Author: Lee Dorsey Publisher: Pink Flamingo Media ISBN: 1959117211 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 139
Book Description
Erotic Thriller. Shada’s life takes an unusual path, as a woman educated at Johns Hopkins Medical School, and eventually trained by Al Qaida to be an assassin. She successfully conducts missions in the Middle East ‘neutralizing the enemy’ until she’s captured by ‘The Company.’ She may well have been neutralized herself, if the mercenary Frank (from Dorsey’s novel, Mercenaries I) hadn’t saved her life. He returns her to a compound in Panama where her experience taking out the enemy makes her a candidate for hire. Following twelve weeks of training, she spends several years as an assassin, and becomes a valued asset. However, apart from her unique profession, Shada’s personal life is quite spicy. By her own admission, she’s oversexed, hedonistic and satisfies that craving at every turn. When, in time, she wants to retire, Shada plans her escape from the mercenary life, with an elaborate scheme to neutralize the Egyptian slave trader, who held her captive and used her as his sex slave. She’s vowed to neutralize him once the opportunity arises. When the time comes, she executes her ‘foolproof’ scheme with ease, except for one critical error. The slave trader’s daughter Nefertiabet is convinced that her father was murdered by the woman he once abused. When Shada learns that her enemy’s daughter wasn’t fooled by her staged death, she’s determined to neutralize Nefertiabet in a mission that will be her last!
Author: Lee Dorsey Publisher: Pink Flamingo Media ISBN: 1959117068 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 110
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The only job young Frank has ever had is flying A7 jets off an aircraft carrier while serving in Vietnam. After being shot down, he’s held captive in the Hanoi Hilton before he’s released. He comes home to find that his fiancée has married someone else, which sends him spiraling into depression. He bums around despondently for a year until he meets Antoinette and the two begin a sizzling affair. As it turns out, Antoinette is a recruiter for an organization called the ‘Company’, a group of mercenaries operating from a training facility in Panama, where they’re hired for missions strictly in a gray area. Not only does Frank fall for Antoinette, with whom he has a child, he falls in love with a young librarian Dana. He manages the two relationships successfully throughout most of his adult life, and when those relationships end, there are several notable affairs that follow. The life of a mercenary may sound exciting, but it teaches him that there is no life after retirement if you are employed by the ‘Company.’ Follow Frank’s through his working life, and a love life marked by steamy romance and hot sex.
Author: Lee Dorsey Publisher: Pink Flamingo Media ISBN: 1959117300 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 160
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Like his contemporaries in Dorsey’s other Panama novels, Ebi has had an erotic and adventurous life. Joining the Army after high school, he’s recruited into Special Forces, and serves as a Ranger for ten years. Later he’s recruited by the ‘Company’, completing twelve years of successful missions all over the world. As a highly experienced Ranger within the Company, he leads difficult and dangerous missions. At the same time, he plans his eventual escape into retirement. Over the course of his professional life, he has had three women who have professed their love for him. He would like to take one of these women into retirement with him, but is faced with a moral dilemma in making his choice of his close friend Rayan. They must stage their deaths, and find a suitable place to escape. The concern is, can they actually escape? Or is it true that “no one can successfully retire from the ‘Company’?
Author: Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521853583 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 449
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Across the globe, there are more than 50 armed conflicts, many of which are being perpetrated in the name of religion. In these zones of violence, there are brave men and women who, motivated by their religious beliefs, are working to create and sustain peace and reconciliation. Yet their stories are unknown. This book explores the conflicts and the stories of 15 remarkable individuals identified and studied by the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding from regions as far-flung as West Papua, Indonesia, the Middle East, Northern Ireland, Nigeria, El Salvador and South Africa. The book also captures important lessons learned when these peacemakers convened in Amman, Jordan for the 2004 Peacemakers in Action Retreat and discussed their best techniques and greatest obstacles in creating peace on the ground. Peacemakers in Action provides guidance to students of religion and future peacemakers.
