New Releases by Jeffrey Wilson

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.

In this fourth installment of the Shepherds Series, good and evil collide in a battle that has raged for thousands of years, and Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson and his team are at the tip of the spear--fighting for humanity's future and the ones they love. Victor is dead. But out of the chaos, a new dark power rises ... Only weeks ago, former Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson, head of Joshua Bravo team at the Shepherds, helped to defeat Victor, the leader of the devil's Dark Ones. Now, his boss, Ben Morvant, has tasked him with an even harder mission: take a vacation. But before Jed has even managed to hit the beach in the Dominican Republic, he comes face-to-face with a new evil: Orphans are being abducted right off the streets of Santo Domingo. Are these disappearances just an unfortunate crime in an unfamiliar country, or do they hint at something bigger--a new threat emerging out of the power vacuum Victor left behind? When Jed needs help after a violent encounter, he finds himself with an unexpected new ally: CIA liaison Gayle James. Together, the two of them must follow the trail of the missing orphans before it runs cold. Soon, they find themselves immersed in a dangerous world of murder, betrayal, and voodoo. Jed will need Gayle, the Watchers Sarah Beth and Corbin, his old friend Ben Morvant, and the entire team of Shepherds at his side to expose the new threat--and to prevent a new dark power from rising ...

The stakes are sky-high when a power-mad Chinese president threatens Taiwan in the #1 New York Times bestselling Jack Ryan series. For decades, Taiwan has been a thorn in the side of the Chinese government. An independent nation to the rest of the world, it is considered a rogue province by the PRC. Previous governments have tried to conquer the island using economic force and diplomatic pressure, but new Chinese President Li Jian Jun is done fooling around. He’s devised a secret military operation to take the island. Only one man knows how to stop Li’s mad and bloody plan for reunification and that’s Minister of Defense Qin Haiyu. Fearing for his life and the safety of his family, Qin covertly makes contact with the CIA in Beijing and signals his desire to defect to the West. To get Qin out, John Clark creates an international task force reminiscent of Rainbow Six and goes undercover in mainland China. Meanwhile, Lt. Commander Katie Ryan is deployed to the tip of the spear on the destroyer USS Jason Dunham to defend Taiwan. Threatened by an encircling Chinese armada, she’s under pressure to find a flaw in the invaders’ plan for her father to exploit. For his part, President Jack Ryan may have the power of the entire US military at his disposal, but what he really needs are Li’s secret plans from Defense Minister Qin so he can stave off a war. Because America’s Defense Protocol could lead to a game of mutual destruction that could cost the lives of thousands of young soldiers, sailors, special operators as well as his daughter.

Lost at sea, can he save all he loves from the ghostly stowaways trapped aboard with him? Julian wants more than anything to be like every other kid-skateboard, hang out with friends, have sleepovers, and tease his little brother and sister. But Julian has a special gift, one which, to him, feels more of a curse. In his dreams, he is visited by spirits who tell him things-sometimes very important things. He has called these "tell-you" dreams since he was little, and he knows now to keep them secret, ever since one such dream came true when the little Mendes girl down the street was murdered in her basement. But now, Julian will need the ghosts from his dreams more than ever. Voices have given him the winning lottery numbers and he and his family are setting out on a family sailing vacation on their new sailboat, Julian's Numbers. The dreams are warning him of an evil that will capture his mother and put his entire family-and maybe much more-at risk. He will need to listen to his ghosts if he is to have any chance of stopping the growing evil aboard their yacht and save his family from certain death... THE SHINING meets DEAD CALM in this supernatural horror ghost thriller from the mind of Jeff Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of the TIER ONE and THE SHEPHERDS Series and now Tom Clancy's JACK RYAN Series.

John Dempsey is back in the next installment in the Tier One series by #1 internationally bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson. The world is chaotic and unpredictable with Russia on the verge of collapse or civil war. The geopolitical order is uncertain and nation states and non-state power brokers are scrambling to fill the power vacuum left by Russia's military and clandestine retreat from the European theater, the Middle East, and Africa. John Dempsey is home in Florida with his Ember teammates recovering from his mission and incarceration in Russia. On the outside, he's back; he's fine, he's the same old Dempsey ... but on the inside, he's changed. As India-Pakistani relations take a turn for the worse, word comes of attempts to stoke fresh conflict in the Kashmir region. Ember is dispatched to Islamabad to investigate, where Dempsey is unexpectedly reunited with someone he believed to be dead ...

