Johnny Danver just wants to get the job done. Reluctantly reactivated and coerced into signing up for the rescue operation to the planet Farduccir where he once was deployed, Sgt. When a military extraction team sent to rescue the mistress refuses to take Sara too, she's left to the mercies of a retired Special Forces soldier, along as consultant. University instructor and researcher Sara Bridges can't afford it, so when pirates board her cruise liner, she's taken captive along with the mistress of a wealthy man, and brought to a deserted planet. but can he keep them both safe from the far greater evil stalking a deserted planet? Space travel without Kidnap & Ransom insurance? Not a good idea. Purchasing Info: Author's Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo Published by Jean D Walker on June 20th 2016
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If you try something…” He doesn’t have to say what will happen if I try something. Why hasn’t the alarm gone off? The skinny guy picks up the gun I dropped and cleans up the blood on the floor with his shirt. The man next to Cas picks her up and heads out the front door while she mumbles about some Vincent guy. Get Cas in the truck and clean that blood off the floor.” “You a doctor or some shit?” the scarred man gripping my arm asks, looking down at me. That much is clear,” I exclaim, unable to help myself. “I’m not going to a hospital.” She pushes the man, and I see the bloodstain spread on her jeans. “Goddamn it, Casper! Sit the fuck still.” But as she does, her legs give out on her, and she lands back down on her ass. “I knew I should have shot that little shit with more than a rubber bullet,” the woman says, trying to pull herself to her feet. The one leaning over the dark-haired woman makes the writing on the back easy to read. I look around the room to see everyone is wearing leather jackets. I’ve heard a few other people call him that. “Is she Pinch’s bitch?” he asks, nodding at me. No one is here.” The skinny guy searching the house comes back to join us, a little out of breath. I’m not even sure if I’m breathing at this point. I can’t seem to form a sentence as I watch what’s playing out in front of me. Her eyes snap over to me, and she glares at me so hard she could give Scarred Guy a run for his money. L stages a fake public appearance and immediately deduces the serial killer, openly called "Kira" (based on the Japanese pronunciation of the word "killer"), is situated in the Kanto area and will kill people without direct contact. Once he ends creating this utopia, he means to rule over it as the self proclaimed "God of the new world".Shortly, the inexplicable deaths of offenders get the eye of Interpol as well as the world-renowned detective, "L". Light tells Ryuk of his plan to exterminate all of the individuals he considers unfair and wrong in the planet, until only individuals whom he's deemed truthful and type stay. After testing with all the laptop, its credibility is confirmed by Light and is joined through an unexpected house guest - the previous owner of the laptop, a shinigami called Ryuk. His life experiences a radical change when he falls upon the "", a laptop that kills anyone whose name is written inside. Light Yagami is a blase young prodigy who resents all things bad. The series centres around Light's subsequent attempts to make and rule a world "cleansed of evil" as a "God" using this located laptop, as well as the efforts of a detective called L to stop him. The storyline follows a high school student who falls upon a supernatural laptop from a shinigami named Ryuk that allows its user the power to kill anyone whose name and face he understands, Light Yagami. 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In the subsequent forty-five years he produced major works on logic and political economy, and numerous essays and studies of which the four collected in this volume are the most famous. In his late teens Mill became a passionate advocate and proselytizer for Bentham’s ideas, but his Autobiography, published after his death, confesses to a ‘mental crisis’ in his early twenties that left him concerned to develop what he saw as a more complex, liberal, utilitarian philosophy. His father, James Mill, a close associate of the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, took responsibility for his eldest son’s education, teaching him ancient Greek at the age of 3 and equipping him with a deep and an extremely broad knowledge of the physical and moral sciences of the day. Oxford world’s classics ON LIBERTY, UTILITARIANISM, and other essays John Stuart Mill (1806–73), philosopher, economist, and political thinker, was the most prominent figure of nineteenth-century English intellectual life and his work has continuing significance for contemporary debates about ethics, politics, and economics. Table of contents : On Liberty, Utilitarianism, And Other Essays Acknowledgements Contents Introduction Note On The Text Select Bibliography A Chronology Of John Stuart Mill ON LIBERTY UTILITARIANISM CONSIDERATIONS ON REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN Explanatory Notes Index Citation preview It is ten years since Jessica was held captive for eight months by the Purple Man.Cage proposed in The Pulse #13 and they were married in New Avengers Annual #1. There is a flashback of Jessica buying lipstick for her wedding to Luke Cage.Can Jessica get along with herself? Will she want to kill her other selves? And will seeing the lives she could have led drive her into a self-destructive spiral? This is what happens when you meet…the Variants! What would it really be like to meet an alternate version of yourself, another you who had made different choices and lived a completely different life as a result? That's the question facing Jessica Jones, as what seemed like a routine investigation instead has her encountering other incarnations of herself from across the Multiverse. Jessica Jones' Apartment, Omega's Reality (Mentioned).Fourth Community Courthouse (First appearance).Hell's Kitchen Deli (First appearance) (Cameo).New York City (Main story and flashback).United States of America (Main story and flashback) Physical Description: 1 volume : chiefly illustrations (colour) 26 cm ISBN: 9781302947064 Main Author: Gail Simone (author) Other Authors: Phil Noto.Captain America (Jessica Jones) (First appearance).Purple Man (Zebediah Killgrave) (Only in flashback).Puppet Master (Phillip Masters) (Referenced). Maria Snyder (First appearance) (Main story and flashback).President of the United States of America (Mentioned) (Omega's reality).Brinina (First appearance) (Only in flashback). |