In this explosive mystery from no 1 New York Times–bestselling writer Stuart Woods, Stone Barrington’s most up-to-date foe has a brief fuse...and it’s simply been lit.

Stone Barrington is having fun with a boating expedition off the Maine coast while an opportunity come across leaves him a bit of the more severe for put on. continuously capable of finding the silver lining in even the unhappiest conditions, Stone is happy to find that the authors of his misfortune are, in truth, participants of a prestigious kinfolk who current a different company chance, and who require a guy of Stone’s talents to beat a sticky state of affairs in their own.

The acquaintance is fortuitous certainly, for because it seems, Stone and his new buddies have an enemy in universal. He’s this type of guy who prefers strength to finesse, and who regards any specialist defeat as a private and insupportable insult. And whilst Stone’s sly crafty collides together with his adversary’s hair-trigger-temper, the consequences are absolute to be explosive...

Die beiden Journalistinnen Ruth und Solveig wollten eigentlich nur eine gelungene Zeitungsstory feiern, da hat ihnen jemand eine Leiche in den Kofferraum gelegt. Unversehens geraten sie unter Mordverdacht. Der Tote ist niemand anderes als der Immobilienhai Armin Buchheit, über den sie gerade geschrieben haben. Mit einem Bauprojekt für ein saarländisch-luxemburgisches Palliativzentrum soll er Geld gewaschen haben. Doch Armin Buchheit arbeitet nicht allein. Er hat Verbindungen zu Politik und Bankenwelt. Ruth und Solveig recherchieren weiter und stossen auf weitere dunkle Geschäfte. Das ist lebensgefährlich, denn schon bald ist ihnen ein Auftragskiller auf den Fersen.

"...eine fesselnde Geschichte aus der Saar-Lor-Lux-Region..."
Gerhard Franz, politischer Redakteur Saarbrücker Zeitung

Sowohl Karin Mayer als auch Lisa Huth sind Journalistinnen beim Saarländischen Rundfunk. Die eine ist zuständig für Wirtschafts-, die andere für Frankreichthemen. Bislang sind von ihnen Kurzkrimis erschienen: Die Krimi-Sammlung „Mord vor Ort“ haben sie gemeinsam heraus gegeben, in der Anthologie „Letzte Grüße von der Saar“ erscheinen beide als Autorinnen. Karin Mayer und Lisa Huth mögen Spannung und menschliche Abgründe, die in diesem Fall im Saarland verortet werden.

Monty Ricky is a grasp metal employee at a Portland Oregon metal mill who's on a quest to seize a global checklist steelhead within the rivers of the northwest, but if his lifestyles is interrupted through numerous unexplained injuries occuring on the mill that declare the lives of his co-workers, Monty suspects foul play and shortly unearths himself looking for an elusive killer that also is out to kill Monty.

With its innovative fly-by-wire expertise, the C-500 had develop into the freight airframe of selection. until eventually a regimen supply is going horribly improper. Falling like a stone from six miles up, a new C-500 crashes in principal France, killing pilots aboard. whilst French officers take over this hugely public research, they name within the top there's: they name Frank Jammer Davis. A retired U.S. Air strength fighter pilot, Davis is a part of the NTSB's go-team. With a name for buying issues done-and for steamrolling someone who will get in his way-Davis starts off to dig. yet simply as Davis begins his research, information of the crash is overshadowed via a extra dazzling catastrophe: suicide bombers assault oil refineries around the world, sending governments and fiscal markets right into a tailspin. a continuing Davis retains investigating, yet uncovering the reason for the crash, and its terrifying connection to this all over the world catastrophe, unearths a conspiracy of unthinkable proportions-a conspiracy he will not be in a position to cease. Jammer Davis will not cease until eventually he will get answers-or till an individual stops him from getting answers.

All Klug wishes is to discover an ordinary, peaceable existence back the place he can go away the conflict in the back of.
The military discharges Klug with no honors, regardless of his number of valorous citations. He returns domestic. wanting a role, he will depend on Uncle Fred as one in every of his simply ultimate kin. Uncle Fred outfitted Empire Trucking, hauling items among L.A. and Vegas. desirous to retire, Fred passes his valid trucking corporation to Klug.
The darkish and doubtful, Agent or Contractor, Bob McFarlane informs Klug that his uncle will be trafficking medications at the facet and gang of thugs can be his providers. McFarlane’s boss makes it transparent that Klug is expendable simply because many strong elitists don’t wish Klug to show right into a whistle-blower. Klug unearthed an excessive amount of categorised details, together with precise proof in regards to the Sep 11 disaster.
Unaware that Fred disappeared, Klug takes a bus with 12 different passengers. He plans to satisfy up with Fred. simply as Klug starts a fascinating dialogue with Sheila, a drug gang hijacks the bus within the Mojave desolate tract, trying to find funds from a drug deal long gone undesirable. McFarlane deals 100 grand to have the contractors to kill Klug. Klug learns approximately this plan in basic terms after the gangsters hijack a l. a. airport complimentary go back and forth bus charted for Vegas. Klug struggles to guard the 12 passengers.
In order to outlive the gangsters and the ability agents, Klug has to bend his personal ethics, getting his fingers soiled within the darkness. he's not certain why strong individuals are pursuing him, yet he can in simple terms bet that they're afraid that he understands some distance too details and info. worry may possibly trump the truth.

