Download or read book The Devil s Crown written by Gary Towner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnny Walker is asked by an old friend, Karl Baumstark, to come rescue him from marauding rebels that have taken him and his granddaughter, Heather, hostage. The rebel leader has learned the archeological dig Baumstark was working on just might harbor a biblical relic, a tiara called the Devil's Crown. Legend has it that the wearer will gain supernatural powers endowed by the devil himself. With plans of universal domination, the lizard eyed Basil Crump believes Walker is the only hope he has of making Baumstalk tell where to look for the find, but he harbors an unyielding grudge against Walker that makes him as dangerous as nitroglycerin left out in the sun. When Walker arrives on the scene he soon finds out Crump is the least of his problems; Baumstark's flirtatious granddaughter is smitten with him. Walker must keep reminding himself she is only sixteen years old. Worse yet, when he finds the accursed Crown inside a cave, Walker is unable to resist trying it out. Instantly he loses all self-control and he tries to force Heather to submit to the unthinkable. Heather nearly brains Walker attempting to escape. She later fears she killed him. So ends Walker's last Adventure... or is it only the beginning of an even greater adventure?
Download or read book Devil s Crown written by Richard Barber and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1997-01-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Henry II's turbulent relationship with Thomas á Beckett, Queen Eleanor, and his sons Richard and John. A tie-in with the BBC2 mini-series.
Download or read book The Devil s Crown Part Two written by Monica James and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the enemy dead, my throne awaits my return. But the reason I'm still standing is being held captive by another foe.I'll move heaven and hell to find her, but when I do, everything changes forever. Ella is broken, broken because of me.The only way to save her is to return to the ruthless leader I once was.A war has been waged, and to win, I need to kill every last traitor and rebuild my kingdom to make her feel safe once more.However, this war is like no other. And my enemy won't stop until one of us is dead. But he doesn't stand a chance. None of them do.I'm a bad man. And I'm okay with that.This is my world.My rules.I'm the goddamn king, and it's time to adjust my crown.
Download or read book The Devil s Crown part One all the Pretty Things Trilogy Spin off written by Monica James and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Devil s Crown Part One written by Monica James and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was feared.Respected.Worshiped.But all of that changed when the impossible happened-I fell in love. Only those feelings weren't reciprocated, because who could love a monster like me?My empire crumbled. People died. I went from being a victorious leader to lurking in the shadows, planning revenge on my half-brother who now reigns in my place.An orphanage is where I find sanctuary, but when she walks into my world and evokes a yearning I thought long dead, my demons are awakened and want what they can't have-her. Sooner or later, I knew I'd need to feed the darkness inside me. Mayhem, power, and control course through my veins. I will use them to regain my crown, my throne, and then claim her, despite what solemn vows she might've made. I will break them?and her.
Download or read book The Devil s Crown part Two all the Pretty Things Trilogy Spin off written by Monica James and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sleeping with the Devil written by Robert Baer and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003-07-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state—a place that spawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient and deeply seated isolationism, a kingdom led by a royal family that can’t get out of the way of its own greed. Is this the fulcrum we want the global economy to balance on?” In his explosive New York Times bestseller, See No Evil, former CIA operative Robert Baer exposed how Washington politics drastically compromised the CIA’s efforts to fight global terrorism. Now in his powerful new book, Sleeping with the Devil, Baer turns his attention to Saudi Arabia, revealing how our government’s cynical relationship with our Middle Eastern ally and America’ s dependence on Saudi oil make us increasingly vulnerable to economic disaster and put us at risk for further acts of terrorism. For decades, the United States and Saudi Arabia have been locked in a “harmony of interests.” America counted on the Saudis for cheap oil, political stability in the Middle East, and lucrative business relationships for the United States, while providing a voracious market for the kingdom’ s vast oil reserves. With money and oil flowing freely between Washington and Riyadh, the United States has felt secure in its relationship with the Saudis and the ruling Al Sa’ud family. But the rot at the core of our “friendship” with the Saudis was dramatically revealed when it became apparent that