What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love?

It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War. Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant and talented, but she's also a black woman working in an all-white boys' club, and her career has stalled with routine paperwork - until she's recruited to a shadowy task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic, revolutionary president of Burkina Faso, whose Communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention.

In the year that follows, Marie will observe Thomas, seduce him, and ultimately, have a hand in the coup that will bring him down. But doing so will change everything she believes about what it means to be a spy, a lover, and a good American.

A significant number of important diseases, some of which are arriving at epidemic levels, such as diabetes and macular degeneration, produce, and therefore are correlated to, retinal anomalies. In this book, the authors present current research in the study of retinopathy, including nodavirus infection in viral encephalopathy and retinopathy; diabetic retinopathy in India; isoproterenol therapy improves neuronal function, vascular integrity and insulin receptor signalling in diabetic retinopathy; retinopathies and associated deafness; image mining approaches for the screening of age-related macular degeneration and diagnosis of retinal anomalies by statistical tests on OCT data.

After nineteen extraordinarily happy years together, culminating in a beautiful country property, good friends, a successful business and four gorgeous children, Lauren suddenly becomes aware that something is very, very wrong. Her loving, devoted, adoring husband, John, seems "different" and for the first time ever their relationship is troubled. What is revealed, utterly and profoundly shatters Lauren's idyllic world, in a way she never ever believed possible. Traumatised, terrified and desperately fighting for her survival, Lauren shares her journey of pain, recovery, healing and personal growth that comes from being 'smashed to pieces' by an unexpected life crisis. But change is in the air, and forgiveness may be the key to a new beginning.......... This is a true story - honest, heartfelt and inspirational. This is Lauren's story.