Best Selling Books by Brian Andrews

On the eve of his medical retirement, Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson receives a frantic call from his estranged childhood best friend David Yarnell. David''s daughter has been kidnapped off the streets of Nashville in broad daylight. The police have no suspects and no leads. The only clue: the body of a dead priest left behind at the scene. With the clock ticking, David is growing desperate, as is his wife, Rachel . . . Jed''s first love.

After a surprise assault on Task Force Ember''s secret compound in Virginia by Russian covert operators, John Dempsey and his teammates are mourning their dead and trying to put the pieces back together. But in the ever-evolving world of shadow warfare, there is no respite for heroes or victims. Russian spymaster Arkady Zhukov, the mind behind the attack on Ember, has a new and devastating agenda-directing false flag missions to destabilize Ukraine and enable Russia to seize control of the Black Sea.Dempsey and his Ember teammates are tasked to systematically eliminate each and every Zeta agent around the globe. But when American and Russian covert operations collide in Kiev, the "new Cold War" goes from a simmer to a boil. Escalation ensues, bringing America and her allies to the brink of world war. Unless Dempsey and Task Force Ember can derail Russia''s secret plans, the collateral damage could bring the world to its knees.

New York Times bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson bring readers another heart-stopping thriller in Sons of Valor IV: False Flag. A murder in the Royal House of Saud, a secret alliance between two powerful rivals, and a race to upend the balance of power in the Middle East ... Lieutenant Keith “Chunk” Redman is no stranger to uncertainty. It’s what they train for in the Tier One. But when President Kelso Jarvis tells Gold Squadron the shocking news—that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has been murdered, the King is missing, and the House of Saud has framed two Mossad agents—it’s clear the Middle East has become a powder keg just waiting to explode. To get to the bottom of it, Gold Squadron must split up: Chunk leading a team of Israeli operatives; sniper Saw taking the helm of Gold; while CIA analyst Whitney Watts heads into the belly of the beast itself, the Royal Palace in Saudi Arabia, where she must risk her life to uncover the truth about the Crown Prince’s murder. Meanwhile, unseen by any of them, new alliances are forming orchestrated by a VEVAK operative who spent decades working in deep cover to unsettle the balance of power. Soon it’s a race against time to find the truth, and stop a false flag operation that threatens the very existence of Israel itself.

Four Minutes is the latest brilliant techno-thriller from the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling duo behind the Sons of Valor series. It is said that no plan survives first contact with the enemy, but what if you remove the one thing no one can control: uncertainty about the future? Special Operations Chief Tyler Brooks might not know quantum mechanics, or have an eidetic memory, but he is the very best in the world at one thing: leading covert ops. When an unpredictable enemy causes the catastrophic loss of his entire SEAL team, Brooks is recruited by Pat Moody to lead a new elite squad, Task Force Omega. Moody''s promise--access to mind-bending tech that grants a glimpse of the future. Together with Navy Intelligence Specialist Zee Williams, Brooks leads a new kind of counterterrorism task force, one that collects intel from the future to stop attacks in the present. But there''s a catch. Each mission can only last FOUR MINUTES. Stakes quickly escalate when Omega discovers an unprecedented future attack against America threatening the lives of millions--including Tyler''s daughter. Despite their prescient advantage, Brooks and Williams find themselves thwarted at every turn as they try to stop the plot. To make matters worse, they have somehow gone from hunter to hunted, targeted by an unknown enemy hidden in the shadows. With the country on the brink of nuclear war, Tyler''s daughter in mortal danger, and a commanding officer they''re not sure they can trust, Omega Team faces a terrible dilemma: Even if you know the future, is FOUR MINUTES enough time to change it?

Rock fishing is often claimed to be the most dangerous sport in the world. The author, despite several close shaves (described in the book), survived over 40 years of the sport, including highly risky solitary night fishing. When seas were simply too treacherous, big fish were sought from beaches instead. This book describes the author''s often colourful and amusing introduction to the sport at a young age and follows his fishing adventures to the age of 63 (and still going strong) in both South Africa and Australia. Boasts of the longest fishing trips without washing, how to avoid the use of soap if you must wash, dealing with diarrhoea in the bush, enemas and poop-eating bush pigs, as well as numerous stories of hooks-in-the-body help to make up the humorous side of the book. Suggestions on how to stay alive while rock fishing and how to land big fish conclude the book. So sit back in a comfortable armchair, beer in hand, and allow In Search of Big Fish to take you away to the roar and salty spray of the sea, the bite of a big fish, the fight that follows, and the joy of landing the prey...or the horror of losing it.

In the land of apartment condos, container gardening is a booming pasttime. This book will guide you from seed to harvest with sections on flowers, garden planning, design and pest control.

