Back Blast

Author: Mark Greaney
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698406532
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530

Book Description
From Mark Greaney, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan novels, comes the fifth explosive thriller featuring the lethal assassin known as the Gray Man… Five years ago, Court Gentry was the CIA’s best covert asset. Then, without warning, his masters at the Agency put him at the top of their kill list. Court fled his country and became an enigmatic killer for hire known as the Gray Man. Determined to find out what made the Agency turn against him, he plans to get his hands on the men who sent him on his last mission, Operation BACK BLAST. What he doesn’t realize is that the questions that arose from his time as an American assassin are still reverberating in the U.S. intelligence community, and he’s stumbled onto a secret that powerful people want kept under wraps. The result: everyone has Court in their crosshairs...

Back Blast

Author: Mark Greaney
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0751565431
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 523

Book Description
Court Gentry was the CIA's best agent - until the day the Agency turned against him and put out a kill-on-sight order. That's when the enigmatic international assassin called the Gray Man was born, and Court has been working for himself ever since. Court is determined to find out what happened all those years ago to make the Agency turn against him. On his list to interrogate are his former partners and the men who sent him on his last mission. What he doesn't realize is that the questions that arose from that mission are still reverberating in the US intelligence community, and he's stumbled onto a secret that powerful people want kept under wraps. And now they have him in their crosshairs. Court is used to having people on his trail, but this time, it's on US soil - the last place he wants to be. He'll have to find the answers to his fate while evading capture . . . and avoiding death.

Back Blast

Author: Mark Greaney
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425282848
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 754

The Civil Rights Movement

Author: Nancy Ohlin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1499805063
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Get ready to blast back to the past and learn all about the Civil Rights Movement! When people think about the Civil Rights Movement, things like segregation and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech may come to mind. But what was the movement all about, and what social changes did it bring? This engaging nonfiction book, complete with black-and-white interior illustrations, will make readers feel like they've traveled back in time. It covers everything from Jim Crow laws and protests to major milestones like Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act, and more. Find out interesting, little-known facts such as how Rosa Parks was not the first person of color to refuse to give up her seat on a bus and how most of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech was actually improvised. The unique details along with the clever and humorous interior illustrations make this series stand out from the competition.

The American Revolution

Author: Nancy Ohlin
Publisher: little bee books
ISBN: 9781499801224
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Get ready to blast back to the American Revolution and discover what life was like during that time! When people talk about the American Revolution, things like the thirteen colonies and the Boston Tea Party may come to mind. But what was it really like during that time? This engaging nonfiction book, complete with black and white interior illustrations, will make readers feel like they've traveled back in time. It covers everything from how the war started to what life was like for the colonists, and more. Find out interesting, little-known facts such as how George Washington was a spymaster and how some women served as soldiers in the Continental Army! The unique details along with the clever and humorous interior illustrations make this series stand out from the competition.

Backblast Area Clear

Author: Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781791320690
Category : Human-alien encounters
Languages : en
Pages : 442

Book Description
Featuring Nebula Award Nominee Finalist Richard Fox, as well as other well know authors such as MD Cooper, C.J. Carella, and Josh Hayes. Let the explosions begin! Humans have spread to the stars, taking their warlike nature with them. This anthology contains eleven incredible tales. Heroic warriors wage intergalactic war against their unrelenting foe. Watch these men and women display wanton courage under fire, despite the odds! Follow them on their quest for galactic supremacy. Do your part to conquer the galaxy! Buy a copy of Backblast Area Clear today. Stories: Richard Fox - Going Dark which has been nominated for the Nebula Award MD Cooper - Rika Crucible C.J. Carella - Bushido Jackson and the Kaiji Menance Josh Hayes - A Prelude to Valor Tim C Taylor - The Hero of Azoth Zol J.R Handley & Chris Winder - God Save the Queen Scott Moon - Ash Roland Logan Scott - Complacency's Grave JR Castle - Beginning of Chaos Navin Weeraratne - The Battle Purple Rick Partlow - The Great Wide Open

The Titanic

Author: Nancy Ohlin
Publisher: little bee books
ISBN: 9781499802740
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Blast back to discover what life was like on the Titanic! You may have heard of the movie Titanic, but what was life on the actual Titanic really like? This engaging nonfiction book, complete with black and white interior illustrations, will make readers feel like they've traveled back in time. It covers everything from how the ship was built to what the passengers did for fun, and more. Find out interesting, little-known facts such as how the anchor was so heavy that they needed to use twenty horses to lift it and how the ship's musicians continued to play as the ship sank. The unique details, along with the clever illustrations, make this series stand out from the competition.

The Space Race

Author: Nancy Ohlin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1499805039
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
Get ready to blast back to the past and learn all about the Space Race! When people think about the Space Race, things like astronauts and the Soviet Union may come to mind. But why was there a race, and who won anyway? This engaging nonfiction book, complete with black and white interior illustrations, will make readers feel like they've traveled back in time. It covers everything from the Cold War to the moon landing, and more. Find out interesting, little-known facts such as how the moon has an unpleasant odor and how a prototype of the ballpoint pen was invented by NASA for astronauts to use in zero-gravity conditions! The unique details along with the clever and humorous interior illustrations make this series stand out from the competition.

Conventional Warfare

Author: Ronald F. Bellamy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine, Military
Languages : ru
Pages : 420

Book Description

Blast Waves

Author: Charles E. Needham
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642052886
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
As an editor of the international scienti?c journal Shock Waves, I was asked whether I might document some of my experience and knowledge in the ?eld of blast waves. I began an outline for a book on the basis of a short course that I had been teaching for several years. I added to the outline, ?lling in details and including recent devel- ments, especially in the subjects of height of burst curves and nonideal explosives. At a recent meeting of the International Symposium on the Interaction of Shock Waves, I was asked to write the book I had said I was working on. As a senior advisor to a group working on computational ?uid dynamics, I found that I was repeating many useful rules and conservation laws as new people came into the group. The transfer of knowledge was hit and miss as questions arose during the normal work day. Although I had developed a short course on blast waves, it was not practical to teach the full course every time a new member was added to the group. This was suf?cient incentive for me to undertake the writing of this book. I cut my work schedule to part time for two years while writing the book. This allowed me to remain heavily involved in ongoing and leading edge work in hydrodynamics while documenting this somewhat historical perspective on blast waves.