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Southland Noir takes the reader back to the Jazz Age. No place is more evocative of the period than Los Angeles and Hollywood in 1926. Egan Walsh is an IRA veteran of the Irish War of Independence fought against centuries of British rule. Hostilities end by an unsatisfactory treaty threatening civil war. Walsh refuses to take up arms against former IRA comrades and leaves Ireland for Boston. As a former Irish newspaper journalist, he finds ...

Southland Noir takes the reader back to the Jazz Age. No place is more evocative of the period than Los Angeles and Hollywood in 1926. Egan Walsh is an IRA veteran of the Irish War of Independence fought against centuries of British rule. Hostilities end by an unsatisfactory treaty threatening civil war. Walsh refuses to take up arms against former IRA comrades and leaves Ireland for Boston. As a former Irish newspaper journalist, he finds ...

What others are saying: "Doug's willingness to be vulnerable, transparent and heart-baring are what make this book so readable and relatable. In addition, his steps for moving forward are practical and backed up by research and relevant stories. Anyone who is imperfect (who isn't?) or has ever been hurt (who hasn't?) will benefit from Doug's story."T. Tarleton"It is rarely easy to be as vulnerable as Doug has been in the telling of his story. ...

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Aus einem Forschungslabor für Genetik entweicht ein Versuchstier, eine scheinbar harmlose Katze. Als sie wieder eingefangen werden soll, geschieht unvorstellbar Entsetzliches... der Katze gelingt es, an Bord einer Luxusyacht zu kommen. Zur Besatzung gehören zwei Studentinnen mit ihren Freunden, Kapitän ist die attraktive Rachel. Die drei Gangster, die die Yacht gemietet haben, wollen eine heiße Beute schnellstmöglich auf den Cayman Islands in ...

Aus einem Forschungslabor für Genetik entweicht ein Versuchstier, eine scheinbar harmlose Katze. Als sie wieder eingefangen werden soll, geschieht unvorstellbar Entsetzliches... der Katze gelingt es, an Bord einer Luxusyacht zu kommen. Zur Besatzung gehören zwei Studentinnen mit ihren Freunden, Kapitän ist die attraktive Rachel. Die drei Gangster, die die Yacht gemietet haben, wollen eine heiße Beute schnellstmöglich auf den Cayman Islands in ...

The early years of the Cold War found the United States struggling to compete in the espionage war against the Soviet Union. With no history of a peacetime intelligence service, the newly created U.S. Central Intelligence Agency lacked the experience for conducting high-level espionage against the USSR. Viktor Neiman, a senior officer in the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Intelligence & Research, returns to Europe after serving in the wa...

The early years of the Cold War found the United States struggling to compete in the espionage war against the Soviet Union. With no history of a peacetime intelligence service, the newly created U.S. Central Intelligence Agency lacked the experience for conducting high-level espionage against the USSR. Viktor Neiman, a senior officer in the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Intelligence & Research, returns to Europe after serving in the wa...

Foreign gunboats forced China, Japan and Korea to open to the outside world in the mid-19th century. The treaties signed included rules forbidding local courts from trying foreigners, or, "extraterritoriality". Britain and the United States established consular courts in all three countries and, as trade grew, the British Supreme Court for China and Japan and the United States Court for China. These courts for many decades - over 100 years in ...

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Havana, Cuba in 1957 was the original gambling sin city. The haunt of the wealthy and famous offering gambling, sex, and drugs in an exotic Caribbean setting only 90 miles from Florida. Luxury casinos with five-star hotels, fine dining, and elaborate floorshows with scantily clad beautiful women. A corrupt dictatorship inviting investment by the American Mafia fuels Havana's hospitality industry success. Cuban-American Bart Landeira resigns fr...

Havana, Cuba in 1957 was the original gambling sin city. The haunt of the wealthy and famous offering gambling, sex, and drugs in an exotic Caribbean setting only 90 miles from Florida. Luxury casinos with five-star hotels, fine dining, and elaborate floorshows with scantily clad beautiful women. A corrupt dictatorship inviting investment by the American Mafia fuels Havana's hospitality industry success. Cuban-American Bart Landeira resigns fr...

United States Army Lt. Col. Spencer Fleming becomes military attaché to Berlin. It is 1933 and Adolf Hitler has just become German chancellor. Germany now comes under rule of the Nazi Party. Fleming's distinguished career in military intelligence since 1915 uniquely qualifies him for this sensitive assignment.Unlike most other large nations, the United States has no foreign intelligence service. Since WWI, America reverts to an isolationist vi...

United States Army Lt. Col. Spencer Fleming becomes military attaché to Berlin. Fleming's distinguished career in military intelligence since 1915 uniquely qualifies him for the sensitive assignment of becoming America's only official spy in pre-WWII Nazi Germany.

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American Marc Fraser and his French wife Fiona Marchand flee occupied France from the Gestapo to neutral Switzerland in 1943. With experience in the French Resistance, Allen Dulles, head of American OSS intelligence in Europe, recruits them as agents.ODESSA was the American codename for the name in German: Organisation der ehemaligen SS- Angehörigen, translated as the Organization of Former SS Members. Distinct from the regular military elemen...

American Marc Fraser and his French wife Fiona Marchand flee occupied France from the Gestapo to neutral Switzerland in 1943. With experience in the French Resistance, Allen Dulles, head of American OSS intelligence in Europe, recruits them as agents.ODESSA was the American codename for the name in German: Organisation der ehemaligen SS- Angehörigen, translated as the Organization of Former SS Members. Distinct from the regular military elemen...

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Professor Victoria Prescott receives an urgent request to come to Paris from General Anton Grigoryev of Russian foreign intelligence. 20 years earlier, Grigoryev assisted her in researching WWII Soviet archives during the glasnost period following the collapse of the Soviet Union. That access led Prescott discovering a previously unknown Soviet spy within the WWII Manhattan Project.In Paris, Grigoryev is now seeking to defect to the United Sta...