It's strike--and counterstrike--as John Dempsey takes the fight to the Russians in a riveting Tier One thriller by #1 internationally bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson. When shadow warrior and former Tier One Navy SEAL John Dempsey goes undercover to meet with a Vory arms dealer, he thinks he's laying the groundwork to penetrate the Russian criminal underground. Instead, he walks into a trap orchestrated by Zeta, the secret Russian task force behind a recent assassination attempt on the US President. For Dempsey and his team, the only way out is to lay waste to the Russians, putting a target on Ember's back. With Ember pitted against Zeta, a deadly back and forth ensues--sanctioned in the halls of the Kremlin and the White House but disavowed to the world. As the lines between espionage, counterterrorism, and spec ops blur, Ember is ordered to eliminate their ultimate adversary--which means taking the fight to Russian soil. But like a phoenix risen from the Cold War ashes, Zeta is more capable than anyone imagines, and the Russians retaliate with an operation that will find Dempsey and task force Ember battling for their very survival ...

An explosive, high-stakes thriller of espionage and counterterrorism by the #1 internationally bestselling authors of Tier One A shocking attack in Ankara leaves the US Ambassador to Turkey dead and his chief of staff, Amanda Allen, in the hands of brutal terrorists. But Allen is no ordinary diplomat. She's undercover CIA. The DNI and the President turn to Ember--America's premier black-ops task force--and its deadliest weapon, former Tier One Navy SEAL John Dempsey. To find Allen, Ember gets dropped into the most dangerous battlefield on Earth: Syria. But when all communications are disabled by an attack in Turkey, Dempsey finds himself with no backup--a lone warrior racing against time to rescue Allen before she reaches her breaking point. But what Dempsey doesn't realize is that Allen is just a pawn in a much larger game--and a new player has already been unleashed: a legendary mercenary who matches the American Operator in skill, tactical prowess, and killer instinct. Now there is far more at stake than a kidnapped CIA agent. Dempsey and his team better get this one right, because the balance of power for the entire Middle East hangs in the balance. And this new threat is far more dangerous than any Dempsey has encountered. Game on.

From the #1 internationally bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson, War Shadows is the thrilling follow up to Tier One. John Dempsey, former Navy SEAL and Tier One operator, is back. Only a few months into his new life as an operative for Ember--the United States' most covert counterterrorism entity--he must stop an old nemesis who's resurfaced after ten years of operating in the shadows. From the deserts of Iraq, through the jungles of Guatemala, to the streets of suburbia, Dempsey and his Ember team race against time to stop a series of horrific and devious attacks against the homeland. In this second installment of the Tier One series, John Dempsey faces his greatest challenge as he continues to evolve from a decorated Navy SEAL into the country's most lethal protector.

Will a soldier turned spy choose duty or revenge? In a world violated by terror, the old lines have blurred. Meet the next generation of covert ops. John Dempsey's life--as an elite Tier One Navy SEAL named Jack Kemper--is over. A devastating terrorist action catapults him from a world of moral certainty and decisive orders into the shadowy realm of espionage, where ambiguity is the only rule. His new mission: hunt down those responsible for the greatest tragedy in the history of the US Special Ops and bring them to justice. But how does a man torn between duty and revenge walk the line and preserve his soul? As Dempsey struggles with the games of spies, the case propels him across the globe in a desperate effort to prevent a new, horrifying attack on American soil. Once, John Dempsey followed orders blindly. Now he sees behind the curtain, and the security of the civilized world rests on one question: Can a Tier One Navy SEAL adapt and become the world's most lethal spy?

A graphic novel featuring uplifting stories of combatting—and beating—calls for their eviction in Detroit, showing how everyday people are fighting to stay in their homes, organizing with their communities, and winning. We Live Here! is a graphic novel biography of the members of the local activist group Detroit Eviction Defense combatting—and beating—calls for their eviction. By illustrating the stories of families struggling against evictions, the book gives a voice to those who have remained in Detroit, showing the larger complexities at work in a beleaguered city. These are everyday people fighting back, organizing with others, going into the streets, and winning their homes back. What will Detroit look like in the future? Today cheap property entices real estate speculators from around the world. Artists arrive from all over viewing the city as a creative playground. Billionaires are re-sculpting downtown as a spot for tourism. But beyond the conventional players in urban growth and development, Detroit Eviction Defense (DED) members—like others engaged in place-based struggles all over the country—are pushing back, saying in effect, “we live here, we’ve been here, there is no Detroit without us.”

