5/19/2023 0 Comments Konkoly deep sleep![]() ![]() The story begins with Devin in the middle of a honey-trap operation. But when he learns of her death from his father and then receives her instructions, he vows to find the mystery behind the secret operation that might concern the country’s national security.ĭeep Sleep is the first book in Steven Konkoly’s Devin Gray series. ![]() Before dying, she leaves a message for her son…ĭevin was in the middle of a job when his mother was killed. But on her way to the secure location, she is ambushed and killed. She believed there was more at stake than it seemed to be but in the process of stopping a national catastrophe, she lost her fame, job and family. ![]() Helen was a former CIA officer who involved herself into a secret operation that finally led to her disgraceful fall from the bureau. Counter-surveillance expert Devin Gray is thrown headlong first into a new territory after the death of his mother Helen Gray. ![]()
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5/19/2023 0 Comments The house in the cerulean sea![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At the meeting, Linus is given top secret clearance to review an unusual orphanage run by Arthur Parnassus. Early in the novel, he is unexpectedly summoned to a personal meeting with Extremely Upper Management, elusive figures that are often whispered about but rarely seen. He is cautious in life and careful with his words, making him particularly well suited for the inflexible structure of DICOMY. Linus himself is a serious, solitary man with a preference for order and clarity. Linus’s job is to follow up on incident reports and make suggestions regarding the fate of the children and the homes. Some of these children have powers such as telekinesis, and some are from non-human species, many of which we would consider mythological. Linus Baker is a case worker for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth (DICOMY), a governmental agency that monitors the behavior and well-being of magical children living in orphanages and group homes. ![]() ![]() “Mother of All-” I start to say a blessing. In Esmeraldas, where the manzanilla grows so wild it takes over entire fields, its sweetness momentarily masks the acrid scent of homespun wool and rag dolls, abandoned in haste as the villagers run along the dirt paths to escape the flames.īut nothing covers the scent of burning flesh. The deceptively bitter flower with a yellow heart and white mane of pointed petals is prized for its healing properties not only in our kingdom, but in the lands across the Castinian Sea, ensuring a steady flow of gold and food into this tiny corner of the country. All common to Puerto Leones, but here, in the eastern provincia of the kingdom, the fire burns through something else: manzanilla. ![]() Vegetable gardens of ripening tomatoes, bushels of thyme and laurel. ![]() Bales of rolled hay amid a sea of golden grass. ![]() A FTER A WHILE, ALL BURNING VILLAGES SMELL THE SAME.įrom a hilltop, I watch as fire consumes the farming village of Esmeraldas. ![]() 5/18/2023 0 Comments Zero fail the rise and fall![]() ![]() ![]() But this reputation for courage and excellence would not last forever. Shocked into reform by its failure to protect the president on that fateful day in Dallas, this once-sleepy agency was radically transformed into an elite, highly trained unit that would redeem itself several times, most famously in 1981 by thwarting an assassination attempt against Ronald Reagan. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but its story begins in earnest in 1963, with the death of John F. ![]() But the Secret Service wasn’t always so troubled. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POSTĬarol Leonnig has been reporting on the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the secrets, scandals, and shortcomings that plague the agency today-from a toxic work culture to dangerously outdated equipment to the deep resentment within the ranks at key agency leaders, who put protecting the agency’s once-hallowed image before fixing its flaws. The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years, right up to the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6-by the Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of A Very Stable Genius and I Alone Can Fix It ![]() “This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work-the determinative work-in this field. ![]() ![]() Photo: Spencer Pazer /CBS ©2023 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. Crystal Morales and Jimmy Smits as Chief John Suarez. Pictured (L-R): Elizabeth Rodriguez as Det. Also, Morales contends with a situation at her son’s school, and Haywood is forced to confront her father’s past, on EAST NEW YORK, Sunday, April 16 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+*. All Rights Reserved “In the Bag” – The 7-4’s investigation into a violent home invasion leads them to question one of their own. Photo: Jace Downs/CBS ©2023 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. Pictured L to R: Steve Howey as Harry Tasker and Ginger Gonzaga as Helen Tasker. Harry and Helen’s relationship with each other, their team and reality itself, is tested in unimaginable ways, even for the best of spies and spouses. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Waking Dreams” – With an Omega Sector spy missing, the entire agency searches for clues. ![]() |