Captain Grant Stevens and his team wait in Germany for a flight home, having just returned from a completed mission in Austria. A call from Admiral John Torrinson, Chief of NIS, changes their plans. Grant and his men are asked to "go above and...
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Definition of a SEAL's Warning Order: What, Where, How, Who, When
Not one to stay within the boundaries of a warning order, Navy SEAL Captain Grant Stevens usually follows his gut instincts. This time will be no different as he attempts to...
American intelligence has intercepted radio messages between the notoriously rival Chinese and Russian governments. SR-71 recon images show Chinese troops massing along North Korea's border with South Korea. With a possible invasion imminent, South...
Автор: Meguid Ibrahim Abdel
Серия: Modern Arabic Literature
Язык: английский
Год: 2006
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This sweeping novel depicts the intertwined lives of an assortment of Egyptians-Muslims and Copts, northerners and southerners, men and women-as they begin to settle in Egypt's great second city, and explores how the Second World War, starting in...
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