Band 2 der US-Bestseller-Serie The Shepherds. Der ehemalige Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson beginnt in Nashville seine Ausbildung bei den Elitekämpfern der Shepherds. Schon als er in der hochmodernen Einrichtung ankommt, hat Jed Visionen von einem drohenden Angriff. Und er hört Gerüchte über Nicholas Woland. Ein Name, der in der Organisation Angst und Wut auslöst. Woland hat die Shepherds und alles, wofür sie stehen, verraten. Nach Jahren im Gefängnis ist Woland begierig darauf, wieder Chaos und Tod zu verbreiten. Er will nicht weniger als einen weltweiten Religionskrieg auslösen ... Die neue Serie des brillanten Autorenteams über die Shepherds, eine Kampftruppe, die seit Jahrhunderten existiert. Vollgepackt mit Action und übernatürlichen Elementen. Als hätte Stephen King Militär-Thriller geschrieben. MARK GREANEY: »Niemand in diesem Genre schreibt härtere und authentischere Action als diese beiden Autoren.« DON BENTLEY: »Eine ebenso fesselnde wie einfallsreiche Geschichte über spirituelle und reale Kriege.« Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson haben als Autorenduo bereits mehrere Action-Bestsellerserien verfasst: TIER ONE, SONS OF VALOR und THE SHEPHERDS. Brian Andrews ist Veteran der U.S. Navy und ehemaliger U-Boot-Offizier mit einem Abschluss in Psychologie und einem Master in Business.

Band 1 der US-Bestseller-Serie The Shepherds. Kurz vor seiner Pensionierung erhält Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson einen verzweifelten Anruf. Die Tochter seines Freundes David wurde gekidnappt. Außer der Leiche eines Priesters, die am Tatort zurückgelassen wurde, gibt es keine Spuren. Natürlich will Jed helfen. Doch schon kurz nach seiner Ankunft wird ein Mordanschlag auf ihn verübt. Und dann erwachen sie wieder: die Stimmen in seinem Kopf, die seltsamen Visionen, die Albträume. Er hatte geglaubt, all das hinter sich gelassen zu haben, als er mit 18 Jahren in die Navy floh. Jed erkennt, dass er die Fähigkeiten annehmen muss, die er all die Jahre lang verleugnet hat - es ist Zeit sich dem Kampf in dem geheimen Krieg anzuschließen, der um ihn herum tobt. Denn die Welt ist nicht der Ort, für den er sie immer hielt ... Die neue Serie des brillanten Autorenteams über die Shepherds, eine Kampftruppe, die seit Jahrhunderten existiert. Vollgepackt mit Action und übernatürlichen Elementen. Als hätte Stephen King einen Militär-Thriller geschrieben. MARK GREANEY: »Niemand in diesem Genre schreibt härtere und authentischere Action als diese beiden Autoren. Dieser Roman behandelt aber auch faszinierende Fragen der Spiritualität und des menschlichen Geistes, was ihn zu einem fesselnden Pageturner macht, der die Leser sowohl begeistern als auch bereichern wird.« DON BENTLEY: »Eine ebenso fesselnde wie einfallsreiche Geschichte über spirituelle und reale Kriege.« Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson haben als Autorenduo bereits mehrere Action-Bestsellerserien verfasst: TIER ONE, SONS OF VALOR und THE SHEPHERDS. Brian Andrews ist Veteran der U. S. Navy und ehemaliger U-Boot-Offizier mit einem Abschluss in Psychologie und einem Master in Business.

