Download or read book Desert Deceit written by Maarten Loose and published by Manuscript Master. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the gritty underworld of 1940s Las Vegas, Vincent "Vinnie" Moretti reigns supreme, a mob boss with a code of honor and a heart of contradictions. The glamorous facade of The Golden Grotto Casino masks a city teeming with deception, betrayal, and dark secrets. When Vinnie's old friend and rival, Benjamin Sirocco, meets a tragic end, Vinnie is thrust into a deadly game of vengeance and power. Joined by the captivating jazz singer Susannah "Susie" Devereaux, Vinnie navigates the treacherous landscape of organized crime, facing off against the ruthless Don Friddi and the corrupt Councilman Harrison Sinclair. As alliances shift and danger looms, Vinnie must confront his own inner demons to protect the woman he loves and secure his legacy. "Desert Deceit: A Tale of Old Vegas" is a gripping noir thriller that weaves a tale of ambition, loyalty, and the high stakes of the Las Vegas strip. In a city where shadows hide the darkest sins, can Vinnie rise above his past to forge a future worth fighting for?

Download or read book Deceit in the Desert written by Anne Marie Becker and published by Anne Marie Becker. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A romantic suspense short story… Intrepid investigative journalist Eve Reynolds has a passion for justice that often puts her in danger. When she agrees to travel to Phoenix to investigate a drug gang known as the Desert Diablos, she becomes a target. Good thing she has a guardian angel. DEA undercover agent Nico Johnson is no angel. He’s definitely human, and his weakness for Eve proves it. She’s tough and capable, but he’s watched from afar to make sure she’s safe. The woman has a reckless streak that would have her running headlong into a raging storm to save a stranger. This time, his gut is telling him she’s in more danger than she can handle. The ruthless Desert Diablos will do anything necessary to take out a threat to their drug-running organization. Nico’s used to fighting threats like them. What he can’t fight is his growing desire for Eve. Despite his good intentions, he can’t resist her. After all, everything’s hotter in the desert. 10,000 words

Download or read book Desert of Deceit written by Gavin Parmar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the spring of 2011 and a nuclear-armed Iran, has just taken another frightening step forward on the global stage. An undercover CIA agent discovers the Iranians have been secretly shipping spent nuclear fuel rods away to a secret reprocessing plant. UN Inspectors are immediatly expelled from the country as the Iranians prepare for war. The embattled American President is severely tested in the explosive situation while the CIA struggles to defuse the situation. But its effectiveness is quickly tempered following the revelation of a mole. This mole, in the highest levels of the company, is leaking information to America's enemies. Events spiral out of control when the Iranians acquire advanced F-18E fighters which will soon be transporting thermonuclear bombs. Targets are randomly attacked as they flex their newfound muscle. Overwhelmed Black Ops and an embattled CIA are the only hope as the world plunges forward towards nuclear war in the Desert of Deceit.

Download or read book Web of Deceit written by Barry Lando and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigative history of Western complicity in Saddam Hussein’s crimes reveals the story his trial never will. In February 1991, the Shia of southern Iraq rose against Saddam Hussein. Barry M. Lando, a former investigative producer for 60 Minutes, argues compellingly that this ill-fated uprising represents one instance among many of Western complicity in Saddam Hussein’s crimes against humanity. The Shia were responding to the call for rebellion from President George H.W. Bush that was broadcast repeatedly across Iraq by clandestine CIA stations. But, just as the revolution was on the brink of success, the United States and its allies turned their backs. In the end, tens of thousands were massacred. Because of restrictions imposed by the Special Tribunal prosecuting Saddam Hussein, the extensive role of the U.S. and its allies in his crimes will never be explored at his trial. But as Web of Deceit demonstrates, the nations that now denounce Saddam most prominently secretly backed the dictator from his rise to power in the 1960s and ‘70s to his offensives in Iran and, despite warnings, took no action to stop his invasion of Kuwait. They also turned their backs when he used chemical weapons against the Iraqi people and persisted in international sanctions long after they had proved ineffective and, for hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, lethal. Web of Deceit draws on a wide range of journalism and scholarship to present a complete picture of what really happened in Iraq under Saddam, detailing – for the first time – the complicity of the West in its full and alarming extent.

