Federal Agent Under Fire

Federal Agent Under Fire
Author: Julie Anne Lindsey
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2018-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488033234

To catch a serial killer, an FBI agent gets dangerously close to a fierce and beautiful target in this suspenseful romantic thriller. For the past five years, FBI agent Blake Garrett has fixated on catching a serial-killer. The trail is starting to go cold—until the madman’s latest victim manages to escape with her life. Marissa Lane has the clues Blake needs to finally crack the case. But she is still the object of the killer’s obsession. Now Blake is torn between drawing his elusive prey out into the open—and his deep desire to protect the woman he can’t resist.

Agent Under Fire

Agent Under Fire
Author: Victor Avila
Publisher: Liberty Hill Publishing
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781632215307

"Former ICE Special Agent Victor Avila's story of survival and courage is a harrowing must read. His dedication to obtaining justice for his partner, Jaime Zapata, who was murdered just inches away while on assignment in Mexico, is honorable and a reflection of his character. The government coverup of what happened and their retaliation against him for telling the truth is unforgivable. You won't be able to put this book down." -Katie Pavlich, Townhall Editor, Fox News contributor and Best-selling author Agent Under Fire: A Murder and a Manifesto is a true story of unprecedented corruption, international intrigue, human trafficking, money laundering, drug-running, mass murders, and government evasion. Chalk full of page-turning stories and revelatory insights into Mexico's criminal underworld, this book moves beyond the everyday true crime memoir and delves into the larger question of what it means for a family man to put his life on the line every day to topple some of the cruelest criminal organizations known to mankind. The book also serves as a manifesto, exploring solutions to misguided immigration policies and offering a unique perspective on what it will take to control our southern border and protect vulnerable American families. Victor Avila is a retired Supervisory Special Agent with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). While on assignment in Mexico, Special Agent Avila suffered multiple gunshot wounds and survived a violent ambush by the Los Zetas drug cartel. Special Agent Jaime Zapata was killed. Mr. Avila has been recognized for Excellence in Law Enforcement by the ICE Hispanic Agents Association; and has received The Director's Award for Operation in Plain Sight in Mexico; Homeland Security Investigations Excellence in Public Service Award; The Valor Award by the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (FLEOA); and many other awards and honors. He is an advocate for border security, immigration reform, human trafficking awareness and the protection of our sovereignty - and has been featuredon FoxNews, i24News, Univision, OANN and various Radio and Podcast interviews.

Secret Agent Under Fire

Secret Agent Under Fire
Author: Geri Krotow
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2017-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488016380

In this romantic suspense, a government agent goes undercover as an arson expert and struggles to keep her identity a secret from the sexy fire chief. Abi Redland and Keith Paruso clash when they first meet on the scene of a suspicious fire. As an arson specialist contracted by the small town of Silver Valley’s police department, Abi needs to work closely with the smolderingly hot fire chief. But as an undercover agent for a top-secret government agency, she has to hide things from him. To her chagrin, she finds the charming firefighter is really getting under her skin. For Keith, finding the culprit who’s setting the fires and has blackened his reputation means career redemption. But as the attacks escalate and Abi becomes a target, danger turns up the heat on their romance . . . and on everyone they love.

Land Agent

Land Agent
Author: Lowri Ann Rees
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2018-06-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1474438881

This book brings together leading researchers of British and Irish rural history to consider the role of the land agent, or estate manager, in the modern period. Land agents were an influential and powerful cadre of men, who managed both the day-to-day running and the overall policy direction of landed estates. As such, they occupy a controversial place in academic historiography as well as popular memory in rural Britain and Ireland. Reviled in social history narratives and fictional accounts, the land agent was one of the most powerful tools in the armoury of the British and Irish landed classes and their territorial, political and social dominance. By unpacking the nature and processes of their power, 'The Land Agent' explores who these men were and what was the wider significance of their roles, thus uncovering a neglected history of British rural society.

Game Console Hacking

Game Console Hacking
Author: Joe Grand
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 593
Release: 2004-11-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0080532314

The worldwide video game console market surpassed $10 billion in 2003. Current sales of new consoles is consolidated around 3 major companies and their proprietary platforms: Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. In addition, there is an enormous installed "retro gaming" base of Ataria and Sega console enthusiasts. This book, written by a team led by Joe Grand, author of "Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty", provides hard-core gamers with they keys to the kingdom: specific instructions on how to crack into their console and make it do things it was never designed to do. By definition, video console game players like to have fun. Most of them are addicted to the adrenaline rush associated with "winning", and even more so when the "winning" involves beating the system by discovering the multitude of "cheats" built into most video games. Now, they can have the ultimate adrenaline rush---actually messing around with the soul of the machine and configuring it to behave exactly as the command. This book builds on the motto of "Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty" and will appeal to the community of hardware geeks who associate unscrewing the back of their video console with para-jumping into the perfect storm. Providing a reliable, field-tested guide to hacking all of the most popular video gaming consoles Written by some of the most knowledgeable and recognizable names in the hardware hacking community Game Console Hacking is the first book on the market to show game enthusiasts (self described hardware geeks) how to disassemble, reconfigure, customize and re-purpose their Atari, Sega, Nintendo, Playstation and Xbox systems

Fire as an Agent in Human Culture

Fire as an Agent in Human Culture
Author: Walter Hough
Publisher:
Total Pages: 836
Release: 1926
Genre: Science
ISBN:

This work undertakes the presentation of salient features of an encyclopedic subject in a more or less condensed fashion. The importance of the study of heating and illumination is thought to be its contribution to the history of culture as connected with the inventiveness displayed by man in the adaptation of the primary natural key force nearest to his needs in all the earlier stages of progress. The history also suggests the intellectual, esthetic, and religious reactions marking the several stages of culture gradually attained by man.

Bastard Culture!

Bastard Culture!
Author: Mirko Tobias Schäfer
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2011
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9089642560

The computer and particularly the Internet have been represented as enabling technologies, turning consumers into users and users into producers. The unfolding online cultural production by users has been framed enthusiastically as participatory culture. But while many studies of user activities and the use of the Internet tend to romanticize emerging media practices, this book steps beyond the usual framework and analyzes user participation in the context of accompanying popular and scholarly discourse, as well as the material aspects of design, and their relation to the practices of design and appropriation.