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Band 2 der US-Bestseller-Serie The Shepherds. Der ehemalige Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson beginnt in Nashville seine Ausbildung bei den Elitekämpfern der Shepherds. Schon als er in der hochmodernen Einrichtung ankommt, hat Jed Visionen von einem drohenden Angriff. Und er hört Gerüchte über Nicholas Woland. Ein Name, der in der Organisation Angst und Wut auslöst. Woland hat die Shepherds und alles, wofür sie stehen, verraten. Nach Jahren im Gefängnis ist Woland begierig darauf, wieder Chaos und Tod zu verbreiten. Er will nicht weniger als einen weltweiten Religionskrieg auslösen ... Die neue Serie des brillanten Autorenteams über die Shepherds, eine Kampftruppe, die seit Jahrhunderten existiert. Vollgepackt mit Action und übernatürlichen Elementen. Als hätte Stephen King Militär-Thriller geschrieben. MARK GREANEY: »Niemand in diesem Genre schreibt härtere und authentischere Action als diese beiden Autoren.« DON BENTLEY: »Eine ebenso fesselnde wie einfallsreiche Geschichte über spirituelle und reale Kriege.« Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson haben als Autorenduo bereits mehrere Action-Bestsellerserien verfasst: TIER ONE, SONS OF VALOR und THE SHEPHERDS. Brian Andrews ist Veteran der U.S. Navy und ehemaliger U-Boot-Offizier mit einem Abschluss in Psychologie und einem Master in Business.

An evil force is at work at the Hospital where Nathan is recovering from injuries he received at the hands of his Mom’s abusive ex-boyfriend. Demonic looking men with pale faces and glowing eyes lurk in the shadows. Someone is harvesting skin and organs from living donors against their will. In his dreams, Nathan can see these demons in their true form -- evil creatures who feed on the fear and hatred they create in their victims. Nathan’s only ally is the Doctor who cares for him. Bound together by their common legacy, they alone seem to share the ability to see the demons for what they truly are. Together they must find a way to stop these creatures before they, and their loved ones, become the next victims.

High school science teacher Jack has terrifying dreams in which he is Sergeant Casey Stillman, in combat on the streets of Fallujah, Iraq. Jack gradually realizes he knows too much about actual soldiers who died in Fallujah--is he losing his mind?

"This is one damn unique blend of fantasy, horror and military fiction." - Benjamin Kane Ethridge, Author of the Bram Stoker Award winning Novel Black and Orange "It''s a story that reminds me of old-school King and Koontz, you know, that classic supernatural thriller style that is character driven" - Ash Arceneaux, Lead Reviewer, Swamp Dweller Dark Fiction Book Reviews "There are no other stories like this out there-this is totally an original idea. It is both creative and explosive." - WH McDonald Jr., lead reviewer, author, and founder of the Military Writers Society of America A man who has spent his life defending his country discovers that fate has presented him with an even higher calling. Ben Morvant is not what you would call ordinary and as a Navy SEAL, he never expected an ordinary life. But when a routine mission to protect a local village in a war-torn region of Africa goes terribly wrong, Ben is presented with truths beyond what his military training and experience have prepared him to accept. With his dying breath, a village elder passes to Ben a gift a simple ring, unremarkable except for its ever changing color and the feeling of power emanating from within. Soon after accepting the ring dark visions begin to haunt Ben s dreams. Images of pain and death, of evil and destruction. But some of the visions are hauntingly familiar. Soon Ben must return to his childhood home in Louisiana to face a dark secret from his past, one that may explain why he has the power to heal with a touch of the hand . . . or kill with a single thought. After discovering the truth about his family and himself, he comes to realize that he is a soldier in a greater battle than he could ever have imagined. And if he cannot find a way to wield the power concealed within him, the forces that prey on mankind s anger and fear will destroy not only him, but everything he holds dear.

In this fourth installment of the Shepherds Series, good and evil collide in a battle that has raged for thousands of years, and Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson and his team are at the tip of the spear--fighting for humanity''s future and the ones they love. Victor is dead. But out of the chaos, a new dark power rises ... Only weeks ago, former Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson, head of Joshua Bravo team at the Shepherds, helped to defeat Victor, the leader of the devil''s Dark Ones. Now, his boss, Ben Morvant, has tasked him with an even harder mission: take a vacation. But before Jed has even managed to hit the beach in the Dominican Republic, he comes face-to-face with a new evil: Orphans are being abducted right off the streets of Santo Domingo. Are these disappearances just an unfortunate crime in an unfamiliar country, or do they hint at something bigger--a new threat emerging out of the power vacuum Victor left behind? When Jed needs help after a violent encounter, he finds himself with an unexpected new ally: CIA liaison Gayle James. Together, the two of them must follow the trail of the missing orphans before it runs cold. Soon, they find themselves immersed in a dangerous world of murder, betrayal, and voodoo. Jed will need Gayle, the Watchers Sarah Beth and Corbin, his old friend Ben Morvant, and the entire team of Shepherds at his side to expose the new threat--and to prevent a new dark power from rising ...

