Prologue The Funeral of a Mind Warrior On May 14, 1987, some of the most powerful men in Washington, including senators, ambassadors, cabinet officers, generals, and two former directors of Central intelligence, gathered in a small church in Arlington, Virginia to pay their last respects to James Jesus Angleton. The only decoration was a wreath [...]
Chapter 1 London, 1891 The feeling of the knife cutting off her left breast was sharp, stinging, but muted by the pain of what had already been done to her. She was looking at her entrails spilling from the cut that opened her body from hip-bone to hip-bone, and the sight seemed to dull the [...]
Chapter 1 Nigel stood in his office, looking out of the large mirrored window, at the deserted club below him. He was the owner and operator of Club Vampire, currently the hottest nightclub inNew York City. Club Vampire had been in operation for nearly a year now. With each passing week the club gained in [...]
PREFACE Some men fight against people from other countries in order to survive and to protect our society. I had to fight society to survive and live comfortably in my own country. I live a constant uphill battle to keep from being knocked down by others in an attempt at being a successful individual. Before [...]
PROLOGUE AUGUST 824 AD The Viking longboat made its way slowly up the river. Its single sail was furled so the ship was propelled against the sluggish flow of the current by its thirty oars. The river was narrow and shallow but the longboat was perfectly designed for such conditions. Its width was only fifteen [...]
Introduction America today has about 15 million or more people truly unemployed. The current unemployment rate, at the time of writing this book, is hovering around 9.1%. The unemployment rate has lingered around 9% and above, slightly close to the 10.1% peak level during the recession. A huge number of the population is also underemployed, [...]
Think back to the day, the earliest day in your life that you can remember. Is there a time in there that you felt unsure of who you actually were? Can you actually confirm within your deepest confines of your very fibrous being of who you really are? Not everyone can, but the feeling is [...]
Chapter 1 Turtle in the Road “Grampi! Stop the car!” “What?” Grampi replied as he looked around and started slowing down. “There’s a turtle in the road…stop the car now!” Samantha screamed. Grampi dutifully pulled the car to the side of the road. They had already gone way past the turtle, but Grampi knew from [...]
Chapter One Ash sighed heavily as he stared out of the window. The beautifully manicured grounds swept before him: magnificent rose gardens; geometrically perfect flowerbeds and borders receding into the distant wall and the high, iron gates. Not a soul was visible from his vantage point, he might have been the only being in all [...]
1: Down at the ‘Silver Spade’ Lester ended up knocking seven bells out of a beefy Northerner. That was the night at the Silver Spade when they had their first contact with the world of Jistabout. Because it wasn’t really a beefy Northerner. In fact the man was so to speak the advance guard from [...]
