Author: Ales Kot
Publisher: Valiant Entertainment
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The all-new conspiracy thriller from red-hot creators Ales Kot (Secret Avengers) and Adam Gorham (Zero) continues! The biotechnology that is threatening to end us all is out on the streets of New York and Archer is the only one who can stop it ? with his bow and arrows, without pants. The group responsible for stealing the virus continues to play the city against the team. But who are they?
Dead Drop #2
Author: Ales Kot
Publisher: Valiant Entertainment
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The all-new conspiracy thriller from red-hot creators Ales Kot (Secret Avengers) and Adam Gorham (Zero) continues! The biotechnology that is threatening to end us all is out on the streets of New York and Archer is the only one who can stop it ? with his bow and arrows, without pants. The group responsible for stealing the virus continues to play the city against the team. But who are they?
Publisher: Valiant Entertainment
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The all-new conspiracy thriller from red-hot creators Ales Kot (Secret Avengers) and Adam Gorham (Zero) continues! The biotechnology that is threatening to end us all is out on the streets of New York and Archer is the only one who can stop it ? with his bow and arrows, without pants. The group responsible for stealing the virus continues to play the city against the team. But who are they?
Dead Drop
Author: Marc Cameron
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 078604165X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
New York Times-Bestselling Author: A water park is targeted by terrorists in a novella starring “a formidable warrior readers will want to see more of” (Publishers Weekly). Every summer, thousands of families head to the nation’s largest water park, famous for its 21-story waterslide, the “Dead Drop.” This year, one visitor didn’t pack his bathing suit. He packed explosives. When the bomb goes off, dozens are instantly killed. The rest are herded into the park’s massive pool by the bomber’s accomplices. An organized team of fanatical but well-trained terrorists, they seal off the entrances, turn the waterslide into a watchtower, and train their sights on the families below. But one hostage isn’t playing along. He’s special agent Jericho Quinn. He’s on vacation with his daughter. And he’s about to turn this terrorist pool party into one righteous bloodbath… “Jericho Quinn is most definitely one of the best characters in the thriller realm.”—Suspense Magazine
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 078604165X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
New York Times-Bestselling Author: A water park is targeted by terrorists in a novella starring “a formidable warrior readers will want to see more of” (Publishers Weekly). Every summer, thousands of families head to the nation’s largest water park, famous for its 21-story waterslide, the “Dead Drop.” This year, one visitor didn’t pack his bathing suit. He packed explosives. When the bomb goes off, dozens are instantly killed. The rest are herded into the park’s massive pool by the bomber’s accomplices. An organized team of fanatical but well-trained terrorists, they seal off the entrances, turn the waterslide into a watchtower, and train their sights on the families below. But one hostage isn’t playing along. He’s special agent Jericho Quinn. He’s on vacation with his daughter. And he’s about to turn this terrorist pool party into one righteous bloodbath… “Jericho Quinn is most definitely one of the best characters in the thriller realm.”—Suspense Magazine
Dead Drop
Author: Ales Kot
Publisher: Valiant Entertainment
ISBN: 1939346851
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
FOUR HEROES. FOUR STORIES. ONE TICKING CLOCK. There is a secret black market in New York. It is hidden in plain sight Ð in our streets, trains, and restaurants. Those who know how to navigate it exchange secrets of extraordinary nature. But when the secret in circulation is a biological weapon derived from Vine technology, the gloves are off Ð and the most extraordinary agents are released to stop the disaster before it occurs. Otherwise, in less than thirty minutes, there will be no world to come back to. X-O Manowar, Archer, Neville Alcott, Detective Cejudo and Betamax are ready to save the world. Red-hot writer Ales Kot (Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier) and rising star Adam Gorham (Zero) go in deep with an unlikely cast of superhuman operators for an undercover conspiracy action thriller in the darkest corners of the Valiant Universe. Collecting DEAD DROP #1Ð4.
Publisher: Valiant Entertainment
ISBN: 1939346851
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
FOUR HEROES. FOUR STORIES. ONE TICKING CLOCK. There is a secret black market in New York. It is hidden in plain sight Ð in our streets, trains, and restaurants. Those who know how to navigate it exchange secrets of extraordinary nature. But when the secret in circulation is a biological weapon derived from Vine technology, the gloves are off Ð and the most extraordinary agents are released to stop the disaster before it occurs. Otherwise, in less than thirty minutes, there will be no world to come back to. X-O Manowar, Archer, Neville Alcott, Detective Cejudo and Betamax are ready to save the world. Red-hot writer Ales Kot (Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier) and rising star Adam Gorham (Zero) go in deep with an unlikely cast of superhuman operators for an undercover conspiracy action thriller in the darkest corners of the Valiant Universe. Collecting DEAD DROP #1Ð4.