Author: Jean Sénat Fleury Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1984538918 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 272
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There are men who are representatives of their race, of their nation, and of their generation. They are exceptional beings who are samples of their society, or they are at the forefront of humanity. They not only left their mark on their time but they also left their mark on the universal history of peoples and nations. They have the greatness and quality of eternal life. They belong to any time and any place. They are people who have accomplished unique facts and changed the course of history through their actions. At one point in their lives, they stood up, and they defied a system. They led the fight that opened the narrow path of justice, freedom, and equality for all. These men are called heroes, having a power of thought and a strength of unusual souls. God created them to make them forgers of conscience, revolutionaries, leaders of men, and leaders. They are the true kings of this world! Dessalines was one of those mena genius of his race. He was a giant in the history of humanity.
Author: Jeb Sprague Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1583673032 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 401
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In this path-breaking book, Jeb Sprague investigates the dangerous world of right-wing paramilitarism in Haiti and its role in undermining the democratic aspirations of the Haitian people. Sprague focuses on the period beginning in 1990 with the rise of Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and the right-wing movements that succeeded in driving him from power. Over the ensuing two decades, paramilitary violence was largely directed against the poor and supporters of Aristide’s Lavalas movement, taking the lives of thousands of Haitians. Sprague seeks to understand how this occurred, and traces connections between paramilitaries and their elite financial and political backers, in Haiti but also in the United States and the Dominican Republic. The product of years of original research, this book draws on over fifty interviews—some of which placed the author in severe danger—and more than 11,000 documents secured through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. It makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of Haiti today, and is a vivid reminder of how democratic struggles in poor countries are often met with extreme violence organized at the behest of capital.
Author: Noam Chomsky Publisher: Haymarket Books+ORM ISBN: 1608464490 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 466
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The eminent political activist examines the principles and strategies of imperial violence and propaganda from American colonization to the modern day. In this incisive study, Noam Chomsky demonstrates that "the great work of subjugation and conquest" has changed little over the years. Analyzing American policy and its consequences in Haiti, Latin America, Cuba, Indonesia, and even areas of the Third World developing in the United States, Chomsky draws striking parallels across centuries of imperialist adventures. Year 501 sets out a compelling argument that the murder and exploitation of modern-day imperialism—and the denialism that allows it to flourish—are inextricably linked to the genocides of colonial times. This edition includes a new preface by the author.
Author: Fariba Adelkhah Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317418972 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 340
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A country marked by controversy, Iran’s social, cultural and political dynamics are too often reduced to a few misleading clichés. Islamism is widely considered to shape all social relations in Iranian society and, while Iranian society is indeed Islamic, this term’s multiple meanings in everyday life and practices go far beyond the naïve and monolithic idea we are used to. The Thousand and One Borders of Iran analyses travel as a social practice, exploring how diasporas, margins and so-called peripheries are central in the construction of a national identity and thus revealing the complexities of Iranian history and society. Written by a leading anthropologist, it draws upon fieldwork carried out in Iran and Iranian migrant communities across Dubai, Tokyo and Los Angeles from 1998 to 2015. While casting new perspectives on the place of transnational relations in an increasingly globalized world, this work also sheds new light on the evolution of Iranian society, countering the explanation furnished by nationalist ideology that has been reproduced by the Islamic Republic itself. Its unique approach to the analysis of Iranian society through the theme of travel and borders considers the links and even the quarrels between the centre of Iranian society and the periphery, and the foreign elements that have contributed to society’s development. Travel is key to these interactions and, following the travels of merchants and workers, students or the faithful, elected officials and experts, or exiles and refugees, this book offers an anthropological study of travel that re-thinks Iranian history and national identity. This book would be of interest to students and scholars of Iranian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies and Anthropology.
Author: Lee Dorsey
Author: Lee Dorsey
Author: Lee Dorsey
Author: Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding
Author: Jean Sénat Fleury
Author: Jeb Sprague
Author: Noam Chomsky
Author: ANONIMO
Author: United States. Defense Intelligence Agency
Author: Fariba Adelkhah