Crosshairs of Evil


Book Description

During the 2016 presidential campaign, numerous high-level officials within the U.S. Government hated Donald Trump. They were shocked and horrified when Trump won the election over their favored candidate, Hillary Clinton. A "Resistance" movement against Trump arose involving many high-level government officials -- including departing President Obama and his team. The Resistance members feared President-Elect Trump's designee as National Security Advisor, Lt. General Michael Flynn. Flynn had worked in intelligence for 33 years. He was a decorated combat veteran. More important to The Resistance, Flynn was a sophisticated user of intelligence. He knew where classified information was kept, knew how to access it, and knew how to interpret it. Flynn inevitably would uncover "Operation Crossfire Hurricane," the rogue FBI investigation of Donald Trump, his campaign, his advisors, his Transition Team, and later even his presidency. And Flynn would uncover The Resistance. He had to be stopped, even if those who would become The Resistance had been unable to thwart Trump's presidential bid. "Crosshairs of Evil" tells the true story of how the FBI, the Justice Department, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and later Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his band of marauders, investigated and prosecuted General Flynn, eventually coercing Flynn into resigning. Still later, The Resistance forced Flynn into pleading guilty to a crime he believed he did not commit -- lying to FBI agents in a "perjury trap" ambush interview. This book reveals how a biased federal judge, Emmet Sullivan, became obsessed with sending Flynn to prison for something, anything. And it tells the story of how Flynn's new defense counsel, Sidney Powell and her team, fought to undo the injustices inflicted on Michael Flynn, and save him from the clutches of Judge Sullivan. It also explains how a presidential pardon by President Trump ultimately put an end to Michael Flynn's tragic legal odyssey. This sordid affair must never be allowed to happen again.




Through the Crosshairs


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Now that it has become so commonplace, we rarely blink an eye at camera footage framed by the crosshairs of a sniper’s gun or from the perspective of a descending smart bomb. But how did this weaponized gaze become the norm for depicting war, and how has it influenced public perceptions? Through the Crosshairs traces the genealogy of this weapon’s-eye view across a wide range of genres, including news reports, military public relations images, action movies, video games, and social media posts. As he tracks how gun-camera footage has spilled from the battlefield onto the screens of everyday civilian life, Roger Stahl exposes how this raw video is carefully curated and edited to promote identification with military weaponry, rather than with the targeted victims. He reveals how the weaponized gaze is not only a powerful propagandistic frame, but also a prime site of struggle over the representation of state violence.




Crosshairs (Natchez Trace Park Rangers Book #3)


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Investigative Services Branch (ISB) ranger Ainsley Beaumont arrives in her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, to investigate the murder of a three-month-pregnant teenager. While she wishes the visit was under better circumstances, she never imagined that she would become the killer's next target--nor that she'd have to work alongside an old flame. After he almost killed a child, former FBI sniper Lincoln Steele couldn't bring himself to fire a gun, which had deadly and unforeseen consequences for his best friend. Crushed beneath a load of guilt, Linc is working at Melrose Estate as an interpretive ranger. But as danger closes in on Ainsley during her murder investigation, Linc will have to find the courage to protect her. The only question is, will it be too little, too late? Award-winning author Patricia Bradley continues her Natchez Trace Park Rangers series with a story about how good must prevail when evil just won't quit.




The Story of Everything


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Most of life is mundane: work, school, home, TV, church, sleep, repeat. Sometimes it seem as if there's no point to our "normal" lives. But what we must remember is that we're actually part of something huge: God's story—the greatest story ever told. In The Story of Everything, Jared Wilson takes readers on a journey that starts before the creation of the world and ends after everything has been made new. Wilson shows us that the gospel isn't just a ticket to heaven but God's incredible and unstoppable vision for all of creation. Looking at God's redemptive plan for humanity, this book will help you understand what the gospel means for your life, your home, your pets, your hobbies, and more.




The Cross in Contexts


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Why did Jesus die? And in what ways did his crucifixion offer redemption to the world? Those questions, which lie at the heart of Christian faith, remain a pressing concern for theological reflection. What sets this work apart is that the authors -- a Palestinian theologian from Bethlehem and a New Testament scholar from the United States -- explore the meaning of the cross in light of both first and twenty-first century Palestinian contexts. Together, their insights coalesce around themes that expose the divine power of the cross both for Jesus' first followers and for contemporary readers alike.