Altered By Fire
Author: C. M. Stunich
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781691532193
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
My life changed in an instant, altered by fire, irreparably damaged.Just like me.I'm a broken, damaged soul on the run from a very real sort of darkness.My father, a notorious mob boss, either wants me back or wants me dead.I find solace in the arms of his enemies.Five deliciously dark men that tempt me to do things I shouldn't.Arsen, Colt, Weston, Mace, and Hawke.They're just as dangerous as the men they're hunting.So, will they save me, or burn me to ashes?Either way, in their arms, I catch fire.I burn.And I love every second of it.**NOTE: This book was originally published as Five Fathers by Kate Morgan. It has undergone a rewrite but the core story remains the same.**
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781691532193
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
My life changed in an instant, altered by fire, irreparably damaged.Just like me.I'm a broken, damaged soul on the run from a very real sort of darkness.My father, a notorious mob boss, either wants me back or wants me dead.I find solace in the arms of his enemies.Five deliciously dark men that tempt me to do things I shouldn't.Arsen, Colt, Weston, Mace, and Hawke.They're just as dangerous as the men they're hunting.So, will they save me, or burn me to ashes?Either way, in their arms, I catch fire.I burn.And I love every second of it.**NOTE: This book was originally published as Five Fathers by Kate Morgan. It has undergone a rewrite but the core story remains the same.**
Trance
Author: Christopher Sorrentino
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429932724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
1974: A tiny band of self-styled urban guerrillas, calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army, abducts a newspaper heiress, who then abruptly announces that she has adopted the guerrilla name "Tania" and chosen to remain with her former captors. Has she been brainwashed? Coerced? Could she be sincere? Why would such a nice girl disavow her loving parents, her adoring fiancé, her comfortable home? Why would she suddenly adopt the SLA's cri de coeur, "Death to the Fascist Insect that Preys Upon the Life of the People"? Soon most of the SLA are dead, killed in a suicidal confrontation with police in Los Angeles, forcing Tania and her two remaining comrades--the pompous and abusive General Teko and his duplicitous lieutenant, Yolanda--into hiding, where they will remain for the next sixteen months. Trance, Christopher Sorrentino's mesmerizing and brilliant second novel, traces this fugitive period, leading the reader on a breathtaking, hilarious, and heartbreaking underground tour across a beleaguered America, in the company of scam artists, visionaries, cultists, and a mismatched gang of middle-class people who typify the guiding conceit of their time, that of self-renovation. Along the way he tells the story of a nation divided against itself--parents and children, men and women, black and white; a story of hidebound tradition and radical change, of truth and propaganda, of cynicism and idealism; a story as transfixing and relevant today as it was then. Insightful, compassionate, scathingly funny, and moving, Trance is a virtuoso performance, placing Christopher Sorrentino in the first rank of American novelists. Trance is a 2005 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429932724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
1974: A tiny band of self-styled urban guerrillas, calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army, abducts a newspaper heiress, who then abruptly announces that she has adopted the guerrilla name "Tania" and chosen to remain with her former captors. Has she been brainwashed? Coerced? Could she be sincere? Why would such a nice girl disavow her loving parents, her adoring fiancé, her comfortable home? Why would she suddenly adopt the SLA's cri de coeur, "Death to the Fascist Insect that Preys Upon the Life of the People"? Soon most of the SLA are dead, killed in a suicidal confrontation with police in Los Angeles, forcing Tania and her two remaining comrades--the pompous and abusive General Teko and his duplicitous lieutenant, Yolanda--into hiding, where they will remain for the next sixteen months. Trance, Christopher Sorrentino's mesmerizing and brilliant second novel, traces this fugitive period, leading the reader on a breathtaking, hilarious, and heartbreaking underground tour across a beleaguered America, in the company of scam artists, visionaries, cultists, and a mismatched gang of middle-class people who typify the guiding conceit of their time, that of self-renovation. Along the way he tells the story of a nation divided against itself--parents and children, men and women, black and white; a story of hidebound tradition and radical change, of truth and propaganda, of cynicism and idealism; a story as transfixing and relevant today as it was then. Insightful, compassionate, scathingly funny, and moving, Trance is a virtuoso performance, placing Christopher Sorrentino in the first rank of American novelists. Trance is a 2005 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
Dead Drop
Author: Jeremy Duns
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1849839301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
