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Having made a miraculous recovery from the grevious injuries he suffered on Davin, Warmaster Horus now leads the triumphant Imperial forces against the rebel world of Isstvan III. An unprecedented alliance between the Sons of Horus, Death Guard, World Eaters and Emperor' Children Legions seems more than capable of overwhelming the paltry mortal defences - indeed, such a display of force seems unneccesary? Putting their own concerns aside, Garviel Loken and his loyal kinsmen lead their companies to the surface only to learn the full, horrifying truth, and the legendary war known as the Horus Heresy begins with the most foul act of betrayal imaginable...
Book eight in the New York Times bestselling series Now that the news of Horus's Treachery is in the open, a time of testing has come. Some Legions have already declared allegiance to the Warmaster, while the loyalty of the others lies firmly with the Emperor. As Horus deploys his forces, loyalist Astartes learn that the Wordbearers are sending a fleet to Ultramar, home of the Ultramarines. Unless they can intercept and destroy it, the Ultramarines may suffer a blow from which they will never recover. Battle for the Abyss continues the epic tale of the Horus Heresy, a galactic civil war that threatened to bring about the extinction of humanity.
Sleeper: Orphans of the Cold War
Tony Porrett; Ben Counter; Adam Hill; John Jordan; Imrak Eriksson
Lulu.com
2015
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Sleepers: Orphans of the Cold War is a Sci-fi action roleplaying game, with background by popular gaming author Ben Counter.
Origins: A Collection of Sleeper Short Stories
Tony Porrett; Ben Counter; Imrak Eriksson
Lulu.com
2016
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Deathwatch: The Long Vigil
Steve Parker; Ben Counter; Marc Collins; Justin D. Hill; Nicholas Wolf; Sarah Cawkwell; David Guymer; Phil Kelly; Andy Clark
Games Workshop
2021
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High Octane Anthology focussing on the Xenos hunting forces of the Deathwatch.It is humanity's darkest hour. From Imperium Nihilus to Segmentum Pacificus, the vile xenos hordes swell. If left unchecked, these ungodly beasts will savage the Imperium like scavengers upon a carcass. Only the Adeptus Astartes of the Deathwatch stand defiant before them. This noble brotherhood is the Shield that Slays; they are the watchmen of the void, their star-borne fortresses guarding the Emperor of Mankind's realms from terrors unimaginable. Between them, these warriors will keep the light of the Imperium burning until the stars themselves extinguish. This anthology of high-octane stories features a host of Black Library's finest authors, including Steve Parker, Ben Counter, David Guymer, Andy Clark and many more.
A Counterfeiter's Paradise: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Early American Moneymakers
Ben Tarnoff
PENGUIN BOOKS
2012
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"This tale of counterfeiting is a treat for everyone...a delightful history lesson...Admirable and altogether charming." -The Washington PostAs Ben Tarnoff reminds us in this entertaining narrative history, get-rich-quick schemes are as old as America itself. Indeed, the speculative ethos that pervades Wall Street today, Tarnoff suggests, has its origins in the counterfeiters who first took advantage of America's turbulent economy. In A Counterfeiter's Paradise, Tarnoff chronicles the lives of three colorful counterfeiters who flourished in early America, from the colonial period to the Civil War. Driven by desire for fortune and fame, each counterfeiter cunningly manipulated the political and economic realities of his day. Through the tales of these three memorable hustlers, Tarnoff tells the larger tale of America's financial coming-of-age, from a patchwork of colonies to a powerful nation with a single currency.
Sustainable Me II: Counterintuitive Conservatism
Ben Thomas
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2013
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Embracing the Fog of War: Assessment and Metrics in Counterinsurgency
Ben Connable
RAND
2012
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The unpredictable counterinsurgency environment challenges centralized, quantitative campaign assessment. A comprehensive examination of the centralized, quantitative approach to assessment, as described in the literature and doctrine and applied in two primary case studies (Vietnam and Afghanistan), reveals weaknesses and gaps and proposes an alternative process: contextual assessment. An examination of the approach used through early 2011 reveals weaknesses and gaps and proposes an alternative, bottom-up methodology.