Billons


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When the Devil separated his soul from himself, hiding it in his anti-world, the Creator realised that He wouldn’t be able to change the fate of the genius of evil. It would only be possible to save the human soul from the truth of God’s outcast by the means of an event which would reveal a saviour to the people. This event provided people with their last chance to turn to the truth, disclosing to them the path to Heaven. Universal evil was late in solving the event’s mystery – but he carried away the strength from God’s house, and mankind was forced to live in false truth and in visible, but not genuine, happiness.Why didn’t the Creator save man’s soul from evil permanently? This is the eternal question of those that are lost between good and evil, in the search of the meaning of their own fates. The Creator is silent; He has already given people more than everything; He has endowed them with truth and revealed the saviour, but people haven’t realised that this truth is not exchangable. Salvation won’t come to them, as long as men turn themselves into billons...




The Scinegue Trilogy


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A collection of the first three books in the Scinegue Series: The Secret, The Pledge, and The Forest. No one doubts there is evil in our world: Murder, theft, greed. But not many consider the source of that evil might walk among us. The Secret: Good and Evil have always been at war, and this time Evil might just win. One small mishap is about to change Billy Roth's life forever. Decoding information about a eugenics program currently in the works opens Billy's eyes to the fact that eugenics isn't a long-dead religion as many believe, it's alive and thriving, and with something truly evil backing it, this time it might just succeed. Billy and his wife Sarah are drawn right into the middle of the unfolding plot to destroy all imperfect people for reasons neither of them could have ever imagined--Billy is the product of a eugenics experiment! Billy and Sarah come across two distinct lines of thought when it comes to perfecting the world's population; one chooses to do all it can to improve humanity while the other is set to purge it. The Pledge: Scinegue's lead Protector, Mary Sinclair, has her hands full with the evil that is once again plaguing Scinegue, so the last thing she needs is an attraction to a man who knows nothing about true evil, demon cats, or Protectors. But that's exactly what she gets. Will he be a distraction that costs her her life? Or will they get a chance at happily-ever-after? If evil has its way, there will be no happily-ever-afters. The Forest: A wonderful invention becomes a potentially deadly trap. Billy Roth and the other Tops and Protectors work hard to release Bradley and Nicole from the Picture they've been locked within, while at the same time fighting the Darkness that has once again set Its sights on Scinegue. Christian Fiction suspense/supernatural




In a Sniper's Crosshairs


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From USA TODAY bestselling author Debby Giusti An assassin’s loose in Amish country… and she’s not the only target. When a radio broadcast describes taxi driver Lily Hudson’s passenger as an armed criminal, she becomes his immediate target. Narrowly escaping, Lily accepts Matthias Overholt’s offer to hide at his Amish family farm for Christmas—until evidence reveals the gunman’s plan is tied to Lily’s past. Now to prevent an assassination, Lily and Matthias must unravel a years-old conspiracy…and evade a sniper who has them in his sights. From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.




The Way of Abundance


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What do you do when you wake up and feel like you're not enough for your life? Or when you look out the kitchen window as dusk falls and wonder how do you live when life keeps breaking your heart? As Ann Voskamp writes, “great grief isn't meant to fit inside your body. It's why your heart breaks.” And each of us holds enough brokenness to overflow—to be given as the greatest story of our lives. In sixty vulnerably soulful stories, The Way of Abundance moves from self-weary brokenness to Christ-focused givenness. Drawing from the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestseller The Broken Way and Ann's online essays, this devotional dares us to embrace brokenness as a gift that moves us to givenness as a way to draw closer to the heart of God. Christ Himself broke like bread, giving Himself to us so we might have a lifelong communion with Him. Could it be that our brokenness is also a gift to the world? This gentle but exquisitely profound book does nothing less than take you on an intimate journey of the soul. As Ann writes, "The wound in His side proves that Jesus is always on the side of the suffering, the wounded, the busted, the broken." Discover how surrendering in unexpected ways is the first step toward receiving what you long for. Discover the good news that your beauty is not in your strength but in your fragility. Discover why your healing shines radiant through your wounds—and how only in brokenness will you ever be whole—and find the way to the abundance you were meant for.




The Encyclodedia of Christianity, Vol. 5


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Written by leading scholars from around the world, the articles in this volume range from sin, Sufism and terrorism to theology in the 19th and 20th centuries, Vatican I and II and the virgin birth.