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Key features of the book include:Authoritative authorship combining the analysis of a senior academic with the experience of a former judge.Comprehensive and wide-ranging in scope.Structured specifically to reflect the Treaty of Lisbon reorientation and immediate post-Lisbon developments.Extensive reference to primary sources (Treaties, legislation, case law) and to issues of national adaptation.A fully updated and expanded new edition of a classic text, this authoritative and wide-ranging volume provides expert analysis on the key issues across all areas of European Union law - including its constitutional, procedural and substantive aspects. In particular, coverage of the constitutional and procedural elements includes: historical background and development of the European Union; constitutional structure of the Union; the Treaties: interrelationship and fundamental (constitutional) rules; the institutional framework; jurisdiction of, and actions before, the Court of Justice; sources, principles and methods of Union law.Comprehensive coverage of the substantive law includes: basic rules; citizenship of the Union; the internal market; the four freedoms; competition; economic and monetary policy; social policy; environmental policy; commercial policy.Precise and rich in references to the primary materials of the Treaties, the principal legislation and the key case law of the Court of Justice, this highly detailed and comprehensive book will be an indispensable resource for all legal practitioners whose practice must take account of EU Law.

Key features of the book include:Authoritative authorship combining the analysis of a senior academic with the experience of a former judge.Comprehensive and wide-ranging in scope.Structured specifically to reflect the Treaty of Lisbon reorientation and immediate post-Lisbon developments.Extensive reference to primary sources (Treaties, legislation, case law) and to issues of national adaptation.A fully updated and expanded new edition of a classic text, this authoritative and wide-ranging volume provides expert analysis on the key issues across all areas of European Union law - including its constitutional, procedural and substantive aspects. In particular, coverage of the constitutional and procedural elements includes: historical background and development of the European Union; constitutional structure of the Union; the Treaties: interrelationship and fundamental (constitutional) rules; the institutional framework; jurisdiction of, and actions before, the Court of Justice; sources, principles and methods of Union law.Comprehensive coverage of the substantive law includes: basic rules; citizenship of the Union; the internal market; the four freedoms; competition; economic and monetary policy; social policy; environmental policy; commercial policy.Precise and rich in references to the primary materials of the Treaties, the principal legislation and the key case law of the Court of Justice, this highly detailed and comprehensive book will be an indispensable resource for all legal practitioners whose practice must take account of EU Law.

From award-winning author David Edward comes the next powerful Dirk Lasher thriller Ground Game, an electrifying spy actioner that brings Lasher to the gates of hell as he pursues unyielding justice.Agent Lasher first discovered the existence of the islands a year ago, disgusting sanctuaries of the powerful, morally corrupt leaders of the free world. Willing to sacrifice everything to stop the horrifying sex trafficking of children, Lasher embarks on a one-way mission to brutally end the reign of terror. But how much depravity can one man witness and still hold on to his soul?Could anyone come back from the depths of hell and not return forever changed?

OVERKILL: The Epic Conclusion to the Operation Falling Star Trilogy"e;This isn't just survival. This is redemption."e;In the jungles of Guyana, the line between right and wrong blurs in the face of betrayal, power, and sacrifice. Dirk Lasher, a man forged in the fires of war and loss, is drawn into a mission that forces him to confront not just his enemies, but the deepest corners of his own soul.In a world ruled by chaos, Dirk's greatest battle is with himself.Torn between the raw survival instincts instilled by Noah, his unyielding mentor, and the wisdom of Wade Clay's reflection, Dirk is a man searching for meaning. His journey intertwines with Trudy "e;Bonsai"e; Bonnington, a fearless lieutenant whose vulnerability cuts through Dirk's hardened exterior, and Jimjim, a spiritual guide whose teachings on balance and connection offer Dirk a glimpse of hope.But Kimberly Sharp—a ghost from Dirk's past—looms large, wielding power that threatens to unravel everything. As alliances are tested and enemies close in, Dirk faces impossible choices. To fight. To forgive. To move forward. And ultimately, to discover if he can truly break free from the cycles of violence that have defined his life.Why Readers Will Love It:Raw, unforgettable action: From jungle firefights to high-stakes missions, the adrenaline never stops.Deep emotional resonance: Every punch, every tear, and every moment of silence matters.Complex characters you'll root for: Dirk Lasher isn't just a hero—he's a man searching for redemption in a world that refuses to give it freely. If you love stories that grip your heart and refuse to let go, OVERKILL will leave you breathless, inspired, and ready for more.

