The Devil's Alternative
is a novel by Frederick Forsyth first published in 1979. It was his fourth full-length fictional novel and marked a new direction in his work, setting the story several years in the future rather than in the recent past.
Mayday
"Truly horrific. . .delicious terror. . .MAYDAY is a novel for the true connoisseur of disaster novels."
-New York Times Book Review
Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes a jumbo
passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both
nature and man, three survivors must achieve the impossible. Land the
plane.
From the master storyteller Nelson DeMille and master pilot
Thomas Block comes MAYDAY - the classic bestseller that packs a
supersonic shock at every turn of the page...the most terrifyingly
realistic air disaster thriller ever.
The villain is a middle-class small businessman who decides to
assassinate the President of the United States. He spends his life
savings to carry out the theft of an army shipment of the two precursor
chemicals that form a deadly nerve agent.
The nerve agent VX was intended to be detonated in Downtown San
Diego, corresponding with the arrival of the President to attend a
Republican party conference taking place there.
The Nerve Agent was contained inside two alacran (a combustible
plastic) tanks, and plastic explosive was placed in between, so that
when the explosion occurred, the two binary gases would form VX.
The Deceiver is a novel by Frederick Forsyth who used the Cold war to tell a story about a retiring agent of the Foreign Office named Sam McCready. He is the head of Deception, Disinformation and Psychological Operations (DD and PsyOps) and is put to a hearing in which his future is to be decided. During this hearing four of his most valued and celebrated cases are recalled.
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Until the late 18th century and early 19th century, the toy-making business was primarily a cottage industry, consisting of local artisans crafting items for agents who sold the toys to merchants. Toys for children were primarily purchased from peddlers, stalls in a market, or in shops mixed in with other goods. By the late 18th century children's books, such as Cobwebs to Catch Flies (1783) and The Toy-Shop (1787), begin to show illustrations of London toyshops.
The Wonderful Toy Shop (1852) is a mid-19th century children's book illustrating what would be found in a 1850's toyshop. The book has hand-colored wood engravings of a man showing a group of children the toys in his shop. The toys include dolls, dollhouses, musical instruments, guns, rocking-horses, soldiers, bow and arrows, blocks, tools, kites, and wagons. It was published in the 1850s by Philip J. Cozans in New York.
This book was first published by Dean and Co., London, England in 1852 under the title of Wonders of a Toy Shop. Cozans just added a new illustrated cover page and title to the British book, plus changed the name of the toyshop from "London Toy Warehouse" to just "Toy Warehouse." The British title was also published by J.Q. Preble, New York.
The Deceiver
