Claire Hanson, a detective in the Petima Police Department, has long suspected that the department has a number of dirty cops--so dirty that officers who won't join in their dealings have been murdered. When Claire receives a not-so-veiled threat that she might find herself in a body bag if she doesn't play along, she makes it her personal mission to get to the root of the problem or die trying.

Confronted by smugglers, renegade soldiers, programmed assassins, and betrayal within their own ranks, Montran and Zohra are caught in a desperate race to discover the secret of Merker's Outpost before that secret falls into the wrong hands.

This report describes a study to identify the more significant tasks involved in the company commander's job, and to prioritize such tasks for use in Company Command Schools. Correlations between types of USAREUR company commanders in terms of the rank order of the tasks on each of the two indices--percent of position and need for preparation--were moderately high to high for both dimensions. These high correlations indicate that commanders from different types of units were quite similar in the amount of significance they attached to the tasks; it suggests that, except for technical skill specialties, the jobs of company commanders from different branches of the Army are much alike. The prioritized lists of tasks provide usable bases for the design of company commander training. The common tasks are especially relevant candidates for inclusion in leadership training courses or as a common core curriculum which can be used by all branch company commander schools.

The disappearance of three women in the witness protection program leads FBI Special Agent Adison to go undercover in a small artsy town in Northern California. Two years later, the line between her undercover persona and who she wants to be blurs further when SID sends in a civilian to be used as bait, and she finds herself in love for the first time in her life.