Taylor Smith

A random predator is terrorizing Southern California. After children start disappearing, it's up to the FBI's finest to stop a killer. Criminal profiler Laurel Madden is at the top of her field. But being the best has its price which is why she understands the criminal mind so well. Reporter Claire Gillespie intends to rip away the veil of secrecy that surrounds and protects Madden. Claire has evidence that the FBI agent committed murder and got away with it--until now.

Random Acts

Best Of Enemies

Russ Miles

Stephen Giguere

Cloud native security isnâ??t a game for individual players. It requires team collaboration with a platform that can help cloud security engineers, developers, and operations people do their best work. Thatâ??s what the cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) delivers. With this practical guide, youâ??ll learn how CNAPPs can help you consolidate security through DevSecOps across cloud native technologies, practices, and application lifecycles. Through real-life attack scenarios, authors Russ Miles, Steve Giguere, and Taylor Smith help you explore how CNAPP not only mitigates multidimensional threats, but also reduces complexity and helps your team stay one step ahead of attackers. CNAPP provides a holistic approach to your cloud native development across identities, workloads, networks, and infrastructure. With this book, you will: Examine threats to different parts of the cloud native stack, including pipelines, supply chains, infrastructure, workloads, and applications Learn what CNAPP is and how it enables the context-sharing and collaboration necessary to secure your applications from development to runtime Assess your own attack surface from a code and runtime standpoint Identify blind spots in your existing cloud native security coverage Leverage CNAPP to achieve a holistic, collaborative security environment

Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms

Common Passions

In Hong Kong a beautiful woman is pushed off a balcony to her death. In London a young American is gunned down outside the U.S. embassy. In Washington a senior CIA official vanishes into thin air. Random, unrelated events? Or pieces of the same puzzle? These events are no accidents, it seems, when it is discovered that the woman in Hong Kong had a CIA lover. That the London murder was a case of mistaken identity, and that the intended target was the wife of CIA senior deputy Drum MacNeil, who has since gone missing. To find MacNeil, investigators are taking a close look at his past actions, public and private. And at his restless wife, Carrie, who is doing her best to play the part of the innocent victim, even though it's increasingly clear that Drum's life has been a carefully constructed lie. Carrie MacNeil is about to learn firsthand about the evil of treachery. And in this business there are no fair-trade rules. It's always a liar's market.

Liar's Market

Security specialist Hannah Nicks has one goal: earn enough money to regain custody of her son. The fastest way to accomplish that is to take on a covert, privately funded mission in the Middle East. But when the mission ends badly, she realizes the price of her risks: the loss of a young ally, the reward money and her reputation. Two years later Hannah is back in Los Angeles. When a chance encounter leads to the man who ruined her mission, Hannah plans to even the score. But she doesn't expect to unravel a tangled web of lies and treachery that could drag America to its knees. Her only ally is a cop who has burned a few too many bridges himself and understands that the odds are always better when you have nothing left to lose.

Slim to None

When her husband, a high-ranking CIA official, is murdered, Carrie MacNeil soon discovers that Drum had led a secret life of duplicity that has now made their young son the target of a faceless enemy who is bent on revenge.

A tranquil New England town is rocked to its core when a young college co-ed is linked to a devastating crime and then goes missing. Innocent or guilty, someone thinks she knows too much. One woman, who believes in the girl's innocence, is determined to find her before she's silenced--forever.

The Best of Enemies

The Night Café by Taylor Smith released on Jun 1, 2008 is available now for purchase.

The Night Café

On a cobbled street in old Vienna, an accident leaves David Tardiff a shadow of his brilliant self and his young daughter, Lindsay, severely injured. On a deserted highway in New Mexico, five of the world's leading scientists disappear in a burst of flames.

Guilt By Silence

Senior CIA analyst Mariah Bolt remembers her late father as the man who abandoned his family to run off to Europe with another woman. Ben Bolt's fans remember him somewhat differently, and revere him as a literary genius.

The Innocents Club

In Hong Kong a beautiful woman is pushed off a balcony to her death. In London a young American is gunned down outside the U.S. embassy. In Washington a senior CIA official vanishes into thin air. Random, unrelated events? Or pieces of the same puzzle?

On a cold winter night in a small Minnesota town in 1979, someone comes looking for Grace Meade. She is killed and her house is set ablaze. Incredibly, the prime suspect is her own daughter, Jillian.

Deadly Grace

THE NIGHT CAFE By Taylor Smith Between jobs and feeling financially strapped, gun–for–hire Hannah Nicks takes on an assignment that promises easy money and an all–expenses–paid vacation on the Mexican Riviera. Hired by her sister's friend, a gallery owner, Hannah sets out to transport a minor artist's painting to its buyer in Puerto Vallarta. But when Hannah arrives at the delivery point, she finds the tail end of a massacre and is nearly killed herself. She hides the painting, fearing it is not a meal ticket but a death warrant, and flees back to the States. But it only gets worse for her in L.A. The gallery owner has been killed, and Hannah is named as the murder suspect. In order to prove her innocence, she must hunt down the person who framed her...and uncover the secret of a deadly work of art.

The Night Cafe

A talented covert-ops specialist driven by a single, personal purpose, and a conspiracy that reaches from the darkest corners of the Middle East to the upper echelons of Washington Security specialist Hannah Nicks has one goal: earn enough money to regain custody of her son. The fastest way to accomplish that is to take on a covert, privately funded mission in the Middle East. But when the mission ends badly, she realizes the price of her risks: the loss of a young ally, the reward money and her reputation. Two years later Hannah is back in Los Angeles. When a chance encounter leads to the man who ruined her mission, Hannah plans to even the score. But she doesn't expect to unravel a tangled web of lies and treachery that could drag America to its knees. Her only ally is a cop who has burned a few too many bridges himself and understands that the odds are always better when you have nothing left to lose.

Spell: The RPG is a complete, original tabletop roleplaying game that makes use of six-sided dice and letter tiles. Players roll dice to complete tasks using their character's Impulses-twelve basic stats that describe a character's motivations to act. Players can also draw random letter tiles in order to spell out magic for their characters to cast. This unique system balances creativity and potential with fair and streamlined mechanics. Spell: The RPG front and back cover art by Nathalie Fourdraine.

The RPG

Spell

Between jobs and feeling financially strapped, gun-for-hire Hannah Nicks takes on an assignment that promises easy money and an all-expenses-paid vacation on the Mexican Riviera.

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