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“Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state—a place thatspawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient anddeeply seated isolationism, a kingdom led by a royal family thatcan’t get out of the way of its own greed. Is this the fulcrum wewant the global economy to balance on?” In his explosive New York Times bestseller, See No Evil ,former CIA operative Robert Baer exposed how Washington politicsdrastically compromised the CIA’s efforts to fight globalterrorism. Now in his powerful new book, Sleeping with the Devil,Baer turns his attention to Saudi Arabia, revealing how ourgovernment’s cynical relationship with our Middle Eastern ally andAmerica’ s dependence on Saudi oil make us increasingly vulnerableto economic disaster and put us at risk for further acts ofterrorism. For decades, the United States and Saudi Arabia have been locked ina “harmony of interests.” America counted on the Saudis for cheapoil, political stability in the Middle East, and lucrative businessrelati

In this amazing and at times ribald story, Laton McCartneytells how Big Oil handpicked Warren G. Harding, an obscure Ohiosenator, to serve as our twenty-third president. Harding and his“oil cabinet” made it possible for cronies to secure vast fuelreserves that had been set aside for use by the U.S. Navy. Inexchange, the oilmen paid off senior government officials, bribednewspaper publishers, and covered the GOP campaign debt. When newsof the scandal finally emerged, the consequences were disastrous.Drawing on contemporary records newly made available to McCartney,The Teapot Dome Scandal reveals a shocking, revelatory picture ofjust how far-reaching the affair was, how high the stakes, and howpowerful the conspirators–all told in a dazzling narrativestyle.

You've heard of the SEALs. . . . now meet their bloodbrothers! The Official United States Air Force Elite Workout: An OfficialFive Star Fitness Guide Featuring: Running ? Swimming ? Weight Training ? O'Course ?Calisthenics ? and much more! Known as the PJ's and the CCT's, the pararescuemen and combatcontrol technicians are the elite forces of the United States AirForce. PJ's, whose motto is "that others may live", routinely go inharm's way to bring back downed pilots and crewmembers. CCT's,"first to fight", are responsible to enter hostile territory aheadof the rest and establish safe landing sites for arrivingforces. Their self-sacrificing efforts are heroic. Their training isintense, exciting, and before this book, little known. Now for thevery first time, their powerful training techniques are brought tolight in this profusely illustrated and documentedpresentation. Includes sections on: stretching, weight training, calisthenics,running, swimming, rope climbing, e

The remarkable story of a teacher who ran a grassrootscampaign for Congress . . . from her sixth-grade classroom “You can’t run for office in this country unless you’re amillionaire or you know a lot of millionaires.” This offhand remarkfrom one of her sixth-grade students dismayed public school teacherTierney Cahill. When she told the kids that in a democracy anyonecan run for office, they dared her to prove it–by running herself.She accepted their challenge on one condition: that they, herstudents, manage the campaign. A single mom with three kids and more than one job to make endsmeet, Cahill was in for a decidedly uphill battle, especially as aDemocrat in largely Republican Reno, Nevada. But Cahill had alwaysfelt a responsibility to make a positive impact on an increasinglyinequitable world. With her eager students leading the way, and awar chest of just seven thousand dollars (compared to opponentswith one hundred times the funds), Cahill not only got her name onthe ballot bu

Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at agethree, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhillspeed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor,entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision.Then, in 1999, a chance encounter brought startling news: arevolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May’svision. It would allow him to drive, to read, to see his children’sfaces. But the procedure was filled with gambles, some of themdeadly, others beyond May’s wildest dreams. Beautifully written andthrillingly told, Crashing Through is a journey of suspense,daring, romance, and insight into the mysteries of vision and thebrain. Robert Kurson gives us a fascinating account of one man’schoice to explore what it means to see–and to truly live.NAMED ONEOF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

In The Fatal Englishman, his first work of nonfiction,Sebastian Faulks explores the lives of three remarkable men. Eachhad the seeds of greatness; each was a beacon to his generation andleft something of value behind; yet each one died tragicallyyoung. Christopher Wood, only twenty-nine when he killed himself, was apainter who lived most of his short life in the beau monde of 1920sParis, where his charm, good looks, and the dissolute life thatfollowed them sometimes frustrated his ambition and achievement asan artist. Richard Hillary was a WWII fighter pilot who wrote a classicaccount of his experiences, The Last Enemy, but died in a mysterious trainingaccident while defying doctor’s orders to stay grounded afterhorrific burn injuries; he was twenty-three. Jeremy Wolfenden, hailed by his contemporaries as the brightestEnglishman of his generation, rejected the call of academia to become a hackjournalist in Cold War Moscow. A spy, alcoholic, and openhomosexual at a time when su

“This is a thriller, a page-turner, a probing look into theinner workings of the assassination squads that Israel mobilizedafter the Munich massacre.” –David K. Shipler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Arab andJew “Gratitude is due to Mr. Klein for his painstaking . . . book, thebest one could possibly hope for.” –Walter Lacquer, The Wall Street Journal Award-winning journalist Aaron J. Klein tells, for the firsttime, the complete story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre andthe Israeli counterterrorism operation it spawned. Withunprecedented access to Mossad agents and an nparalleled knowledgeof Israeli intelligence, Klein peels back the layers of myth andmisinformation that have permeated previous books, films, andmagazine articles about the “shadow war” against Black Septemberand other related terrorist groups. In this riveting account,long-held secrets are finally revealed, including who was killedand who was not, how it was done, which targets were hit and whichwere m

In America’s battle against al-Qaeda and their allies, thegoal of the Navy SEALs is to be the best guns in thefight—stealthy, effective, professional, and lethal. Here for thefirst time is a SEAL insider’s battle history of these SpecialOperations warriors in the war on terrorism. “Down range” is what SEALs in Afghanistan and Iraq call theirarea of operations. In this new mode of warfare, “down range” canrefer to anything from tracking roving bands of al-Qaeda on aremote mountain trail in Afghanistan to taking down an armedcompound in Tikrit and rousting holdouts from Saddam Hussein’sregime. It could mean interdicting insurgents smuggling car-bombexplosives over the Iraqi-Syrian border or silently boarding afreighter on the high seas at night to enforce an embargo. In otherwords, “down range” could be anywhere, anytime, under anyconditions. In Down Range , author Dick Couch, himself a former Navy SEALand CIA case officer, uses his unprecedented access to bring thereader firs

From its earliest days, America served as an arena for therevolutions in alternative spirituality that eventually swept theglobe. Esoteric philosophies and personas—from Freemasonry toSpiritualism, from Madame H. P. Blavatsky to EdgarCayce—dramatically altered the nation’s culture, politics, andreligion. Yet the mystical roots of our identity are often ignoredor overlooked. Opening a new window on the past, OccultAmerica presents a dramatic, pioneering study of the esotericundercurrents of our history and their profound impact acrossmodern life.