Grade 5-10-Alex Rider is giving it up. Being a teenage secret agent is just too dangerous. He wants his old life back. As he lies in the hospital bed recovering from a gunshot wound, he contemplates the end of his career with MI6, the British secret service. But then he saves the life of Paul Drevin, son of multibillionaire Nikolei Drevin, and once again he is pulled into service. This time his mission involves eco-terrorists, rockets to space, maniacal killers, and a less-than-idyllic tropical island. Is it all in a day's work, or will this truly be Alex Rider's last mission? The action-filled plot develops quickly and keeps readers on the edge of their seats.
Forbidding peaks, resourceful commandos, beautiful spies, nonstop action, and neck-snapping plot twists make this the classic adventure thriller—the kind of page-turner that readers actually will find impossible to put down. A team of British Special Forces commandos parachutes into the high peaks of the Austrian Alps with the mission of stealing into an invulnerable alpine castle—accessible only by aerial gondola—the headquarters of Nazi intelligence. Supposedly sent in to rescue one of their own, their real mission turns out to be a lot more complicated—and the tension climbs as team members start to die off, one by one.
Protecting the earth from the scum of the universe. While investigating a series of top secret close encounters agents k and j uncover the deadly plot of an intergalactic terrorist bug who is on a mission to assassinate two embassadors from opposing galaxies currently residing in new york.
Mission Possible: Becoming a World-Class Organization While There's Still Time
In the ever growing trend of the downsizing of companies in the '90s, the biggest challenge for both the large corporations and the growing small and medium-size companies is: how can a manager concentrate on improving the existing organization while at the same time keeping a focus and creating an all-important future plan of that same organization? Blanchard offers a new model for improving your present organization while designing its replacement. Simultaneous hardcover release from McGraw-Hill. 2 cassettes.