the 1st MYSTERY

A Novel of the line… Paul Smith

THE FIRST secret is a unique that operates on a couple of degrees: it's a seek, a monitoring down of a assassin and a secret as to who did it. it's a seek via many lands, humans and occasions. Take an odd trip via Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Nepal, Tibet, Kashmir, India and San Francisco. it's a seek (through desires and visions) into the sub-conscious brain of the non-public detective Dave Jones, a cynical westerner, who seeks yet is blind to the real nature of his trip. it's also the tale of the opposite major personality, Johnny Wilkulda an Australian aboriginal tracker, looking a better fact for himself and all others. Meet Robinson, the ‘LSD Professor’, who has taken the line of mind-expanding medicinal drugs, the ‘fast track’. Meet Evie Rush, too attractive to be a assassin? Meet Collins the homicidal murder detective; meet Arla, the gorgeous jazz singer in enormous difficulty in Bangkok; meet Margaret, haunted, searching for love in a rubber plantation in Malaysia; meet the Cambodian Prince in love with tune, attempting to cease conflict getting into his state; meet Meera the Indian woman, caught in a whorehouse in Laos and seeing visions of a brand new Messiah. Meet them and plenty of different unusual and great, bizarre characters within the FIRST secret, a brand new form of novel. huge structure variation 7” x 10” 589 pages

COMMENTS ON PAUL SMITH’S TRANSLATION OF HAFIZ’S ‘DIVAN’.

“It isn't a joke... the English model of the entire ghazals of Hafiz is a smart feat and of paramount importance.” Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Literature) Tehran.
“Superb translations. ninety nine% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith.” Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator into Persian and knower of Hafiz’s Divan off through heart.
“Smith has most likely prepare the best selection of literary evidence and background relating Hafiz.” Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin Books author).

Paul Smith is a poet, writer and translator of over a hundred and fifty books of Sufi poets from the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and different languages together with Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, ‘Attar, Sana’i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre etc, and poetry, fiction, children’s books performs, biographies and screenplays. www.newhumanitybooksbookheaven.com

motion of the ebook happens in ny in early 1990-ies and pertains to demise case of 10 years past close to Suru village in northern-west a part of Nigeria the place goat hoarder present in the bush lacerated expatriate’s physique operating there on agreement. Mysterious guy accountable for research of this example desires to rent Robert to discover a assassin. He thinks that the guy who now lives in manhattan urban can be the most resource of the data or maybe could be a suspect within the homicide. Robert used to be born in US yet his mom and dad have been Polish voters. He have by no means been in Poland and was once merely briefly in Nigeria in the course of Biafra. Why shopper desires to rent no one else yet Robert? Do Robert settle for his supply?

STRESZCZENIE
Akcja powieści toczy się w latach dziewięćdziesiątych w Nowym Yorku i dotyczy śmierci człowieka dziesięć lat wcześniej w okolicach wioski Suru w północno-zachodniej części Nigerii, gdzie pasterz kóz znalazł rozszarpane przez dzikie zwierzęta zwłoki białego ekspatrianta. Ktoś tajemniczy chce zatrudnić Roberta Konara do znalezienia mordercy tego człowieka. Znajomy ofiary z Nigerii mieszka obecnie w united states. Może throughć dla Roberta dobrym źródłem informacji a może nawet mordercą. Robert jest Polakiem, urodzonym w Stanach. W Polsce nigdy nie by way ofł a w Nigerii przebywał służbowo w czasach Biafry. Dlaczego klient chce zatrudnić tylko Roberta? Czy Robert przyjmie ofertę?

Millionaire playboy, entrepreneur, Mark Knoxx, CEO of Exile company, has built a web gadget which can entry the world’s health facility documents, delivering real-time diagnoses for health center sufferers as soon as it truly is put on their wrist. Mark Knoxx has constructed: HEAVEN health facility evaluate and Authenticated Vitals Encoded Navigator. a strong workforce, calling themselves The company, has licensed HEAVEN for around the globe distribution simply because they need to manage it and Mark Knoxx. no longer simply because Knoxx has built the best clinical prognosis software, yet simply because he has built the proper assassination software. An research into the homicide of a drug-dealing thug in Hollywood, California, leads L.A.P.D. and F.B.I. officials onto a stairway to heaven, uncovering a plot to homicide global figures. Following the path of cash and our bodies, can they remain alive lengthy sufficient to prevent The company, the distribution of HEAVEN Navigators, and Exile company. And, can they cease Mark Knoxx? Heaven simply knows.