The astonishing true story of how the CIA, MI6 and a Soviet defector saved the world in 1962, as told in the new film, The Courier, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. In August 1960, a Soviet colonel called Oleg Penkovsky tried to make contact with the West. His first attempt was to approach two young American students in Moscow. He handed them a bulky envelope and pleaded with them to deliver it to the American embassy. MI6 and the CIA came to believe Penkovsky was genuine and so the two agencies decided to run the operation jointly. It ran right through the Berlin crisis - in an astonishing near-miss, Penkovsky learned that the Wall was going to be built four days before it happened but was unable to contact his handlers - and the Cuban Missile Crisis, in which rocket manuals Penkovsky had handed over were crucial in determining what President Khrushchev was doing, and helped President John F. Kennedy and his team end the crisis and avert a nuclear war. Penkovsky, codenamed HERO, is widely seen as the most important spy of the Cold War, and the CIA-MI6 joint operation to run him has never been bettered. But had the KGB already 'turned' Penkovsky and were the Russians making sure he saw the information they wanted him to see? If so, it may even have been possible that the whole Cuban Missile Crisis might have been a Russian deception operation. Thrilling, evocative and hugely controversial, Dead Drop blows apart some of the myths about one of the Cold War's most well-known operations as the world stood on the brink of nuclear destruction.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1849839301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
The astonishing true story of how the CIA, MI6 and a Soviet defector saved the world in 1962, as told in the new film, The Courier, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. In August 1960, a Soviet colonel called Oleg Penkovsky tried to make contact with the West. His first attempt was to approach two young American students in Moscow. He handed them a bulky envelope and pleaded with them to deliver it to the American embassy. MI6 and the CIA came to believe Penkovsky was genuine and so the two agencies decided to run the operation jointly. It ran right through the Berlin crisis - in an astonishing near-miss, Penkovsky learned that the Wall was going to be built four days before it happened but was unable to contact his handlers - and the Cuban Missile Crisis, in which rocket manuals Penkovsky had handed over were crucial in determining what President Khrushchev was doing, and helped President John F. Kennedy and his team end the crisis and avert a nuclear war. Penkovsky, codenamed HERO, is widely seen as the most important spy of the Cold War, and the CIA-MI6 joint operation to run him has never been bettered. But had the KGB already 'turned' Penkovsky and were the Russians making sure he saw the information they wanted him to see? If so, it may even have been possible that the whole Cuban Missile Crisis might have been a Russian deception operation. Thrilling, evocative and hugely controversial, Dead Drop blows apart some of the myths about one of the Cold War's most well-known operations as the world stood on the brink of nuclear destruction.
Handbook of Sharing Confidential Data
Author: Jörg Drechsler
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1040118747
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Statistical agencies, research organizations, companies, and other data stewards that seek to share data with the public face a challenging dilemma. They need to protect the privacy and confidentiality of data subjects and their attributes while providing data products that are useful for their intended purposes. In an age when information on data subjects is available from a wide range of data sources, as are the computational resources to obtain that information, this challenge is increasingly difficult. The Handbook of Sharing Confidential Data helps data stewards understand how tools from the data confidentiality literature—specifically, synthetic data, formal privacy, and secure computation—can be used to manage trade-offs in disclosure risk and data usefulness. Key features: • Provides overviews of the potential and the limitations of synthetic data, differential privacy, and secure computation • Offers an accessible review of methods for implementing differential privacy, both from methodological and practical perspectives • Presents perspectives from both computer science and statistical science for addressing data confidentiality and privacy • Describes genuine applications of synthetic data, formal privacy, and secure computation to help practitioners implement these approaches The handbook is accessible to both researchers and practitioners who work with confidential data. It requires familiarity with basic concepts from probability and data analysis.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1040118747
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Statistical agencies, research organizations, companies, and other data stewards that seek to share data with the public face a challenging dilemma. They need to protect the privacy and confidentiality of data subjects and their attributes while providing data products that are useful for their intended purposes. In an age when information on data subjects is available from a wide range of data sources, as are the computational resources to obtain that information, this challenge is increasingly difficult. The Handbook of Sharing Confidential Data helps data stewards understand how tools from the data confidentiality literature—specifically, synthetic data, formal privacy, and secure computation—can be used to manage trade-offs in disclosure risk and data usefulness. Key features: • Provides overviews of the potential and the limitations of synthetic data, differential privacy, and secure computation • Offers an accessible review of methods for implementing differential privacy, both from methodological and practical perspectives • Presents perspectives from both computer science and statistical science for addressing data confidentiality and privacy • Describes genuine applications of synthetic data, formal privacy, and secure computation to help practitioners implement these approaches The handbook is accessible to both researchers and practitioners who work with confidential data. It requires familiarity with basic concepts from probability and data analysis.
