Download or read book Chase Baker and the Pyramid of Madness A Chase Baker Thriller written by Vincent Zandri and published by Vincent Zandri. This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IS THE SOUTH POLE HOME TO AN ANCIENT CIVILIZATION HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD? AND WHY IS THE VATICAN WILLING TO KILL FOR IT? After being hunted down at an eatery in Rome by a young female archaeologist, Chase suddenly finds himself on the run from a Vatican priest who wants them both dead. But what the treasure hunter is about to find out is that evidence exists of a previously unknown pyramid that's not only billions of years old, but that contains the truth about human existence on earth and God in heaven. From NY Times Thriller Award winning author Vincent Zandri. Grab this pulse-pounding adventure now! "The story of Vincent Zandri is the story of our times." --Business Insider "Vincent Zandri hails from the future." --The New York Times “Sensational . . . masterful . . . brilliant.” --New York Post

Download or read book The Ashes A Thriller written by Vincent Zandri and published by Vincent Zandri. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DON'T GO DOWN INTO THE CELLAR, MOMMY It’s been eight years since artist and single mom, Rebecca Underhill, was abducted. Abducted and left to die in an old broken down house located in the middle of the dark woods. But even if her abductor, Joseph William Whalen, has since been killed, another, more insidious evil is once more out to get her in the form of the Skinner. The son of an abusive butcher, Skinner intends on finishing the job Whalen started but failed at. How is he going to get to Rebecca? He’s going to do it through her children, by luring them into the cornfield behind the old farmhouse they live in. Now, armed with the knowledge that the Skinner has escaped incarceration at a downstate facility for the criminally insane, Rebecca must face the most horrifying challenge of her adult life: Rescuing the children not from a house in the woods, but from the abandoned tunnels that run underneath her property. But the Skinner is watching Rebecca’s every move. Horrifying question is, will she live long enough to save the children? From Thriller Award winner and New York Times and USA Today bestselling author comes the long awaited sequel to the No. 1 Overall Amazon Bestselling suspense thriller, THE REMAINS. For fans of Stephen King, Blake Crouch, Alice Hoffman, and more, THE ASHES will keep you up all night. Just make sure to keep the lights on. Scroll up and grab your copy now. "Sensational...Masterful...Brilliant" -New York Post "Gritty, fast-paced, lyrical and haunting" - Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling author of Six Years "Tough, stylish, heartbreaking" - Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of Savages

Download or read book Max Gator A Thriller written by Vincent Zandri and published by Vincent Zandri. This book was released on 2024-07-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOD DOESNT ALWAYS CREATE BEAUTIFUL CREATURES. SOMETIMES HE CREATES PURE EVIL! When a massive, almost prehistoric gator infiltrates a privately owned South Florida, Ultra Maximum-Security Prison and begins its mission to feed on both inmates and corrections officers alike, panic ensues. Since permanent lockdown isn't a sustainable option, especially since the gator is big and strong enough to breach the cells, the prison warden has no choice but to enlist the prison's two toughest criminals to kill the horrific beast. Their names are Harry Steele and Blood. From New York Times bestselling ITW Thriller and PWA Shamus award winning author Vincent Zandri comes an action-packed, pulse pounding horror thriller that's best described as "Jaws" meets "Cocaine Bear." This might be a novel-length read, but we dare you to put it down even for a minute. Scroll up and grab your thrilling copy now! Praise for Vincent Zandri: "Vincent Zandri is one of the most acclaimed thriller writers working today!" -- Publishers Weekly "The story of Vincent Zandri is the story of our times." --Business Insider "Vincent Zandri hails from the future." --The New York Times