Assessing Freedom of Movement for Counterinsurgency Campaigns
Bryce Loidolt; Ben Connable; Gail Fisher; Jason J. Campbell
RAND
2012
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Counterculture UK
Mark Sheerin; Coco Khan; Susan Murray; Mark Edward; Penny Pepper; Paul Quinn; Hayley Foster Da Silva; Ellen Cheshire; Dr K. Charlie Oughton; Simon Smith; Jack Bright; Ben Graham; Em Ayson; Tim Burrows; Dr Tim Garrett; Bella Qvist
Aurora Metro Books
2015
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What is Counterculture? – It’s an alternative lifestyle... – The ideas that spark a revolution... – A movement that changes the world... This new collection of essays celebrates the incredible originality of British post-war culture. British art, film, theatre, dance, literature and music have attracted international recognition, from the Angry Young Men to the Sex Pistols to Grayson Perry. Now gaming, the internet and social media enable creative communities to flourish and either fight for social justice – or just be entertained. Can we find the creative inspiration to succeed in a postcapitalist future?
Cyber Denial, Deception and Counter Deception
Kristin E. Heckman; Frank J. Stech; Roshan K. Thomas; Ben Schmoker; Alexander W. Tsow
Springer International Publishing AG
2015
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This book presents the first reference exposition of the Cyber-Deception Chain: a flexible planning and execution framework for creating tactical, operational, or strategic deceptions. This methodology bridges the gap between the current uncoordinated patchwork of tactical denial and deception (D&D) techniques and their orchestration in service of an organization’s mission. Concepts for cyber- D&D planning operations and management are detailed within the larger organizational, business, and cyber defense context. It examines the necessity of a comprehensive, active cyber denial scheme. The authors explain the organizational implications of integrating D&D with a legacy cyber strategy, and discuss trade-offs, maturity models, and lifecycle management. Chapters present the primary challenges in using deception as part of a security strategy, and guides users through the steps to overcome common obstacles. Both revealing and concealing fact and fiction have a critical role insecuring private information. Detailed case studies are included. Cyber Denial, Deception and Counter Deception is designed as a reference for professionals, researchers and government employees working in cybersecurity. Advanced-level students in computer science focused on security will also find this book useful as a reference or secondary text book.
Cyber Denial, Deception and Counter Deception
Kristin E. Heckman; Frank J. Stech; Roshan K. Thomas; Ben Schmoker; Alexander W. Tsow
Springer International Publishing AG
2016
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This book presents the first reference exposition of the Cyber-Deception Chain: a flexible planning and execution framework for creating tactical, operational, or strategic deceptions. This methodology bridges the gap between the current uncoordinated patchwork of tactical denial and deception (D&D) techniques and their orchestration in service of an organization’s mission. Concepts for cyber- D&D planning operations and management are detailed within the larger organizational, business, and cyber defense context. It examines the necessity of a comprehensive, active cyber denial scheme. The authors explain the organizational implications of integrating D&D with a legacy cyber strategy, and discuss trade-offs, maturity models, and lifecycle management. Chapters present the primary challenges in using deception as part of a security strategy, and guides users through the steps to overcome common obstacles. Both revealing and concealing fact and fiction have a critical role insecuring private information. Detailed case studies are included. Cyber Denial, Deception and Counter Deception is designed as a reference for professionals, researchers and government employees working in cybersecurity. Advanced-level students in computer science focused on security will also find this book useful as a reference or secondary text book.
******Amazon Number 1 Bestseller ****** WARNING: This novel depicts graphic adult situations including violence, sex and drug usage, with explicit dialogue from the start The aim is to portray to the reader an authentic criminal lifestyle through the art of fiction, whilst using the regretful foundation of experience.******Charlie is a cocaine distributor living in a run-down London overspill, but when he discovers his top dealer shot to death, Charlie must find the killer and a way out, whilst losing the tail of Detective Jack Cloud in order to flee the country with his lover and a clear conscience. ****** When ambitious yet troubled Drug Dealer Charlie Paccadillo discovers one of his top cocaine distributors mysteriously shot to death, his world is thrown into disarray. Alice, an unassuming single mother with connections to a rival crew of dealers, soon becomes his only release from the angst, as he searches for answers and battles to control his crumbling criminal empire. As DI Jack Cloud investigates the murder in the gritty London overspill town of Stambro, Charlie quickly becomes his chief suspect. Looking to solve his first shooting, career driven Jack will stop at nothing to get the job doneCan Charlie find a way out or is he in too deep to turn back? Will Jack find the real killer? The clock is ticking and the pressures on, every decision counts in a world where life is cheap and reputation is king. The street is always watching and no one, detective nor gangster, can afford to lose.