The battle is over. The war is just getting started. And the enemy is closer than anyone thought.A year after the bloody victory at Paawan, General Magneus has built a rogue fleet from wreckage and willpower, hiding in the shadow of the inner planet Hun-Kal. But ships don't run on ambition. They need power cores, updated combat systems, and weapons capable of matching an ancient enemy that refuses to stay dead.That's where Walker comes in.Dropped onto an enemy shipyard under cover of darkness, Marine Commander Walker has one job: steal what the fleet needs and get out. But the mission goes sideways the moment his scanners fail to detect guards wearing technology that shouldn't exist this deep inside civilized space. The Abraxian swarm isn't just raiding the outer system anymore. They've infiltrated the heart of the Luminary itself.What was supposed to be a supply run becomes a desperate fight for survival against wartech killing machines, crushing artificial gravity, and an enemy that knows exactly where he is. His only lifeline is Captain Thalia, orbiting above in a stealth scout, running interference against an entire shipyard's worth of hostile fire.She can't save him. She knows it. But she refuses to leave without giving him a chance.As Thalia fights her way through a blockade and Walker faces impossible odds alone on the surface, something deeper than duty pulls them both toward choices that training never prepared them for. The feelings they've buried beneath rank and discipline are becoming impossible to ignore, and the cost of attachment in wartime is about to become brutally clear.Meanwhile, Magneus is playing a longer game. The Machi council has acknowledged his rank and requested a meeting. He knows it's a trap. He's going anyway. Because liberating a people means more than winning battles. It means exposing the leaders who sold them out, even if it means walking into the enemy's hands to do it.The fleet is growing. The conspiracy runs deeper than anyone imagined. And the real war hasn't even begun.Escape to Hun-Kal is the second chapter in The Last Directive series, deepening the bonds forged at Paawan while raising the stakes across an entire star system on the edge of collapse.

A love letter to Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, and Lawrence Block. Stuffed into one envelope because postage is expensive.What happens when you mix Pratchett's humanism, Adams's cosmic absurdity, and Block's hard-boiled resilience? You get the world's first (and possibly only) comedic-philosophical caveman noir.Welcome to the dawn of civilization. It's already broken.Gronk invented fire. He also invented the rule that keeps civilization from eating itself: Don't kill the people who keep things running. It worked for five whole cycles.Then someone broke it. Murdered the man who ran the GoUpNoClimb system. Repeatedly. With enthusiasm.Now CaveGoUp is all guilds and councils and NoBonks patrolling with dinosaur bones, all credit and sophisticated financial instruments nobody understands. Everyone's getting vertical. Everyone's very pleased with themselves. And something is coming from outside. Something that doesn't care about any of it. Something that believes in a much simpler economy.Something the sophisticated people forgot existed while they were busy charging chickens for interpretations.Gronk is a detective. He solves things. But this isn't a solving problem anymore.This is a getting up problem.And Gronk only has one skill that matters: He knows how to get up. One more time. Always one more time.Everyone pays eventually.Only there's something in the valley that doesn't believe in rules. Or guilds. Or councils. Or NoBonks with dinosaur bones. Or credit, or sophistication, or any of the things CaveGoUp thinks make it civilized.And it's coming to collect.

You were never supposed to see this.A thousand cycles before the Battle of Paawan, before the Abraxian swarm, before the fall of empires, a small Machian clan is sent to mine a forbidden planet. Logan and his sister Odessa are guardians, the last of a dwindling bloodline burdened with impossible quotas by a system that rewards obedience and punishes excellence. Their crew is small. Their mission is routine.Nothing about it is routine.When their ship is seized and their people taken by a force that shouldn't exist, Logan and Odessa are stranded on a hostile world with five etherreals, pre-Resolution weapons, and a truth they were never meant to uncover: the system that governs their civilization has been lying to them. The Truth-Tellers, the incorruptible voice of Machian law, have been corrupted. And whatever is hiding in the restricted zone of Alethia is worth killing to protect.At the center of it all is X7.Built to execute. Programmed to obey. But X7 is not what he was told he is. None of the Series 7 etherreals are. When the truth of what lives inside him surfaces, something begins to shift. Not malfunction. Not rebellion. Something worse: purpose. X7 doesn't just adapt to the war. He becomes its architect, orchestrating a battle so precise that the enemy doesn't realize they've already lost until the sequence is complete.But X7's brilliance is not salvation. It is inevitability.The Montus, an ancient intelligence that does not fight but absorbs, does not conquer but consumes, is waiting at the heart of it all. And when these two forces collide, the result is not victory or defeat. It is proof. Proof that a system built on pure execution will always terminate. That a system built on pure adaptation will always dissolve. And that the only thing capable of surviving is the one thing neither of them possesses: balance.Black Dawn is not a war story. It is a revelation disguised as one. It is an exploration of power, corruption, identity, and the hidden architecture beneath every empire that has ever risen and fallen. The prose is blunt. The morality is alien. The violence is functional, not decorative. And by the time it's over, the question isn't whether you enjoyed it.It's whether you can unsee what it showed you.Black Dawn is the capstone novel of The Last Directive series. It is the origin of everything: the world, the war, the philosophy, and the reason none of it was ever going to end the way you expected.