Download or read book The Innocent A Jack Marconi PI Thriller written by Vincent Zandri and published by Vincent Zandri. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHEN THE WHOLE WORLD HAS TURNED ITS BACK ON YOU, WHO CAN YOU TRUST? NO ONE. NOT EVEN YOURSELF! In 1997, Green Haven Prison went insane… They call him Keeper, but lately Jack Marconi has specialized in losing things. Just last year, he lost his wife in a mysterious traffic accident, and ever since, he’s felt like he’s losing his mind. As the warden of the maximum-security Green Haven Prison, home to 2,500 of New York’s most hardened criminals, Marconi can’t afford to drop focus, even for an instant. But he’s been slipping up on the job, and he’s tormented by flashbacks to the Attica uprising. All of which makes him ripe for the role of patsy when a convicted cop killer named Eduardo Vasquez stages a daring breakout on his watch. From the start, Marconi suspects an inside job. What he doesn’t suspect is that he’ll become the target of a frame-up. Soon drugs are planted in Marconi’s office, embarrassing photos are circulated, and he finds himself facing trumped-up charges of obstruction of justice. With his supervisors clearly setting him up to take the fall, Marconi hatches a desperate scheme to clear his name. Kidnapping the escaped killer’s girlfriend, he arms himself with a .45 and takes off in pursuit of Vasquez--and the truth. Once sworn to uphold the law, Marconi will have to elude it if he wants to bring this conspiracy to light. Otherwise Keeper could lose everything: his job, his reputation--and even his life. Grab your fast-paced, thrilling copy now! What the critics are saying: "A hugely successful series...Vincent Zandri’s The Guilty is a gripping combination of old-school hardboiled detective yarn and a ‘80s high-octane action movie. Immensely enjoyable." --Paul D. Brazill, Pulp Metal Magazine "Tough, stylish, heartbreaking." --Don Winslow, bestselling author of Savages "A riveting story..oh, what a story it is: grisly, surprising, and page-turningly suspenseful. A terrific old-school thriller." --Booklist (starred review) "Captures readers’ attention from the opening scene...creates a story that... is hard to tear away from once a reader is hooked." --BookPage "Sensational...Masterful...Brilliant." --New York Post "The action never wanes." --Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinal "Gritty, fast-paced, lyrical and haunting." --Harlan Coben, bestselling author of Six Years "Non-stop action." --I Love a Mystery

Download or read book The Flower Man A Steve Jobz PI Thriller written by Vincent Zandri and published by Vincent Zandri. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE WORKPLACE WILL NOT ONLY RUIN YOUR CAREER, IT WILL GET YOU KILLED. When part-time Private Investigator and full-time anti-hero, Steve Jobz, is called into his boss's office for a surprise face to face with Albany PD Homicide Detective Nick Miller, he can't help but wonder if he's in trouble. But what Miller wants has nothing to do with the latest Jobz screwup. Instead it has everything to do with a local television news personality known to all as Mr. TV. It seems the much loved news anchor has texted below-the-belt photos of himself to a female co-worker. As a result, Mr. TV is not only getting sued, but being issued death threats from the victim’s Russian immigrant father.When Miller assigns Jobz to personally tag along with Mr. TV and his lovely wife, Janice, what the PI soon discovers is that the couple are up to their necks in more than just a sexting scandal. They are in fact broke and living on cash that's coming from a very unlikely source. The Russian mob. What follows is a quagmire of shootouts, serial murder, and a quirky private detective who just can't keep himself from getting in trouble. Like The Embalmer, the first novel in the new Steve Jobz PI series created and written by Thriller Award winning New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Vincent Zandri, The Flower Man culminates with an explosive climax and promises to keep readers glued to their chairs for hours. For fans of Michael Connelly, Robert B. Parker, Charlie Huston, Jim Crumley, Lee Child, Brett Battles, and more. Scroll up and grab a copy of The Flower Man: A Steve Jobz Thriller today.