Band 2 der US-Bestseller-Serie mit John Dempsey. John Dempsey und sein Ember-Team müssen den islamischen Extremisten Al-Mahadscher aufspüren. Der Terrorist will dem Großen Satan (den Amerikanern) durch eine Serie von hinterhältigen Anschlägen zeigen, dass man in diesem Land nirgendwo mehr sicher ist. Von den Wüsten des Iraks über den Dschungel Guatemalas bis in die US-Vorstädte kämpft das Team gegen die Zeit. Doch für John geht es um mehr als die Rettung von Menschenleben: In einer der bedrohten Städte leben seine Frau und sein Sohn. Jon Land: »Ein unerbittlicher Ritt mit vielen mentalen und physischen Fallstricken. Eine unvergessliche Militärserie.« Don Bentley: »Dempsey trifft dich wie ein Vorschlaghammer!« Simon Gervais: »Die beste Militär-Thriller-Serie auf dem Markt.« Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson haben als Autorenduo bereits mehrere Action-Bestsellerserien verfasst: TIER ONE, SONS OF VALOR und THE SHEPHERDS. Brian Andrews ist Veteran der U.S. Navy und ehemaliger U-Boot-Offizier mit einem Abschluss in Psychologie und einem Master in Business.

From New York Times bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson, Sons of Valor III: War Machine sees Chunk and Whitney forced into a deadly match of wits with a terrorist mastermind and a horrifying weapon unlike anything they’ve ever encountered. After a shootout in Dubai left Hamza al-Saud dead and elevated brilliant aeronautical engineer Qasim Nadar to hero status in England, everyone assumes the terrorist threat from al Qadar has been eliminated. Everyone except JSOC counterterrorism analyst Whitney Watts. But when she decides to help MI6 penetrate Nadar’s secret network, Watts gets a little too close to the truth and finds herself in a deadly situation not even her teammates from Tier One can save her from. As Lieutenant Commander Keith “Chunk” Redman and the rest of Tier One fan out across London in search of Watts, Nadar prepares to unleash his most dangerous weapon yet—an advanced drone with artificial intelligence and stealth technology. To stop a horrifying attack on London, Chunk and his Navy SEAL brethren must seek help from an unexpected ally and find a way to stop a war machine that was designed to be unstoppable.

An activist entrepreneur, a maligned AI, and a newly minted homicide detective with a haunted past catastrophically intersect in The Sandbox. Silence of the Lambs meets Ex Machina in this groundbreaking techno-thriller that redefines the meaning of murder in the twenty-first century. When the CEO of the world's leading artificial intelligence company is found murdered in his home, former Army CID officer Valerie Marks is thrust into her first case as a homicide detective. Valerie has a gift for reading people, a gift that has never failed her before. But that gift is put to the test when her instincts point her to an impossible suspect--an AI born from a secret venture with the Pentagon known as Project Nomad. To learn the truth, Valerie must team up with two men she doesn't trust--a Green Beret turned government spook from the Pentagon, and the victim's former partner and leading suspect in the case. But nothing can prepare the trio for the dangers that await them and the existential threat to humanity if the Project Nomad AI has somehow escaped its sandbox.

This book aims to compile typical fundamental-to-advanced statistical methods to be used for health data sciences. Although the book promotes applications to health and health-related data, the models in the book can be used to analyze any kind of data. The data are analyzed with the commonly used statistical software of R/SAS (with online supplementary on SPSS/Stata). The data and computing programs will be available to facilitate readers’ learning experience. There has been considerable attention to making statistical methods and analytics available to health data science researchers and students. This book brings it all together to provide a concise point-of-reference for the most commonly used statistical methods from the fundamental level to the advanced level. We envisage this book will contribute to the rapid development in health data science. We provide straightforward explanations of the collected statistical theory and models, compilations of a variety of publicly available data, and illustrations of data analytics using commonly used statistical software of SAS/R. We will have the data and computer programs available for readers to replicate and implement the new methods. The primary readers would be applied data scientists and practitioners in any field of data science, applied statistical analysts and scientists in public health, academic researchers, and graduate students in statistics and biostatistics. The secondary readers would be R&D professionals/practitioners in industry and governmental agencies. This book can be used for both teaching and applied research.