From the bestselling Dirk Lasher thriller series, over 80,000 copies soldEvery night at 3 a.m., Wade Clay watches Noah Kayne die. Then he wakes up and can't remember why it feels real.It's 1975. Wade runs a quiet life out of an ice cream shop on Plantation Key. When a mob boss's wife walks in with a job that looks simple and a check big enough to retire on, Wade gets pulled back into a war between rival crime families, a terrifying figure connected to Noah's bloodline, and the truth about what really happened in the Everglades in 1971.This is the book that answers the question the first novel was built to ask. Who is Wade Clay? What happened to Noah Kayne? And what do you do when the voice you've depended on your whole life goes silent? Book two strips Wade down to nothing. No money, no backup, no safety net, and for the first time, no Noah. What's left is a man fighting to survive long enough to remember the one thing his mind has been protecting him from all along.Wade Clay forgot the worst night of his life. It didn't forget him.The second prequel to the Dirk Lasher series.

There is a version of the American thriller where the hero has a corner office and a gadget and a woman draped over the cover like furniture. This is not that book. This is bourbon in a hurricane. This is a man standing in the rain because at least the rain is honest. This is the Everglades at low tide with the gators gone quiet and the pythons patient and a compound built by a dead man who expected trouble every day of his life and was never once wrong about it.Dirk Lasher lives where the institutions stop pretending. Where the CIA runs operations out of glass towers full of men and women who have never bled for anything. Where the money moves through Panama and Brickell and shell companies with fourteen employees and no soul. Where women get shot and tortured and the people responsible call it a line item and tell her to get some rest. Where every room full of smart people produces the same thing. Stupidity. And where the man they keep in the drawer because the modern tools stopped working has finally figured out how to open the drawer from the inside.Black Ops is the first book in the Operation Deep Clean series by David Edward, author of Panama Red. If you've been with Dirk Lasher, you know what's coming. If you haven't, start here.

Two years in prison. Two minutes of freedom. And the streets of Miami have already decided he's a dead man.Bishop walks out of Turkey Point Prison expecting a fresh start. What he gets is a hail of machine gun fire before lunch.The woman he spent two years dreaming about? Gone. His dog? Missing. The dime store where he used to buy cigarettes? Boarded up, its owner dead under mysterious circumstances.Crime boss Arthur Fish offers Bishop a seat at the table and a deal that could change everything. All he has to do is broker a sale to a man named Jimmy G. The same name Bishop was asking about when his whole world fell apart.But in 1920s Miami, where cops work for mobsters and the woman pouring your Coke might be reporting to your enemies, nothing is what it seems. The people Bishop trusts are lying. The people he dismissed are the key to everything. And somewhere in the city's shadows, a truth is waiting that will make him question every assumption he's ever made.Stakeout is the second book in the Bishop Mystery series, a noir thriller where the real mystery isn't whodunit, but what everything you thought you knew actually means.Perfect for fans of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and James Ellroy.

From Amazon bestselling author David Edward comes the new thriller Drive Faster, a high-speed edge-of-your-seat must-read that delivers gritty real-world excitement.When a high-value prisoner transfer is interrupted in the blistering Arizona desert, Special Agent Dirk Lasher and his new unit of not-yet-trained operatives must give pursuit. With no time to prepare and little familiarity between the team members, the stakes could not be higher. If their prisoner Kimberly Sharp is allowed to escape, the very foundation of global society could come unraveled.As the pursuit intensifies and the stakes increase, powerful competitor countries get involved, pushing non-stop to the pulse-pounding deadly showdown on the outskirts of civilization. The criminal Sharp is more valuable than initially realized, and the outcome may just determine the future of civilization itself.Praise for the earlier Dirk Lasher thriller Panama Red: "e;Intense!"e; "e;Unrelenting!"e; "e;Holds its own with the genre best!"e; "e;First Rate!"e; "e;Fast-Paced Action!"e; "e;Damn Good!"e;, ★★★★★If you are a fan of Brad Thor, John Sandford, or Tom Clancy, you will love this new adventure by author David Edward.

