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As the Thallonian Empire crumbles into a sector of unrest and violence, Captain Picard seeks a leader to assume command of the Starship Excalibur and restore order to the once-powerful empire.

He''s the only teen that could break into Fort Knox, yet fail his math test. He''s man'' enough to take on a gang of thugs armed to teeth without breaking a sweat, yet shy enough that he''d trip over a raisin when he asks a girl to the prom. While SpyBoy is a dashing and deadly, if need be secret agent, Alex Fleming, his alter ego, has about as much street cred as your grandmother. SpyBoy, SpyGirl and spy wanna be Butch take on the roughest in the Rio Grande!''

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This is a pure fiction novel based on a very vivid and lucid dream that I experienced in early 2009. It was a dream (or perhaps nightmare vision) from my subconscious which envisaged a World War Four (IV) scenario in the first decade of the 22nd Century. In my dream I saw only three major powers. The Eastern Empire. The Western (Catholic Empire). And a third force called the Cartels grouped into a Northern and Southern faction. The entire planet Earth was the battleground. This Fourth World War started around AD 2030 after a thermonuclear and catastrophic Third World War from 2017 to 2023. All the 196 or so nations were wiped out and the world''s population reduced from close to 7.5 Billion to only 600 million. The Western Empire was formed by survivors falling back on their religious faith, which I dreamt was primarily Catholicism. The rest of the world was non-Christian including the loose amalgamation of warlords called the Northern and Southern Cartel. The Western Catholic Empire was ruled by a self-styled Vice Cardinal. His Clergy were in revolt during the first decade of the 22nd Century. However, he was a secular as well as an ecclesiastical leader and the Army and the Imperium still supported his government. The Clergy leaders, Bishops and Prelates, had their own vast private armies or Militias. Civil War was about to commence at a time when the seven Western Armies still loyal to the Vice Cardinal were losing the Fourth World War all around the globe from Europe to Asia to the Pacific. This work of fiction took 5 years to write and is approximately 557,900 words in length. It is just one vision of one person from one dream as to one possible scenario for a world at the brink of annihilation amongst countless other visions and possibilities of the future to come. It is not a heart-warming vision but a harrowing tale of terror, fanaticism, pathogenic psychological madness and brutal conspiratorial plots to achieve factional and individual supreme power at any cost, regardless of the ultimate consequences for mankind and the already devastated and irradiated environment in a world where technology has regressed almost to a standstill and which has been polluted by a Nuclear Winter has predicted by Professor Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University.

Dracula was in fact the historical Prince Vlad III of Rumania or Wallachia. Vlad III the Prince and the all powerful ruler of the large and very rich province of Wallachia which today is part of modern Rumania was the sworn enemy of the Ottoman Empire which in the 15th Century was threatening European and Christian civilisation by its invasion of the Balkans. It had already vanquished and conquered Constantinople in 1453 and was launching strong military attacks against King Boris of Serbia and King Mathias Corvinus of Hungary as well as the Princes to the south such as Vlad III. A battle was looming between approximately 30,000 troops of Vlad III which he had raised by calling on his Boyars (nobleman) to provide him with their retinues of men-at-arms, cavalry and artillery. Vlad was assembling a large and powerful force of infantry, cavalry hussars as well as artillery and bombards which was the precursor to the modern mortar. His enemy was Mehmed II the grand ruler of the Ottoman Empire. The date of this battle was to be the 17th June 1462 which was a Thursday and the attack would take place at Vlad IIIs initiative in the middle of the night of a full Moon. At this time the powers of Vlad were enhanced by his necromancy and black magic crafts of sorcery and special demonic arts.

This book addresses the problems raised by biblical scholarship concerning Jesus and his mission. Much of Jesus'' ministry remains a mystery; many of the things he said and did do not fit neatly into traditional Christian interpretation. He spoke of the coming of the kingdom of God but what become of this new age which was meant to be tangible and near? The King of God''s Kingdom in part is an attempt to uncover and understand Jesus and His vision. At the same time, Seccombe inspires confidence in the historical Jesus, overcoming much of the confusion that has been created in the last two hundred years. With conviction of the urgency of these issues for the Christian faith today, he presents a solution to the puzzle in the form of an account of Jesus'' ministry years.