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The Kingstone Ransom

Author : Joseph W. Michels
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450250351
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Kingstone Ransom written by Joseph W. Michels and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Church, freelance recovery specialist based in San Francisco, tangles with a renegade gang of cashiered soldiers while attempting to rescue a young boy kidnapped during a visit to Central America with his family. Church is retained by the boys grandfather, Henry Kingstone, a wealthy and infl uential member of the San Francisco establishment who supplies Church with two million dollars in cash to use as ransom if a rescue by other means is not successful. In going after the gang, Church enlists the help of his sailing buddy who happens to be an FBI agent, together with an ex-Israeli who owns a mixed martial arts gym frequented by Church. Th e action takes Church on a fast-moving ride through Central America where he and his companions encounter all sorts of trouble as they track down those holding the kidnapped boy. An unexpected threat to Church appears just as the mission reaches its most dangerous phase - a threat brought on by the irresistible attraction of the Kingstone Ransom. Th e book is a sequel to the well-received 2009 novel simply entitled CHURCH which introduced this new anti-hero to the many fans of the action-thriller genre.

Kingston's Ransom (Kingston Security 1)

Author : Carole Mortimer
Publisher : Carole Mortimer
ISBN 13 : 1914336011
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Kingston's Ransom (Kingston Security 1) written by Carole Mortimer and published by Carole Mortimer. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KINGSTON’S RANSOM (Kingston Security 1) is the first book in USA Today and Amazon International #1 Bestselling Author, Carole Mortimer’s, NEW Contemporary Romance series. Rosie needs the arrogant Max Kingston’s help, and she doesn’t care what she has to do to get it. Except, gaining the head of the powerful Kingston family’s attention, is virtually impossible. Unless, or if, Max decides he wants to see or speak to you. If that should be the case, then he will be the one to arrange a meeting, at his convenience, and at a place of his choosing. Rosie doesn’t have time for that and decides to take matters into her own hands. A move Max takes exception to. To a degree Rosie becomes his prisoner in the Kingston fortress, otherwise known as Kingston Manor. Carole Mortimer has written over 270 books, in contemporary romantic suspense, Regency romance, MM Regency romance & paranormal romance. She became an indie author in 2014. In May 2017 she received a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times. She is the Recipient of the 2015 Romance Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Is an Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Romance Author—ever. Carole is a 2014 Romantic Times Pioneer of Romance. She was also recognized by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012, for her “outstanding service to literature”.

Lake George and Other Memorable Incidents in the Life of William King

Author : Joseph W. Michels
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532046952
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Lake George and Other Memorable Incidents in the Life of William King written by Joseph W. Michels and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-04-07 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Work is a collection of eleven short stories that highlight memorable incidents in the life of our fictional protagonist, William King. William King was only ten years old at the time of the first incident and a teenager in the next three stories that have him gaining a thirst for wisdom and journeying to other lands and cultures. The three short stories of Kings early twenties reveal a dedication to literature together with a continued urge to travel. By his middle and late twenties, William King has settled on an academic career in archaeology as glimpsed through an account of events set down in the next two short stories. The final two stories highlight incidents associated with the mounting of archaeological expeditions in foreign lands at a time when William King was in the prime of his academic career.

American Berkshire Record

Author : American Berkshire Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Berkshire Record written by American Berkshire Association and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American Stud Book

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The American Stud Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing full pedigree of all the imported thorough-bred stallions and mares, with their produce.

Calcutta: Dateline 1955

Author : Joseph W. Michels
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663215227
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Calcutta: Dateline 1955 written by Joseph W. Michels and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-12-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1955. Alan Harper, a 25-year old freelance journalist, recruited by the CIA fresh out of college, is serving as a covert agent based in Cairo after finishing a two-year training period at Camp Peary, the CIA “Farm”. In October of that year, after only nine months in the field, he’s suddenly reassigned to Calcutta, India, and tasked with uncovering the clandestine network used by foreign powers to support local leftist political parties attempting to prevail in Calcutta’s municipal elections. When power brokers in Calcutta learn an American investigative reporter is heading their way panic ensues. They worry an exposé article in a major U.S. newspaper or magazine can affect the political landscape of the city in ways they wish to avoid. Persons benefitting financially under the current city administration wish to stop the reporter; persons involved in running the clandestine network he’s tasked to uncover also wish to prevent him from doing his job. Harper finds himself the target of desperate efforts at preventing him from reaching Calcutta—efforts that morph into attempts on his life once he arrives. Nevertheless, Harper sticks to his “cover”, using reportorial stratagems to get the story, thwarting one attempt on his life after another as he proceeds. It is a time of Cold War intrigue, of non-alignment, of Hindu Bengali refugees flooding into Calcutta from East Pakistan, of street demonstrations, of political party competition—with all actors intently focused on the next election.