An international incident may fracture the Ryan family in the latest entry in this #1 New York Times bestselling series. Even in a family of strong individualists like the Ryans, Kyle has stood out as a lone wolf. For years he''s gone his own way, joining the DIA rather than the CIA, and disagreeing with his father''s politics. Now he''s missing in an African country on the brink of a coup. His last message to his handlers, "We''re on the wrong side of history." His father, the President of the United States, is about to discover which is more important to him: the interests of his country or the life of his son?

John Dempsey is back in the next installment in the Tier One series by #1 internationally bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson. The world is chaotic and unpredictable with Russia on the verge of collapse or civil war. The geopolitical order is uncertain and nation states and non-state power brokers are scrambling to fill the power vacuum left by Russia''s military and clandestine retreat from the European theater, the Middle East, and Africa. John Dempsey is home in Florida with his Ember teammates recovering from his mission and incarceration in Russia. On the outside, he''s back; he''s fine, he''s the same old Dempsey ... but on the inside, he''s changed. As India-Pakistani relations take a turn for the worse, word comes of attempts to stoke fresh conflict in the Kashmir region. Ember is dispatched to Islamabad to investigate, where Dempsey is unexpectedly reunited with someone he believed to be dead ...

Four Minutes is the latest brilliant techno-thriller from the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling duo behind the Sons of Valor series. It is said that no plan survives first contact with the enemy, but what if you remove the one thing no one can control: uncertainty about the future? Special Operations Chief Tyler Brooks might not know quantum mechanics, or have an eidetic memory, but he is the very best in the world at one thing: leading covert ops. When an unpredictable enemy causes the catastrophic loss of his entire SEAL team, Brooks is recruited by Pat Moody to lead a new elite squad, Task Force Omega. Moody''s promise--access to mind-bending tech that grants a glimpse of the future. Together with Navy Intelligence Specialist Zee Williams, Brooks leads a new kind of counterterrorism task force, one that collects intel from the future to stop attacks in the present. But there''s a catch. Each mission can only last FOUR MINUTES. Stakes quickly escalate when Omega discovers an unprecedented future attack against America threatening the lives of millions--including Tyler''s daughter. Despite their prescient advantage, Brooks and Williams find themselves thwarted at every turn as they try to stop the plot. To make matters worse, they have somehow gone from hunter to hunted, targeted by an unknown enemy hidden in the shadows. With the country on the brink of nuclear war, Tyler''s daughter in mortal danger, and a commanding officer they''re not sure they can trust, Omega Team faces a terrible dilemma: Even if you know the future, is FOUR MINUTES enough time to change it?

From New York Times bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson, The Adversary is the next heart-stopping installment in the Tier One series. For John Dempsey, it''s a time of uncertainty. As a new administration tries to piece together who was behind the assassination of an American president, task force Ember is a team without a target. Newly Minted POTUS, Kelso Jarvis, is haunted by strange dreams of a house on fire, and Dempsey''s son Jake--who has begun his own journey as a SEAL--can''t escape the ghost of the father he believes to be dead. But when a routine intelligence gathering mission in Taiwan goes horribly wrong and one of Ember''s own is captured, Dempsey''s frustration only grows. As Ember races to rescue their teammate before it''s too late, three of America''s strongest warriors--Dempsey, Jarvis, and Jake--must ask themselves if tomorrow''s adversary resides across the Taiwan Strait, or within themselves.

Based on personal experiences by the Wall Street Journal and Amazon #1 bestselling military thriller author Jeffrey Wilson, War Torn is an inspirational novel that details a young man''s crisis of faith after a tour of combat duty in Afghanistan turns tragic.Jake is a solid American, a young husband, a good friend, and a patriotic member of the National Guard. While his family and Christian values define who he is, he has never fully understood the passion for faith that his wife, Rachel, and his best friend and fellow soldier, Cal, seem to share. But when Jake and Cal are deployed with their unit to Afghanistan, Jake depends heavily on the quiet but powerful faith of his best friend and embraces, finally, a relationship with God. Despite the horrors he experiences in war and the pain of his separation from Rachel, Jake has found his way for the first time

