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The hanged men dangled in ripe clusters from the bare branches of the autumn trees. They were Halloween dummies made of old clothes stuffed with straw that kids had hung along the mountain road. Warren Stone counted nine of the swaying figures within a few yards of the jeep, including the one his friend Sam Keith had just used for target practice. But that hanged man wasn't stuffed with straw. It was bleeding! And state troopers found two more dangling bodies that had also been alive when they were hung up to strangle to death. Warren, like Sam, had left the CIA under a cloud. Now, a modern vigilante, he cleaned up towns in trouble, an illegal, dangerous business that paid well. He had come to the Adirondacks for a vacation, to hunt deer not men, but the tie of violence sweeping over the countryside changed that. The three victims had been small-time mobsters; one of them had been caught at the Syndicate convention in the mountains three years before. These first murders could be the work of the Syndicate, but organized crime could not be blamed for everything that was happening. Then Warren was warned; a bullet crashed through the windshield narrowly missing his head. Here is a gripping, strongly motivated story of people who are caught in the lethal traps they built themselves, and of Warren Stone, ruthless, compassionate, a rebel who knows how to survive.

The drowned man lay in the bottom of the shrimp trawler's net that had just been winched up on deck. His wet suit was made of black foam rubber, and at first everyone thought he was an unlucky porpoise, scooped up from the sandy floor of the Gulf of Mexico. Moments later, another dead diver joined him on the deck of the shrimp boat, and Warren Stone found himself in the center of a drug war being fought on the streets of Continental America's Southernmost City. He had left the C.I.A. under a cloud. Now he cleaned up towns in trouble, an illegal and dangerous business that paid well. Still feeling the pain from his earlier hunting trip to the Adirondacks, where Death pervaded the snowy rolling hillsides and the lives of those he loved, Stone was summoned to Key West-a former frontier town that had become the battleground for competing drug lords. With so much money to be made, everyone was suspect-even the group of Good Samaritans who had hired him to save their city. Dozens would die within hours of Stone's arrival-could he do anything to reverse the tide of violence before being engulfed by it himself? Here continues the story of Warren Stone, the man who cleaned up the backwoods of New York State in The Hanged Men. Now in the idyllic Florida Keys, once home to Hemingway and the generations of artists, fisherman, and hard drinkers who followed, Stone confronts the Conchs, Cubans, and Colombians to root out the evil consuming the tiny town at the very end of the Overseas Highway.

As a WWII tour director for thirty-five years, David Harper has repeatedly heard the same questions from an extremely varied American and British audience: ¿Why did the Germans vote for Hitler? Did they know about the concentration camps? What did German soldiers and members of the SS feel about the extermination camps and the war crimes they were committing? How do today¿s Germans view Hitler and the Third Reich? What is the country doing at present to address those dark pages of its history and to remember the victims of Hitler¿s regime? Do the right-wing demonstrations in Germany portend a resurgence of Nazi ideology today?¿ All these questions and many more are addressed in Exposing the Reich. The book seeks to promote an understanding of how the devastation and tragedy of the war and the concurrent genocide could happen. It studies the lethal blend of inciting hatred, ongoing indoctrination, justification for drastic action, and the complete control of all media. How many people know, for instance, that Hitler was writing an opera when he lived in Vienna or how he developed his antisemitic outlook while living there? Few know about the early political and ideological influences on Hitler¿s worldview, such as those instigated by his little-known mentor, Eckart. Who has ever heard about Hitler¿s ¿second book,¿ in which he revealed his major foreign policy plans, a manuscript that remained secret? How many realize that Hitler¿s regime planned on replacing Christianity with its own ¿religion¿ and substituting Mein Kampf for the Bible? Why did Hitler name his regime the ¿Third¿ Reich, and why did he choose the swastika as its logo? Why did the fine arts enjoy such an honored status during the Reich? What were the lesser-known original purposes of the concentration camp system established in Germany just weeks after Hitler seized power? Who realizes that, just prior to Hitler seizing power, the Jewish population in Germany was a mere 0.7%?These, and countless more insights regarding the Third Reich, are revealed in Exposing the Reich. From young students to well-informed history buffs, readers will gain a wealth of new insights into Hitler and his regime of terror.

Everybody's Favorite Brother (A Real DC Story) is an inspirational book for the young and old - a dramatic read for people of all ages. It chronicles the life of two brothers, one living a regular life and the other living in the fast lane.

Eutrophication is a problem which became widely recognised by the scientific community in the 1940s and 1950s. It remains however, one of the biggest and most widespread problems of fresh waters, particularly of lakes and an increasing problem for estuaries and coastal waters.

Viruses: Biology, Application, and Control is a concise textbook covering the essential aspects of virology included in biomedical science courses. It is an updated and expanded version of David Harper¿s Molecular Virology, Second Edition from the Medical Perspectives series. As with the previous text, Viruses is not organised by virus family but takes a conceptual approach and examines common themes that emerge from studying the full range of viruses. It is a rigorous treatment of the molecular side of virology and its conceptual approach makes it an essential text for students and non-specialists.

Provides information of how to be successful within the hotel market. This title shows the reader the effective way to able to read, manage and work your way through the competitive markets of hotel valuation and investment. It provides advice that is suitable to industry professionals.