For Jon and Erin Bennett, the world seems to be spinning dangerously out of control. A new dictator is rising in Iraq. China is making threatening new moves toward Taiwan. North Korean forces appear ready to strike south. Israel is feverishly trying to complete the Third Temple. Oil prices are surging. And in the wake of an horrific war in the Middle East, President James MacPherson's second term is coming to an end. Now the battle to succeed him is heating up into one of the most fiercely contested presidential elections in American history, and the Bennetts realize the stakes could not be higher. Who will lead a bitterly divided country over the next four years? What can the U.S. do to shape the new world order? And just what role-- if any--does the U.S. play in the last days? As the presidential campaign narrows into a dead heat, the Secret Service learns of a catastrophic plot to assassinate one of the candidates--but which one, and can the terrorists be stopped in time?-- From publisher description.
In 1666 Beth Johnson, celebrated actress and spy, and her friends, John and Ralph work to rescue John's sister from the assassin who is trying to kill King Charles--but a great fire is about to consume London.
In 1665, London is being ravaged by the plague, and the King's Company has been sent to Oxford--but Beth Johnson, actress and spy, is summoned back to London to deal with another assassination plot against the King.
It is 1664 and young Beth Johnson is an actress and a spy in training--so when she uncovers a plot to kill King Charles II she must find a way to alert her spymaster and prevent the assassination to prove herself.
Nikolai Hoffner, a veteran detective with the Berlin police in the waning days of World War I, struggles to learn the truth when his investigation of the murders of four women is complicated by the discovery of the body of Socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, whose corpse bears similar markings as those found on the earlier victims.
Written for school-aged children, this adaptation allows children to perform and act out William Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar" and includes tips for performing reader's theater.
In Victorian London, Albert Garrick, an assassin-for-hire, and his apprentice, Riley, are transported to modern London, where Riley teams up with the FBI to stop Garrick from returning to his own time and changing the world forever.
The elite US sniper team of Shadow Squadron's latest mission is to protect Heshem Shadid, ex-terrorist who has turned politician and now is on the side of the US, and a target for his former terrorist friends.
