The Accidental Spy

• Buck Yuen is a bored and unsuccessful exercise equipment salesman who grew up believing he was an orphan and that his life wouldn't amount to anything unusual. All that changes one day when finds himself in the middle of a bank robbery. He kicks into action and successfully foils the attempted caper. To his astonishment, Buck becomes an instant hero and learns that he's not an orphan after

It’s 1967 and 27-year-old Pan Am stewardess Susan Delaney’s highest aspirations are working first class on transatlantic flights… and meeting Mr. Right. That is, until one July afternoon when Susan agrees to deliver an errant suitcase from New York to Miami Beach. She arrives just in time to find that its owner has jumped â€" or been thrown â€" off a hotel balcony. The suitcase Susan is carrying contains detailed plans for a computer on a chip, an invention of enormous military importance but one! thought to be years away from reality. But whose plans are they? No one seems to know, but among the people who want those plans are the KGB, the CIA, an anti-Casto Cuban exile group, and the Mafia. Susan is recruited by Joe Klein, a handsome Israeli agent, who convinces her of the need to find the plans’ rightful owner. They embark on a round-the-country odyssey aided by Sadie, a grandmotherly El Al air marshal whose knitting bag packs a lethal arsenal. There's one disturbing thing that we as readers know from the outset: that by the end of the story, someone will be murdered. And the nature of the murder is such that Susan has kept it secret until today. The Accidental Spy moves across a fascinating mid-20th-century landscape that will be familiar to viewers of Mad Men. Susan tells her story with an infectious sense of humor that will keep you reading â€" and laughing â€" well into the evening.Dandy Dan McCracken is a rogue wandering around eastern Pennsylvan! ia during the American Revolution. Wounded and on the run from! the law , he's rescued and nursed to health by the lovely ward of Benedict Arnold's procurement officer. When the girl's husband returns from the front, McCracken falls in with British spies. He switches sides again as a result of love and becomes a hero, not through choice but circumstance.Dandy Dan McCracken is a rogue wandering around eastern Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. Wounded and on the run from the law, he's rescued and nursed to health by the lovely ward of Benedict Arnold's procurement officer. When the girl's husband returns from the front, McCracken falls in with British spies. He switches sides again as a result of love and becomes a hero, not through choice but circumstance.

Nathan Abercrombie is getting used to his rotten life as a half-dead zombie. The good thing is he doesn’t feel any pain. The bad thing is his body can’t heal, so he has to be really careful not to break anything. But that’s hard to do when his wrestling-obsessed gym teac! her, Mr. Lomux, matches him up with Rodney the bully, who’s looking for any excuse to break his bones. Then one day, Nathan is approached by the secret organization B.U.M.â€"aka the Bureau of Useful Misadventuresâ€"which offers him a cure in exchange for his help. Nathan jumps at the chance to become the world’s first zombie spy, but soon discovers that B.U.M. isn’t quite what it seems. Can Nathan trust them?

NOT EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL in Tabriz, as Greg Armstrong starts to discover. After witnessing a covert military operation, the dark underworld of international terrorism begins to engulf him. Only the strange expatriate community of Sabah stands between him and the Security Police.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jacqueline George lives in the far north of Queensland, Australia, on the shores of the Coral Sea. She writes about the things she loves - travel, landscapes, good food. And of course romantic, erotic sex, which also has to be exotic, romantic! , overwhelming and â€" above all â€" believable.NOT EVERYTHING! IS BEAU TIFUL in Tabriz, as Greg Armstrong starts to discover. After witnessing a covert military operation, the dark underworld of international terrorism begins to engulf him. Only the strange expatriate community of Sabah stands between him and the Security Police.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jacqueline George lives in the far north of Queensland, Australia, on the shores of the Coral Sea. She writes about the things she loves - travel, landscapes, good food. And of course romantic, erotic sex, which also has to be exotic, romantic, overwhelming and â€" above all â€" believable.It’s 1967 and 27-year-old Pan Am stewardess Susan Delaney’s highest aspirations are working first class on transatlantic flights… and meeting Mr. Right. That is, until one July afternoon when Susan agrees to deliver an errant suitcase from New York to Miami Beach. She arrives just in time to find that its owner has jumped â€" or been thrown â€" off a hotel balcony.
The suitcase Susan is carryin! g contains detailed plans for a computer on a chip, an invention of enormous military importance but one thought to be years away from reality. But whose plans are they? No one seems to know, but among the people who want those plans are the KGB, the CIA, an anti-Casto Cuban exile group, and the Mafia.
Susan is recruited by Joe Klein, a handsome Israeli agent, who convinces her of the need to find the plans’ rightful owner. They embark on a round-the-country odyssey aided by Sadie, a grandmotherly El Al air marshal whose knitting bag packs a lethal arsenal.
Through all this, you know an important fact: that before the story's events are completed, someone will be dead. You know this because, in 2011, Susan is being questioned by the police about a body buried in her back yard - a body that had been there since the mid-1960s. What you don't know is whose body it is, but it's a question you'll keep asking yourself as the story unfolds.
The Accidental Spy mov! es across a fascinating mid-20th-century landscape that will b! e famili ar to viewers of Mad Men. Susan tells her story with an infectious sense of humor that will keep you reading â€" and laughing â€" well into the evening.
It’s 1967 and 27-year-old Pan Am stewardess Susan Delaney’s highest aspirations are working first class on transatlantic flights… and meeting Mr. Right. That is, until one July afternoon when Susan agrees to deliver an errant suitcase from New York to Miami Beach. She arrives just in time to find that its owner has jumped â€" or been thrown â€" off a hotel balcony.
The suitcase Susan is carrying contains detailed plans for a computer on a chip, an invention of enormous military importance but one thought to be years away from reality. But whose plans are they? No one seems to know, but among the people who want those plans are the KGB, the CIA, an anti-Casto Cuban exile group, and the Mafia.
Susan is recruited by Joe Klein, a handsome Israeli agent, who convinces her of the need to find the plans’ rightfu! l owner. They embark on a round-the-country odyssey aided by Sadie, a grandmotherly El Al air marshal whose knitting bag packs a lethal arsenal.
Through all this, you know an important fact: that before the story's events are completed, someone will be dead. You know this because, in 2011, Susan is being questioned by the police about a body buried in her back yard - a body that had been there since the mid-1960s. What you don't know is whose body it is, but it's a question you'll keep asking yourself as the story unfolds.
The Accidental Spy moves across a fascinating mid-20th-century landscape that will be familiar to viewers of Mad Men. Susan tells her story with an infectious sense of humor that will keep you reading â€" and laughing â€" well into the evening.

