An anti-American president in South America has an undeclared war with the United Sttates, and he initiates a plan to flood the nations of the Caribbean with billions of dollars in counterfeit $100 bills to destroy their economies. He then plans to use his own petro-dollars to bail them out and gain control of the entire Caribbean Basin. The U.S. government learns of the plan and gives the Office of Naval Intelligence the mission of stopping it. ONI initiates Operation Venback to combat the plan with a small vessel and a crew of eight given the order to sink the delivery ship. The future influence of the United States is at stake and depends on the success of their mission. Sequel to Rubin's first novel, Chasing Pirates.

The Counterfeit War

Literature & Fiction

Rubin, Harry

Genre Fiction

Thomas Max Publishing

On February 5, 1958, an Air Force B-47 Stratojet was cruising at 38,000 feet over southeastern Georgia at 500 miles per hour.  In its bomb bay was a Mark 15 thermonuclear bomb, many times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.  At 12:33 a.m., in a bright moonlit sky, history was about to be made when an accident with an F-86 required the pilot of the bomber to jettison the bomb into the waters of Wassau Sound, located just 16 miles from Savannah, Georgia.  Despite a massive serach, the missing bomb has never been found.  Fifty years later, a small U.S. Navy crew on a coastal trawler is given the mission to look for it.  This is the story of that mission.

The Missing Bomb

Thomas Max Pub

In 1659, a Spanish galleon filled with treasure sailed from Veracruz, Mexico. After a short stop for supplies in Havana it left on its long voyage to Spain. It was sunk in a hurricane on a reef off the coast of Haiti, and no one knew what happened to it. About 350 years later an ancient parchment document was discovered in the archives of a museum in Havana that brought the subject of that galleon to a small U.S. Navy crew that worked for the Office of Naval Intelligence. It led Captain Al Jacobs and his crew on a fascinating adventure. This is the fifth novel in Rubin's series, which also includes "Chasing Pirates," "The Counterfeit War," "The Missing Bomb," and "U-Boat Secret Mission."

Sunken Treasure

Contemporary

Narco Subs from Colombia is the latest drug smuggling method developed by cocaine cartels. Tons of powdered cocaine travel north from Colombia through Pacific waters in small submersibles built in jungle boatyards. Each carries a crew of four and is usually loaded with eight tons of powdered white cocaine headed for Mexico for further shipment to the United Stats. The U.S. Navy is asked to join a DEA/Coast Guard Joint Task Force to help stop them. The Office of Naval Intelligence gives that mission to Captain Al Jacobs and his small elite crew, leading them on another interesting adventure. Sixth book in the series which began with "Chasing Pirates."

Operation Narco Sub

International Technology Transfers: Legal Aspects provides businesspersons and legal practitioners with a practical conceptual framework for the analysis and implementation of cross-border technology transactions, as well as alerting potential parties to technology transfers to the salient issues they should systematically confront and resolve as they seek to structure and implement their transaction. Particular attention is devoted to the identification of traps in the path of successful international technology transfer. The term `technology' is used in this book in its broadest possible sense, including what in some countries is referred to as `industrial property' and encompassing all legal categories of intellectual property, such as copyrights, trademarks, patents, know-how and trade secrets. The book applies an interdisciplinary approach to a complex and interdisciplinary subject and seeks to harmonize the frequently divergent perspectives that businesspersons and attorneys bring to technology transactions. A conscious effort was made to focus on those fields of law and business that are particular germane to international technology transfers and, most importantly, discuss the manner in which they interact with one another. Some of the topics covered: Intellectual property regimes and how to safeguard one's proprietary rights in technology; contractual provisions; tax structures and tax implications of technology transfer transactions; conflicts of law, choice of law and dispute resolution in the international technology transfer context.

International Technology Transfers

Business & Money

Economics

Springer