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Since its inception in the 19th Century photography has been a trusted source capturing both truth and reality. It cannot lie. Our eyes may deceive us, but the camera cannot. In this volume whilst our classic authors are at the early edge of photography’s development, they use it in ways that are both innovative and atmospheric as very often the camera and the photographer become a central part in many fascinating stories.

"The choice is yours." U.N. spy Mai Fisher knows surveillance is dull, but her subject, John Thomas Carroll, has done things to confirm her suspicions he’s planning revenge against the government for its botched raid on a religious cult in Killeen, Texas. Yet, while work runs smoothly, she is concerned because her partner, Alexei Bukharin, who infiltrated a paramilitary compound, has been out of touch for months. Alexei is more than ready to leave Patriot City. He's done things he regrets, and he doesn’t usually indulge in remorse. To assure his survival, his focus shifts from the past ...

Finally, the true story behind the Eastern Bloc boycott of the Los Angeles 1984 Olympics is revealed. Brace yourself for an inspection of the top secret Khimki Sports Preparation Facility in the Novogorsk district, near Moscow. Just another normal day of injections, feats of sporting excellence, and a Scottish super-spy. There's a fine line between infection and zombism.

Every story needs a beginning. PROLOGUES is a compendium of the four reader magnets produced for each of the four books (TERROR, REVENGE, TREACHERY, and RENDITION) in the 9/11 series, Meeting the Enemy. Now, the reader magnets are available in a single eBook. In Prologue to TERROR, learn how Mai Fisher becomes suspicious from an offhand remark from a flight instructor while she's undergoing recurrent flight training and why that leads her to recruit an asset inside the Federal Aviation Administration. In Prologue to REVENGE, learn why Alexei Bukharin is so obsessed with finding Osama bin ...

Who watches the watchmen? Mai Fisher’s tenure as head of the United Nations Intelligence Directorate has gone smoother than she expected—until someone in her inner circle betrays The Directorate and tries to rig the U.S. presidential election to favor the conservative billionaire candidate. Mai knows if he wins, the top levels of the U.S. government will be headed by deconstructionist right-wingers and white supremacists, but first she has to deal with the traitor in The Directorate's midst. His fate? Extraordinary rendition and indefinite incarceration. But someone in The ...

This anthology gathers some of the finest indie horror and zombie authors together in one amazing collection of incredible tales from all across the United Kingdom. Fifteen amazing masters of the craft entertain listeners with 15 thrilling zombie stories set in the United Kingdom.

If you know about it, it’s not a true test. After trying substitute teaching in Baltimore high schools, Army Reserve Lt. Cybill Fleming starts to prefer being stationed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Out of the blue comes the proverbial offer that’s too good to refuse: a chance to be an operative instead of a mission planner. While still in training, Cybill scores a key piece of intelligence for the Directorate, the U.N.’s spy agency, and that brings her to the notice of the head of the Directorate, Mai Fisher. Fisher offers to be Cybill’s mentor, and Cybill knows she’d be stupid not to ...

"The end times are here." A chance encounter with a skinhead carjacker leads U.N. spies Mai Fisher and Alexei Bukharin to research America's extreme right wing, a bleak world of militias, paramilitary compounds, and racist religion. Then, the U.S. government requests The Directorate's assistance for a standoff with a religious cult in Killeen, Texas. There, Mai and Alexei not only make an enemy of the FBI's special agent in charge, but Mai also spots a young man among the protestors at the site, a man whose vacant expression reminds her too much of herself. After the FBI reject their plan ...

Where we talk about writing, spies, and writing about spies.

"Is it over?" Two years of spying all come down to this: Find John Thomas Carroll and prevent him from blowing up a federal building. An easy task for an intelligence organization with a global reach, right? Not when Carroll doesn't want to be found and has a network of right-wing extremists with powerful connections to cover his tracks. U.N. spy Mai Fisher has stretched her analytical abilities to the limit. She knows why, how, when, and who about the potential bombing, but once the FBI realizes she doesn't know where, Mai and Alexei Bukharin are on their own. Their search for Carroll is ...

