![]() ![]() Jack Carr returns with another explosive military thriller that pulls on his years in the field, as well as the current geo-political situation. ![]() Now a reluctant tool of the United States government, Reece travels the globe, targeting terrorist leaders and unraveling a geopolitical conspiracy that exposes a traitorous CIA officer and uncovers a sinister assassination plot with worldwide repercussions.Ī high-intensity roller-coaster ride, True Believer explodes with action and authenticity that cements Jack Carr as the new leader in political thrillers. When a series of events uncovers his whereabouts, the CIA recruits him, using a Presidential pardon for Reece and immunity for the friends who helped him in his mission of vengeance. The United States government has an asset who can turn the Iraqi against his masters: James Reece, the most-wanted domestic terrorist alive.Īfter avenging the deaths of his family and team members, Reece emerges deep in the wilds of Mozambique, protected by the family of his estranged best friend and former SEAL Team member. The attacks are being coordinated by a shadowy former Iraqi commando who has disappeared into Europe’s underground. When a string of horrific terrorist attacks plagues the Western world during the holiday season, the broader markets fall into a tailspin. ![]() In acclaimed author Jack Carr’s follow-up to The Terminal List, former Navy SEAL James Reece’s skill, cunning, and heroism put the US government back in his debt and set him on another path of revenge. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() ![]() A psychiatrist once sketched a neuron for me on a cocktail napkin he took from his pocket to explain the mechanism behind SSRIs. But, I knew nothing about the brain except that I had one, and it was causing me to suffer. That night, as an olive branch, my friend sent me an email with nothing but a link to a Wikipedia page of Cajal, who it said won the 1906 Nobel Prize for discovering neurons, which he called “butterflies of the soul.” I felt a sense of the poetic. My friend, who studied neuroscience and was a filmmaker, maintained that the two could be united, while I, who studied comparative literature and aspired to write, was skeptical of science. One day, my friend and I argued about whether it was possible to combine science and art or whether they would always be separate domains. ![]() My only activity was to help my friend shoot music videos for a shady entrepreneur trying to launch his preteen son’s band into pop stardom. At the time, I was so depressed that I had entered anhedonia, that vast terrain of feelinglessness. Twelve years ago, I saw an image of a brain cell drawn by a man whom I had never heard of, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, and had what I recognize now was an awakening. ![]() ![]() ![]() I pray every church reads Prayer together it will change our congregations. Here’s a thirst-quenching encouragement to join together in seeking our great God. Onwuchekwa writes like a fellow traveler, and as a fellow traveler knows what travelers need most: refreshment. This book is better than a correction to our often languid prayer lives. Here is a human book-beautiful, poignant, funny, gritty, and pastoral. "I don’t know if I’ve ever read a book on prayer that left me feeling the entire range of human emotion-until reading John Onwuchekwa’s Prayer. Or, if you prefer, we would love to connect with you online: Sign-up for the Crossway Newsletter for updates on special offers, new resources, and exciting global ministry initiatives: ![]() Thank you for downloading this Crossway book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That morning, Pirbhai had watched his ma ask the gods for forgiveness, praying over his middle sister, whose bones clacked as though loose inside her skin. His lips cracked and blood pulsed on his stained teeth. When Pirbhai pointed to the white buds bursting across a field, the man laughed until he coughed. Do you see any rice, any grain? Dry, all dry. Look around you, dikro, the man had muttered. Today the landowner barely raised his eyes, and he knew he was probably one of many boys turned away. ![]() By foot, or sometimes hitching a ride on the back of a cart, he wandered the streets, pleading for work. For as long as he could remember, every day was the same. He eased himself onto a step by the water’s edge, letting his chappals graze the foam. The heat was a dry beast, scorching the fields yellow as gora hair. The last day Pirbhai spent in Gujarat was ignited by a sun that could not last. (Courtesy) Book excerpt: 'A History of Burning' The cover of "A History of Burning" by Janika Oza. The book follows four generations of a family who settles in Uganda in the early 20th century but is forced to leave when Ugandan dictator Idi Amin orders the expulsion of Asians in 1972. Host Deepa Fernandes speaks with "A History of Burning" author Janika Oza. ![]() ![]() When Ashley Eckstein starting voicing Ahsoka in 2006 for the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated movie (which released in 2008), nobody – including Eckstein herself – could have guessed that Padawan newcomer Ahsoka would become such a fan-favorite in a series also featuring iconic Star Wars characters like Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Yoda. ![]() I’m just so grateful for the time that I’ve had to be the voice of Ahsoka Tano that that is how I choose to look at it. The character will go looking for Ezra Bridger. I started recording the voice of Ahsoka in 2006 and never in my wildest imagination did I think I would be here in 2021 still talking about Ahsoka. Rosario Dawson discusses having Ahsoka voice actor Ashley Eckstein on set for the live-action Star Wars series and studying her Rebels performances. I’m grateful for it!’ I don’t look at what I don’t have, but what I do have. Ashley Eckstein, voice behind the animated face of the immeasurably popular Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels, has brought smiles to all our faces for over a decade. When we did get to wrap it up, I was so grateful for it, and I take every moment as saying, ‘Well, if this is the last chance I’m ever going to get to fill Ahsoka’s shoes, I don’t mourn it. ![]() Ashley Eckstein weighed in to on whether she was playing those final episodes as a temporary goodbye or a farewell for good, saying: The Disney+ revival of The Clone Wars in 2020 brought the show back to finish the story that had been cut short by the show's unceremonious cancellation back in 2013, which filled in some very big blanks regarding Ahsoka Tano and what happened between her leaving the Jedi Order in Clone Wars and turning up again in Star Wars Rebels. ![]() |