An action adventure novel pitting ex-CIA operative Roland Troy against Chotoku Nakama, a powerful Asian warlord, with both protagonists being members of an ancient martial arts brotherhood. The settings range from Costa Rica to Laos. A first novel.

When his long-lost love and new bride Clara was brutally murdered in an Austrian mountain chateau while they were on their honeymoon, super-sleuth and undercover operative Roland Troy quits chasing criminals and retreats to the back woods of Vermont. But when his old friend and former partner McKenzie Rockett travels from Florida to ask a favor, Troy knows he can't say no to Rockett's request for help in solving one last homicide. Troy is partnered up with beautiful, ex-model, Angela Becker, a superb undercover cop in her own right. The two of them quickly find that they are on the trail of something far larger and darker than what Troy and Rockett had initially assumed: an on-going international conspiracy that has spanned not only the decades, but generations as well. This riveting stand-alone sequel to Prancing Tiger (Morrow, 0-688-13049-6), takes the reader from rural Vermont to the swampland of Florida, and into the mountains along the Austrian-Italian border on a hunt for the truth about one girl's past and the history of an entire nation. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

This Workbook is preared for providing supporting content and comprehensive guidance to aspirants of different examinations, such as UPSC, PSC, SSC, RRB, Bank Probationary Officer’s Examination and other competitive examinations conducted by different boards of studies. Basic framework of the syllabus is taken up from the content areas rescribed by Central Board of Secondary Educations for English Communicative Programmes. It will be equally helpful for teachers and other assciates having passion of providing quality guidance along with time tested practice materials. Equal strength is provided on both grammar rules and communication skills. Some of the fundamentals are duly incorporated to make the content area a balanced one for the fellow aspirants. Incorporation of some of the basic tempplates are avoided for keeping the volume of this workbook in limit. One can take support of any of the grammar and comprehension handbook for gaining mastery in all such basic formats. This workbook will imply focus on the higher levels of English Grammar and Compositions. It is duly recommended that one should not skip any of the content area incorporated in this workbook for confirming attainment of mastery in English in prescribed time limit. One should go on practicing regularly for increasing the pace of learning. Understanding the concept of using appropriate English is equally important for gaining enhanced pace in the field of appropriate use of English. If we try to incorporate all the basic rules of writing and speaking English in this workbook then it will become a difficult task to make them absolutely contented without repeating any section. This workbook is prepated with principal objective of providing aspirants a template of self propelled study modules which will equip them differently. Importance is equally implied on both practical as well as traditional ways of communication that people adopt in modern society. It is also evident from our regular survey that people prefer using conventional ways of speaking and writing to bring easiness in delivering concepts and propositions. We will also point out several other technical briefings along with the worksheets for making the concept easy to understand.

The 16th volume in the popular high-seas nautical adventure series featuring naval hero Thomas Kydd. The greatest naval trial in the Georgian period is underway at Portsmouth with the court-martial of Sir Home Popham, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd’s commanding officer in the doomed occupation of Buenos Aires. Kydd has sympathy for Popham’s unauthorized action but his support for his former commander leaves him athwart some very influential people in the Admiralty. With his frigate L'Aurore unfit for sea, Kydd is given a new commission that his rivals hope will destroy his career. The Tyger's have recently mutinied, but instead of dispersing her company around the fleet as is customary, the ship is pressed into immediate service in the North Sea and Kydd faces a crew still under some malign influence. Enemies aboard and on the high seas are just the start of the problem. Soon he will have to take his untested and untrustworthy crew into the Baltic, where they will find themselves entangled with Napoleon’s invasion of Prussia. The stakes are desperate, the task seemingly impossible, and the French implacable. The only way for Kydd to avoid disgrace is to gamble his reputation and crew on a crazy mission to snatch a Prussian division out of the jaws of Napoleon’s advancing army. Will he return home once more a hero or face a court-martial himself?

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Intimate, exhilarating writings on adventure, meditation, and life in the captivating wildness of the Himalayan Mountains—with contributions from Amitav Ghosh, Mark Twain, Rabindranath Tagore, Peter Matthiessen, and more. For some, the Himalaya is a frontier against which people test themselves. Others find refuge and tranquility in the mountains, a place where they can seek their true selves, perhaps even God. Over millennia, the mountains have cradled civilization itself and nurtured teeming, irrepressible life. With over thirty essays, this exhilarating anthology offers a dazzling range of voices that reveal accounts of great ascents and descents—from reflecting on a deadly avalanche to searching for a snow leopard and enjoying the simple pleasure of riding a handcar down a railway track. These diverse writings bring to life the spirit of the Himalaya in an unparalleled panorama. Contributors include: Amitav Ghosh Mark Twain Rabindranath Tagore Peter Matthiessen Edmund Hillary Aleister Crowley Andrew Harvey Vicki Mackenzie Sarat Chandra Das H. A. Giles (Trans.) Jahangir Sven Hedin Frank S. Smythe Anil Yadav Jinasena Arundhathi Subramaniam Dharamvir Bharati Swami Vivekananda Rahul Sankrityayan Francis Younghusband Ruskin Bond Jemima Diki Sherpa Kirin Narayan Jawaharlal Nehru Abdul Wahid Radhu Jim Corbett Bill Aitken Hridayesh Joshi Dom Moraes Manjushree Thapa