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Colton Smith, US Army veteran, country music star, and Occupy Wall Street anti-one-percenter terrorist. While inside prison, his singing made him a YouTube phenomenon, catching the eye of North Korean Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un. Three young Americans visiting North Korea on holiday are jailed and tortured, and it’s up to Mr. Smith to pave the way for their escape. On this rare occasion, the CIA and the FBI work together to penetrate the hermit kingdom and bring the Americans home, all under the leader’s nose. Just when he thinks it’s all pizza and karaoke.

Andrew Kilpatrick is the main senior consultant on a joint North American and Korean consulting project for a government agency in Seoul, South Korea. Mr. Song is the Korean consulting project director. These two met to discuss the abilities of Korean consultants. Ellen Moore is also a consultant from the Systems Consulting Group, and she had raised concerns that Song and Kilpatrick did not have the experience, knowledge, background, to complete the projected within the projected time.

In 2014, the International Space Station unleashed a series of photographs that had netizens around the globe simultaneously slapping their cheeks in disbelief for more reasons than one. For starters, the world was astounded by the crisp definition and stellar resolution of the images captured by the space agency's NightPod lenses, which showed striking satellite shots of the world at nighttime, illuminated by its dazzling city lights. But it was a close-up snap of the China-North Korea border that elicited reactions far greater than the rest, for the image, as terrific as it was, was equally troubling.

Koski and Falk come up against what very well may prove to be their most complex and dangerous case yet: The Quantum Death Machine. For the first time, Koski and Falk must separate during a mission. Each faces mortal peril, while, at the same time, their smoldering relationship begins to heat up. The sixth in the riveting Koski & Falk Thriller series and second in the Kate Keenan Special Assignment series by multi-award-winning author A. G. Haye. With Raymond Gaynor, author of TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside).

The time is roughly now and Kai, a white-collar worker, has just been abandoned by his longtime lover. Follow him through a labyrinth of alleyways as he reels from this sudden departure. Accompany him up snowy mountains where he contemplates ending his own life. That mourning can be both an art and ever-unfolding journey is epitomized in the paths that Kai crosses and the lives he alters for better or worse.

It is the winter of 1954, and in the rubble-strewn aftermath of the Korean war Marilyn Monroe has come to Seoul to perform to the US soldiers stationed there. Incongruous in her silk dress and flawless makeup, she sings of seduction and love, dazzling battle-scarred Americans and Koreans alike. Alice, the woman chosen to be Marilyn’s translator, was once Kim Ae-sun, before her name was stolen from her - along with so much else - by the war.