The world is more volatile, unpredictable, and dangerous than ever before. To stop the architect of this chaos, Dempsey is given the most dangerous tasking of his career ... a mission only he can complete against an adversary he must face alone. After Task Force Ember's successful intervention in Ukraine, John Dempsey disappears without a trace--with no notice or explanation given to his teammates. Spotty intelligence eventually places him in Russia where he is rumored to have been captured by the Russian FSB and is now presumed dead. Mourning his loss, Ember is forced to pick up the pieces, restructure, and continue their mission of keeping America safe. As the president's "go-to" black ops asset, Ember is directed to find and finish off the Russian spymaster Arkady Zhukov and any last remnants of Zeta cell. Unbeknownst to his teammates, Dempsey is very much alive and on mission. At behest of Vice President Jarvis, he is deep undercover--in the heart of Russia's nexus of organized crime and politics. For his mission to succeed, he will have to team up with a man who has been his adversary--the one man in all the world he most wants dead. The risks are higher than ever, as Dempsey pursues a high-stakes plot of Russian regime change. And if he fails, the Kremlin's retribution will be swift and terrible and certain to drag the world into World War III.

This collection features the first three thrillers in The Shepherds series by Andrews & Wilson. Dark Intercept On the eve of his medical retirement, Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson receives a frantic call from his estranged childhood best friend David Yarnell, whose daughter has been kidnapped. Police have no suspects and no leads. Jed reluctantly agrees to help, but soon dark memories and strange abilities he thought he’d put behind him resurface. To save the missing girl, he must take a leap of faith and embrace gifts he’s denied for years. Dark Angel When former Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson begins training with the Shepherds, he hears whispers of a name raising fear and anger among them. After years in prison, Nicholas Woland, who betrayed the Shepherds and joined their enemies, has been freed to execute a sinister plot causing hundreds of deaths and inciting worldwide religious warfare. As Woland and the Shepherds race toward a collision, Jed must rely on his untested team, never realizing a secret servant of the enemy is growing closer to him. Dark Fall As a new Shepherds team leader, Jedidiah Johnson’s tracking rumors of an energy-based weapon able to incinerate a human target without warning. With help from the Watchers, Jed discovers the Dark Ones’ leader plans to use the weapon to wreak untold damage and destabilize the faith of millions. While Jed and his team race to find and disable the weapon, secret plans for another attack unfold . . . and this target is much closer to home.

From New York Times bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson They train to be the toughest, the smartest, the most covert operators in the world—they are the Tier One Navy SEALs, led by Lieutenant Commander Keith “Chunk” Redman. When a former teammate of Chunk’s is killed in a shocking ambush, rumors begin to fly that the Lion of Ramadi, the infamous Iraq War sniper who racked up dozens of American kills, has returned with a mission to target American SEALs. Chunk and his core team—Saw, a skilled and lethal sniper; Riker, who has an uncanny ability to escape death; and Whitney Watts, a former CIA analyst who sees patterns everyone else seems to miss—are mobilized to prosecute the threat. But this is no ordinary counterattack, because someone posts the details of the hit all over social media, taunting the American SEALs. Worse, the enemy seems prepared to counter all the Tier One’s moves, a dangerous new stage in the war on terror and a troubling sign that whoever is behind the attack is planning something bigger. Fearing they may have been duped into chasing the wrong target, Chunk and his team embark on a high-stakes cat-and-mouse mission where nothing—and no one—is what they expect. And when their enemy finds a way to strike at the heart of what’s nearest and dearest to them, it will test not only their bonds but also the personal sacrifices they’ve made to keep America safe.

"When a remote Peruvian village is reduced to ash in seconds, the Shepherds face a horrific question: Is this the work of a man-made weapon of unthinkable power, or is God raining down judgment from above, as some believe? As the recently installed leader of the Joshua Bravo team, Jedidiah Johnson shifts into covert operation mode to follow rumors of a new energy-based weapon able to incinerate a target -- even a human target -- with no warning. With the assistance of the CIA, Jed's team deploys to Hong Kong to extract the Chinese scientist who helped develop the weapon. What the Shepherds learn from Dr. Zhao confirms their worst fears: The weapon is real and has disappeared from the testing facility where it was held. With help from the Watchers, Jed discovers that Victor, the leader of the Dark Ones, has the weapon and intends to use it to wreak untold damage and destabilize the faith of millions. But as Jed and his team race the clock to find and disable the weapon, Victor begins to unfold secret plans for another attack . . ."--

