download or read book Siro written by David Ignatius and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made restless by the tightening restrictions of CIA bureaucracy, agent Alan Taylor oversteps moral and legal bounds in a top-secret mission to destabilize the Soviet Union. His new recruit - the beautiful Anna Barnes, who struggles with complex feelings for Taylor - receives a deeper education than she signed up for in David Ignatius’s trademark world of shifting international and domestic pressures, hidden loyalties, and secret agendas.
Book Synopsis The Bank of Fear: A Novel by : David Ignatius
Download or read book The Bank of Fear: A Novel written by David Ignatius and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sizzling…engrossing all the way." —Los Angeles Times Book Review Hit men stalk computer analyst Lina Alwen and financial investigator Sam Hoffman in pursuit of the knowledge the pair may have regarding a late Iraqi dictator’s billions. From London to Switzerland, and from Baghdad to the mysterious corners of the just-budding Internet, this spy thriller covers the map to uncover a world of corruption.
Download or read book The R Book written by Michael J. Crawley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-06-13 with total page 953 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The high-level language of R is recognized as one of the mostpowerful and flexible statistical software environments, and israpidly becoming the standard setting for quantitative analysis,statistics and graphics. R provides free access to unrivalledcoverage and cutting-edge applications, enabling the user to applynumerous statistical methods ranging from simple regression to timeseries or multivariate analysis. Building on the success of the author’s bestsellingStatistics: An Introduction using R, The R Book ispacked with worked examples, providing an all inclusive guide to R,ideal for novice and more accomplished users alike. The bookassumes no background in statistics or computing and introduces theadvantages of the R environment, detailing its applications in awide range of disciplines. Provides the first comprehensive reference manual for the Rlanguage, including practical guidance and full coverage of thegraphics facilities. Introduces all the statistical models covered by R, beginningwith simple classical tests such as chi-square and t-test. Proceeds to examine more advance methods, from regression andanalysis of variance, through to generalized linear models,generalized mixed models, time series, spatial statistics,multivariate statistics and much more. The R Book is aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates andprofessionals in science, engineering and medicine. It is alsoideal for students and professionals in statistics, economics,geography and the social sciences.
Download or read book The Living End written by Stanley Elkin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elkin’s darkly comic novel of the afterlife—the story of one man’s redemptive journey to hell and back When he is killed during a holdup at his Minneapolis liquor store, Ellerbee’s bad luck is only beginning. After a short stint in heaven, Ellerbee is banished to hell, abruptly and without explanation. What follows is a surreal and memorable adventure that brings Ellerbee face-to-face not only with his murderer’s accomplice, but also with God, Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and a host of others, all in his quest for salvation unlike any other. Moving and witty, The Living End is a hilarious send-up of afterlife clichés and a masterful exploration of the absurdities of human existence. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.
Download or read book Effective UI written by Jonathan Anderson and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People expect effortless, engaging interaction with desktop and web applications, but producing software that generates enjoyable user experiences is much harder than many companies anticipate. With Effective UI, you'll learn proven user-experience strategies that will satisfy your clients and customers, drive business value, and increase brand strength. This book shows you how to capture the collaborative and cooperative spirit among designers, engineers, and management required for building engaging software. You'll also learn valuable methods for maintaining focus throughout the process -- whether you're a product manager who needs a clear roadmap, a developer or designer looking for guidance and advocacy, or a businessperson who wants to understand and manage user-experience software initiatives. Learn how to build software that will: Generate engaging and interactive experiences between consumers and businesses, or between businesspeople and their information systems Account for how people work with, think about, and consume information Establish a richer means of collaboration and communication Reduce frustration by streamlining complex tasks and creating processes that are more intuitive Distinguish products, services, and brands to create a competitive advantage Create scalable systems that adapt to changing user needs and behaviors
Download or read book The Book of R written by Tilman M. Davies and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2016-07-16 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of R is a comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide to R, the world’s most popular programming language for statistical analysis. Even if you have no programming experience and little more than a grounding in the basics of mathematics, you’ll find everything you need to begin using R effectively for statistical analysis. You’ll start with the basics, like how to handle data and write simple programs, before moving on to more advanced topics, like producing statistical summaries of your data and performing statistical tests and modeling. You’ll even learn how to create impressive data visualizations with R’s basic graphics tools and contributed packages, like ggplot2 and ggvis, as well as interactive 3D visualizations using the rgl package. Dozens of hands-on exercises (with downloadable solutions) take you from theory to practice, as you learn: –The fundamentals of programming in R, including how to write data frames, create functions, and use variables, statements, and loops –Statistical concepts like exploratory data analysis, probabilities, hypothesis tests, and regression modeling, and how to execute them in R –How to access R’s thousands of functions, libraries, and data sets –How to draw valid and useful conclusions from your data –How to create publication-quality graphics of your results Combining detailed explanations with real-world examples and exercises, this book will provide you with a solid understanding of both statistics and the depth of R’s functionality. Make The Book of R your doorway into the growing world of data analysis.
Book Synopsis Understanding Michael Porter by : Joan Magretta
Download or read book Understanding Michael Porter written by Joan Magretta and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to Michael Porters thinking on competition and strategy, classic and current.
Download or read book Greed written by Chris Ryan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greed is an explosive story of what happens when terrorism, money, love and jealously combust - an explosively violent tale from the established master of the military thriller, multi-million copy bestseller Chris Ryan. Fans of Andy McNab, Lee Child, Clive Cussler and Stephen Leather will not be disappointed. 'Hard as nails' -- Mirror 'The SAS is to Chris Ryan what horse racing is to Dick Francis' -- Boys Toys 'Slick, polished and gut-wrenching stuff' -- Irish Times 'An action packed yarn from start to finish' -- ***** Reader review 'Fantastic book: exciting, gripping, never a dull moment it it from start to finish' -- ***** Reader review 'Keeps you on your toes' -- ***** Reader review 'Absolutely enthralling' -- ***** Reader review *************************************************************************************** FIVE MEN. ONE ROBBERY. A DEADLY GAME OF GREED. Fresh out of the SAS, Matt Browning is down on his luck. He owes $500,000. If he doesn't get the money soon, he dies. From nowhere, he is offered a lifeline. A hit on al-Queda, sanctioned and helped by MI5. Matt gathers a small team of former SAS men to steal $10 million in gold and diamonds from the world's most deadly terrorist organisation. MI5 will give them all the equipment and information they need. No charges will ever be pressed. Matt thinks it's the perfect crime. Safe, quick, and patriotic. But after the money is stolen, the killing starts... Someone is taking down the members of the team one by one. A silent, expert assassin is stalking the team, gruesomely murdering both them and their families. And Matt knows that he's next.
Download or read book The Rollout written by Alex Yakyma and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
