Download or read book The Warsaw Protocol written by Steve Berry and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York Times bestseller Steve Berry’s latest Cotton Malone adventure, one by one the seven precious relics of the Arma Christi, the weapons of Christ, are disappearing from sanctuaries across the world. After former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone witnesses the theft of one of them, he learns from his old boss, Stephanie Nelle, that a private auction is about to be held where incriminating information on the president of Poland will be offered to the highest bidder—blackmail that both the United States and Russia want, but for vastly different reasons. The price of admission to that auction is one of the relics, so Malone is first sent to a castle in Poland to steal the Holy Lance, a thousand-year-old spear sacred to not only Christians but to the Polish people, and then on to the auction itself. But nothing goes as planned and Malone is thrust into a bloody battle between three nations over information that, if exposed, could change the balance of power in Europe. From the tranquil canals of Bruges, to the elegant rooms of Wawel Castle, to deep beneath the earth into an ancient Polish salt mine, Malone is caught in the middle of a deadly war—the outcome of which turns on a secret known as the Warsaw Protocol.

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Download or read book Data Mining and Big Data written by Ying Tan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The LNCS volume LNCS 9714 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data, DMBD 2016, held in Bali, Indonesia, in June 2016. The 57 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. The theme of DMBD 2016 is "Serving Life with Data Science". Data mining refers to the activity of going through big data sets to look for relevant or pertinent information.The papers are organized in 10 cohesive sections covering all major topics of the research and development of data mining and big data and one Workshop on Computational Aspects of Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision.

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