Bücher von Andrew Turpin

Water torture . . . A US army dam engineer is targeted in a Kremlin honeytrap and a Russian mole killed in Ukraine after passing on key information to the CIA. The question is why? Operative Jayne Robinson is asked to find out.As Moscow prepares to invade Ukraine, Robinson uncovers evidence of a Russian plot, masterminded by a mystery Kremlin puppet, to destroy a critical hydroelectric dam.But which one?As the young dam engineer disappears after hearing too much, apparently kidnapped by a dangerous Russian seductress, Robinson finds herself in a desperate race against time down the River Danube to locate him.Nothing is what it seems: Robinson is forced to take on spiraling risks-urged on by a US President who is preparing for a visit to Kyiv to support his Ukrainian counterpart.To make progress, Robinson gets involved in a high-stakes game of international poker with a top-level asset inside the Russian president's inner circle-who was recruited under coercion.But with the threat of a biblical-scale flood looming, can the asset now be trusted? Can Robinson find out which dam is at risk? Which shadowy figure is behind the plot to destroy it? And can her knife-edge operation to rescue the missing engineer succeed?The DAM KEEPER, book number five in the internationally top-selling Jayne Robinson series, is another gripping spy thriller with dramatic twists that will keep readers up deep into the night.

CIA checkmated . . . a defecting oligarch meets a grisly death in London over a game of chess. CIA investigator Jayne Robinson is sent to Moscow on a high-risk mission to find out why. And the US president prepares for a crisis summit as Russia grabs a chunk of Ukraine.The dead oligarch is apparently ready to pass on top secret information about the Kremlin's increasingly hostile plans and strategy. But he never gets the chance.Jayne Robinson is dispatched to Moscow to extract information from a highly-placed asset in Russia's foreign intelligence service.But the operation does not go to plan, and Robinson is left in a desperate battle not just to get what she needs, but for her personal survival.The ensuing game of diplomatic chess becomes highly personal for Robinson as she swiftly learns it's impossible to know who to trust-either on the other side, or on her own.She ends up delving deep for answers into the dirtiest and most dangerous corners of Russian and western European capital cities-as the US president fights to save his career.The Queen's Pawn, book number four in the best-selling Jayne Robinson series, is a nail-biting spy thriller with throwbacks to the Cold War and twists that will shock the reader.

Cardinal sins uncovered . . . The horrific killing of four cardinals on a quiet street in Washington, DC. Deadly threats and intrigue at the Vatican. And Jayne Robinson battling against an unknown enemy to find out the truth for a desperate pope.Intelligence operative Robinson is deployed by the CIA to discover why the American cardinals were murdered on their way to a top-level meeting at the White House-with a mysterious message to deliver.At the same time, a British cardinal and key ally of the pope asks Jayne to help with his own line of inquiry-before it's too late.The case becomes increasingly complicated as the Israeli intelligence agency, the Mossad, is sucked into the drama in a most unexpected way as the international political stakes rise.And tension mounts rapidly as Jayne fights for her life in the West Bank city of Ramallah against plotters ruthlessly determined to prevent the facts emerging.The Confessor, book number three in the Jayne Robinson series, is a gripping modern spy thriller with sharp twists that will stun the reader.

An authoritative reference to the whole area of source coding algorithms, Compression and Coding Algorithms will be a primary resource for both researchers and software engineers. The book also will be interest for people in broader area of design and analysis of algorithms and data structure. Practitioners, especially those who work in the software development and independent consulting industries creating compression software or other applications systems, in which compression plays a part, will benefit from techniques that are described. Compression and Coding Algorithms describes in detail the coding mechanisms that are available for use in data compression systems. The well known Huffman coding technique is one mechanism, but there have been many others developed over the past few decades, and this book describes, explains and assesses them. People undertaking research of software development in the areas of compression and coding algorithms will find this book an indispensable reference. In particular, the careful and detailed description of algorithms and their implementation, plus accompanying pseudo-code that can be readily implemented on computer, make this book a definitive reference in an area currently without one.The detailed pseudo-code presentation of over thirty algorithms, and careful explanation of examples, make this book approachable and authoritative. Compression and throughput results are presented where appropriate, and serve as a validation of the assessments and recommendation made in the text. The combination of implementation detail, thoughtful discussions, and careful presentation means that this book will occupy a pivotal role in this area for many years. In-depth coverage of the crucial areas of minimum-redundancy coding, arithmetic coding, adaptive coding make Compression and Coding Algorithms unique in its field.