Rai #11
Author: Matt Kindt
Publisher: Valiant Entertainment
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Acclaimed writer Matt Kindt and superstar artist Clayton Crain bring ?THE ORPHAN? to a brutal boiling point! Now that Rai?s allies back on New Japan have reunited, they must figure out a plan to retrieve their friend and topple Father?s rule once and for all. Meanwhile, Rai has his work cut out for him on Earth as his past sins come back to haunt him. Luckily for our hero, justice is Eternal...
Publisher: Valiant Entertainment
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Acclaimed writer Matt Kindt and superstar artist Clayton Crain bring ?THE ORPHAN? to a brutal boiling point! Now that Rai?s allies back on New Japan have reunited, they must figure out a plan to retrieve their friend and topple Father?s rule once and for all. Meanwhile, Rai has his work cut out for him on Earth as his past sins come back to haunt him. Luckily for our hero, justice is Eternal...
Dead Drop
Author: Carolyn Jewel
Publisher: cJewel Books
ISBN: 1937823253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
She loathes demons. He almost killed her. There’s a thin line between hate… and love. Wallace Jackson is a pacifist street witch with power she can’t access. Her efforts to work with demons to unlock her dangerous, unusual ability leave her sick for days, and she wants nothing more than to give up. The help of Palla, a demon warlord’s most deadly assassin, changes her mind. Palla is an enforcer and a stone-cold killer. He’s also haunted by his inability to save his former lover from a torturous living death. The witch may be the only one who can help to free his lover’s spirit from unimaginable suffering. He wants a favor. She can’t stand him, but she also can’t say no. As Palla helps Wallace gain control of her magic, they realize there might be more between them than a mission. Will the tension boil over before the task is through? Dead Drop is a paranormal romance novel set in the My Immortals saga, a series set around a magical war between demons and magekind. If you like magical action, growing romance, and well-written drama, then you’ll love Carolyn Jewel’s compelling story.
Publisher: cJewel Books
ISBN: 1937823253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
She loathes demons. He almost killed her. There’s a thin line between hate… and love. Wallace Jackson is a pacifist street witch with power she can’t access. Her efforts to work with demons to unlock her dangerous, unusual ability leave her sick for days, and she wants nothing more than to give up. The help of Palla, a demon warlord’s most deadly assassin, changes her mind. Palla is an enforcer and a stone-cold killer. He’s also haunted by his inability to save his former lover from a torturous living death. The witch may be the only one who can help to free his lover’s spirit from unimaginable suffering. He wants a favor. She can’t stand him, but she also can’t say no. As Palla helps Wallace gain control of her magic, they realize there might be more between them than a mission. Will the tension boil over before the task is through? Dead Drop is a paranormal romance novel set in the My Immortals saga, a series set around a magical war between demons and magekind. If you like magical action, growing romance, and well-written drama, then you’ll love Carolyn Jewel’s compelling story.
Gilda Joyce: The Dead Drop
Author: Jennifer Allison
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101057068
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
When Gilda lands a summer internship at Washington, D.C.?s International Spy Museum, she finds herself embroiled in both a museum haunting and a real case of espionage. While investigating a cemetery where Abraham Lincoln?s son was once buried, Gilda stumbles upon a spy?s ?dead drop? of classified information. Gilda?s efforts to decode the cryptic message lead to further intrigues: Is she on the trail of a mole operating inside the U.S. intelligence community? Aware that ?nothing is what it seems? when it comes to spies in Washington, D.C., Gilda faces the most serious challenge yet in her career as a psychic spy.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101057068
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
When Gilda lands a summer internship at Washington, D.C.?s International Spy Museum, she finds herself embroiled in both a museum haunting and a real case of espionage. While investigating a cemetery where Abraham Lincoln?s son was once buried, Gilda stumbles upon a spy?s ?dead drop? of classified information. Gilda?s efforts to decode the cryptic message lead to further intrigues: Is she on the trail of a mole operating inside the U.S. intelligence community? Aware that ?nothing is what it seems? when it comes to spies in Washington, D.C., Gilda faces the most serious challenge yet in her career as a psychic spy.