Anbar Province, Iraq, 2005: the tragic loss of a beloved senior Marine leader to unexpected enemy attack leads Captain Christine Curtis and Major Matt Baxter to suspect an intel leak. Their investigation discovers treason by an unlikely suspect. And there’s more than one villain. Despite all the dust and gore of the combat zone, romance blossoms. Through multiple graphically portrayed battles at sea, on land, and in the air, the Marines strike back. A massive international ring of terror is uncovered. But the enemy is diabolically clever... About the Author Captain Tom Risser is a retired Captain in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Navy, with 37 years of combined active and reserve service. A Navy Flight Surgeon, he deployed with his Marine Corps unit to Anbar Province, Iraq, from 2005-2006, where this novel was conceived. He practices and teaches cardiology in the Boston area.

Set against the framework of modern political concerns, Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame considers the various forms of treachery in a variety of sources, including literature, historical chronicles, and material culture creating a complex portrait of the development of this high crime.

This slice of historical fiction begins with the ancient vampire entity of The Forbidden Tome; Hansel and Gretel's True Tale and of Lethal Assumed; Lost Tome Found, not in Germany of the 1850s or present day Seattle but in the days of yore when Scotland was in Mother Earth's womb and about to be birthed. The tale of Cinaed Mac Alpin , known commonly as Kenneth, and his queen Aiobheean, opens as his life is fledgling and he is a boy of seven in 818AD British Isles. So much is primitive but moving towards formation of a nation. The scale of the story is huge. And yes, it involves vampires and passionate embraces of significant characters in history. Yet the book also includes the sweep of one hundred and forty critical years in the building of that romantic land they now call Scotland. Have you ever wondered about what truly ensued with the incident known as Mac Alpin's Treason? Or with the clash of the Pictish and Gael cultures and with how the Pictish way of life vanished? Where did those tattooed people go? Or with how the Catholic Church brought its weight upon the land? Find answers, sophisticated answers, in this rendering. There are descriptions of the people who allowed this time to flow down upon the world. There are births, deaths, passion, sadness and the tumultuous turmoil of a bold but wild era. Sink your teeth into this tale.

Unintended, but nonetheless deadly, betrayal... Anbar Province, Iraq, 2005: the tragic loss of a beloved senior Marine leader to unexpected enemy attack leads Captain Christine Curtis and Major Matt Baxter to suspect an intel leak. Their investigation discovers treason by an unlikely suspect. And there's more than one villain. Despite all the dust and gore of the combat zone, romance blossoms. Through multiple, graphically portrayed battles at sea, on land, and in the air, the Marines strike back. A massive international ring of terror is uncovered. But the enemy is diabolically clever...

An account of the theoretical framework, legal complexities and enforcement of the French treason law.

A stunning coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, as one extraordinarily loyal and headstrong girl battles to save the people she loves In 1640 London 15-year-old Henrietta Challoner dreams of adventure, of a life lived at the gallop, of the opportunities afforded to her brothers, Ned and Sam. She cannot know how devastatingly real these dreams will become, as the country slides towards vicious civil war. The crisis threatens to tear Henrietta's family apart. As religious and political tensions spill into the streets, they all must decide what comes first—their family, their country, or their desires. But while she strives to maintain the peace at home, Henrietta becomes embroiled in a deeper plot: to hand London over to the King.

From the bestselling author of the Ender Universe novels comes Orson Scott Card's Treason Lanik Mueller's birthright as heir to planet Treason's most powerful rulership will never be realized. He is a "rad"--radical regenerative. A freak among people who can regenerate injured flesh... and trade extra body parts to the Offworld oppressors for iron. For, on a planet without hard metals--or the means of escape--iron is power in the race to build a spacecraft. Iron is the promise of freedom, which may never be fulfilled as Lanik uncovers a treacherous conspiracy beyond his imagination. Now charged with a mission of conquest--and exile--Lanik devises a bold and dangerous plan... a quest that may finally break the vicious chain of rivalry and bloodshed that enslaves the people of Treason as the Offworld never could. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Collected together for the first time, all eight Assassin's Creed novels based on the phenomenally successful gaming series. Fans of the game will love these stories. Titles in this Collection include: Underworld, Unity, Black Flag, Forsaken, Revelations, The Secret Crusade, Brotherhood, Renaissance. The covert war between two secret organizations, the shadowy Templar Knights and the elite Order of Assassins, has been raging for millennia. Following the murder of his father and brothers, Ezio Auditore di Firenze is entrusted with an ancient Codex, the key to a conspiracy that goes back to centuries. Ezio must avenge the deaths of his kinsmen and in doing so fulfil his destiny, and live by the laws of the Assassin's Creed. Ezio's quest will test him to his limits. And in such treacherous times, conspiracy is everywhere, even within the ranks of the brotherhood itself . . . We work in the dark to serve the light. We are assassins.