So often, women are taught to put others first. We are conditioned to focus on the needs of others rather than prioritizing ourselves and we become good at it. Choosing others becomes so central to our way of being that we can build big, busy lives without ever stopping to wonder: what if I chose me? In her mid-forties, Jeanie Duncan was a card-carrying member of the put others first club. Wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend she was surrounded by people she loved and who loved her. From the outside, it was a perfect life.

The defining mission of Mai Fisher's career as a spy for the United Nations Intelligence Directorate occurred in the mid-1980s when she went undercover in the IRA, a mission she almost didn't survive. A bomb she made to destroy an illicit shipment of plastic explosive went off too soon. Nine IRA members died, most as they slept, a burden she carried the rest of her active career.

Brendan Mears has taught high school history in Georgia for 15 years and has found his calling in encouraging underprivileged kids to stay in school and getting them to enjoy learning. Their dream is to go to New York to see the Broadway production of Hamilton, and they work hard and long to raise the money. The only problem is, Mears can't go with them. If he does, he's in violation of an agreement he made years before to save his life.

"You do what you have to do." As disgraced IRA soldier Siobhan Dochartaigh, Mai Fisher’s brief contact with a man who piqued her interest at the FBI standoff at Killeen, Texas, wasn’t enough to convince her he’s the one planning revenge for the deaths of the People of the Eternal Light. She needs to encounter him again--and soon. Alexei Bukharin continues to look for the elusive paramilitary compound Patriot City and is stymied until a chance meeting gives him a lead…and something more, something The Directorate stopped him from doing years ago: hunting the Nazis who executed his ...

It was always meant to be this way. Love involves sacrifice, but that can often go too far. A secretive cabal recruits two boys for a mission that could cost their lives but change their country. A man is trapped in East Berlin when the Wall goes up, and he will do anything to return to his beloved family, even pretend he is loyal but always ready to betray. These lives intersect and prove love is both eternal and a powerful motivator. Love forgives almost anything. But love is also sometimes the perfect companion for death.

It’s an old game: spy versus spy. This was supposed to be a simple information exchange, but retired U.N. spy Mai Fisher finds herself in a cab with a man possibly hired by a Balkan warlord to kidnap her. Her escape leaves her wet, cold, and determined to find out who burned her. After almost 40 years as a spy for the U.N. Intelligence Directorate, Alexei Bukharin wants a calmer life with his wife, Mai Fisher, and to finish raising his college-student granddaughter Natalia. However, a Russian spy, affected by something in Alexei’s past, has other plans for them—and especially for ...

Burdizzo Book's Matty-Bob and Em invited some of their favourite indie authors to write stories inspired by their most beloved songs. The result is The Burdizzo Mix-Tape Vol.1, their most diverse anthology yet. These are tunes that resonate from the beach to the mountains, from rain dogs to spirits in the sky, from Old Ones to cold ones. Be it multi-dimensional romance across space and time, Cold War sexual paranoia, campfire cowboys, gypsy caravans, or demented disco balls, there is a song for everyone within these stories.

You're a newly minted spy on your first assignment. You've been trained. You've been tested. You know what you're doing, but what happens when the first time you set foot on a Moscow or Berlin or Beijing street and find you're surrounded by enemy operatives. There are rules. Ignore them, and you get what you deserve. Follow them, and maybe you get to retire at a ripe, old age. Every spy learns The Moscow Rules, but there were created in those old, Cold War days. Are they outdated? What do they really mean? Are they flexible enough? Do they even matter anymore in an espionage arena so ...

In this follow up to 2012’s Spy Flash, Mai Fisher has left the life of a covert operative behind and has moved into management. As the operational head of the United Nations Intelligence Directorate, she has to rely not only on her knowledge of tradecraft but also on her management skills, something she considers herself lacking. Here are four tales of how she manages her organization’s reactions to a diplomatic crisis fomented by the Russian security services, a personal tragedy affecting one of her key personel, a past mission that had left her with a sense of regret, and an unusual ...