In the late twenty-fifth century, a long-dormant mystery resurfaces involving the disappearance in deep space of a Pulvermacher-class supply freighter. Handed what appears to be another mundane “research and report” commission, Junior Agent Benoit Carter is about to have his well-ordered life profoundly change. Carter’s initial search shows that his investigative section has been infiltrated by clandestine alien moles. Then a retired Confederation senior agent is murdered, an entire Del Mar subdivision is destroyed, and Carter is gravely injured in an assassination attempt. After recuperating, Carter and his supervisor, Debra T. Stanton, follow a string of seemingly unconnected clues, eventually stumbling on some long-buried information. They learn how Terra (the Earth) was involved in a far-distant interstellar conflict, its cause, and the fact that their home world has been quietly invaded by enemy aliens, whose offspring have infiltrated vital levels of the Confederation’s governance. Another disclosure during their hunt for clues is the identity of a close associate who has been putting up a well-crafted façade. Carter remains doggedly on the case, following a trail of digital bread crumbs to uncover the cause of the mysterious disappearance of the Confederation fast supply vessel, the Tyler Y. Alphonse. This is the third book in an exciting trilogy.

This volume presents five documents from the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice: the chapter containing the findings and recommendations relating to the organized crime problems facing the United States and four background papers submitted by outside consultants. The analyses in the Commission report chapter focused on the types and locations of organized crime, the corruption of law enforcement and political systems, the membership and organization of criminal cartels, efforts to control organized crime, and a proposed national strategy against organized crime. Recommendations related to methods of proving criminal violations, investigation and prosecution units, citizens crime commissions, and noncriminal controls such as regulations and media coverage. The four consultants' reports examined the functions and structure of criminal syndicates, corruption of public officials in one jurisdiction, evidence collection in organized crime, and the economic analysis of organized crime.

The Juno mission to Jupiter is one of the most ambitious, daring and challenging solar system exploration missions ever conceived. Next to the Sun, Jupiter is the largest object in our solar system. As such, it is both a record and driver of the formation and evolution of the planets -- no other object in our solar system can tell us more about the origin of planetary systems. Understanding the details of giant planet formation, structure, composition and powerful magnetospheric environment required a new perspective close up and over the poles of Jupiter -- an orbit never before attempted. Juno was specifically designed for this challenge, entering into the harshest planetary environment known in the solar system. This volume describes the mission design, scientific strategies and instrument payload that enable Juno to peer deep into Jupiter’s atmosphere and reveal the fundamental process of the formation and early evolution of our solar system. In these papers, the Juno instrument teams describe their investigations, which include gravity radio science, microwave radiometers, magnetometers, an infrared imager auroral mapper, an ultraviolet imager and spectrograph, a visible light imager known as JunoCam, low and high energy particle detectors and plasma wave and radio electromagnetic sensors. The articles also describe a radiation monitoring experiment and the extensive laboratory measurements undertaken to assist with the analysis and interpretation of Juno’s pioneering investigation of Jupiter’s deep atmosphere. Originally published in Space Science Reviews, Volume 213, Issue 1-4, November 2017