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In the year 2000, two countries have different experiences with their elections, and U.N. spy Mai Fisher is out to affect the outcome of one of them.But first she has to find out who has been killing major and minor government officials in Yugoslavia and stop them. As if that weren't enough, she has to convince a reluctant candidate to run against the Serbian strongman, Slobodan Milošević. After coming out of semi-retirement with reluctance, Alexei Bukharin joins his partner in what he hopes is their final mission. There are moments, though, where he remembers the most exciting aspects of...

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.

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.

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.

Where were you on 9/11? The plan was to look at real estate. Mai Fisher didn’t expect that to become a fight for her life. After a long and dangerous climb from the rubble of the collapsed Number Two World Trade Center, she discovers her partner—and husband—Alexei Bukharin is missing. His wedding ring, however, remains in their hotel room. Bad luck for a Ukrainian, and it leaves Mai questioning their entire partnership. When Mai learns who was behind the attacks on 9/11, she has a good idea where Alexei is headed and where she needs to go. First, though, this semi-retired spy has an ...

You can't serve two masters -- Or spymasters. Mai Fisher's mission is over. Alexei Bukharin is home, safe, even if his readjustment is sketchy. With the "war on terror" entering a new phase, Mai hopes to return to the Directorate and make a difference. However, the head of the Directorate, Nelson, still has the need for Mai's original undercover mission. So, it's back to the CIA as Chief of Staff Katherine Burke. The CIA wants to find Osama bin Laden. The Directorate wants to counter fake intelligence from the CIA designed to justify a war in Iraq. Mai discovers working for two spymasters, ...

"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 ...

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"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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

First came TERROR. Then came REVENGE. TREACHERY followed. They all led to RENDITION. _______________________ Mai Fisher was born to be a spy. And she’s been a good one. However, she had principles in a world where ethics often must be put aside. Over the years, she’s cast away every one of those principles but could justify her actions Now, she’s finding out that when dealing with unprincipled politicians, someone has to maintain the ideals and values of democracy. All that does is get her reassigned, from a black site in Romania to the blackest of all black sites: a detention ...

First came TERROR. Now comes REVENGE. It’s not easy being married to a legend, And Mai Fisher didn’t sign up for that. Mir Saradi's bravery and ferocity against the Taliban are unquestioned. His men follow him because he is a true warrior for Islam, more so than for the money he pays them. Better they don't know he's really a former Russian soldier and U.N. spy, Alexei Bukharin. To maintain her CIA cover in Afghanistan, Mai Fisher follows her orders, even if it takes her off Alexei’s trail. When she discovers a cover-up of a mass killing in Kabul, she has to deal with a government ...

Tá an Saol Aisteach. (Life is strange.) In 1979, Britain’s MI-5 tasks the Directorate to deal with an issue in Belfast, Northern Ireland. MI-5 believes a rogue group, patterning itself after a disbanded British Army unit, is continuing that unit’s work, namely murdering IRA members and their families. Mai wants this mission. One of the killers’ targets could be her cousin, Maigret Maitland McDiarmid, a new mother and Belfast’s Member of Parliament. Mai, still probationary after two long years, isn’t allowed to run ops on her own and has to wait for the availability of her partner...

"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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...