fifteen of the nineteen September 11 hijackers proved to be Saudi citizens. In Sleeping with the Devil, Baer documents with chilling clarity how our addiction to cheap oil and Saudi petrodollars caused us to turn a blind eye to the Al Sa’ud’s culture of bribery, its abysmal human rights record, and its financial support of fundamentalist Islamic groups that have been directly linked to international acts of terror, including those against the United States. Drawing on his experience as a field operative who was on the ground in the Middle East for much of his twenty years with the agency, as well as the large network of sources he has cultivated in the region and in the U.S. intelligence community, Baer vividly portrays our decades-old relationship with the increasingly dysfunctional and corrupt Al Sa’ud family, the fierce anti-Western sentiment that is sweeping the kingdom, and the desperate link between the two. In hopes of saving its own neck, the royal family has been shoveling money as fast as it can to mosque schools that preach hatred of America and to militant fundamentalist groups—an end game just waiting to play out. Baer not only reveals the outrageous excesses of a Saudi royal family completely out of touch with the people of its kingdom, he also takes readers on a highly personal search for the deeper roots of modern terrorism, a journey that returns time again and again to Saudi Arabia: to the Wahhabis, the powerful Islamic sect that rules the Saudi street; to the Taliban and al Qaeda, both of which Saudi Arabia helped to underwrite; and to the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the most active and effective terrorist groups in existence, which the Al Sa’ud have sheltered and funded. The money and arms that we send to Saudi Arabia are, in effect, being used to cut our own throat, Baer writes, but America might have only itself to blame. So long as we continue to encourage the highly volatile Saudi state to bank our oil under its sand—and so long as we continue to grab at the Al Sa’ud’s money—we are laying the groundwork for a potential global economic catastrophe.
Download or read book The Devil s Crown Part Two All the Pretty Things Trilogy Spin Off written by Monica James and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Welcome to the Towers written by GlytchedChiq and published by GlytchedChiq. This book was released on with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tower litrpg. A group of friends, hearing about a liminal zone called the Devil's Crown, decide to try their luck. They've all played a variety of games, accrued a variety of real life skills, and honestly believe they might make it out if they stick together. Hopefully the information in the forums is accurate. ~*~ Book One of the Devil’s Crown series where readers join Kennedy, Jessica, and Kylie as they delve into a dangerous liminal zone known as the Devil’s Crown. An area that begins with 13 Towers hidden in mundane settings. Getting in is the easy part. Surviving long enough to figure out how to get out is a bit more difficult. New worlds. New people. New Problems. They’ve compiled a starter guide from information they’ve found from other Climbers online. Hopefully they didn’t find any misinformation.
Download or read book Running Against the Devil written by Rick Wilson and published by Crown Forum. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A savvy guidebook for beating Trump’s tricks, traps, and tweets from a founder of The Lincoln Project, now updated with new material on the historic battle between Trump and Joe Biden—and how the pandemic has changed the race “If you believe America’s future depends on Donald Trump’s political machine being crushed at the polls next year, then Rick Wilson’s Running Against the Devil is a must-read.”—Joe Scarborough, MSNBC Donald Trump is exactly the disaster we feared for America. Hated by a majority of Americans, Trump’s administration is corrupt, inept, and rocked by daily scandals. In the handling of 2020’s coronavirus pandemic, its incompetence has been deadly. Trump can’t win in 2020, right? Wrong. As 2016 proved, Trump can’t win, but Joe Biden can sure as hell lose. Only one thing can save Trump, and that’s a Democratic campaign that runs the race Trump wants Democrats to run instead of the campaign they must run to win in 2020. Wilson combines decades of national political experience and insight in his take-noprisoners analysis, hammering Trump’s destructive and dangerous first term in a case-by-case takedown of the worst president in history and describing the terrifying prospect of four more years of Trump. Like no one else can, Wilson blows the lid off Trump’s 2020 political war machine, showing the exact strategies and tactics Republicans will use against Biden, and how the Democrats can avoid the catastrophes waiting for them if they fall into Trump’s traps. Running Against the Devil is sharply funny, brutally honest, and infused with Wilson’s biting commentary. It’s a vital indictment of Trump, a no-nonsense, no-holds-barred road map to saving America, and the guide to making Donald Trump a one-term president. The stakes are too high to do anything less.
