To stop a terrorist bomber, you must become one. Preacher is back Lance Priest is unique. In his 24 years, he simply accepted that he was different, detached and deadly. He was recruited by the CIA three years ago to use his unusual talents and do things others can not or will not. Lance is a gifted liar, a human chameleon, an accomplished killer with the ironic nickname Preacher. He is THE PERFECT WEAPON to battle the nation's deadliest enemies. Love was never on his radar. Then he met Marta, a rogue KGB agent with death in her DNA. He realized in the moments after meeting and shooting her...

Ice-cold CIA spy Lance "Preacher" Priest is back. This time the world thinks he is dead. A dead Lance Priest is even scarier than a live one. He is a ghost, a phantom. He is THE PERFECT ANGEL. Lance believes that Marta, a lethal former KGB operative, and the only light in his dark life, has been killed. Without Marta anchoring him to reality, Preacher becomes a haunted creature of the night who only comes out to kill, to destroy. He is free to wreak his unique brand of havoc on a top-secret list of traitors who crossed the line. But that is not his ultimate mission. Only CIA legend Geoffrey...

Many scholars today believe that early Greek literature, as represented by the great poems of Homer and Hesiod, was to some extent inspired by texts from the neighbouring civilizations of the ancient Near East, especially Mesopotamia. It is true that, in the case of religious poetry, early Greek poets sang about their gods in ways that resemble those of Sumerian or Akkadian hymns from Mesopotamia, but does this mean that the latter influenced the former, and if so, how? This volume is the first to attempt an answer to these questions by undertaking a detailed study of the ancient texts in...