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Download or read book Essene Book of Everyday Virtues written by Kenneth Hanson, PhD and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook of spiritual living for contemporary readers based on the 2000-year-old practices of the Essenes.

Download or read book Wanderer of the Wasteland written by Zane Grey and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Download or read book Branches of Deception written by Rick M. De Jong and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Rhodes and his longtime friend decide to take a trip to attend their high school reunion in Arizona. Their route will cross the southern portion of California's Mojave Desert. What could possibly go wrong? Situations determine that they rent separate vehicles and, with plans to meet at the reunion, they innocently set off. Sinister forces are against them from the very beginning and the pair is drawn into an ever tightening evil web of conspiracy, deception and deceit. The California desert creates a background that not only draws these friends deep into its mystery, but with deadly effectiveness covers both their tracks and escaping screams. Will Robert reveal the deserts secrets in time to save them from the fate that has silenced so many? Or will their inaudible screams and cries for help reflect those of the legions that have traveled the lonely highway before?

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Download or read book An Early Grave written by Gary C. King and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 17, 1998, police found Las Vegas gambling magnate Ted Binion lying dead on the floor of his palatial home, an empty bos of Xanax beside him. The police had been called by Binion's live-in lover, Sandra Murphy, 23, a California girl who had been working in a Vegas strip club when Binion had first met her. At first it seemed it was a fatal drug overdose that killed the handsome multi-millionaire. But was it? A few days later, Binion's "friend" Rick Tabish was arrested for trying to break into a vault where the eccentric millionaire had stored seven million dollars' worth of silver bars and coins. Family members hired ex-homicide detective-turned-private investigator Tom Dillar to start digging into the case. Dillard turned over the evidence he collected to Las Vegas police. What they found led to Binion's death being ruled a homicide and Murphy and Tabish's arrest for murder. The state said they were greedy lovers who'd conspired to kill Binion before they could strike Murphy out of his will, while the defense claimed that his vengeful family was trying to railroad Murphy to keep her from inheriting her fair share of the estate. The two sides collided in court, amid lurid charges and countercharges of physical abuse, drug use and illicit passion, in what became the Southwest's Murder Trial of the Century!

Download or read book Selected American Fiction For All Cass Timberlane The Greater Inclination Wanderer of the Wasteland written by Sinclair Lewis;Edith Wharton;Zane Grey and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 875 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Combo Collection (Set of 3 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains : Cass Timberlane The Greater Inclination Wanderer of the Wasteland

Download or read book Brokers of Deceit written by Rashid Khalidi and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2014 Lionel Trilling Book Award An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no end in sight, and for much of that time, the United States has been involved as a mediator in the conflict. In this book, acclaimed historian Rashid Khalidi zeroes in on the United States’s role as the purported impartial broker in this failed peace process. Khalidi closely analyzes three historical moments that illuminate how the United States’ involvement has, in fact, thwarted progress toward peace between Israel and Palestine. The first moment he investigates is the “Reagan Plan” of 1982, when Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin refused to accept the Reagan administration’s proposal to reframe the Camp David Accords more impartially. The second moment covers the period after the Madrid Peace Conference, from 1991 to 1993, during which negotiations between Israel and Palestine were brokered by the United States until the signing of the secretly negotiated Oslo accords. Finally, Khalidi takes on President Barack Obama’s retreat from plans to insist on halting the settlements in the West Bank. Through in-depth research into and keen analysis of these three moments, as well as his own firsthand experience as an advisor to the Palestinian delegation at the 1991 pre–Oslo negotiations in Washington, DC, Khalidi reveals how the United States and Israel have actively colluded to prevent a Palestinian state and resolve the situation in Israel’s favor. Brokers of Deceit bares the truth about why peace in the Middle East has been impossible to achieve: for decades, US policymakers have masqueraded as unbiased agents working to bring the two sides together, when, in fact, they have been the agents of continuing injustice, effectively preventing the difficult but essential steps needed to achieve peace in the region.

