Poseidons Curse

The time-traveling sub USS Janus returns to Agamemnon's realm. Lieutenant Zach Bacon and his fire team resume their aborted mission of discovering the history hidden within the Greek myths. Their quest leads them into the lair of the Hydra, which holds a clue to a still deeper mystery: a legendary curse by Poseidon on the land of Argolis. Deep inside the cisterns of Tiryns, the home of Heracles, the four SEALs find the source of life-giving water and experience the meaning behind Poseidon's nickname of Earth Shaker.excerpt: I can't remember whether I screamed or not. If I did, the sound was lost in the thundering of rock and water. With a wrenching, grinding roar, the steps heaved upwards, throwing me heavily into the tunnel wall. A second violent convulsion pitched me downward onto my knees, back toward the well's chamber, and I slammed the opposite wall with shoulder and chest as I toppled. Instinctively, I wrapped both arms around my head, expecting a rain of stone at any second. The earth roared and heaved again, and a heavy, struggling weight landed on me, driving the breath out of my lungs as it slid: Morgan. I twisted frantically and clutched at him to check his downward plunge: failed, and felt my forearm explode into pain and numbness as it caught the edge of a flailing boot. That quickly, he was gone, lost in the rush of cold water that surged over me. The deafening blast of the well-turned-fountain and the rumble of stone grinding against stone muted suddenly as water filled my ears and pulled me down.

An investigation of the Atlantic origins of the American Revolution, focusing on the British navy's impressment of American ships and mariners.

Half man, half god, Hercules is the most famous hero of ancient Greece. Possessed of enormous strength, the son of Zeus roams the world in search of adventure, sharing the glories of a bygone age with such legendary comrades as Jason of the Argonauts and the proud warrior woman, Atalanta. Prepare yourself for wonders, O mortals, as the Quest for the Golden Fleece begins once more.... The Wrath of Poseidon The fabled city of Troy has incurred the mighty anger of Poseidon, god of the seas, who calls forth from the ocean depths a fearsome creature to destroy the city. Only the sacrifice of the beautiful Princess Almacea can lift Poseidon's curse--unless Hercules and his companions can slay the dreaded and unstoppable sea monster! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

For every gift there is a price, even for the gods. Medusa and Poseidon have nurtured their secret love for one another for years, until one fateful day, they succumb. But for that moment of bliss, the price is steep indeed. Can Poseidon save the woman he loves from a curse that will mean death to them both?

BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH is the first volume in a monumental trilogy tracing the Akinya family across more than ten thousand years of future history ... out beyond the solar system, into interstellar space and the dawn of galactic society. One hundred and fifty years from now, in a world where Africa is the dominant technological and economic power, and where crime, war, disease and poverty have been banished to history, Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his studies into the elephants of the Amboseli basin. But Geoffrey's family, the vast Akinya business empire, has other plans. After the death of Eunice, Geoffrey's grandmother, erstwhile space explorer and entrepreneur, something awkward has come to light on the Moon, and Geoffrey is tasked - well, blackmailed, really - to go up there and make sure the family's name stays suitably unblemished. But little does Geoffrey realise - or anyone else in the family, for that matter - what he's about to unravel. Eunice's ashes have already have been scattered in sight of Kilimanjaro. But the secrets she died with are about to come back out into the open, and they could change everything. Or shatter this near-utopia into shards ...

"How did Albert Einstein come up with his world-changing theories of light and time? Did he explore spiritual realms and other dimensions, go back to an ancient lifetime on Atlantis, and escape the clutches of a giant evil, human-dragon who was after his compass? Did his supernatural compass guide his discoveries?"--

After walking away from the ECHO team, THE CURSE OF MEDUSA finds Joe Hawke in America when the President of the United States is kidnapped and Washington DC comes under the worst attack in American history. Meanwhile, Lea Donovan receives terrible information about her father's death and must travel alone from Elysium to Ireland to find the truth about what happened on that darkest day of her childhood when he was brutally killed. From the Idaho mountains to Washington DC to New York City, Hawke must fight against the forces of darkness to rescue the President from a truly terrible fate and stop a man who will do anything to take his revenge and destroy America in the most horrifying way imaginable. In Hawke's darkest, fastest challenge yet he struggles through the night to restore peace to America and bring the President safely back to the White House, and along the way he realizes what's truly important to him.

Poseidon, the god of the sea, was the brother of Zeus. He shared many similarities with his brother, especially his appearance. Yet while Zeus sometimes displayed a playful and humorous side, Poseidon always seemed moody, morose, and even downright angry. Poseidon's prickly personality made him a god to be avoided, both by mortals and by other gods. Yet as ruler of the waters, Poseidon was an important deity for the Greeks, particularly since much of their life revolved around the sea. While it was a good idea to avoid Poseidon, it was also necessary to keep him happy.

This maritime history "from below" exposes the history-making power of common sailors, slaves, pirates, and other outlaws at sea in the era of the tall ship. In Outlaws of the Atlantic, award-winning historian Marcus Rediker turns maritime history upside down. He explores the dramatic world of maritime adventure, not from the perspective of admirals, merchants, and nation-states but from the viewpoint of commoners—sailors, slaves, indentured servants, pirates, and other outlaws from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Bringing together their seafaring experiences for the first time, Outlaws of the Atlantic is an unexpected and compelling peoples’ history of the “age of sail.” With his signature bottom-up approach and insight, Rediker reveals how the “motley”—that is, multiethnic—crews were a driving force behind the American Revolution; that pirates, enslaved Africans, and other outlaws worked together to subvert capitalism; and that, in the era of the tall ship, outlaws challenged authority from below deck. By bringing these marginal seafaring characters into the limelight, Rediker shows how maritime actors have shaped history that many have long regarded as national and landed. And by casting these rebels by sea as cosmopolitan workers of the world, he reminds us that to understand the rise of capitalism, globalization, and the formation of race and class, we must look to the sea.