The story of the MTT''s Adelaide to Glenelg tram line has never been told before in such detail. It is the largest and most extensively researched work ever produced on the subject.''City & Glenelg'' begins with the story of the railway operations that served Glenelg which eventually proved inadequate and outdated as reliable transport to serve this outstanding residential suburb and holiday destination. The result was conversion in 1929 to Australia''s most-up-to-date electric tram service. Never before has so much research eventuated in such detail of the concept, construction and operation of this successful electric tram service, operated for 46 years by the Municipal Tramway Trust.Beyond the MTT era the story concludes by showing with great pride the rejuvenation and operation of the tram service today.As South Australian an institution as pie-floaters and Balfour''s frog cakes, the Bay Line as it is commonly known, has survived several near-death experiences over the past eighty-five years and now enjoys the status of a tourism icon as well as a highly effective Adelaide transport asset.Written by Brian Andrews in conjunction with Trevor Triplow, ''City & Glenelg'' is a quality 290 page large format hard cover book comu00adplete with dust jacket and printed on quality art paper. It has more than 250 images with a special emphasis on its human side, the employees who operated and maintained it and the people who rode it. There are excellent maps, electrical distribution diagrams, press cuttings from across time and nostalgic advertisements. Most of the photou00adgraphs have never been seen before culminating in an excellent production which vividly brings to life a significant era in Adelaide''s transportation history.

"This is a manual on the commercial production of ornamental fish. It is based predominantly on the author''s 30 years of experience, mostly on his own farms. Contents include: the fundamentals of production; operating styles; strategies and facilities; commercial breeding and rearing methods for over 130 species/varieties from 14 major families/groups of fish; diets; miscellaneous fish farming techniques; health management; water chemistry; marketing; site selection and a glossary of terms."--Back cover.

Microscopic properties of materials are nearly impossible to probe directly by experimental means in environments where sample integrity is required. The problem is prevalent in a medical setting, where not only the integrity of the sample, but the health of the patient could be in jeopardy. With continually increasing computing power, computational approaches can be utilized and applied in clinical settings to both improve tests and minimize the need for invasive techniques to predict results. This thesis will explore the current landscape and problems associated with ophthalmology and refractive surgery and how these problems could explain the decrease in the number of annual refractive surgeries performed. A computational solution is compared to other in vivo methods and new surgical procedures which are all designed with the goal of minimizing postoperative complications. Recommendations for using the computational tool to both improve outcomes and attract new patients for refractive surgery are discussed.

From the first metallic click of an operating microscope to the ultimate closing of a titanium clip over the neck of an aneurysm, Dr. Jack Phillips'' life of medicine suddenly includes murder when a distinguished Chinese patient dies not only by the surgeon''s scalpel, but a bullet. But there are secrets here. Ambitions thwarted. Love betrayed. One phone call horribly shifts the tenuous balance between devotion to medicine & commitment to family. In one explosive instant, Phillips experiences the frightening helplessness that his patients know when disease threatens their lives. For the first time in HIS life, Jack Phillips is vulnerable. From the operating room to the secret tunnels of San Francisco''s Chinatown, this story tracks the demonic mission of a young assassin in pursuit of vengeance. As opponents wearing many masks crisscross the Golden Gate Bridge, Phillips'' ordeal unfolds into an unexpected tale of human frailty. Brian Andrews'' story is an insider''s account of the terrors & triumphs, compulsive work, & heartless competition in the world of medicine. The skill required to surgically enter the human brain comes shockingly close to the rage locked in the human mind. KNIFE UNDER FIRE is, finally, the story of love gone berserk.

When prominent CEOs of Fortune 500 companies begin dying in a series of freak accidents, The Think Tank is tasked to investigate. Junior analyst Sloane Keller soon connects the CEOs to Chinese venture capitalist Michael Sun-a brilliant businessman with a shadowy past. With each new discovery, Sloane becomes convinced that the deaths are by design and all part of an international conspiracy. But to what end, she does not know...The investigation soon takes a turn for the worse, when Sloane discovers that her father''s company has had business dealings with Sun. Afraid that her CEO father may be next on the hit list, Sloane and the Think Tank must unravel a hidden agenda that stretches from Washington to Beijing and unmask the world''s most devious assassin before it''s too late in THE INFILTRATION GAME.

The prevalence of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDPs) in the eukaryotic genome, associated with both physiological function and diseases, provides motivation to effectively characterize these systems. Experimental methods can be limited in their ability to characterize IDPs. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations can provide details of these systems with atomistic detail. However, the performance of MD simulations is always based on approximations and assumptions of some extent. The reliability of MD simulation results largely depends on the correctness and precision of these assumptions. There are known issues in MD regarding the simulation of IDPs and many of the force fields commonly used for MD simulations are not typically validated for many small, unfolded peptides or IDPs. To this end, Chapter 3 assesses multiple state-of-the-art MD force fields in their capacity to produce the intrinsic backbone dynamics, as characterized by Ramachandran distributions, of 14 of the 20 amino acids as the central amino acid resiude of GxG tripeptides with respect to a comprehensive set of experimental data. An additional study was performed for a select tetra- and pentapeptide, GRRG and GRRRG. Generally, MD force fields do not reproduce amino acid-specific conformational properties or nearest neighbor interactions. A model Ramachandran distribution, constructed using a linear combination of Gaussian subdistributions, were shown to produce experimental results better than MD by at least an order of magnitude. Errors of the dynamics of amino acid residues in short peptides likely proliferates in larger IDPs, effectively limiting the effectiveness of MD for studying disease-related IDPs. Chapter 4 extends the assessment of Chapter 3 to protein-protein interactions. First, the effect of mixed solvent of ethanol and water on GAG peptide aggregates, which surpringly form gels in experiments, is investigated. Then, the ability for MD force fields to capture the solubility of a short, natively folded protein is assessed. Finally, based on the analyses throughout the thesis, the potential physiological function of an IDP associated with Alzheimer''s Disease is explored via protein-soluble lipid interactions.