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Hawk goes down under when an Australian bookie is flung head-first from an exclusive tower restaurant by syndicate hitmen. Hawk aims to take on the Godfather himself, and the gun wielding hoods train their sights on him. But who’s behind the bold scheme to muscle in on the Sydney underworld? The gutless Tony Santoni, the ill-suited heir to a gangland empire in the States? Or someone with a flair for the dramatic - like the elusive actress who has made Hawk her captive audience?

Hawk is faced with the most calamitous case of his danger-ridden career. His friend, President Warren Stone, is losing his sanity - and control of the country. The streets are in turmoil. The Russians are advancing on the Mid-East oil fields. And Hawk’s being shot at from all sides: the FBI, the CIA, the KGB, and a golden-haired beauty. It’s Hawk’s job to discover if the President’s loss of sanity is for real, or it it’s been brought on by a deadly enemy within - before the world is engulfed by the fireball of a nuclear holocaust.

The deadly crusader has just lucked into an ex-dictator’s fortune. All he wants for the moment is to enjoy squandering his riches on women and yachts and women and private jets - and more women. But a horde of chanting cultists almost brainwashes him in Minnesota and he barely escapes a time-bomb explosion in San Diego. After getting word of the strange events, Hawk is on his way to Hong Kong to break open the most sensational case of his career - if he can live long enough to find the she-devil behind the mind twisters.

Hawk comes to Venice in search of a story, and quickly finds one. A fellow reporter is dead, and all the clues lead to the past. Parts of the puzzle lie beneath one of the city’s murky lagoons. Others lurk in the palatial villa of Count La Scala, a demonic terror-broker whose madness and passion for brutality have their roots in the smoldering ashes of the Nazi’s shattered Reich. In trying to uncover one of history’s greatest secrets, Hawk must save a beautiful woman from La Scala and evade the murderous pursuit of every terrorist group in Europe.

Hawk heads for New Orleans to join his old buddy Whip McComb and his Motorcycle Thrill Circus. He arrives just in time to see Whip’s latest stunt end in a shower of blood when his bike comes up short and he is impaled on a bed of nails. Somebody wanted Whip dead. But who? Hawk’s investigation introduces him to Whip’s bizarre crew of "death riders", from Whip’s venomous Oriental wife to an embittered dwarf with an axe to grind. Hawk narrows things down, and takes a huge, potentially deadly risk to get the killer to tip his (her?) hand.

When Hawk’s latest lady is taken to the Virgin Islands for a ride she didn’t expect, he ends up discovering an international white slave trade. As soon as he gets hot on their tracks, the CIA tries to derail his search. But in the face of kidnappers, murderers, and blackmailers, soon even the CIA must admit they need Hawk’s help, and he is immediately on the case to discover the identity of the “Mr. Big” behind all the kidnapping and murdering.

Michael Hawk is a cool-handed crusading journalist with a knack for poking into the crevices of the world and coming out with a sensation. The smell of mystery excites him as much as the scent of a beautiful woman.

This time it leads him to a smoldering Greek island, a mysterious villa with a multi-million dollar secret and a ravishing heiress who bequeaths him its key - and the curse of a fugitive life. Michael Hawk is an investigative journalist with a knack for getting the scoop.

The Deadly Crusader finds himself in the thick of an electrifying plot to bring to bring an energy-starved America to its knees. Nuclear plants and oil tankers are sabotaged, refineries are set afire - and he is being blamed!

Hawk sets out to tackle the power-crazed power barons and short-circuit the monstrous scheme - and meets a gorgeous environmentalist with unnaturally “natural” charms.

Hawk is trying to shake the Aussie police hot on his tail. Holed up in the Sydney Savoy with the flame-haired actress he loves, Hawk comes across the perfect out: an island kingdom comes up for sale. But is it a legitimate deal? And is it really the Eden Hawk needs to get away from it all? The CIA has an answer. So do the Cubans, the Russians, and the Islanders themselves. But not the one Hawk wants to hear, especially in the middle of a raging hurricane.

