When Kiki's father goes missing during his volunteer work as a doctor in a war zone, she does what she thinks she must to improve the odds of his coming home.

A frantic father, a mysterious container, and a serendipitous encounter with an especially talented soldier of fortune come together for an international reckoning. The circle of life becomes a Mobius strip. Odds When a man retires and becomes a multimillionaire, he learns that his money can’t buy miracles, but it can buy a measure of revenge. His struggle to understand and overcome a devastating loss culminates in a glimmer of hope for maintaining connections to the dearly departed. As he immerses his mind and his money into a search for the soul and the paths it takes through multiple lifetimes, he sees as he gets closer just how far away the answer is: beyond any mortal’s reach. He enlists the help of a warrior with a special power and falls for a deceased DEA agent. In the desert hills of Mexico, evil and justice meet as past and present lives become intertwined in the search for the immortal soul. Ultimately, through a chance reunion, he learns that success in life and success at living are two very different things, that some broken hearts never heal, and that some hearts never break. What are the odds of discovering a lost progeny reanimated as a not-so-total stranger?

Arnold Gold is a computer genius. He flies to Las Vegas for pleasure, but his activity on the Net thrusts him into a vortex of international terrorism. It will take every bit of his legendary skill to stay ahead of the terrorists, the FBI, the local cops, and his lawyer. His only chance to save himself is to find the location of a hidden bomb.

One gambler is a manic former cokehead with an Ivy League degree. The second is a college dropout trying to make a living at the only thing he enjoyed at school -- gambling. The third, one of Vegas's most respected bookmakers, is perilously close to burning out. The Odds follows the lives of these three professional gamblers through a college basketball season in a one-of-a-kind city struggling to reconcile its lawless past with its family-friendly makeover. With a wiseguy attitude and a faultless eye and ear for the sights and sounds of Vegas and its denizens, Chad Millman has created a portrait that the Wall Street Journal called "fascinating. . . often screamingly funny." The Las Vegas Review-Journal had just one word for the book: "Superb."

Confused by the Odds will change the way you think about financial assets, the risks of the next global nuclear war, racial bias in policing, the role of genetics in intelligence, and medical tests. You will learn how to ignore flawed assumptions about the normal distribution of returns from investing in stocks and bitcoin. You will come away with a better understanding of the “Long Peace”—the last three-quarters of a century without a global war—and how it does not necessary bode well for the future. You’ll learn that randomized control experiments, the basis for much of science today, are not the gold standard of proof that most believe them to be and why they are part of the reason for the replicability crisis in science today. You’ll see how the US Navy searches for lost submarines and spam filters identify junk mail. You’ll understand how Democrats and Republicans come to dramatically different conclusions about everything from the outcome of the 2020 election to COVID-19. Confused by the Odds will give you the knowledge and tools to avoid being misled by probability. Many books have been published on probability laden with dense formula and proofs. This is not one of them. David Lockwood, a former member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, presents intuitive explanations of the application of probability to practical, everyday problems—without all the equations. Through real-world examples, this book shows us how to never again be confused by the odds.