Download or read book The Improved Original written by Patrick Ameye and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rif wants to escape from his dull destiny by buying a boat. The villagers declare him insane. After all, everyone knows the magic ocean is unnavigable. Only the old priestess of the village takes pity on him. She has her reasons because she transforms before his eyes into a young warrior girl. The girl is a bodyguard employed by a mysterious client. She invites Rif on a journey and trains him to improve his fighting skills before they reach the magic forest. They meet all kinds of wondrous creatures and entities; Adrian, the pub-holder, wood-enhancer. Yelena, the guardian. Runo, the magistrel, Borildor forest, the magical forest. Goodkind, the woodling, the tribe of the hollow oak woodlings. Homast, the town wizard of Yuvileno and Imit, the very annoying time-watcher. Gradually the young man realizes the journey is more than discovering the world.People he has never seen seem to know him. Situations he experiences look familiar, and his companions seem to know the outcome. Is he the center of this world ?
Download or read book The Devil s Crown A History of Henry II and His Sons written by Richard Barber and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Devil s Playbook written by Lauren Etter and published by Crown. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • Big Tobacco meets Silicon Valley in this “deeply reported and illuminating” (The New York Times Book Review) corporate exposé of what happened when two of the most notorious industries collided—and the vaping epidemic was born. “The best business book I’ve read since Bad Blood.”—Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author of Ali: A Life Howard Willard lusted after Juul. As the CEO of tobacco giant Philip Morris’s parent company and a veteran of the industry’s long fight to avoid being regulated out of existence, he grew obsessed with a prize he believed could save his company—the e-cigarette, a product with all the addictive upside of the original without the same apparent health risks and bad press. Meanwhile, in Silicon Valley, Adam Bowen and James Monsees began working on a device that was meant to save lives and destroy Big Tobacco, but they ended up baking the industry’s DNA into their invention’s science and marketing. Ultimately, Juul’s e-cigarette was so effective and so market-dominating that it put the company on a collision course with Philip Morris and sparked one of the most explosive public health crises in recent memory. In a deeply reported account, award-winning journalist Lauren Etter tells a riveting story of greed and deception in one of the biggest botched deals in business history. Etter shows how Philip Morris’s struggle to innovate left Willard desperate to acquire Juul, even as his own team sounded alarms about the startup’s reliance on underage customers. And she shows how Juul’s executives negotiated a lavish deal that let them pocket the lion’s share of Philip Morris’s $12.8 billion investment while government regulators and furious parents mounted a campaign to hold the company’s feet to the fire. The Devil’s Playbook is the inside story of how Juul’s embodiment of Silicon Valley’s “move fast and break things” ethos wrought havoc on American health, and how a beleaguered tobacco company was seduced by the promise of a new generation of addicted customers. With both companies’ eyes on the financial prize, neither anticipated the sudden outbreak of vaping-linked deaths that would terrorize a nation, crater Juul’s value, end Willard’s career, and show the costs in human life of the rush to riches—while Juul’s founders, board members, and employees walked away with a windfall.
Download or read book The Devil s Crown Part One written by Monica James and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was feared.Respected.Worshiped.But all of that changed when the impossible happened-I fell in love. Only those feelings weren't reciprocated, because who could love a monster like me?My empire crumbled. People died. I went from being a victorious leader to lurking in the shadows, planning revenge on my half-brother who now reigns in my place.An orphanage is where I find sanctuary, but when she walks into my world and evokes a yearning I thought long dead, my demons are awakened and want what they can't have-her. Sooner or later, I knew I'd need to feed the darkness inside me. Mayhem, power, and control course through my veins. I will use them to regain my crown, my throne, and then claim her, despite what solemn vows she might've made. I will break them...and her.
Download or read book Dining with the Devil written by Os Guinness and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What shapes the message of the church? The Bible and Spirit? Or society and culture? Os Guinness points out perils of compromise in the church growth movement.
Download or read book The Devil s Crown written by Patrick Bane and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brimstone Faction was plunged into anarchy years ago. Once committed to their mission, they guarded the Devil's Crown for many years, making sure its location was kept a secret and its power was never released. But as time went on, the Faction finally descended into corruption, aiming to seize control of the Crown and the balance between life and death. Since the Faction was split apart many years ago, both those loyal to the Faction and those who were corrupted have fled and are planning their next move. But dramatic events start to happen as a strange stranger sends a warning of an impending catastrophe. Finally emerging, the corrupted ones are making one more attempt to seize the throne for themselves. Hugo Chance, an explorer, discovers the warning and is compelled to assist the allegiants as well. But as he probes more amid confusion and deceit, he learns a reality that could put the allegiants' entire cause in danger.
