“Imaginative and intuitive . . . [Josh] Conviser mines and mints a nonstop stream of visual images.”—Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files In the time it takes to read this sentence, Echelon will intercept more than 70,000 phone calls, e-mails, and faxes. Operated by the National Security Agency, Echelon is the most pervasive global eavesdropping network in history. Today, Echelon will capture three billion electronic communications. Imagine what it will do tomorrow. In the near future, war is unknown, conflict has vanished, and life is picture-perfect. Or so it seems. Once merely a surveillance net, Echelon has severed its ties with the United States to become the covert power shaping world affairs. It manipulates the data flow at will, snuffs out dissent, and controls information–and thus the world–with an iron fist. But after years of silent dominance, Echelon stands on the brink of collapse. Honed, armed, and bioengineered to the hilt, Ryan Laing, a veteran Echelon operator, is thrust into a dark conspiracy to overthrow Echelon and draw the world into new violence and chaos. With his handler, Sarah Peters, a neo-punk hacker out of Scotland, Laing embarks on a desperate race through the halls of power and across the globe–from the flooded beachfront of Venice, California, to a murderous jungle in Southeast Asia–to find out who in Echelon is playing God . . . and what greater hell will soon be unleashed.

Bev Tappan is an ordinary woman who through tragedy, heartbreak, and illness, gathers the courage to leave a comfortable home and a good career in Alabama in order to find a new life in California--one filled with travel, adventure and, yes, true love. Determined to follow her dream to sail to the South Pacific, she buys a sailboat and moves aboard. She doesn't know who is following her, or why he'd want to hurt her, but the menacing sailor in the sleek, black-hulled "Raven" seems to always be just a harbor or two behind her.

ECHELON, Somebody's Listening catapults you into the global world of eavesdropping where no one has the full picture and the CIA and FBI has deployed an amazing set of tools trying to focus their vision: Echelon to intercept virtually all voice, data, and video transmissions worldwide, Carnivore to intercept Internet traffic, Magic Lantern to decode encryption, and The USA PATRIOT Act to strengthen them all. People who bought ECHELON, Somebody's Listening also bought: The Broker - John Grisham, Read by Michael Beck The Da Vinci Code: Special Illustrated Edition - Dan Brown Digital Fortress - Dan Brown London Bridges - James Patterson Hour Game - David Baldacci Barnes&Noble ? www.bn.com Blend FBI-CIA antagonism, high-tech surveillance and terrorism. Stir with reality. It doesn't get better than that. Couldn't put it down! Fielding L. Pope, California Former Member - White House Communications Agency Echelon takes you on a roller coaster ride through the inner workings of the intelligence community still tortured by self-doubt. Suddenly it confronts a new and unexpected threat. It's a white-knuckle ride. Hold on tight. Edmond J. Boran ? New York Retired FBI Special Agent You won't want to put it down. Don't. Pick it up. But be sure your calendar is clear... Bruce Powers, California Former Pentagon Director of Naval Aviation Plans

Inventory Management in Multi-Echelon Networks presents methods to plan inventory in distribution networks. By holistically looking at the supply chain, it shows how safety stocks across all echelons can be optimized if inventory of all levels is taken into consideration. The gap between the existence of advanced inventory planning methods and their low penetration in the industry was the motivation for this book. Christopher Grob develops essential algorithms that companies can use for network inventory planning and highlights achievable implementation benefits. The work of the author was inspired by the needs of an after sales supply chain of a large automotive company. This company supplies customers all over the world with spare parts and operates a distribution network with more than 100 warehouses. This supply chain faces two particular challenges: demand is highly uncertain and customers expect a high service level. About the Author Christopher Grob works in after sales supply chain management at a major German automotive company. He is responsible for the functional development of inventory planning systems for the spare parts business. He is an expert in the field of inventory management.

CIA agent Micah Dalton is a "cleaner." He takes care of other agents' mistakes. When a friend and mentor commits a grotesque suicide, Dalton's investigation leads him into the snare of a madman, into the arms of a beautiful, mysterious stranger-and into a conspiracy within his own agency. Dalton knows only one thing for certain-this job is going to get very messy.