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After a sainted Chicago archbishop is brutally murdered in his rectory, altar boy Aaron Stampler is found hiding in a confessional, clutching a bloody knife and swearing he is innocent.Brilliant bad-boy lawyer Martin Vail eagerly seizes the opportunity to defend Stampler, the young human monster. But first he must uncover the horrifying truth behind the archbishop's slaughter....

After a sainted Chicago archbishop is brutally murdered in his rectory, altar boy Aaron Stampler is found hiding in a confessional, clutching a bloody knife and swearing he is innocent.Brilliant bad-boy lawyer Martin Vail eagerly seizes the opportunity to defend Stampler, the young human monster. But first he must uncover the horrifying truth behind the archbishop's slaughter....

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Excerpt from Balansia and the Balansiae in AmericaThe hyphae aggregated at certain points on the surface of the hosts, as on leaves or surrounding the culm or the in¿orescence, become the basal layer from which the fructifications arise. This basal layer, when it includes host tissues intermingled, is a pseudomorph that has sometimes been termed a sclerotium. Atkinson (1905) used the term pseu dosclerotium for this sclerotic basal stroma conta...

Excerpt from Balansia and the Balansiae in AmericaThe hyphae aggregated at certain points on the surface of the hosts, as on leaves or surrounding the culm or the in¿orescence, become the basal layer from which the fructifications arise. This basal layer, when it includes host tissues intermingled, is a pseudomorph that has sometimes been termed a sclerotium. Atkinson (1905) used the term pseu dosclerotium for this sclerotic basal stroma conta...

As the world trembles with the approach of World War II, a woman dies at the hands of Hitler's henchmen. Her murder forever changes her lover, Francis Scott Keegan, a relentless anti-Nazi mercenary, who becomes locked in a desperate cat-and-mouse game with the Third Reich's perfect spy, a man of a thousand faces. In an arena that encompasses presidents and gangsters, spies and sirens, the deadly present and the dark past, Keegan pursues his el...

Description: A supportive spirituality for Christians working in the real world of Monday morning. Through helpful stories, William Diehl illustrates effective tactics for changing your workplace and life. Endorsements: "Diehl has developed five ways in which laypersons can bring Christian ministry into their lives." Publishers Weekly "Shows Christians how to make a connection between the church and the workplace. . . . Addresses a v...

The U.S. and other industrialized nations are conducting research and development of directed energy applications, including High-energy Lasers (HEL) and Low-energy Lasers (LEL). While HEL will likely have military applications in Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), Counter-Air, Counter-Space, and Counter-Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), HEL applications will be slow to proliferate to potential adversaries due to high cost an...

It begins with a shocking, unsolved murder. In small town in southern Illinois, the butchered body of Linda Balfour--with a cryptic code printed in blood on the back of her head--forges a gruesome link to the brutal murder of Bishop Rushman, the beloved Chicago clergyman who had been dismembered years before by the angelic-looking altar boy, Aaron Stampler. The same Aaron Stampler whom defense attorney Martin Vail saved from the electric chair...

Eureka. It's what you say when you strike gold. It's also a town in California where the truth might be buried forever.In New York Times bestselling author William Diehl's thrilling, accomplished new novel, the seamy past of America's most glamorous state lies in this deceptively peaceful area, one hundred miles north of Los Angeles. It was the lawless place from which young, rugged Thomas Culhane escaped to fight World War I. Now it's a place...

It's enough to make Ludlum seem humdrum."ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTIONChristian Hatcher, the licensed killer they call the Shadow Warrior, is out of jail and looking for the betrayer that got him there. With his body wasted and his spirit nearly crushed, Hatcher returns to Hong Kong and Bangkok--deadly stops on the heroine pipeline--and comes closer to a solution that he fears to discover . . . ."Diehl knows how to tell a story, and his novel...

After an ultra-right militia seizes truckloads of highly volatile weapons, the president turns to Illinois attorney general Martin Vail. His job: nail the terrorists in their tracks. Vail plunges into his new, near-impossible mission, one that soon explodes into a personal nightmare as his most chilling adversary, Aaron Stampler, returns--seemingly from the dead--to exact a vengeance that could bring Vail to his knees.

Jake Kilmer is a cop for the Feds. His specialty is a branch of the Mafia known as the Cincinnati Triad. He's pursued them for years, and now they've set up shop in Dunetown, Georgia. This time, they will not escape the Hooligans, a tough squad of ex-cops that Jake has organized. This time, he'll settle the score once and for all....