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Hong Kong Reporter Doyle Mulligan stumbles onto the biggest and maybe last story of his life. He's investigating the exodus of Chinese from Hong Kong in the months before the handover of the colony to Beijing. The man he's following is a possible ticket-seller on the underground railroad spiriting Chinese out of the city. But when Mulligan follows him aboard a flight to Taiwan, the plane gets blown out of the sky and the ticket seller gets blown out of the plane. One by one Mulligan's leads are eliminated. One by one the people who are smuggling out the Chinese are being murdered by an assassin of almost mythological repute, an unstoppable, unbelievably powerful killer known only as the Yega. The killer is after one man who's already bought his ticket, an eyewitness to the massacre at Tiananmen Square, a witness whose testimony can delay the handover for years.

At first blush, Michael Martin is hardly cut from heroic cloth. He gets seasick on boats. He gets airsick when he flies. He can't even stand crossing bridges. He's afraid of guns and knives. Cats put him into a tailspin. But he speaks flawless Spanish and he knows northern Colombia like the back of his hand. That's enough for Gayle Saunders. She talks Martin into going with her to Colombia in order to find her missing boyfriend, a hotshot pilot named Johnny Dash who'd hoped to make some fast money in the drug smuggling trade. What Michael Martin doesn't know is that he's not just along for translation. Gayle is using Martin as a pawn to get her boyfriend out of police custody even if it means Martin winds up in jail in his place.

Dag Miller is a self-described sailor-of-fortune with a questionable cargo business in the South China Sea and a crew of three, including a fierce-looking laconic but lethal Korean first mate and a natural-born sneak of an Indian engineer. The third virtual crew-member is the ship herself, a Fast Attack Non-displace-ment Naval Prototype called FANNY, a salvaged and refitted U.S. Navy hydrofoil capable of flying at speeds in excess of a hundred knots and getting the trio into trouble every bit as fast as it gets them out. Miller's current charter is a pair of U.N. Vulcano-logists out of Singapore who are supposed to be placing scientific monitoring equipment around a soon-to-be active volcano off the coast of Sumatra. But the volcano and the two suspicious scientists are the least of Captain Miller's troubles. Twenty-first century coastal pirates with automatic weapons and speed boats prowl the Malacca Strait from Sumatra to Malaysia hijacking ships and kidnapping crews. Human traffickers abduct teenage girls and imprison them in fortress-like brothels which occupy entire islands and operate with government sanction. In Singapore meanwhile, the richest and most powerful businessmen are being systematically targeted by suicide bombers until their wealth is turned over to a faceless well-organized society of fanatical extortionists known as The Scourge. With this background Miller meets the spoiled daughter of one such businessman; Ani wants to hire Miller and his crew for a "teeny tiny" bit of smuggling. And that's when the real trouble begins.

In the upper reaches of the Amazon River system a mammoth dam called O Ecuador has been built to harness a wild tributary of the Rio Negro. That, at least, is its stated purpose. In the process it will flood a mountain valley where an elusive tribe of feared headhunters called the Kuru still live in utter isolation. Even FUNAI, the Brazilian Indian affairs bureau knows virtually nothing about them. Millions have been spent to construct the dam. Billions in gold are at stake. Jim Malloy is an American pilot on the run from U.S. federal agents working as a cargo hauler to a logging firm on the other side of the mountains from Cannibal Valley. His meeting and subsequent rescue of a Kuru boy sets up a chain of events which rapidly spins out of his control. Before he knows it, Malloy is being coerced into flying a team of U.N. inspectors to the dam site. He refuses, because he senses they're unlikely to return. But when a beautiful FUNAI representative thinks Malloy is the man for the job and Malloy's only friend, a hulking Polish giant named Wall who believes there's a fortune to be had in the going, makes it unanimous, he agrees. They are all three of them right. Malloy is the man for the job. There's a fortune waiting for those who can find it. And none of them are supposed to make it out of Cannibal Valley alive.

Peter Masterson is a polar advisor to a scientific station on Antarctica's desolate Ross Ice Shelf, where engineers are experimenting with a top secret hot water boring process. Mensa Station sits in the shadow of the impassable Queen Maud Mountains not far from the mouth of the treacherous glacier known as Hell's Flow. When a Soviet polar expedition makes an unexpected and unexplained visit on their way to a mysterious rendezvous, Masterson's suspicions are aroused. A female Russian on the team wants to defect. One of their engineers is killed and a saboteur is at work in the station. Then, soon after the Soviets' departure Mensa Station is gutted by fire and the survivors, including Masterson and Russian woman are forced onto the ice of the frigid Antarctic night in a desperate race to cross the Queen Mauds and reach the rendezvous point ahead of the Soviet expedition. And there is only one route that can get them there on time: up Hell's Flow

He's the smartest kid in his town. He's the smartest kid in his state. He's the smartest kid in his own mind. Bobby McGee is the self-described child progeny whose ideas will make millions. They will make him a famous inventor entrepreneur at the tender age of eleven. And maybe, just maybe, they will get him out of his chores.

Has capitalism failed?Is it fundamentally greedy and immoral, enabling the rich to get richer? Are free markets Darwinian places where the most ruthless crush smaller competitors, where vital products and services are priced beyond the ability of many people to afford them?Capitalism is the world's greatest economic success story. It is the most effective way to provide for the needs of people and foster the democratic and moral values of a free society. Yet the worst recession in decades has widely-and understandably-shaken people's faith in our system. Even before the current crisis, capitalism received a "bad rap" from a culture ambivalent about free markets and wealth creation. This crisis of confidence is preventing a full recognition of how we got into the mess we're in today-and why capitalism continues to be the best route to prosperity. How Capitalism Will Save Us transcends labels such as "conservative" and "liberal" by showing how the economy really works. When free people in free markets have energy to solve problems and meet the needs and wants of others, they turn scarcity into abundance and develop the innovations that are the foremost drivers of economic growth. The freedom of democratic capitalism is, for example, what enabled Henry Ford to take a plaything of the rich-the car-and transform it into something affordable to working people.In the capitalist system, economic growth doesn't mean more of the same-grinding out a few more widgets every year. It's about change to increase overall wealth and give more people the chance for a better life.

"Inflation explains the forces behind the epidemic of soaring prices squeezing individuals and businesses still struggling in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic. An alarming rise in the cost of living has stoked fears of a new crisis resembling the decade-long inflation of the 1970s. Some even raise the specter of a descent into the kind of Weimar-style hyperinflation that has torn apart so many nations. Can this be true? If so, what should be done? How should we prepare for the future?"--

Steve Forbes's call for a return to the gold standard--a controversial but well-argued book written for both financial professionals and general business readers. Filled with dramatic anecdotes, as well as investing recommendations for today's difficult environment.