Download or read book The Book of Marvels written by Mark Jenkins and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on a time when the world had not been fully mapped or traveled, this book presents sights as witnessed through the eyes of Charles Darwin, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Meriwether Lewis, Rudyard Kipling, Willa Cather, and many others.

Download or read book ZANE GREY Ultimate Collection Historical Novels Western Classics Adventure Tales Baseball Stories 60 Titles in One Volume written by Zane Grey and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 12144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "ZANE GREY Ultimate Collection: Historical Novels, Western Classics, Adventure Tales & Baseball Stories (60+ Titles in One Volume)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This collection contains the greatest western stories such as Riders of the Purple Sage, The Last Trail, The Mysterious Rider, The Border Legion, Desert Gold, The Last of the Plainsmen and many more. The edition also includes historical novels such as "Betty Zane" (a historical novel about Elizabeth "Betty" Zane McLaughlin Clark - a heroine of the Revolutionary War on the American frontier), "The Day of the Beast" (the story from World War I) and many other historical novels. You will find here are the exciting adventure novels such as "Ken Ward in the Jungle", "The UP Trail", "The Young Lion Hunter" and many more. The collection as well contains numerous baseball and fishing stories since the author Zane Grey vas very passionate about these sports. Table of Contents: Betty Zane The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley The Last of the Plainsmen The Last Trail The Short Stop The Heritage of the Desert The Young Forester The Young Pitcher The Young Lion Hunter Riders of the Purple Sage Ken Ward in the Jungle Desert Gold The Light of the Western Stars The Rustlers of Pecos County The Lone Star Ranger Rainbow Trail The Border Legion Wildfire The UP Trail The Desert of Wheat Tales of Fishes The Man of the Forest The Mysterious Rider To the Last Man The Day of the Beast Tales of Lonely Trails Wanderer of the Wasteland Tappan's Burro The Call of the Canyon Roping Lions in the Grand Canyon The Thundering Herd The Vanishing American Under the Tonto Rim Tales of the Angler's Eldorado, New Zealand Forlorn River Nevada Sunset Pass Arizona Ames The Drift Fence The Hash Knife Outfit The Code of the West Thunder Mountain The Trail Driver The Wilderness Trek Arizona Clan and many more

Download or read book Dazzled and Deceived written by Peter Forbes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures all over the world - including butterflies, moths, fish, birds, insects and snakes - have honed and practised camouflage over hundreds of millions of years. Imitating other animals or their surroundings, nature's fakers use mimicry to protect themselves, to attract and repel, to bluff and warn, to forage and to hide. The advantages of mimicry are obvious - but how does 'blind' nature do it? And how has humanity learnt to profit from nature's ploys? "Dazzled and Deceived" tells the unique and fascinating story of mimicry and camouflage in science, art, warfare and the natural world. Discovered in the 1850s by the young English naturalists Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazonian rainforest, the phenomenon of mimicry was seized upon as the first independent validation of Darwin's theory of natural selection. But mimicry and camouflage also created a huge impact outside the laboratory walls. Peter Forbes' cultural history links mimicry and camouflage to art, literature, military tactics and medical cures across the twentieth century, and charts its intricate involvement with the dispute between evolution and creationism.

Download or read book Resilient Pastors written by Justine Allain-Chapman and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastors, including clergy, need to be able to provide the right kind of circumstances, teaching and care to enable people to face crisis and come through difficulties stronger as human beings and as Christians. They also need the quality of resilience to be involved in Christian ministry. This book draws on the experience and literature of the desert as well as on resilience studies and on contemporary theology, particularly that of Rowan Williams, and applies theological understanding to the pastoral task.