In The Gemini Agent, as first-year final exams week kicks off, several incident reports with serious allegations against James T. Kirk end up on the Commandant of Midshipmen’s desk. None of the allegations are true, of course… or are they? Kirk is being plagued by mysterious blackout periods, so he finds the allegations difficult to refute. During these blackout periods, he has no recollection of what he did, save for some very disturbing and disjointed memories. Kirk needs his friends, Bones and Uhura to help prove his innocence. Who is targeting Kirk, and why is he being targeted? And how far are they willing to go? Someone close to Kirk holds the answers to all of these questions, but can he put the pieces together before it’s too late?

A superspy meets her match in New York Times bestselling author Lilith Saintcrow's latest romance As a genetically enhanced assassin for a secret agency, Cal has one mission: to recapture the sultry rogue superspy who calls herself Trinity. Yet when he finds her, Cal will risk everything to keep her out of his superiors' deadly hands. Despite a computerlike brain and the ability to heal herself, Trinity has no memory of her life before the agency. She's desperate to uncover her identity. Every bit of trust she places in gorgeous, sexy Cal seems to bring back a little of her humanity. But her secrets might destroy them both, before the agency even gets a chance.

Nineteenth Century British archaeologist Sir Austin Henry Layard discovers twenty-five thousand clay tablets buried deep in an ancient Sumerian Library. After years of tedious study of the tablets, Sir Henry begins to pen a journal, evidencing Man’s birthplace and manipulation by a ruling class of Blue Bloods. Today in the midst of a deadly H1N2 outbreak, twelve elite Financiers hold a Summit in Western Europe, headed by the Marquis de Illuminati. Their secret agenda for a microchipped population takes shape until the World Bank refuses to back the loans needed for the human implantation process. When Doc Mitchell, Senior Intelligence Officer with the National Security Agency, learns of the Illuminati’s agenda, he assigns Guy Fox, a mind controlled assassin, to eliminate key players at the Summit. Doc knows this mission will implicate the President of the United States (his close friend and Masonic Brother) in a vast criminal conspiracy involving top politicians and investors. At the same time, Guy Fox fights for freewill, the truth about his past and his own life when he becomes the target of the Illuminati’s madness. His world unfolds into the vast global conspiracy reaching back to ancient Sumeria. Meanwhile, millions are dying daily from the flu outbreak and something must be done.

Economics has much to do with incentives--not least, incentives to work hard, to produce quality products, to study, to invest, and to save. Although Adam Smith amply confirmed this more than two hundred years ago in his analysis of sharecropping contracts, only in recent decades has a theory begun to emerge to place the topic at the heart of economic thinking. In this book, Jean-Jacques Laffont and David Martimort present the most thorough yet accessible introduction to incentives theory to date. Central to this theory is a simple question as pivotal to modern-day management as it is to economics research: What makes people act in a particular way in an economic or business situation? In seeking an answer, the authors provide the methodological tools to design institutions that can ensure good incentives for economic agents. This book focuses on the principal-agent model, the "simple" situation where a principal, or company, delegates a task to a single agent through a contract--the essence of management and contract theory. How does the owner or manager of a firm align the objectives of its various members to maximize profits? Following a brief historical overview showing how the problem of incentives has come to the fore in the past two centuries, the authors devote the bulk of their work to exploring principal-agent models and various extensions thereof in light of three types of information problems: adverse selection, moral hazard, and non-verifiability. Offering an unprecedented look at a subject vital to industrial organization, labor economics, and behavioral economics, this book is set to become the definitive resource for students, researchers, and others who might find themselves pondering what contracts, and the incentives they embody, are really all about.

The year is 2088... Turmoil has plagued the Colonies... Mega-Corporations jockey for position as they continue to expand beyond the outer most reaches of the Frontier...After his recent termination with the Centauri Mining Guild, Captain Vince Olson; a misfit bounty hunter for C.A.D. Corps(Centauri Aerospace Defense Corps) finds his ship the Reaper ransacked by a deadly mercenary in search of vital information left behind by his late father. The E.T.A.(Earth Terran Authority) is immediately called in to investigate when he is approached by an agent of a clandestine operation known as the Gemini Continuum. Captain Olson's world is about to be shaken when he is faced with a diabolical truth.

Salonika, Greece: December 1939. In the dead of night, a clandestine order of monks embarks on a desperate mission: to transport a mysterious vault to a hiding place high in the Italian Alps. The sinister cache, concealed for centuries, could rip apart the Christian world. Now, as the Nazi threat marches inexorably closer, men both good and evil will be drawn into a violent and deadly hunt, sparking a relentless struggle that could forever change the world as we know it. Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Gemini Contenders “[Robert Ludlum’s] most ambitious novel . . . Its twist and turns carry the reader on a fast bobsled run. . . . A marvelously unflagging imagination.”—The New York Times “A winner . . . one of those books you intend to put down after just one more chapter . . . suddenly it’s two in the morning and you’ve read the whole thing.”—United Press International “A skyrocket of a book . . . The action never stops for a second.”—The Plain Dealer “Packed full of excitement.”—The Denver Post

He was trained to be our deadliest weapon. Now he's our worst nightmare.... A noted expert on counterterrorism and international security, Richard Steinberg has used his firsthand knowledge of covert military strategies to craft the year's most daring tale of espionage and political intrigue. Dazzling and unforgettable, this power-packed tour de force is one part Robert Ludlum, two parts Thomas Harris--and 100% pure terror.... Code-named Gemini, he is conditioned to do just two things: breathe and kill. His deadliest mission brought the Soviet Union to its knees. His reward: six years in a freezing Russian gulag--drugged, tortured, and abandoned. Now a brilliant psychiatrist is charged with unlocking his sinister secrets. She will peer into the most fascinating and malevolent mind she has ever encountered. And she will discover what Gemini already knows--that the most unstoppable enemies are the ones we create ourselves.... "From the Paperback edition."

The Gemini Killer targets twins. He takes one. He leaves the other. But one of the survivors has grown up. Eighteen years ago, FBI Agent Rachel Ward's mirror twin was kidnapped. Now, she's coming after the monster who stole her sister, because another twin has been abducted, and Rachel won't let Gemini escape again. In this relentless, edge-of-your-seat thriller, Kate Kessler provides a harrowing look at how the past is never truly put to rest.

"A medical mystery wrapped in a contemporary love story, GEMINI is a stand out new novel from the Cassella, a practicing M.D. and author of the national bestseller OXYGEN. Think Jodi Picoult meets Abraham Verghese"--

11 Book Synopsis An American pilot shot down over North Korea in 1972 learns “the art of the ultimate Human.” When he returns to the States sixteen years later, he hunts criminals as the ultimate martial artist. Cameron St. James is a talented high-altitude recon pilot. When one of his missions takes him over North Korea, his plane goes down. Atop a mountain peak he meets another American, Bull Beauchamp, who has learned to be the ultimate human from an ancient book written by a Korean mystic. Bull tutors St. James for sixteen years until he too is a Master. In 1988, North Korean troops seek out the two Americans. St. James escapes and travels to Seoul during the Olympic Games. Through a case of mistaken identity, he is able to return to the States and discovers his life’s mission is to eradicate true evil. St. James’ missions bring him to the attention of two deadly government agents from the H.O.P.E. division of S.E.C.T., who are every bit as ultimate as he is, as well as a lone FBI agent who doesn’t know exactly what she’s tracking. Their destinies become intertwined as their Paths Cross.