[PDF] The Case Of Capital Intrigue eBook

Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 23,15 MB
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1439116644

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Nancy’s going to the White House, where George is interning as a photographer’s assistant. On the day of her arrival, a photo session of a priceless solid-gold statue is under way. But something is wrong with this picture—Nancy gets knocked out cold and now the statue is missing.

Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 25,76 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art thefts
ISBN : 9780758758088

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A priceless gold hummingbird statue is stolen during a White House photo-shoot where George is working as a photographer's intern.

Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,53 MB
Release : 1998
Category :
ISBN : 9780613092241

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Nancy's going to the White House, where George is interning as a photographer's assistant. On the day of her arrival, a photo session of a priceless solid-gold statue is under way. But something is wrong with this picture -- Nancy gets knocked out cold and now the statue is missing.

Author : Allan Hepburn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,69 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300148488

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'Intrigue' examines the tradition of the spy narrative in the 20th century, setting the historical contexts for the main themes of the genre, such as the Cambridge spy ring & the Profumo Affair. Hepburn offers a systematic theory of the conventions & attractions of espionage fiction.

Author : Rachel Dylan
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1493428276

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CIA analyst Layla Karam is thrust into a dangerous DEA field operation against a cartel that puts a target on her back. Though Layla never wanted to be a field agent, Langley had other ideas. After one of her team members is murdered because of fallout from the op, Layla is left scrambling to find safety. At the same time, the CIA opens up an internal investigation against her. Out of options, Layla turns to ex-boyfriend and private investigator Hunter McCoy for help finding out who might want to ruin her career. Layla and Hunter soon discover a mole inside the DEA has sold out the team's identity to the cartel. She must clear her name with the Agency and protect herself and her teammates from cartel retaliation. With threats on all sides, Layla must put her trust in Hunter--the man who broke her heart--and hope they both come out of it alive. For those who are content sensitive: this book contains non-graphic scenes and descriptions of physical and sexual assault.

Author : Ryan Holiday
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0735217661

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An NPR Book Concierge Best Book of 2018! A stunning story about how power works in the modern age--the book the New York Times called "one helluva page-turner" and The Sunday Times of London celebrated as "riveting...an astonishing modern media conspiracy that is a fantastic read." Pick up the book everyone is talking about. In 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. Thiel's sexuality had been known to close friends and family, but he didn't consider himself a public figure, and believed the information was private. This post would be the casus belli for a meticulously plotted conspiracy that would end nearly a decade later with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker, its bankruptcy and with Nick Denton, Gawker's CEO and founder, out of a job. Only later would the world learn that Gawker's demise was not incidental--it had been masterminded by Thiel. For years, Thiel had searched endlessly for a solution to what he'd come to call the "Gawker Problem." When an unmarked envelope delivered an illegally recorded sex tape of Hogan with his best friend's wife, Gawker had seen the chance for millions of pageviews and to say the things that others were afraid to say. Thiel saw their publication of the tape as the opportunity he was looking for. He would come to pit Hogan against Gawker in a multi-year proxy war through the Florida legal system, while Gawker remained confidently convinced they would prevail as they had over so many other lawsuit--until it was too late. The verdict would stun the world and so would Peter's ultimate unmasking as the man who had set it all in motion. Why had he done this? How had no one discovered it? What would this mean--for the First Amendment? For privacy? For culture? In Holiday's masterful telling of this nearly unbelievable conspiracy, informed by interviews with all the key players, this case transcends the narrative of how one billionaire took down a media empire or the current state of the free press. It's a study in power, strategy, and one of the most wildly ambitious--and successful--secret plots in recent memory. Some will cheer Gawker's destruction and others will lament it, but after reading these pages--and seeing the access the author was given--no one will deny that there is something ruthless and brilliant about Peter Thiel's shocking attempt to shake up the world.

Author : David Gussak
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 0231162502

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Describing an outstanding example of the use of forensic art therapy in a criminal case, David Gussak, contracted by the defence to analyse the evidence in this instance, recounts his findings and presentation in court, as well as the future implications of his work for criminal proceedings.