Thomas Secomb receives a phone call from Clint Garrison, his former salvage partner in the Middle East.  Clint needs to borrow money to salvage a new aluminum vessel for Lloyds of London. But Tom is now an economics professor and is reluctant to get involved.Secomb could not know that finally agreeing to the loan sets off a chain of events that leads to his and his partner's involvements with the Russian KGB and renegade Iranian military officers bent on revenge against the U.S.Russian economic analysts think the world is headed for a severe financial crisis and a possible Depression worse than the 1930s. Their research shows that a Long Wave Economic Cycle is due to bottom out, a Kondratieff Cycle. The KGB has a plan to make the ensuing crisis worse.Clint Garrison discovers that a ship, the Dachow, that sank in the Persian Gulf, was carrying millions in gold and precious jewels from the former shah of Iran's fleeing military officers. The challenging task of salvaging the precious cargo draws the two Americans into a web of conflicting associations with the sinister Iranians and Russians.Iran's officers exact their revenge on the U.S. Manipulating Russian KGB officers use expendable patsies to cover up their involvement. Only when it is too late to back out do the salvage divers face death from shark attacks and Iranian marines. Only then does Tom discover the purpose behind their deadly work. As a result of events, circumstances are set in motion for a financial crisis worse than any since the Great Depression.

Linchpin

Cates, Ralph L.

Abyss Publications

<p>Drawing from historical and private collections around the country, Samella Lewis has gathered an impressive representation of the work of African American artists, from the 18th century to the present. For this edition she has provided a new chapter on art of the last decade. Handsomely and generously illustrated, this book reveals a rich legacy of work by African American painters, sculptors, and graphic artists. "Art historical scholarship is greatly advanced by Samella Lewis'sAfrican American Art and Artistsin that it foregrounds the work of artists who have been influencing the texture of art in the United States during the last two decades of the 20th century. ThroughoutAfrican American Art and Artists, Lewis interrogates the issue of identity by presenting the biographical sketch, which locates the individual artistic personality within a specific cultural background with its own peculiar dynamics, giving a face to two cities of Black American art. Without polemics Lewis presents women artists--Edmonia Lewis to Allison Saar--as principal players in constructing an African American visual arts legacy. Here Lewis sufficiently defines the visual arts in order that they may assume their rightful place alongside African American music, literature and folklore as cultural expressions that have helped to give American culture its distinct character."--from the foreword by Floyd Coleman, Harvard University.</p>

End Their Drinking? Their Drug Taking? You Decide: A Black and White No Nonsense Guide for Those Who Fear Someone is Drinking or Drugging Too Much

Steve Gould

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End Their Drinking? Their Drug Taking? You Decide: A Black and White No Nonsense Guide for Those Who Fear Someone is Drinking or Drugging Too Much