Tim Parker
1) Missing
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Peter Pickering, a British businessman working for the CIA, disappeared in Switzerland. His wife, Monique, asked detective Tom Powers to find him. Pickering, a distributor of components for durable goods, was recruited to stop the drain of United States' technology for use in weapons by terrorists. Peter's wife, Monique, hired Tom to find Peter, who failed to meet her in Amsterdam after a Zurich business trip.
Ultimately, Peter turned up with...
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Touchdown of Apollo 11 had many unknowns for the first lunar landing. Dodging the craters and boulders on the moon to land on a firm surface without totally running out of fuel for the return to Earth was a breathtaking experience.
The author recounts his press briefing to the world's journalists prior to the 1969 launch at Cape Kennedy, followed by how he became an aerospace engineer. Building a suit to protect the astronauts from the unknowns encountered...
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In 1939, young English naval signalman Geoffrey Holder-Jones began his career by surviving a German mine attack in the Thames estuary. World War II took him as naval officer to Iceland, the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, and the United States. Commissioned as a naval officer and given command of his own ship, Jones then patrolled the waters off Canada and Newfoundland before returning to Britain in 1944. This true story, written on the basis of...