After a violent come upon with the Feds, retired ‘herb’ smugglers Bobby Joe (of Choctaw descent), Dev (possessing preternatural strength), and Jack Lee, circulate as much as a mountain property in Visconde de Mauá in Brazil. They every one have girls of their lives: Bobby Joe has a tender son with an outdated love from the States, Dev has settled with a Brazilian woman, and Jack is in a celibate marriage with an outdated love who permits him house to pursue his religious perform. at the floor, all turns out good, yet forces are development from diverse instructions that can mix right into a lethal pincer movement.
João Silva, an outdated Brazilian buddy from their days on the college of Georgia, visits with information of the systematic murdering of road youngsters in every single place Brazil. João He tells them he's going to attempt to prevent it, and speaks of one other outdated good friend who oversees a ‘herb’ plantation in Bahia. He breaks out samples and speaks of the thousands of greenbacks he'll have to protect the road teenagers. Bobby Joe rolls a fats joint after which stuns his acquaintances with a press release. He proposes they arrive out of retirement to smuggle one final load to assist João’s cause.
This units in teach a chain of occasions with mortal effects. A load is effectively smuggled into the USA, and João is given the cash. in spite of the fact that, enemies emerge and so they locate universal curiosity with the extra-legal U.S. brokers who're in pursuit of the trio. A mixed strength launches a raid at the property, however it has not anything to do with warrants, or arrests. Jack Lee isn't current while it happens at sunrise someday, yet hears the helicopters and afterwards discovers all of his pals and family shot lifeless, with the exception of Bobby Joe’s son. He is going at the hunt and eventually reveals and kills the person who led the raid, and within the procedure uncovers secrets and techniques that depart him reeling. After securing Bobby Joe’s son into the custody of João’s lifetime love, he's taking passage on a tramp freighter certain for India. once more he's on my own, bereft, and with blood on his palms, with the ringing phrases of his guru in his ears, spoken a few 20 years prior to and now doubtless bitterly prophetic and completely accurate.

The writer: Henry Joseph wrote six picaresque novels (pi.ca.resque—adj: with regards to the adventures of rogues) among 1992 and 1999. the 1st, Bloodwork: the recent Rugged move, was once released in difficult hide within the U.S.A. and was once widely acclaimed by means of critics and fellow writers alike.

“. . . the main robust first novel I’ve learn in years. It’s wonderful,” stated James Crumley, writer of The Mexican Tree Duck and Border Snakes, to whom Henry has been favorably in comparison.

“. . . sheer storytelling brio,” declared Frank Wilson within the long island occasions ebook overview. “… riveting …compelling… foreshadows an extended, winning career,” stated Bruce Southworth within the Drood evaluation of Mystery.

In France, Cedric Fabre, in L’Humanite stated of Dinosaur Heaven, the second one booklet within the sequence, “startling and luxurious, past jubilation: we input part of ourselves we have been ignorant of: Joseph is an awesome smuggler of tears.”

Yet, throughout the weirdness of recent publishing, Bloodwork used to be the one publication of Henry Joseph’s to be released in English. His subsequent 5 novels have been all released (like the 1st) in France, with very good serious evaluation, yet now not in English. This unusual aberration is now to be corrected, with e-book via Astor + Blue variations of the entire Dinosaur Heaven Quintet sequence in English.

In 2001, Henry Joseph made up our minds to retire from worldly affairs, together with writing, focusing as an alternative on a non secular lifetime of yoga and Buddhism. yet now, not less than, his acid, relocating, and witty storytelling could be loved extra commonly than earlier than. they're actual web page turners – a global of outlaws, in which is intended someone who toys with the concept they're an outlaw. There will not be as many round as there can be, yet perhaps interpreting Henry’s novels will switch all that . . .

David Knapp is a 40 yr previous ny urban funding banker, who's now not really winning in any facets of lifestyles, but if his international is torn aside through the abduction of his youngest daughter Rachael, he awakens from a typical existence and unleashes an depth that may make the abductors want that they had selected a unique sufferer. Rachael is an excellent ten yr previous with the positive aspects of an amazingly adorable six yr previous, who turns into genuine global bait in a fight for strength in our on-line world. The banker used to be to be a pawn in a far better online game regarding the main robust forces on the earth, and but his skill to remodel himself right into a vengeful murderer alterations the stakes as he negotiates for the go back of his daughter. As David devolves extra into primitive habit, he's helped and hunted through strong forces pursuing their very own agendas. the push that follows has the entire depth of the buying and selling flooring the place he as soon as labored, because the race is directly to store his daughter sooner than his personal lifestyles is terminated.