"Former Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson returns to Nashville ready to begin his training with the elite warriors known as the Shepherds. He thinks he knows what to expect when he arrives on the sprawling, state-of-the-art facility but quickly realizes he'll have to find his place as the rookie leader of a new team. Then he starts having visions of an imminent attack overseas, and with the clock ticking, Jed and his team are dispatched to neutralize the threat. All the while, Jed hears whispers of another threat ... a name that raises unexplained fear and anger throughout the Shepherds organization. Once a military man, Nicholas Woland betrayed the Shepherds and all they stood for when he joined their enemies. After years in prison, Woland is eager to get back in action spreading chaos and death. And he has been freed for a purpose: a sinister plot that will result in hundreds of casualties and incite worldwide religious warfare for years to come. As Woland and the Shepherds race toward a collision, Jed must rely on his gifts, his training, and his untested team to make critical decisions on a global stage--never realizing that a secret servant of the enemy is growing closer and closer to him"--Page 4 of cover.

The secretary of state has been kidnapped by Islamic extremists and his only hope for survival is a reconstituted Presidential Agent team in this revival of W. E. B. Griffin's New York Times bestselling series. Secretary of State Frank Malone has been kidnapped from his Cairo hotel—his security detail wiped out. President Natalie Cohen is left with several unacceptable options. It's time to think outside the box, and that can only mean one thing: the revival of the Presidential Agent program. Cohen calls for Charley Castillo to come out of retirement to direct a new Presidential Agent, one Captain P. K. "Pick" McCoy, USMC. Charley may be too old to kick down doors and take names, but Killer McCoy is just the man to get the job done. Together, they will track the kidnapped secretary from Cairo to sub-Saharan Africa. The only problem is that one man can't hope to win against an army of terrorists...good thing there are two of them.

As geopolitical tensions have increased in recent years, international trading relationships have become more politicized. Coercive trade practices - including quotas, anti-dumping measures and/or phyto-sanitary barriers - have emerged as one of the more concerning expressions of this trend. These actions work to harm trade partners economically in effort to apply political pressure as part of a broader diplomatic dispute. This presents a serious threat to the integrity of the rules-based trading system. Currently, existing trade instruments are unable to adequately address this growing concern. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is slow to respond, in the absence of a functioning appellate body, and coercive trade practices can be difficult to identify and quantify, allowing for many cases to go unreported. It will be critical for governments to find alternative tools for dealing effectively with trade coercion. This report provides a menu of ten policy options for governments to consider.

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.