Billy Stone is an ex-Marine and boxing champ living a lavish criminal lifestyle whilst on the run in Thailand. But, when a botched hijacking on the Burmese border leaves three men dead, Billy must make fresh alliances with a feared mafia boss, whilst trying to keep hold of a newfound love and himself out of one of the world's toughest prisons. In this follow up to the Amazon number 1 bestseller Poisoned Saints, Billy runs headfirst into trouble whilst on a marijuana run inside the treacherous Burmese border. Back in Thailand, Billy is forced to make a new deal with a murderous crime lord whilst keeping Islamic terrorists and ruthless Russian gangsters at bay.As love unsuspectingly enters his life in the form of all American girl next door, Mel, Billy struggles to keep his gang of criminal misfits in line; Che, his old Stambro friend and struggling drug addict, Nate, a former US Marine and Compton psycho and Orly, the laid-back, weed smoking Frenchman.Can Billy keep up his affluent lifestyle whilst cultivating his newfound romance? Can Che resist the hedonistic delights of South East Asia? In the contrasting land of Buddhism and the death penalty lessons will be learnt. Billy must stay one step ahead of his past whilst out smarting the present, or be forced to Keep on Running.
When The Saint Comes Marching Home
Ben Coulter
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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What do you do when you fall for your best friend's girl? Your best friend who just happens to be an international film star and a girl who just happens to be a drug-crazed supermodel? Can an introverted London author really handle the heat of L.A. and all its wicked ways? Find out in A SoCal Story.Ben Coulter's fourth novel sees him climb out from the grungy pool of the urban crime thriller and aspire to the lofty heights of contemporary literary fiction, while continuing to employ the same grit, addictive mystery and relentless tension he has become known for. Tony Lowe is an internationally published author, achieving the aspiration of so many. But Tony isn't one of the many, Tony is one of the few. The 1 in 4 few who suffer the torment of a noxious mind. His collapsing mental health will not allow him to appreciate his literary achievement and his self-doubt threatens to turn to self-sabotage.When he receives a call from his university room-mate, Marley George, asking him to come to L.A. to adapt his novel to film, he doesn't hesitate in saying yes. Marley is now a fully fledged Hollywood heart-throb, garnering international fame and vast wealth. Soothed by warm winter sunshine and laid-back Malibu living, Tony settles into the L.A. lifestyle, calming his dependency on prescription drugs and limiting time spent with poisonous memories. He feels his frosty mental health begin to thaw in the warm SoCal sun.But he soon finds himself swapping one addiction for another as he spends more time with Abi Hart, Marley's supermodel partner. The celebrity couple's relationship is on the rocks and Tony falls for her New York charms like a struggling actress for the Hollywood casting couch. She welcomes him into her world without limitation. A world of A-list celebrity and class A narcotics. He quickly discovers that the reality of life in LaLa Land is profoundly different from the one portrayed on the silver screen. Racked with feelings of guilt for betraying his friend, and an immoral fear of losing his movie deal, he struggles to resist Abi and all the libertine lust she dispenses.Southern California is the land where fantasy can come true, but just as soon be slung onto Skid Row, discarded, broken and bruised with a hundred dollar a day habit. Will Tony live the dream, or suffer the nightmare? One thing is sure, just because it sparkles, doesn't mean it shines.
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Descriptive Guide to Prince Charlie's Country, Including Fort-William ... Ben Nevis, and Glencoe. [With Illustrations.]
Donald Macintyre
British Library, Historical Print Editions
2011
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Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution
Ben Fountain
Ecco Press
2019
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In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisis Twice before in its history, the United States has been faced with a crisis so severe it was forced to reinvent itself in order to survive: first, the struggle over slavery, culminating in the Civil War, and the second, the Great Depression, which led to President Roosevelt's New Deal and the establishment of America as a social-democratic state. In a sequence of essays that excavate the past while laying bare the political upheaval of 2016, Ben Fountain argues that the United States may be facing a third existential crisis, one that will require a "burning" of the old order as America attempts to remake itself.Beautiful Country Burn Again narrates a shocking year in American politics, moving from the early days of the Iowa Caucus to the crystalizing moments of the Democratic and Republican national conventions, and culminating in the aftershocks of the weeks following election night. Along the way, Fountain probes deeply into history, illuminating the forces and watershed moments of the past that mirror and precipitated the present, from the hollowed-out notion of the American Dream, to Richard Nixon's southern strategy, to our weaponized new conception of American exceptionalism, to the cult of celebrity that gave rise to Donald Trump.In an urgent and deeply incisive voice, Ben Fountain has fused history and the present day to paint a startling portrait of the state of our nation. Beautiful Country Burn Again is a searing indictment of how we came to this point, and where we may be headed.