Bøger af James Allan Matte

The Grand Master of Deception is a continuation of the CAUL series wherein James Markham's romance with Jennifer, the identical twin sister of his deceased CIA partner, is interrupted by a foreign master counterintelligence plot that takes Markham to the Far East and a place hidden from the world in the mountains of North China where he learns the secret of enlightenment and a method of defeating his captor's counterintelligence plans.

Part III of this trilogy begins with the surprising discovery that James Markham has a half-sister residing in San Diego, California and during his fateful visit he finds himself in the middle of a robbery case that demands his involvement in freeing an innocent man from prison. His unwitting exposure to the media places Markham in the cross-hairs of former enemy terrorists whose several attempts on his life nearly cause his demise. Nonetheless, Markham survives to pursue further challenges that fate places before him while it sets the stage for his eventual confrontation as the Biblical Truth-Seeker with the most powerful American politician identified in the Bible Code by the Secret Society of Jesuits as the Anti-Christ. You can find the hardcover version of this title on www.booksurge.com.

He is the Truthseeker, and his voice cries justice. In a world suffocating with lies and deception, those rare individuals who unfailingly hear the pleas of justice stand out. Jim Markham is one of those individuals, and he shines as a beacon of truth, allowing the scores of people his life touches to find their way along shadowed paths to a brilliant moral light. Truth and Deception is the riveting sequel to Born with a Mission, the second volume of the epic trilogy, The Caul, wherein Jim Markham becomes a seasoned Agent of both the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and the Army Criminal Investigations Division, confronting chaos and disorder, and ultimately rises as a Polygraph Scientist invincible to deceit. Fans of James Clavell and Gary Jennings will love this chapter in Matte's story, as Markham travels all over the world, experiencing exotic customs and meeting fascinating people while he faithfully serves the United States Armed Forces. Join Markham on a mission; to reveal spies in the US military selling information to Moscow; to solving the riddle of a murdered girl in South Korea; to subjecting an Arabian Prince to a polygraph examination at Markham's own peril. Witness the love of an honest man, and that love's high price. You're invited to see the truth of James Markham's astounding destiny. A man blessed with the protection of The Caul. But is the Caul enough to protect him from the Father of Deceit?

He was born with The Caul, invulnerable to Danger, Destined for Adventure. According to legend, those born with the Caul, a protective membrane covering an infant's body, are special beyond measure, resistant to physical harm until a fabulous destiny has been fulfilled. On a cold March night in 1931, the extraordinary James Markham emerges into the world, enveloped by the Caul, which stands as a prophecy to the wonders and tribulations he will encounter in his life. Born with a Mission is the first installment in the epic trilogy, The Caul, establishing the early adventures of the young Jim Markham. Taught early by his French-Canadian Grandmaman in Montreal to face challenges instead of retreating from them, Markham learns that he is indeed different, and assumes a responsibility of defending the weak and powerless that travels both the years of his life and the lands of this earth. This is a story of self-sacrifice and justice. From taking a beating for a victimized schoolmate in boarding school, to defending the honor of a black friend hounded by a racist punk in New York, to preventing a mad Frenchman from killing his wife in a bar; it's evident that James Markham may very well be a foundation of hope and fortitude for dark, dark times ahead. Prepare yourself for an expedition across this wondrous and terrible world through the eyes of a courageous young man secured by his faith and powers beyond comprehension, trained by the United States Air Force and Office of Special Investigations to confront, and obliterate, evil.

The rejection of a man's unrequited love for a woman residing in Montreal, Canada drives him into a catatonic state from which he recovers but without any memory of her. This arouses her love previously suppressed by fear of commitment and familial influence. In an effort to regain his love, she follows him to Paris, France where he is engaged in a counterintelligence mission with the CIA, but she succeeds only in obtaining a promise from him to call her when he returns to the United States. However, upon his return and visit, he learns that, due to her family attachments and business, she cannot leave the city of her birth to join and marry him in the United States, therefore he accepts an invitation from a Jesuit missionary friend appointed as rector of a monastery in China to join him where he remains for more than two and a half years. Upon his return to the United States with newfound wisdom, he is invited by his cousin to attend his aunt's funeral in Montreal, where he unintentionally meets her at a musical play in the Place des Arts and learns the reasons for her rejection have since evaporated and she is now receptive to his previous proposal of marriage, which he must weigh with the wisdom he gained in a spiritual event at the monastery.