The 30th round of the Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) will soon take place amid immense global disruption and unprecedented domestic pressures accelerated by the spread of SARS-CoV-2 (also known as coronavirus or COVID-19). Our Indo-Pacific neighbourhood should be at the top of the agenda. It is hard to imagine a more urgent time for the Australia-United States alliance to provide strong and collaborative regional leadership — and to bolster the resilience of the Indo-Pacific across all of its dimensions: from health security and economic development to the balance of military power and strategic resilience. It is equally hard to imagine a more difficult environment for our alliance to concentrate its energies on regional policy. With the United States enduring a pandemic-fuelled health crisis, nationwide social unrest, escalating national debt and a general election in November, and with Australia still tentatively emerging from the first wave of the pandemic, both countries have pressing and politically-charged distractions at home. Nonetheless, our shared national interests in fostering a healthy, stable and resilient Indo-Pacific region cannot be postponed and must be wholeheartedly embraced at AUSMIN 2020. Three principles should guide this year’s deliberations. First, helping our Indo-Pacific neighbours to sustainably recover from the pandemic is the most urgent priority and is in all of our interests. With more than 600,000 cases of COVID-19 throughout the region — coupled with a rapidly deteriorating health, economic and developmental outlook that will see regional growth fall to near zero per cent while 24 million people remain in poverty — the scale of the crisis in our region vastly outstrips our current capacity to respond. This places a premium on the need to invest more alliance resources into human security challenges, both at present and preventatively, and to pursue innovative, high-quality solutions to developmental challenges, including through better industry partnerships. As our economic and security interests hinge on the health of stable, resilient and sovereign regional nations, supporting their post-pandemic recovery will assist our own. Second, strengthening the alliance’s contribution to deterring aggression and coercive statecraft in the Indo-Pacific must proceed in spite of the pandemic. In recent years, the strategic landscape has been rapidly deteriorating due to the United States’ declining capacity to uphold a favourable balance of power and China’s increasingly assertive use of coercive statecraft backed by its growing conventional military power. The pandemic is only exacerbating these trends. New economic burdens are limiting the capacity of regional nations to counterbalance Chinese power: putting downward pressure on defence budgets, placing the imperatives of domestic recovery ahead of geopolitical concerns and leaving some more vulnerable to Beijing’s strategic largesse than before. In the United States, the tumultuous health, economic and socio-political consequences of the pandemic are sharpening preferences for self-strengthening at home and will quicken the decline of resources for defence. Beijing, by contrast, is taking advantage of regional distractions to advance its expansive geopolitical agenda from Hong Kong and the Sino-Indian border to Northeast Asia, the South China Sea and the Pacific. This situation calls for the alliance to invest more heavily in supporting its regional partners through collective defence initiatives and to urgently prioritise the Indo-Pacific relative to outdated security concerns in the Middle East. Finally, signalling Australian and American policy preferences for how our respective Indo-Pacific strategies should evolve over the coming years is critical for domestic and regional audiences. This will entail a focus on differences as well as shared interests within the alliance. Although the United States and Australia have many common objectives in strengthening a stable, prosperous and rules-governed regional order, they have quietly diverged in recent years on multilateralism, global institutions, international trade, regional diplomacy and other issues. Differences over China policy are perhaps the most sensitive. Whereas Washington has adopted an increasingly strident public tone in casting China as an ideological threat, Canberra seeks a less politicised approach and has publicly supported engagement alongside a firming of China policy settings. These distinctions do not undermine our alliance solidarity. Indeed, as Australia’s internationalist outlook is more in keeping with regional preferences in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Canberra should lean into it during and after AUSMIN 2020 — using current points of difference with Washington as markers for how Australia would like to work with the United States in the future, and how it will continue to work with the region until then. With this forward-looking agenda in mind, the United States Studies Centre has assembled a list of ten policy recommendations for the upcoming AUSMIN meeting. Drawing on the expertise of our researchers, including from their published and ongoing research projects, these recommendations combine analytical judgements with new policy thinking in an effort to stimulate bilateral discussion around a mix of achievable and moon-shot initiatives. This collection does not purport to be a comprehensive agenda but aims to provide a useful contribution to the policy planning process around bolstering the resilience of our Indo-Pacific region at this critical juncture.

A mini book designed to assist new believers on the life of faith and encourage mature believers to continue to develop and live by faith.

You may think you know John Dempsey, but not like this! In SCARS, Tier One fans get a rare glimpse into Dempsey's past when he was Jack Kemper, a young Navy SEAL operating in Iraq. Discover the story of Dempsey's first encounter with Mahmood Bin Jabbar (the villain in WAR SHADOWS) and learn how Dempsey got his iconic serpentine scar. With SCARS, Andrews & Wilson are launching the first installment in a new series of novellas called TIER ONE ORIGINS. Each short features a different Tier One character during a pivotal event in their past before joining Task Force Ember. SCARS is a seventy-one-page novella, plus BONUS MATERIAL including the first chapter of COLLATERAL-Book 6 in the Tier One saga.

"Wer glaubt, schon alles über Chomsky zu wissen, sollte dieses Werk lesen." Ted Rall Deutsche Erstausgabe einer außergewöhnlichen Graphic Novel, die Chomskys politische Analysen in Beziehung setzt zu den Kämpfen um Menschenwürde und soziale Gerechtigkeit in den USA. Das Buch verbindet reale Geschichten und Personen aus diesen Kämpfen mit der Interpretation der Ereignisse durch Noam Chomsky, die er im Gespräch mit Jeffrey Wilson entwickelt. Auch wenn die Themen (Occupy Wallstreet, Studentenbewegung, Bürgerrechtsbewegung etc.) vielfältig sind: immer geht es in diesem Buch um Gerechtigkeit und den Widerstand gegen unberechtigte Übergriffe des Staates und anderer Institutionen in die Lebensbereiche der Bürger. Das Buch bietet anhand konkreter Beispiele einen wesentlichen Beitrag zum Verständnis von Chomskys politischer Theorie.