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The second, edge-of-your-seat prequel novel based on Showtimeâ??s hit series, HOMELAND, â??the best thriller on American televisionâ?? New York Post

Beirut, 2006. While attempting a clandestine meeting with a new contact-code-name Nightingale-CIA operations officer Carrie Mathison barely escapes an ambush. Suspicious that security at the CIA's Beirut headquarters has been compromised, the highly skilled and emotionally volatile agent challenges the station chief in a heated confrontation that gets her booted back to Langley. Expert in recognizing and anticipating behavioral patterns - a skill enhanced by the bipolar disorder she keeps secret to protect her career - Carrie is increasingly certain that a terrorist plot has been set in motion. Desperate to return to Beirut she turns to her boss Saul Berenson, the mentor and confidant who recruited her at Princeton, but the Director of the Counter-Terrorism Center, David Estes, a skilled political animal driven by personal ambition, refuses their request. Frantic and running out of time, Carrie risks a shocking act of insubordination that helps her uncover secret evidence connecting Nightingale with Abu Nazir, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq. Determined to stop the terrorist mastermind, she embarks on an obsessive quest that will nearly destroy her.Filled with the taut suspense and ingenious plot twists that have made Homeland an addictive must-watch series, this riveting tale takes fans deeper into this complex world of counter terrorism and high stakes espionage and into the life and mind of one brilliant woman spy.

Leading a mission to capture master terrorist, Abu Nazir, CIA operations officer Carrie Mathison discovers a dangerous threat inside the Agency in this thrilling second official prequel novel to Showtime's Emmy Award-winning hit series Homeland.Damascus, Syria, 2009. Carrie Mathison is leading an operation to capture or kill al Qaeda terrorist, Abu Nazir. But arriving at the compound where he was supposed to be in hiding, they find it empty. Carrie is sure that someone is leaking CIA information to the enemy and has betrayed their operation, seriously threatening American interests in the Middle East. To expose the double agent, her boss, Saul Berenson, devises an elaborate ruse that will send her on the most dangerous mission of her life.This twisting tale of international intrigue takes fans deeper into the intense world of high-stakes espionage, and explores never-before-seen details of Carrie's life as an operative in the Middle East, Saul's past as an agent in Iran, Brody's dark childhood and captivity, and events involving the trio--and other favorite characters, like Dar Adal--that will lead them to the present.

What would you do with the power to control time around you? Travel to the future to see what would happen or travel into the past to fix things you might have done differently? A lucky teenager has that opportunity. Follow Jim Casino as he travels to his own future. See the fantastical events that he will encounter. As Jim travels through the ripples of time as he battles death and alternate realities to ensure the happiness and peace for his closest friends. Strange twists at every turn. What will happen to Jim with the knowledge he learns? Will he let history take its course or will he change it? Find out in Chronology.

A candidate's suicide. A death on the French Riviera. And a secret men will kill for.A candidate for U.S. President, ahead in the polls and about to win the election, suddenly commits suicide. No one knows why. A mysterious woman the media has dubbed "the Invisible Woman" may hold the key. During a botched jewel heist on the French Riviera, an American bystander is killed. This death triggers a worldwide hunt by intelligence agencies for something the dead American left behind - a secret so explosive they will let nothing get in their way. U.S. Homeland Security Special Agent Casey Ramirez is a young woman with a troubled past. On the trail of a human trafficking ring, she uncovers a clue involving the dead American in France. The discovery catapults her into a deadly cat-and-mouse chase across Europe to find the dead man's secret before it's too late. A secret that threatens the foundations of the American government.Master storyteller Andrew Kaplan weaves these disparate elements into a stunning tale of international intrigue.