Download or read book The Embalmer A Steve Jobz PI Thriller written by Vincent Zandri and published by Vincent Zandri. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE EMBALMER IS DYING TO DATE YOU. QUESTION IS, ARE YOU WILLING TO DIE FOR A DATE WITH HIM TOO? You might think that a guy with the name of Steve Jobz would be one lucky man. That he'd be rich and have the world at his fingertips. But instead, Jobz (which is short for Jobzynski) is barely making ends meet at the New York State Department of Unemployment Insurance Fraud. A former cop who was forced to retire early after shooting a young man during a convenience store holdup, Jobz has since resigned himself to wasting away his days in a four-by-four cubicle inside an office space that's more boring than watching the paint dry. However, when his overbearing boss and best friend calls him in on a job that the Albany Police Department is heading up, Jobz has a chance to get out of the office for a while. But what he doesn't realize is that he's about to come face to face with a serial killer who embalms his victims alive. What he is also about to face down, is his own worst nightmare come true when that serial killer turns out not to be a stranger. The Embalmer culminates with an explosive climax and promises to keep readers glued to their chairs for hours. The first-in-series novel combines horror with some serious hard-boiled action, adventure, and romance. For fans of Michael Connelly, Robert B. Parker, Charlie Huston, Jim Crumley, Lee Child, Brett Battles, and more. Scroll up and grab a copy of The Embalmer today. Then binge the entire series. "Gritty, fast-paced, lyrical and haunting." - Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling author of Six Years. "Tough, stylish, heartbreaking." -Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of Savages.

Download or read book The Extortionist A Steve Jobz PI Thriller written by Vincent Zandri and published by Vincent Zandri. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOU'RE NEVER TOO OLD TO LIVE AND NEVER TOO YOUNG TO DIE. When PI Steve Jobz is hired by the Albany cops to investigate an elementary school Lunch Room Lady who is said to have extorted hundreds of thousands of dollars from the school cafeteria, he thinks, “Easy peasy. No big deal.” Hey, he might even get some tater tots out of it. But when he begins to investigate the sweet old lady, it turns out she's not what she appears to be. Could the sweet old lady actually be a much younger woman posing as the Lunch Room lady? Unfortunately for Steve Jobz, he has no choice but to find out the hard way. After being drugged by the "little old lady," he realizes that not only is he dealing with a sophisticated con artist, he's also about to uncover a plot involving not just one school employee but several. And when the school principal is murdered inside her office in cold blood, Jobz begins to fear for his own life. What seemed like a simple job of checking up on a sweet old lady with sticky fingers soon turns into a storm of bullets, murder, and a twist of an ending that will make your head spin. For readers of Harlan Coben, Don Winslow, Michael Connelly, Charlie Houston, and more, comes the third full-length Steve Jobz PI novel from New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award Winning author, Vincent Zandri. Scroll up to nab yours now. What the critics are saying about Vincent Zandri: A hugely successful series. Vincent Zandri’s The Guilty is a gripping combination of old-school hardboiled detective yarn and a 80s high-octane action movie. Immensely enjoyable. -Paul D. Brazill, Pulp Metal Magazine ***** ˃˃˃ Tough, stylish, heartbreaking. - Don Winslow, bestselling author of Savages ***** A riveting story..oh, what a story it is: grisly, surprising, and page-turningly suspenseful. A terrific old-school thriller. - Booklist (starred review) ***** Captures readers’ attention from the opening scene...creates a story that... is hard to tear away from once a reader is hooked. - BookPage ***** Sensational...Masterful...Brilliant. - New York Post ***** The action never wanes.- Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel ***** Gritty, fast-paced, lyrical and haunting. -Harlan Coben, bestselling author of Six Years ***** Non-stop action. - I Love a Mystery ***** Vincent Zandri nails reader's attention. - Boston Herald ***** (Zandri) demonstrates an uncanny knack for exposition, introducing new characters and narrative possibilities with the confidence of an old pro...Zandri does a superb job interlocking puzzle pieces. - The San Diego Union-Tribune *****