Nathan Abercrombie is getting used to his rotten life as a half-dead zombie. The good thing is he doesn’t feel any pain. The bad thing is his body can’t heal, so he has to be really careful no! t to break anything. But that’s hard to do when his wrestlin! g-obsess ed gym teacher, Mr. Lomux, matches him up with Rodney the bully, who’s looking for any excuse to break his bones. Then one day, Nathan is approached by the secret organization B.U.M.â€"aka the Bureau of Useful Misadventuresâ€"which offers him a cure in exchange for his help. Nathan jumps at the chance to become the world’s first zombie spy, but soon discovers that B.U.M. isn’t quite what it seems. Can Nathan trust them?

Nathan Abercrombie is getting used to his rotten life as a half-dead zombie. The good thing is he doesn’t feel any pain. The bad thing is his body can’t heal, so he has to be really careful not to break anything. But that’s hard to do when his wrestling-obsessed gym teacher, Mr. Lomux, matches him up with Rodney the bully, who’s looking for any excuse to break his bones. Then one day, Nathan is approached by the secret organization B.U.M.â€"aka the Bureau of Useful Misadventuresâ€"which offers him a cure in exchange for his help! . Nathan jumps at the chance to become the world’s first zombie spy, but soon discovers that B.U.M. isn’t quite what it seems. Can Nathan trust them?

In the wake of the 2001 September eleventh terrorist attacks, the New York Times reported that the New York CIA station, headed by a woman, was located in a building of the World Trade Center complex. When the Trade Towers came down, the adjacent CIA office was destroyed as well. Business people and students going overseas were recruited by this CIA station to gather intelligence information while abroad. This is the story of one such person, the challenges he faced, and the affect of his longstanding relationship with the CIA Station Chief.Dandy Dan McCracken is a rogue wandering around eastern Pennsylvania and living by his wits in the middle years of the American Revolution. Through circumstance, he becomes a spy. Wounded and on the run from a sheriff, he’s rescued and nursed back to health by the lo! vely ward of Benedict Arnold’s procurement officer in Philad! elphia. McCracken is enamored of the girl, but when her husband returns from the American front, he flees and falls in with a band of British spies. He switches sides again when he discovers his conscience as a result of falling in love, and not because he favors one side over the other. His actions now â€" not through choice but again through circumstance â€" make him a hero.Coming right off the explosive success of RUSH HOUR and SHANGHAI NOON, action superstar Jackie Chan now delivers even more big-screen thrills! This time, Jackie Chan rises to the occasion in a fun-filled story about an ordinary guy about to kick into an action-packed adventure! Jackie plays a bored and unsuccessful salesman who never thought his life would amount to anything. All that changes one day when he becomes an instant hero by foiling an attempted bank robbery. But his newfound fame uncovers an even bigger surprise: Jackie is actually the latest in a long line of professional spies! Then, as he tr! avels to Turkey to meet the father he's never known, Jackie becomes entangled in a web of mystery and deceit that only he can unravel! Hilarious and endlessly thrilling, THE ACCIDENTAL SPY delivers everything you expect from big-screen favorite Jackie Chan!Jackie Chan returns to dazzling form! If you've watched Chan's Hollywood movies (Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon) and been unimpressed, The Accidental Spy is a good introduction to the astonishing fights and extraordinary stunts that make Chan's Hong Kong films such events. Chan plays an exercise-equipment salesman who turns out to be the missing son of a Korean double agent who's connected with drug lords in Turkey who have developed a super-addictive opium--got all that? The plot is largely nonsensical, a series of implausible escapades that frame the action; but what the movie lacks in logic, it makes up for in spectacle, ranging from a burning runaway truck cascading off a bridge to a stark-nake! d Chan pursued by thugs in a Turkish bazaar, defending himsel! f with e very implement in sight. This is why Jackie Chan is the biggest movie star in the world--check it out. --Bret Fetzer