The theft of the Holy Shroud from the Royal Chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, Italy, baffled the Italian police. Their investigation failed to develop any useful information or leads in spite of the assistance of the United States Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment which conducted polygraph tests on all of the suspects in the case. The Vatican, in a desperate attempt to recover the Holy Shroud, considered the Holy Grail of Christendom, summoned Alex Petrov, a leading member of the Secret Society of Jesuits and personal friend of the Cardinal General to assist the Vatican and the Italian police in its recovery. Alex Petrov's position as the Director of Clandestine Operations of the Central Intelligence Agency, placed him in the unique position of having unparalleled resources at his disposal but only one man came to mind that was capable of solving the mystery and that was his old friend and colleague, James Markham, recognized internationally as a polygraph expert, and by the Vatican as the biblical Truthseeker. But first he had to locate Markham and he assigned that task to one of his female agents, Teri Flanigan, who found Markham in a Paris bistro drinking away his grief for the loss of his deceased wife. Sober and on the CIA payroll, Markham and Flanigan followed the trail of suspects in five countries and three continents, resulting in the recovery of the miraculous Holy Shroud, but at the expense of a courageous disciple whose life was surrendered to liberate it.

This is the story of a young man, his boyhood friend and their two girlfriends enjoying the wondrous sailing life on Lake Ontario off the coast of Western New York while the clouds of a World War threaten their peaceful existence. The year is 1941 when the winds of war invade the shores of the United States and our two young men find themselves in the US Army Air Corps flying bombing raids from England over Germany. Their two American girlfriends join them in England as nurses in the Army Air Corps, where their passionate love is finally consummated but short-lived when the two young pilots fail to return from their last bombing raid over Germany and are presumed dead. The two nurses resign their commission and return home to the United States. The war ends with the return of war prisoners which includes our two young pilots, but upon arrival home, one of them learns that his girlfriend married someone else. The drama that follows shows how tragedy can serve humanity and all is well that ends well.

This is the story of a young Hungarian refugee Samuel Kovacs who escaped the Russian invasion of his country and immigrated to the United States, leaving behind Eva, his childhood sweetheart, with the promise of sponsorship to the US and marriage. Meanwhile he exchanged love letters with Eva and regularly sent her care packages. In order to expedite his application for US citizenship, he joined the US Army as an enlisted man and was assigned to a US Army base in West Germany near the Hungarian border. Frustrated with the nearness of her, yet unable to visit Hungary because it was a Communist country, he decided to desert his military unit, defecting to Hungary with the expectation of an amiable reception. Instead, he was imprisoned and tortured in the belief he was a CIA Agent, but after realizing he was only a truck driver and US Army private, he was released but forbidden to leave Hungary because he was a Hungarian citizen. He also learned distressing news about his girlfriend Eva that obliged him to seek residence with his cousin. Twice he tried to escape from Hungary thru the Austrian border without success landing in prison with unspeakable torture that left him only one hope for repatriation to the US; his mother and her husband in the US with the assistance of the American Embassy. After many years in Hungary, Kovacs was finally repatriated to the US, but not without learning a secret that would haunt him the rest of his life.

James Markham accepts an invitation to lecture at the University of Moscow at the urging of the CIA to assist in the defection of a Russian General. The Chinese Intelligence Service enters into collusion with Russia to kidnap Markham which mobilizes the U.S. Navy to intercept the Russian submarine involved in the kidnapping. Markham voluntarily revisits Moscow under the guise of a French company employee to effect the defection of the scientist who initially invited him, and in their escape, they meet with treachery.

This 194-page Supplement 2002-2012 brings its related 800-page 1996 textbook "Forensic Psychophysiology Using The Polygraph up-to-date with color illustrations and the translation of the Quadri-Track Zone comparison Technique format into 14 languages.