By Warren Murphy, Molly Cochran
Publish 12 months note: First released in 1984
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From long island instances bestselling authors Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy, Grandmaster is a secret Writers of the United States "Edgar" award-winning mystery spanning the globe from Moscow to Washington, Havana to Tibet.
Born hundreds of thousands of miles aside lower than the mystical signal of the gold coiled serpent, Justin Gilead and Alexander Zharkov are destined to struggle each other all through their lives in a quest for final energy. As younger boys, rooks and pawns have been their guns of selection. many years later, they hire way more harmful technique of destruction.
Justin has develop into a grasp secret agent; Alexander, the ruthless head of a mystery organisation. every one is the possessor of a rare mind and mythical abilities. Their paths will move once again as they struggle jointly opposed to a terrifying evil. yet finally they have to struggle to break the opposite.
There can merely be one Grandmaster.
Literary Awards
Edgar Award for top Paperback unique (1985)
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Today warning intelligence analysis is aided and abetted by the proliferation of all-day news services such as CNN, and most operations centers in the United States probably watch CNN for early warning. Current Intelligence A second product is the daily report, a heritage from military intelligence; for many years military commanders have expected to receive, first thing in the morning, an intelligence briefing to begin their day. President Truman was an early and eager recipient of an intelligence brief designed just for the White House, and the practice of issuing a daily brief has become a staple of CIA intelligence production.
They include various forms of psychological warfare, including deception and disinformation, the use of "agents of influence" for political or economic operations, support for guerrillas or irregular military forces, and in some countries assassination, terrorism, or sabotage. Despite a long history of such covert activity by the United States, the subject is one of continuing controversy. George Washington's use of covert action to combat the British is well documented, and the other Founding Fathers, including Jefferson and Is the Spy Machine Broken?
In the 1970s the United States developed a "nearreal-time" photo capability from space that used digital imagery to return pictures almost instantly and with remarkable clarity. At first the KH-11, as the near-real-time satellite was called, was protected by strict security controls, but when a low-level CIA officer decided to steal the manual that explained the KH-11's operation and sell it to the Soviets, the strict controls proved worthless. Later, imagery from the satellite was released to the press to support various White House positions, and so the entire imagery methodology has become quite well known.