The book presents the complete text of the 1986 revised foundational documents of Soviet Communism, including the Programme and Party Rules. These changes were made in response to Gorbachev's initiative for radical and democratic reforms within the Party and the Soviet political system, highlighting a pivotal moment in Soviet history.
The new edition of this market-leading text brings together specially commissioned chapters by a team of top international scholars on the changing politics of this diverse region negotiating the competing pulls of the European Union and post-communist Russia.
Unbekannte haben ein Studentenwohnheim der Eliteuniversität in Yale in ihre Gewalt gebracht. Sie stellen keine Forderungen und verweigern jede Kommunikation mit dem Verhandlungsführer des FBI. Scheinbar wahllos ermorden sie Geiseln oder lassen diese frei. Der ehemalige Polizist Sam Purdy soll die Tochter einer Klientin aufspüren, die sich genau in diesem Studentenwohnheim aufhält. Durch Zufall entdeckt er ein Muster im Verhalten der Verbrecher. Doch das Genie, das hinter den Enführern steckt, ist Sam noch immer weit voraus.
After the shocking developments in Dry Ice, Colorado psychologist Alan Gregory is struggling to deal with his newly adopted son and repair his shaky, though generally improving, marriage. But then Alan’s ex-wife, Merideth, reappears, seeking help she feels only Alan can give. Suddenly Alan is pulled into a mystery that reaches back years to a camping trip at the Grand Canyon involving Merideth’s fiancé and five friends whose lives were changed forever when a young woman mysteriously vanished from the Canyon floor. Enlisting the help of friend and detective Sam Purdy, Alan finds himself pitted against new demons and unseen enemies as he tries to uncover the connection between the unexplained disappearance at the Grand Canyon and Merideth’s missing surrogate. The clock is ticking, and as Alan’s and Sam’s investigations take them from New York City to Los Angeles to the cavernous reaches of the Canyon itself, Alan unearths a series of secrets and deceptions that someone wishes to keep buried at all costs.
Alan Gregory and his family are targeted by Michael McClelland, a murderer who has escaped from the Colorado State Mental Hospital, a situation that is complicated by McClelland's detailed knowledge of Gregory's innermost secrets.
This authoritative work examines recent changes in Russia's relations with the EU and NATO and explores the patterns of support for these various orientations among its own elites and public.
In this "thinking person's thriller" (Jeffery Deaver), bestselling author Stephen White throws out everything readers think they know about twists, turns, and surprises as he introduces the Death Angels.
Hannah Grant had volunteered to cover Alan Gregory's practice over the Christmas period, but when he and another colleague called at her office they discovered her body, the cause of death not clear. Then on Christmas Day itself a fourteen-year-old girl is reported missing - eight years to the day after another missing child had been discovered murdered - a girl who had she lived would have been fourteen. Then it emerges that the parents of the latest missing girl had been treated by Alan some years ago, and recently the girl herself had consulted Hannah. Could any of these tangential connections prove to be links to both deaths and the missing girl, or are they mere coincidences? And should Alan break the seal of patient/doctor confidentiality if the few strands of knowledge he has can throw light on any of these mysteries?
From the deadly danger that stalks Alan's family and career to the risks that Sam Purdy takes with his life, from the bonds that hold men and women together to the betrayals that tear them apart, Stephen White weaves together the threads into a chilling, terrifying story: the most intoxicating Alan Gregory thriller yet.
Tom Clone was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the brutal murder of a vivacious young woman. Now, thirteen years later, the evidence uncovered by a brilliant FBI agent reveals that Tom is innocent. When psychologist Alan Gregory is called in to ease Tom's return to life beyond bars, the young man's treatment will become one of the darkest, most menacing cases of Alan's career, one that will take him on a journey into the treacherous Colorado mountains, into the dark closets of a woman's disturbing past, and finally into the back alleys of Gregory's own mind. Is vengeance justified in the face of injustice and tragedy? The answer may rest in the mind, in the heart, or in the hard facts. In THE BEST REVENGE, the answers come in a shattering climax that could only have been written by a storyteller with a rare insight into the human psyche.