Download or read book Paradox Lake A Thriller written by Vincent Zandri and published by Vincent Zandri. This book was released on 2024-08-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beware the Big Bad Wolf. He's Coming for Your from Out of the Dark Woods when your Least Expect it. When an art professor mom and her pre-teen daughter rent a quiet house an idyllic Adirondack lake for a full semester sabbatical, they become the target of two serial killers who believe the woman are the reincarnation of a mother and daughter whom they terrorized to death back in the mid-1980s. For fans of Stephen King, Lawrence Block, JR Rain, and more, comes a pulse-pounding thriller that combines psychological suspense with pure horror, and intense action--a thriller only New York Times and USA Today bestselling Thriller and Samus Award winning author Vincent Zandri could concoct. Scroll up and nab your heart-pounding copy now. "Vincent Zandri hails from the future." --The New York Times “Sensational . . . masterful . . . brilliant.” --New York Post

Download or read book Sophie s World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Download or read book The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report written by Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.S. Government and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in early 2011, is the official government report on the United States financial collapse and the review of major financial institutions that bankrupted and failed, or would have without help from the government. The commission and the report were implemented after Congress passed an act in 2009 to review and prevent fraudulent activity. The report details, among other things, the periods before, during, and after the crisis, what led up to it, and analyses of subprime mortgage lending, credit expansion and banking policies, the collapse of companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the federal bailouts of Lehman and AIG. It also discusses the aftermath of the fallout and our current state. This report should be of interest to anyone concerned about the financial situation in the U.S. and around the world.THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION is an independent, bi-partisan, government-appointed panel of 10 people that was created to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States." It was established as part of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009. The commission consisted of private citizens with expertise in economics and finance, banking, housing, market regulation, and consumer protection. They examined and reported on "the collapse of major financial institutions that failed or would have failed if not for exceptional assistance from the government."News Dissector DANNY SCHECHTER is a journalist, blogger and filmmaker. He has been reporting on economic crises since the 1980's when he was with ABC News. His film In Debt We Trust warned of the economic meltdown in 2006. He has since written three books on the subject including Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books, 2008), and The Crime Of Our Time: Why Wall Street Is Not Too Big to Jail (Disinfo Books, 2011), a companion to his latest film Plunder The Crime Of Our Time. He can be reached online at www.newsdissector.com.

Download or read book American Military History Volume 1 written by Army Center of Military History and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.

Download or read book A Little History of the World written by E. H. Gombrich and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in almost thirty languages. Gombrich was of course the best-known art historian of his time, and his text suggests illustrations on every page. This illustrated edition of the Little History brings together the pellucid humanity of his narrative with the images that may well have been in his mind's eye as he wrote the book. The two hundred illustrations—most of them in full color—are not simple embellishments, though they are beautiful. They emerge from the text, enrich the author's intention, and deepen the pleasure of reading this remarkable work. For this edition the text is reset in a spacious format, flowing around illustrations that range from paintings to line drawings, emblems, motifs, and symbols. The book incorporates freshly drawn maps, a revised preface, and a new index. Blending high-grade design, fine paper, and classic binding, this is both a sumptuous gift book and an enhanced edition of a timeless account of human history.

