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A stoner, an Instagram model, a Czech oligarch, and a missing unicorn. Nick Fox and Kate O''Hare have their work cut out for them in their weirdest, wildest adventure yet in this New York Times bestseller by Janet and Peter Evanovich. Straight arrow FBI Agent Kate O''Hare always plays by the rules. Charming Con Man Nicholas Fox makes them up as he goes along. She thinks he''s nothing but a scoundrel. He thinks she just needs to lighten up. They''re working together to tackle the out-of-bounds cases ordinary FBI agents can''t touch. And, their relationship? Well, there hasn''t been so much explosive chemistry since Nitro was introduced to Glycerin. Next on the docket: The mysterious disappearance of the Silicon Valley billionaire, known as the Big Kahuna. Kate''s been assigned to find him but no one seems particularly keen on helping. His twenty-six year old adult actress wife-turned Instagram model wife and his shady Czech business partner are more interested in gaining control of his company. For that they need a dead body not a living Kahuna. The only lead they have is the Kahuna''s drop-out son, who''s living the dream in Hawaii - if your dream is starting your day with the perfect wave and ending it with a big bowl of weed. To get close to the Kahuna''s son, Kate and Nick go undercover as a married couple in the big wave, bohemian, surfer community of Paia, Maui. Living a laid back, hippy-dippy lifestyle isn''t exactly in Kate''s wheelhouse, but the only thing more horrifying is setting up house with Nick Fox, even if he does look pretty gnarly on a longboard. If they don''t catch a break soon, waves aren''t the only thing she''s going to be shredding (or bedding).

Kate and Nick race against time to find a buried train filled with Nazi gold...And this time they''re bringing their fathers on the adventure. Forced into an unlikely partnership by the FBI, Special Agent Kate O''Hare and international conman Nick Fox have brought down some major criminals together, but nobody this big: A vast international organization known as The Brotherhood. Directly descended from the World War II Vatican Bank priests who served Hitler, they''re now searching for a lost train loaded with $30 billion in Nazi gold that has been hidden deep inside a labyrinthine maze of tunnels in the Tatra Mountains of Eastern Europe, untouched for over seventy-five years. The key to bringing down The Brotherhood and finding the fortune they''re hunting lies in the hands of one man - the man who taught Nick Fox everything he knows: His father, Quentin Fox. Quentin''s desperately trying to find the same train, and The Brotherhood will stop at nothing to get there first. Pursued by relentless assassins, Kate and Nick quickly learn that the only way to save Nick''s father is to join the hunt and put themselves between the bounty and The Brotherhood. Enter Jake O''Hare, Kate''s own father. In order to save Nick''s dad, she''ll need Jake''s help. The only problem: He gave Kate her grit and her stubbornness - which means they can never agree on anything. From a remote monastery in the Swiss Alps to a secret CIA safe house in London... From the rugged mountains on the Polish-Slovak border to the lawless desert of the Western Sahara... Against all odds, Kate, Nick, and the two men who made them who they are must solve the mystery, save their families, and stop the Brotherhood in the biggest and most deadly adventure of their lives.

To make a drug-testing program successful and to minimize the cost of the program, the minimum number of tests that must be given in a specified period to identify a fixed percentage of drug users must be determined. This memorandum presents a Markov model that can be used to determine the number of tests that should be given. In addition, three applications of the model, showing how it can be used to analyze the drug-user population, are presented.

This presentation outlines a method for examining cost tradeoffs between the number of end items placed at a particular site (force level) and the logistic support provided for the end items. Typically this type of analysis is done on the basis of supporting a specified level of end-item readiness. The method we present discusses the tradeoff in terms of end-item effectiveness in completing the missions for which they are intended. Material in this volume is a reproduction of briefing slides showing main points of discussion. Keywords: Force levels, Logistics Support, Operational readiness, Costs, Cannibalization, Life Cycle Costs, Combat Effectiveness.