Last Stand at Gowler Canyon

Author : Joseph W. Michels
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663203350
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Last Stand at Gowler Canyon written by Joseph W. Michels and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1988. Dave Nash, a 45-year old Viet Nam vet, has just retired after 25 years working as a telephone linesman in rural Iowa. He discovers he’s been left a desert ranch in Southern California by his late aunt. Dave never met the woman—the sister of his mother—and has no idea how he came to be the beneficiary. But having no strong ties to the greater Des Moines area where he grew up, he decides to pack all his worldly goods in the back of his brand new pickup and drive out to California to see if he can make a new life for himself on a defunct 120 acre ranch miles from any paved road. Upon arriving at the ranch, Dave meets up with a vivacious, Scottish-born heiress named Liz Simmons who owns a ranch not far from his. A woman of considerable accomplishment, Dave feels inadequate in her company, but she’ll have nothing of it, and aims to insinuate herself into his life. His few other neighbors are equally unstinting in their welcome: the proprietor of a bar/restaurant about a mile away named Carl Hurbinger, and a free-lance writer named James Hausman who resides in a small house at the place where the uneven dirt tract that leads to his ranch links up with the closest paved road. Soon, Dave finds himself becoming involved in the lives of his neighbors. It all comes to a head when he’s forced to deal with a crackpot scheme proposed by Seymour Berenger, a friend of one of his neighbors.

A Bookstore in Berlin

Author : Joseph W. Michels
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532078420
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book A Bookstore in Berlin written by Joseph W. Michels and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lt. Col. Elliott Stone of the U.S. Army, long associated with the Defense Intelligence Agency, observes what he believes to be a suspicious handover of a document while browsing in a bookstore located in an old section of Berlin. Curious, he lingers in the vicinity long enough to observe a second person perform the same indirect handover, where a document is slipped under the inside flap of a book jacket and the book returned to the shelves. Now, thoroughly suspicious, he snatches the document from its hiding place, leaves the bookstore, then finds himself suddenly and violently attacked on the street as he heads for home. After reading the document he alerts Colonel Appleton, Military Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin and Director of a secret NATO Planning Center located nearby, to the likelihood an attempt is being made to obtain highly secret intel from the Center by an unknown espionage organization.Elliott Stone is charged with assembling a small team of Delta Force operatives to assist in uncovering the elaborate espionage operation, dismantling it, then pursuing leads that will hopefully result in discovering who was behind it. The fast moving plot takes place primarily in Berlin, but towards the end the action shifts to Warsaw, Poland, then to a breakaway enclave of Moldova in eastern Europe where Elliott Stone’s mission reaches a dramatic climax.

Kagnew Station: Dateline 1956

Author : Joseph W. Michels
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663241619
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Kagnew Station: Dateline 1956 written by Joseph W. Michels and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-06-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kagnew Station, a U.S. military base set in the Horn of Africa, was tasked with handling critical radio communication between far-flung Army, Navy and Consular entities. In addition, it served as a super secret listening post staffed by personnel from the Army Security Agency, the National Security Agency, and the CIA. By the Fall of 1956, there were two thousand Americans at the base—military, civilian, and dependents—with more on the way. As a result, a major expansion of the base, and a thorough upgrade of its radio transmitting, receiving, and surveillance technology was well underway. A little over a month earlier, on July 26, 1956, Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, upsetting well-established security interests throughout the Middle East. Nasser turned to the Soviet Union for help, giving it leverage in its attempt to secure a new strategic military presence in the area, including in the Red Sea. Worried about the vulnerability of Kagnew Station to newly emboldened Soviet intrigue, the CIA instructs Alan Harper, a young covert CIA officer, to go to Asmara, Eritrea, and assess the base’s security risk—not only from Soviet-inspired political action, but also from Soviet-engineered sabotage. Using his cover as a freelance journalist, Harper arrives ostensibly to do a newspaper article on the relocation and expansion of Kagnew Station, giving him entrée to senior military, diplomatic, and civic leaders, as well as with Eritrean students and local businessmen. The situation becomes dangerous, both to himself and to the base, once Harper learns of the presence of a four-man Soviet cell and puts it under surveillance.