Download or read book Deathbird Stories written by Harlan Ellison and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterpieces of myth and terror about modern gods from technology to drugs to materialism—“fantasy at its most bizarre and unsettling” (The New York Times). As Earth approaches Armageddon, a man embarks on a quest to confront God in the Hugo Award–winning novelette, “The Deathbird.” In New York City, a brutal act of violence summons a malevolent spirit and a growing congregation of desensitized worshippers in “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs,” an Edgar Award winner influenced by the real-life murder of Queens resident Kitty Genovese in 1964. In “Paingod,” the deity tasked with inflicting pain and suffering on every living being in the universe questions the purpose of its cruel existence. Deathbird Stories collects these and sixteen more provocative tales exploring the futility of faith in a faithless world. A legendary author of speculative fiction whose best-known works include A Boy and His Dog and I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream—and whose major awards and nominations number in the dozens, Harlan Ellison strips away convention and hypocrisy and lays bare the human condition in modern society as ancient gods fade and new deities rise to appease the masses—gods of technology, drugs, gambling, materialism—that are as insubstantial as the beliefs of those who venerate them. In addition to his Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, Edgar, and other awards, Ellison was called “one of the great living American short story writers” by the Washington Post—and this collection makes it clear why he has earned such an extraordinary assortment of accolades. Stories include: “Introduction: Oblations at Alien Altars” “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs” “Along the Scenic Route” “On the Downhill Side” “O Ye of Little Faith” “Neon” “Basilisk” “Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes” “Corpse” “Shattered Like a Glass Goblin” “Delusion for a Dragon Slayer” “The Face of Helene Bournouw” “Bleeding Stones” “At the Mouse Circus” “The Place with No Name” “Paingod” “Ernest and the Machine God” “Rock God” “Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W” “The Deathbird”

Download or read book Good Economics for Hard Times written by Abhijit V. Banerjee and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it. Immigration and inequality, globalization and technological disruption, slowing growth and accelerating climate change--these are sources of great anxiety across the world, from New Delhi and Dakar to Paris and Washington, DC. The resources to address these challenges are there--what we lack are ideas that will help us jump the wall of disagreement and distrust that divides us. If we succeed, history will remember our era with gratitude; if we fail, the potential losses are incalculable. In this revolutionary book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo take on this challenge, building on cutting-edge research in economics explained with lucidity and grace. Original, provocative, and urgent, Good Economics for Hard Times makes a persuasive case for an intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect. It is an extraordinary achievement, one that shines a light to help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.

Download or read book The Insidious Dr Fu Manchu written by Sax Rohmer and published by Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 1173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple Sabotage Field Manual was authored byby The United States Office of Strategic Services and is a must for any student of strategy and sabotage.

Download or read book Game Design Deep Dive Horror written by Joshua Bycer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Game Design Deep Dive series examines a specific game system or mechanic over the course of the history of the industry. This entry will examine the history and design of the horror genre and elements in video games. The author analyzes early video game examples, including the differences between survival, action-horror, and psychological horror. Thanks to recent hits like Five Night’s at Freddy’s, Bendy and the Ink Machine, and recent Resident Evil titles, the horror genre has seen a strong resurgence. For this book in the Game Design Deep Dive series, Joshua Bycer will go over the evolution of horror in video games and game design, and what it means to create a terrifying and chilling experience. FEATURES • Written for anyone interested in the horror genre, anyone who wants to understand game design, or anyone simply curious from a historical standpoint • Includes real game examples to highlight the discussed topics and mechanics • Explores the philosophy and aspects of horror that can be applied to any medium • Serves as a perfect companion for someone building their first game or as part of a game design classroom Joshua Bycer is a game design critic with more than eight years of experience critically analyzing game design and the industry itself. In that time, through Game-Wisdom, he has interviewed hundreds of game developers and members of the industry about what it means to design video games. He also strives to raise awareness about the importance of studying game design by giving lectures and presentations. His first book was 20 Essential Games to Study. He continues to work on the Game Design Deep Dive series.

Download or read book Pr cis of the Lectures on Architecture written by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760–1834) regarded the Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802–5) and its companion volume, the Graphic Portion (1821), as both a basic course for future civil engineers and a treatise. Focusing the practice of architecture on utilitarian and economic values, he assailed the rationale behind classical architectural training: beauty, proportionality, and symbolism. His formal systematization of plans, elevations, and sections transformed architectural design into a selective modular typology in which symmetry and simple geometrical forms prevailed. His emphasis on pragmatic values, to the exclusion of metaphysical concerns, represented architecture as a closed system that subjected its own formal language to logical processes. Now published in English for the first time, the Précis and the Graphic Portion are classics of architectural education.