Physically and mentally drained from his last adventure, Hawk is looking for a break - a paradise where a man can relax...and stay alive. He figures a Caribbean cruise is the perfect way to get lost for a while. But on the high seas, a sultry beauty and her gorgeous young beauty vie for his love. And a sadistic assassin - unsure of Hawk’s identity - is torturing and murdering his way toward his mark.

Michael Hawk is an investigative journalist with a knack for getting the scoop. Part Anderson Cooper, part Indiana Jones, with all of James Bond’s magnetic charm, he saves the day and gets the girl in the end.

Calling themselves The Way - and led by the ruthless modern-day mandarin, Lee Chong - they are an assassination away from total control of the islands. But Hawk puts himself in their way, and takes a first-class trip through Hawaii’s explosive underworld - with a hot-as-lava lady cop to guide him.

After a terrorist group declares war on New York City, bombing the subway, machine-gunning a sold-out crowd at Yankee Stadium, and stating even more horrible plans, Hawk decides to leave his Polynesian paradise to join in the hunt to stop them. Hawk closes in on the wealthy and fanatical leader of the terrorists, Dr. Segura, and his imported pro, Uchi Saito, but his own life is put in danger as he becomes their target. Even with the beautiful Madelaina by his side, New York is a long way from paradise - unless they can stop Segura.

Built of titanium and a chrome-nickel alloy known as Inconel X, the X-15 was the fastest plane ever built, streaking through the lower reaches of outer space even before the first space capsules reached orbit. First tested in 1959, the X-15 proved to be a crucial testing ground for the astronauts and hardware in the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and even the Space Shuttle programs. Celebrated reporter Richard Tregaskis spent time with the pilots, engineers, and other key personnel involved in the project.

Age is an important number, but it can also be deceiving. After 40, most people say they feel younger than their years, some lie about their age, and many attempt to hide the signs of growing old. Better with Age addresses the many myths and paradoxes about the aging process. Although most people think of their later years in terms of decline, they can be one of the best times in life. This book presents the latest scientific research about the psychology of aging, coupled with insights from Maya Angelou, Bob Newhart, Jared Diamond, John Glenn, and John Wooden.

Audiobook narrator Peter Larson and his wife Hannah head to his hometown of Maple City to help Peter's ailing father and to put a recent tragedy behind them. Though the small, Midwestern town seems like the idyllic place to start afresh, Peter and Hannah will soon learn that evil currents flow beneath its surface. They move into an old farmhouse on the outskirts of town - a house purchased by Peter's father at auction and kept secret until now - and start to settle into their new life. But as Peter sets up his recording studio in a small basement room, disturbing things begin to occur.

In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets.

The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism places the function of western herbs in their true historical context, apart from homeopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, and Ayurveda. Recently there has been a revival of interest in western herbalism, but practitioners haven't been able to explore its benefits due to a void of information on the topic - the system of medicine the herbs fit into had all but disappeared. To remedy the situation, herbalist Matthew Wood has researched the old-time practices and reconstructed them for modern use.

When Ben Hewitt and his wife bought a sprawling acreage of field and forest in northern Vermont, they were eager to start a self-sustaining family farm. But over the years, the land became so much more than a building site; it became the birthplace of their two sons, the main source of family income and food, and even a classroom for their children. Through self-directed play, exploration, and experimentation on their farm, Hewitt's children learned how to play and read, test boundaries and challenge themselves, fail and recover. 

From star-nosed moles that have super-sensing snouts to electric eels that paralyze their prey, animals possess unique and extraordinary abilities. In Great Adaptations, Kenneth Catania presents an entertaining and engaging look at some of nature's most remarkable creatures. Telling the story of his biological detective work, Catania sheds light on the mysteries behind the behaviors of tentacled snakes, tiny shrews, zombie-making wasps, and more. 

Written with award-winning author Steven Weingartner, Faithful Warriors chronicles Dean Ladd's experiences as a junior officer in some of the fiercest fighting of the war in the Pacific. His recollections and descriptions of life - and death - on the far-flung island battlefronts of the Pacific War are vividly rendered, augmented by the recollections of a number of the men with whom he served. This memoir tells the story of how both Ladd and the Marine Corps came of age during history's greatest military conflict.