Went Missing

Author : Joseph W. Michels
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532061617
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Went Missing written by Joseph W. Michels and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baroness Emily Wood, a distinguished archaeologist, is reported missing during a brief visit to an ancient Greek site on the island of Crete. Discreet inquiries undertaken by the institute that employs her are unsuccessful in determining Dr. Wood’s whereabouts. Fearing she may have been abducted, the institute’s director approaches William Church for assistance. William Church, a freelance recovery specialist based in San Francisco and London, is commissioned by the institute’s director to travel to Crete in the hopes of locating her. Owing to the fact that Baroness Wood is also a member of the House of Lords, there is concern her mysterious disappearance could cause the British government unwelcome embarrassment. Accordingly, Church is instructed to secure her release by whatever means necessary in the event she has fallen into the hands of criminals. With the aid of his associate, Ariella Brandt, a former member of an elite Israeli military unit, and that of Aaron, a shadowy Israeli operative, Church traces the path of the missing woman, even as it leads to the politically unstable eastern region of Libya. Despite being confronted by local militias and violent jihadis, Church and his team discover where the baroness is being held, then forcibly rescue her. Racing for the Libyan coast and to the motor yacht waiting to pick them up, Church and his party run a gauntlet of angry armed men intent on stopping them.

Istanbul: Dateline 1956

Author : Joseph W. Michels
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663234671
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Istanbul: Dateline 1956 written by Joseph W. Michels and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Istanbul in 1956 was a city very much affected by the Cold War. It served as a destination for Eastern Europeans being smuggled through the Iron Curtain and was a transfer point for smuggling from the Middle East to Europe. Most importantly, the 1950’s was a time of growing American military and economic aid to Turkey. Soviet and nationalist communist entities viewed the generous American support as a national security threat, leading to a heightened interest on their part in learning what steps the Americans were planning to take or the status of initiatives already underway. In this novel’s fictional scenario the close knit American expat community of Istanbul, composed of U.S. Consulate personnel, undercover operatives of other U.S. agencies, retirees, businessmen, students and others, is rumored to have a spy in their midst. After a CIA agent is murdered while investigating the rumor, Alan Harper, a young CIA operative fresh from an assignment in North Africa, is tasked with finding out who ordered the killing while also being asked to take up where the dead agent left off. The young Alan Harper, only a few years out of journalism school and the completion of his CIA training, undertakes his third major assignment; his first being his undercover work in Calcutta in 1955 in connection with the city’s forthcoming municipal elections; his second being an assessment of the geopolitical status of the province of Cyrenaica, Libya, after Nasser’s nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956. Teaming up with Harper during this new and dangerous assignment is Anne Small, a CIA agent based in Beirut who ostensibly works for UNESCO. She poses as Harper’s girlfriend while Harper is purportedly in Istanbul to write a feature article on the growing popularity of Istanbul as an American tourist destination.

DAMASCUS: DATELINE 1956

Author : Joseph W. Michels
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663259488
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book DAMASCUS: DATELINE 1956 written by Joseph W. Michels and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 30th, 1956, a CIA-sponsored coup (code-named “Operation Straggle”) was to take place in Damascus with the support of the Syrian military. The operation was cancelled on October 29th, one day before the planned coup, after Israel, the British and the French launched attacks on the Suez Canal. History refers to these events as “The Suez Crisis”, and it provoked the Syrian military into refusing to go along with the coup. Two weeks later, the Soviet Union and Syria signed a Pact in which the Soviets promised Syria heavy weapons and other military support in exchange for more political and foreign policy influence. Alarmed by these events, and suffering an involuntary drawdown of CIA personnel in Damascus, Beirut’s CIA station chief sends two covert operatives into Syria a week later to monitor a Soviet intelligence team that had arrived in Damascus, ostensibly to implement the terms of the Pact. Alan Harper, posing as a freelance investigative reporter, and Anne Small, posing as his Arabic-speaking interpreter, soon discovered the real objective of the Soviet team. The action is fast-paced as Harper and Anne, at great risk to themselves, fend off the Syrian secret police, a Soviet hit squad, and the Soviet intelligence team itself, in their attempt to disrupt the Soviet operation.

Gibraltar Station

Author : Joseph W. Michels
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663251932
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Gibraltar Station written by Joseph W. Michels and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2023-03-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Taylor, a freshly retired 42 year old U.S. Army MSgt, arrives in Gibraltar and takes up residence as an expat retiree. Informed his military pension won’t be enough to live on, thereby jeopardizing his Gibraltar residence permit, Jack is open to recruitment efforts by organizations that hire paramilitary contractors. Capitalizing on the skills he acquired during his military career as a special forces operative, Jack—working alone or with others—takes on assignments ranging from providing security services to undertaking extraction ops of high value individuals. The CIA station chief in Gibraltar, along with agents of MI-5 and MI-6, soon begin to rely on Jack’s skills. Wishing to provide Jack a socially acceptable cover for his occasional covert operations they pull strings to secure for Jack a private investigator’s license as well as a concealed weapons permit. Jack’s debut as a bonafide private detective cements his local reputation as a resourceful person ready to assist, but he knows those who value his covert operational skills will not easily cut him loose.

