Al Molnar is the author of four best selling novels, Mission: Hong Kong 1944-1945; Mission: Alpine Redoubt; The Land Beyond Time, An Adventure in the Amazon; and Sweet Revenge, An Adventure in East Africa. He is also the contributing author to World War II in Europe: An Encyclopedia. Al spent over 20 years in the military, 10 in the USMC and 10 in the US Army retiring as a Chief Warrant Offi cer. He was awarded two Purple Hearts for wounds received in combat in Vietnam, as well as 53 other medals, citations and commendations. Currently Al resided in Diamondhead, Mississippi. Hours before testifying to a US Congressional Committee investigating the oil industry for abuses and price gouging, an oil Company CEO, about to reveal a 70 year old secret, is shockingly executed along with his entire family. Or so they thought. The Secret would remain hidden . . . the executions – were meant to send a message to anyone who thinks they can betray the Circle. Or so they thought. Little did they know that someone kept a diary of those secret events that happened over 70 years ago in pre-war Nazi Germany . . . It is about to be discovered. So begins this fast paced action adventure novel . . . which takes place in Nov/Dec 2005, when two lives become intertwined today and in the past. It is a story about how far individuals will go to protect their corporation profi ts; their use of deception and the manipulation of the press and people, via their fears and gullibility. It is a story of the lies, secret deals and other efforts to expand their bottom line, their profi ts . . . . It is the story of their ignoring the rules and laws of mankind . . . Finally, it is the story of their total disregard for the world’s most precious resource, the human being . . . proving that BLOOD IS CHEAPER THAN OIL. This is a work of FICTION. Or is it?

This historical novel is a matriarch's remembrance of two oil industry families over three generations: In Pennsylvania, as the Civil War ends, oil industry pioneers fight to control the commodity, own the infrastructure and win the wealth; in the 1890s New York City of the Standard Oil barons, the second generation fights corruption and suffers romantic tragedy as the trade goes global; and, caught in the terrible horrors of World War I, the third generation learns what mature love--and oil--really mean to the emerging modern world. In lean, muscular prose and through relentless storytelling, the book (the first in a multivolume saga of oil's history) is a tour of the world's first oil producing regions, from Pennsylvania to Baku to Mesopotamia to Indonesia to Persia to Romania. It weaves hard fact with adventure, romance and melodrama to explore the metaphysical and stark cold truths about love, family, oil and our addiction to it.

In this sweeping book, one of today's leading political philosophers, Leif Wenar, goes behind the headlines in search of the hidden global rule that thwarts democracy and development-and that puts shoppers into business with some of today's most dangerous men.

From the author of Resource Wars, a landmark assessment of the critical role of petroleum in America's actions abroad In his pathbreaking Resource Wars, world security expert Michael T. Klare alerted us to the role of resources in conflicts in the post-Cold War world. Now, in Blood and Oil, he concentrates on a single precious commodity, petroleum, while issuing a warning to the United States-its most powerful, and most dependent, global consumer. Since September 11th and the commencement of the "war on terror," the world's attention has been focused on the relationship between U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and the oceans of crude oil that lie beneath the region's soil. Klare traces oil's impact on international affairs since World War II, revealing its influence on the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, and Carter doctrines. He shows how America's own wells are drying up as our demand increases; by 2010, the United States will need to import 60 percent of its oil. And since most of this supply will have to come from chronically unstable, often violently anti-American zones-the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea, Latin America, and Africa-our dependency is bound to lead to recurrent military involvement. With clarity and urgency, Blood and Oil delineates the United States' predicament and cautions that it is time to change our energy policies, before we spend the next decades paying for oil with blood.

A hunted portrait. A twisted duke. An embarrassing crush. When a hunted portrait arrives at the priory for safekeeping, I make a disturbing discovery or two about my immortal neighbour. And an unwelcome one about myself. As my resourceful family tries to figure out what’s so special about the painting, a sinister duke makes a bold move in his bid to claim it. But the painting is not the only thing he’s after. Can we outwit the duke and bargain our way to victory? Or will we learn that we’re not the only ones with betrayal in mind? *** Of Blood and Oil is book 3 of Not the Same River, which follows Violet as she goes from gobby orphan to gobby warrior in this complete six-book series. This book features a stray nephilim, judgemental goats, and a vampire who doesn’t know where his trousers are.

Vols. include the proceedings (some summarized, some official stenographic reports) of the National Wholesale Druggists' Association (called 18 -1882, Western Wholesale Druggists' Association) and of other similar organizations.