Lost at sea, can he save all he loves from the ghostly stowaways trapped aboard with him? Julian wants more than anything to be like every other kid-skateboard, hang out with friends, have sleepovers, and tease his little brother and sister. But Julian has a special gift, one which, to him, feels more of a curse. In his dreams, he is visited by spirits who tell him things-sometimes very important things. He has called these "tell-you" dreams since he was little, and he knows now to keep them secret, ever since one such dream came true when the little Mendes girl down the street was murdered in her basement. But now, Julian will need the ghosts from his dreams more than ever. Voices have given him the winning lottery numbers and he and his family are setting out on a family sailing vacation on their new sailboat, Julian''s Numbers. The dreams are warning him of an evil that will capture his mother and put his entire family-and maybe much more-at risk. He will need to listen to his ghosts if he is to have any chance of stopping the growing evil aboard their yacht and save his family from certain death... THE SHINING meets DEAD CALM in this supernatural horror ghost thriller from the mind of Jeff Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of the TIER ONE and THE SHEPHERDS Series and now Tom Clancy''s JACK RYAN Series.

An activist entrepreneur, a maligned AI, and a newly minted homicide detective with a haunted past catastrophically intersect in The Sandbox. Silence of the Lambs meets Ex Machina in this groundbreaking techno-thriller that redefines the meaning of murder in the twenty-first century. When the CEO of the world''s leading artificial intelligence company is found murdered in his home, former Army CID officer Valerie Marks is thrust into her first case as a homicide detective. Valerie has a gift for reading people, a gift that has never failed her before. But that gift is put to the test when her instincts point her to an impossible suspect--an AI born from a secret venture with the Pentagon known as Project Nomad. To learn the truth, Valerie must team up with two men she doesn''t trust--a Green Beret turned government spook from the Pentagon, and the victim''s former partner and leading suspect in the case. But nothing can prepare the trio for the dangers that await them and the existential threat to humanity if the Project Nomad AI has somehow escaped its sandbox.

After a surprise assault on Task Force Ember''s secret compound in Virginia by Russian covert operators, John Dempsey and his teammates are mourning their dead and trying to put the pieces back together. But in the ever-evolving world of shadow warfare, there is no respite for heroes or victims. Russian spymaster Arkady Zhukov, the mind behind the attack on Ember, has a new and devastating agenda-directing false flag missions to destabilize Ukraine and enable Russia to seize control of the Black Sea.Dempsey and his Ember teammates are tasked to systematically eliminate each and every Zeta agent around the globe. But when American and Russian covert operations collide in Kiev, the "new Cold War" goes from a simmer to a boil. Escalation ensues, bringing America and her allies to the brink of world war. Unless Dempsey and Task Force Ember can derail Russia''s secret plans, the collateral damage could bring the world to its knees.

We study the effects of urban environment on childhood obesity by concentrating on the effects of walking trails and crime close to children''s homes on their BMI and obesity status. We use a unique dataset, which combines information on recreational trails in Indianapolis with data on violent crimes and anthropomorphic and diagnostic data from children''s clinic visits between 1996 and 2005. We find that having a trail near a home reduces children''s weight. However, the effect depends on the amount of nearby violent crimes. Significant reductions occur only in low crime areas and trails could have opposite effects on weight in high crime areas. These effects are primarily among boys, older children, and children who live in higher income neighborhoods. Evaluated at the mean length of trails this effect for older children in no crime areas would be a reduction of two pounds of the body weight. Falsification tests using planned trails instead of existing trails, show that trails are more likely to be located in areas with heavier children, suggesting that our results on effects of trails represent a lower bound.

Trouble and hardship comes in all shapes and sizes. For some of us it is an inconvenience while for others it is devastating. No one likes to experience adversity in life. Unfortunately we all have to. We do not get to choose whether or not it happens. There is something we can do, however, while in the middle of it. Learning to go through life''s hardships gives us the strength to help others and to learn how to thrive in the next trial. In Evading Trouble the author shares steps which we can take to help us survive life''s hardships In fact, these things will help us to come out on the other side shining.

Introduction: University students living in residence consume alcohol in a harmful way. Often this behaviour starts immediately. Little is known about the expectations of students moving into residence. Methods: Exploratory mixed methods. All data was collected using an anonymous online questionnaire. Quantitative data was analyzed using a Kendall''s-tau calculation of correlation. Qualitative data was analyzed using qualitative description. Results: All quantitative variables were found to be correlated. Student''s expectations are based on what they know about the past experiences of others as well as their own history with alcohol consumption. Predominantly students are choosing to drink in residence to feel connected to others and cope with the demands of student life. Discussion: Students have a complex relationship with alcohol. Health promotion is uniquely positioned to address this phenomenon. Conclusion: Higher education institutions like Dalhousie University should use the principles of Health Promotion as a guide to create meaningful change.