Cyrenaica: Dateline 1956

Author : JOSEPH W. MICHELS
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663224714
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Cyrenaica: Dateline 1956 written by JOSEPH W. MICHELS and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nasser’s decision to nationalize the Suez Canal in July of 1956 caused an upheaval in Middle Eastern affairs as western powers reassessed their ties to the region’s governments. The overriding concern was how the decision might affect future access to Middle Eastern oil. Almost overnight, Libya’s province of Cyrenaica emerged as a critical geopolitical asset as oil prospectors from western nations urgently sought confirmation the region held commercially important deposits of the precious product. The U.S., anxious to secure solid intel, directed their Cairo Station covert operative, Alan Harper, to insert himself into that tumultuous region under the guise of being a freelance journalist in search of a story. The young Alan Harper, only a few years out of journalism school and the CIA training course at Camp Peary, undertakes his second major assignment; his first being his undercover work in Calcutta the previous year. Harper crosses into Cyrenaica from Egypt on a lightweight motorcycle. Almost immediately, he begins to learn of tensions within Libya as the United States and Great Britain jockey for advantage. Harper finds himself a target of those bent on preventing him from securing the information he was tasked with acquiring. His adversaries repeatedly demonstrate their willingness to go to extreme lengths to thwart him.

THE DJERBA ASSIGNMENT

Author : Joseph W. Michels
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 166326323X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book THE DJERBA ASSIGNMENT written by Joseph W. Michels and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Taylor, a retired U.S. Army MSgt now living in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar and working as a private investigator is called upon to investigate a kidnapping that has taken place on the Tunisian island of Djerba. As he tracks down the perpetrators he discovers the abduction of the young woman was not simply a local crime, but one involving a European criminal gang as well as persons linked to a foreign government. The complicated pursuit of the abducted woman leads Jack from the island of Djerba to the island of Malta and ultimately to Sicily. Jack is obliged to return to the island of Djerba almost immediately following the resolution of the kidnapping, but this time as part of a CIA-sponsored paramilitary force tasked with rescuing a U.S. Army covert signals team—a mission where his previous career as a special forces operator is once again put to the test. Then, back in Gibraltar, Jack is promptly recruited by Britain’s MI-5 to assist in exposing an espionage effort meant to weaken the Territory’s ties with Great Britain.

Assyrian Gold

Author : Joseph W. Michels
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491797088
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Assyrian Gold written by Joseph W. Michels and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ASSYRIAN GOLD is the fourth action-thriller novel to feature WILLIAM CHURCH, the freelance recovery specialist previously based in San Francisco. At the urging of his principal client, a New York insurance company, he takes up temporary residence in London. There, he is contacted by a representative of an undisclosed Middle Eastern country anxious to have Church recover a horde of six hundred pieces of priceless ancient Neo-Assyrian gold jewelry looted by militants from an important archaeological site located in a region of the country outside effective government control. Church is offered a two million dollar fee for the successful recovery of the jewelry before it can be melted down into gold bullion or before it disappears into the shadowy antiquities market of Europe. Capitalizing on leads developed through a clever use of the internets deep web, Church sets out to intercept the militants before they can dispose of the collection. Aided by a small team of Ex-Israeli military intelligence operatives, Church engages in a race against time that takes him from the Middle East to Cyprus and finally to eastern Europe, with deadly exchanges of gunfire all along the way.

Villa Marckwald

Author : Joseph W. Michels
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781469744162
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Villa Marckwald written by Joseph W. Michels and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VILLA MARCKWALD is a love story set in the immediate aftermath of the unification of East and West Germany. Alice Marckwald and Adam Bell, both fifty-eight and born in Berlin, meet under adversarial conditions arising from counter restitution claims for the return of an architecturally significant urban mansion in the heart of Berlin. Alice, a widow with two grown daughters, was born in the mansion but remembers it only as a child. The Nazis had forced her Jewish family to sell the residence in the 1930's. Adam, whose "Aryan" family purchased the mansion, grew up there and was in his early twenties at the time the building was seized by the communist regime in the 1950's. Both found their way to America. Alice works as a mathematician in Santa Monica, California, and Adam is a professor of archaeology at a small college in central Pennsylvania. Both, for their own reasons, greet news of the possibility of recovering the mansion as a welcome development in their respective lives and file the necessary papers seeking its return. The shock to each after being informed the other has filed a competing claim strengthens their resolve. Eventually, they meet face to face where their initial animosity is slowly worn away as they come to know one another. A week-long sojourn on the island of Sardinia brings their relationship to a new level and poses a dilemma that each must resolve if a satisfactory outcome is to be achieved.