Ex-deniable operator Nick Stone is bodyguarding a TV crew on the streets of war-torn Basra He seems certain to die when insurgent gunmen attack Only a reporter's swift action saves his life When the reporter vanishes within hours presumed kidnapped Stone is asked by the Intelligence Service to find him The trail leads from Iraq to London Dublin & Kabul
- the brutal city where governments terrorism & big business collide Caught in the crossfire Stone's nightmare is only just beginning
- for the hunter has suddenly become the hunter

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What really happened in Dallas on November 22 1963? Was the assassination of John F Kennedy simply the work of a warped solitary young man or was something more nefarious afoot? Pulling together a wealth of evidence including rare photos documents & interviews veteran Texas journalist Jim Marrs reveals the truth about that fateful day Thoroughly revised & updated with the latest findings about the assassination Crossfire is the most comprehensive convincing explanation of how why & by whom our thirty-fifth president was killed ...

The clock is ticking On your every side agents & double-agents declare their loyalty But you know that some agents seek the VIP&s assassination Shoot first ask questions later In Crossfire players will use deduction negotiation & the limited information at their disposal to determine who the VIP is The agents have been tasked with defending the VIP from hostile attacks while the Assassins try to ensure that the VIP doesn’t make it to their destination To complicate things further Bystanders are also present near the VIP making it even harder for Agents & Assassins to know who the real threats are After 3 minutes each player must make a call & aim their weapon After all the shots are fired if the VIP is still standing the Agents win If the VIP has been eliminated the Assassins claim victory Be careful though Any player who shot a Bystander by accident automatically loses the game in addition other roles might have their own unique victory conditions meaning you can never be sure of who&s really on your side Crossfire offers deduction deception & quick decisions in a potent 3-minute package in the Specter Ops world Designed by Emerson Matsuuchi illustrated by Jen Zee Ages 14 Players 5
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In a dystopian future the war between two rival factions is about to spill into the streets Rejoin the conflict between Raxxon & ARK in Crossfire a thrilling game of deception & negotiation set in the world of Specter Ops In every game of Crossfire five to ten players secretly compete in two teams to either protect or eliminate a Raxxon VIP You might be an Agent tasked with defending the VIP with your life Or you could be an Assassin trying to keep the VIP from reaching their destination But there are also Bystanders near the VIP making it ever harder for Agents & Assassins to know who the real threats are Use all your powers of deduction to identify your target & complete your mission at any cost Age range 14 & up Number of players 5 to 10 Play time 45 to 60 minutes Manufacturer Plaid Hat Games ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Starring Curtis &50 Cent& Jackson (Setup Dead Man Running) Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland Phone Booth) & Robert De Niro (Red Lights Killer Elite) Crossfire is the explosive action film of the year When fresh faced NYPD police recruit Jonas (Jackson) is taken under Sarcone&s (De Niro) wing he is dragged into a dangerous world of drugs violence & corruption Quickly losing control & with the bloodshed intensifying he is offered a way out but at a price Will he risk everything for the truth or get caught in the crossfire? Actors Robert De Niro Forest Whitaker Dana Delany Beau Garrett 50 Cent Ryan O& Nan Malcolm Goodwin Michael Mc Grady Jeff Chase Matt Gerald Hilary Cruz Dominique Du Vernay Amin Joseph Michelle Torres & Sam Medin Director Jessy Terrero Certificate 18 years & over Year 2012 Languages English Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Closed Captions Yes ...

Written by Mike Carey Art by Jim Fern Gabriel Hernandez Matteo Guerrero & JH Williams III Cover by JH Williams III Toshi & Kai lead the kami armies into battle but it may take more to determine the fate of the twins This final volume collects issues 13-19 of the series Publishers Weekly called entertaining & brilliantly executed" ...

Crossing Over is a complex story documenting the stories of several different immigrants as they fight to be accepted as legal citizens in Los Angeles Looking at the various facets of the process including border control document fraud & green card processing the film takes a measured thoughtful look at a major issue in the US Actors Harrison Ford Ray Liotta Ashley Judd Jim Sturgess Cliff Curtis Summer Bishil Alice Braga Alice Eve Jacqueline Obradors Justin Chon Melody Khazae & Merik Tadros Director Wayne Kramer Certificate 18 years & over Year 2009 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 58 minutes (approx) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Crossing Over is a complex story documenting the stories of several different immigrants as they fight to be accepted as legal citizens in Los Angeles Looking at the various facets of the process including border control document fraud & green card processing the film takes a measured thoughtful look at a major issue in the US ...

Interracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa In Crossing the Color Line Carina E Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Ghanaians shaped & defined these powerfully charged relations The interplay between African & European perspectives & practices argues Ray transformed these relationships into key sites for consolidating colonial rule & for contesting its hierarchies of power With rigorous methodology & innovative analyses Ray brings Ghana & Britain into a single analytic frame to show how intimate relations between black men & white women in the metropole became deeply entangled with those between black women & white men in the colony in ways that were profoundly consequential Based on rich archival evidence & original interviews the book moves across different registers shifting from the micropolitics of individual disciplinary cases brought against colonial officers who "kept" local women to transatlantic networks of family empire & anticolonial resistance In this way Ray cuts to the heart of how interracial sex became a source of colonial anxiety & nationalist agitation during the first half of the twentieth century ...

Caryl Phillips' ambitious & powerful novel spans two hundred & fifty years of the African diaspora It tracks two brothers & a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs & continents one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West later that century & one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War Crossing the River won the James Tait Black Memorial Award in 1994 & was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize ...