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The Wayward Target
Susan Ouellette
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Evil Triumphs Only if Good Women Do NothingA year after hunting
down the terrorist who killed her fiancé, CIA analyst Maggie
Jenkins finds herself with a price on her head. In retaliation for
chasing and killing an elite member of a terrorist cell, Maggie now
is on the hitlist of the mastermind behind numerous terrorist
attacks. With Maggie's movements severely restricted by the
presence of a round-the-clock security detail, it's up to her boss,
Warner Thompson, and CIA officer Roger Patterson to find and
eliminate the terrorist who stalks her. But when a shadowy Russian
operative surfaces and presents Maggie with intel that might lead
her to the man who orchestrated her fiancé's death, she can no
longer watch from the sidelines. Is she willing to risk her growing
relationship with Roger, Warner's career, and her own life to
finally get justice and bring down a major terrorist cell?
This book explores the development of a provincial textile industry
in colonial America. Immediately after the end of the Great
Migration into the Massachusetts Bay colony, settlers found
themselves in a textile crisis. They were not able to generate the
kind of export commodities that would enable them to import English
textiles in the quantities they required. This study examines the
promotion of domestic textile manufacture from the level of the
Massachusetts legislature down to the way in which individual
communities organized individual productive efforts. Although other
historians have examined early cloth production in colonial homes,
they have tended to dismiss domestic cloth-making as a casual
activity among family members rather than a concerted community
effort at economic development. This study looks closely at the
networks of production and examines the methods that households and
communities organized themselves to meet a very critical need for
cloth of all kinds. It is a social history of cloth-making that
also employs the economic and political elements of Massachusetts
Bay to tell their story.
For the last three decades, social historians who studied early
America expanded older interpretations of colonial economy and
society to include family, social position and gender as legitimate
topical themes. During that same period, economic scholars have
used social historians' community and household studies to explore
rural self-sufficiency, the development of commercial agriculture
and the Atlantic sea trade. Despite the recent use if family
household economics to explore and explain colonial economy and
society, most have entirely neglected one of the most fundamental
early American industries: domestic textile production.
Colonial historians have previously used information about wool,
flax and hemp in broad based arguments about the productive side of
the colonial economy, yet few have considered textile production a
significant colonial economic activity. As a result,
textile-producing networks, construed as either economics or social
phenomenon, have largely gone unnoticed.
This study draws from a broad array of sources including the
probate inventories of Essex and Suffolk County, Massachusetts,
extant account books, trial transcripts, court records and material
culture. Combined with a working knowledge of cloth-making, those
records reveal that domestic textile production was a major form of
social organization, especially in early Massachusetts.
Textile-reproducing networks clearly served to draw households,
neighborhoods and regions together in particular ways. From the
processing of fibers to the finishing of cloth, intense cooperation
and an extensive system of corporate labor were key elements of
textile production. Simply put, no one gender or age
wasresponsible, rather a confluence of females and male as well as
young and old laborers were necessary to the ensure the success of
the industry.
The terrorist threat has changed. The consequences haven't. When
her fiancé, a CIA operative accused of treason, is killed
overseas, intelligence analyst Maggie Jenkins smells cover-up and
sets out to clear his name. Maggie disobeys direct orders and
travels to Tbilisi, Georgia, to follow a trail littered with
secrets and lies, corruption and deceit, risking her own life to
expose the terrorist threat at the intersection where the Russian
Mafia, Chechen rebels, Al Qaeda and ⦠US government officials
meet. From the halls of power in Washington, D.C. to the political
chaos of the former Soviet Union, Maggie must confront players from
the intelligence, political, and criminal worlds who will do
anything to stop her. How far will Maggie go to uncover the truth?
Revenge knows no deadline. Although told to stand down now that the
Chechen rebel who killed her fiancé is dead, CIA analyst Maggie
Jenkins believes otherwise and goes rogue to track down the
assassin. Soon it becomes clear that failure to find Zara will have
repercussions far beyond the personal, as Maggie uncovers plans for
a horrific attack on innocent Americans. Zara is the new face of
terrorism–someone who doesn't fit the profile, who can slip
undetected from attack to attack, and who's intent on pursuing a
personal vendetta at any cost. Chasing Zara from Russia to the
war-torn streets of Chechnya, to London, and finally, to the
suburbs of Washington, D.C., Maggie risks her life to stop a deadly
plot.
Revenge knows no deadline. Although told to stand down now that the
Chechen rebel who killed her fiancé is dead, CIA analyst Maggie
Jenkins believes otherwise and goes rogue to track down the
assassin. Soon it becomes clear that failure to find Zara will have
repercussions far beyond the personal, as Maggie uncovers plans for
a horrific attack on innocent Americans. Zara is the new face of
terrorism–someone who doesn't fit the profile, who can slip
undetected from attack to attack, and who's intent on pursuing a
personal vendetta at any cost. Chasing Zara from Russia to the
war-torn streets of Chechnya, to London, and finally, to the
suburbs of Washington, D.C., Maggie risks her life to stop a deadly
plot.
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