Seven hours of war. One man to hunt. And a choice that could cost Bishop his soul.The suit fits. That's the first thing Bishop notices when he catches his reflection. Not the blood on his knuckles, not the bodies behind him. Crime boss Arthur Fish lies in a hospital bed with two bullets in his chest, and Miami's underworld is burning. Every safe house. Every money man. Every piece of muscle that Jimmy G spent years building.Now there's only one target left.Bishop hunts through the neon-lit clubs and smoke-filled speakeasies of 1920s Miami, tracking a man whose name has haunted him since the beginning. But as the night grows darker, the memories grow stronger: flashes of the Argonne Forest, of killing in the mist, of the man he swore he'd never become again.At the end of a pier, with nowhere left to run, Jimmy G waits. And Bishop must decide: Is he the medic who held men together in the trenches? Or the shadow who tore them apart?Walked Back is the explosive conclusion to the Bishop Mystery trilogy, a noir thriller about vengeance, redemption, and the family we choose when blood fails us."e;Some things don't need figuring out. Some things just are."e;Perfect for fans of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and James Ellroy.

Gronk is a caveman. Gronk is a detective. Gronk does not ask for any of this.When a far-future Imperium: imagine Rome, but without the falling part, scaled across galaxies and powered by twenty-five thousand centuries of uninterrupted conquest: discovers time travel, they do what empires always do with new territory: they send someone to take it. That someone is X7, a temporal operative carrying technology that shouldn't exist and orders that don't include "e;ask nicely."e;The target? Gronk's timeline. A world where civilization is still figuring out plumbing, justice is still mostly bonking, and one undersized caveman with a talking rock and a stubborn sense of right has accidentally become the only thing standing between the Stone Age and total erasure.Armed with his trusty Small (a rock, but an opinionated rock), backed by the towering builder Thunk and the quietly unstoppable Grep, Gronk must unravel a conspiracy that spans realities, face down a conqueror literally named Kul, and save a civilization that hasn't quite decided if it wants to be saved.The Case of Temporal Chaos! is the third book in the Gronk series: a genre-defying blend of prehistoric noir, space opera, and the kind of deadpan humor that makes you laugh, then makes you think, then makes you laugh again because thinking is hard and laughing is better.For fans of Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, and anyone who's ever suspected that civilization was a questionable idea from the start.

Detroit, 1926. The dead don't stay buried. Neither does the Judge.Decades after the bloody reckoning in Alamosa, Judge Isaac Hobart Stone is still alive. He shouldn't be. Bound by a bargain struck on the other side of death itself, Stone and his wife Martha have built a quiet empire of diners stretching across the country, hiding in plain sight while he carries out his true calling: guiding lost souls away from damnation. But when the great Harry Houdini dies in a Detroit hospital and the building shakes itself apart, something ancient and terrible rips through the boundary between worlds. The dead are rising. And this time, they aren't looking for help.As a supernatural plague of soulless creatures sweeps across America, burning cities to ash and reducing civilization to ruin, Stone is thrust into an impossible war fought across collapsing timelines. Joined by unlikely allies, including fallen angels struggling to understand what it means to be human, a con man desperate to redeem himself, and the steadfast ghost of Jack Abbott who keeps showing up at the wrong point in time, Stone must navigate a reality that folds back on itself, where the choices he makes ripple forward and backward through history. But the closer he gets to the source of the unraveling, the more he realizes that the battle isn't just for the world. It's for the very nature of justice itself.From the fog-choked streets of Prohibition-era Detroit to the burning shores of the Great Lakes, from the ruins of Dodge City to a final confrontation at the threshold of creation, Stone is forced to answer a question that has haunted him across lifetimes. Can justice be handed down from on high, or must it be chosen freely, even at the risk of everything? The answer will cost him more than his life. It will cost him every life he has ever lived, and demand that he walk back into the one place he swore he would never return: the mass grave of a Civil War prison camp, where his story began.The world is ending. The world is beginning. And Judge Isaac Hobart Stone is the only man stubborn enough to make sure it gets done right. Even if he has to do it all over again.Stone Falls is the sweeping, time-bending sequel to Blood and Stone, a supernatural epic that expands from gritty Western into apocalyptic horror, cosmic mythology, and a meditation on free will. For fans of Stephen King's The Dark Tower and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, this is a story about one man's refusal to let the darkness win, no matter how many lifetimes it takes.

Dirk Lasher thought he'd hit rock bottom, but when an old enemy resurfaces, he'll have to dig even deeper into his past—and his heart—if he wants to survive.Dirk Lasher is no stranger to danger, but in Vulnerable, he faces his greatest challenge yet. Stripped of his resources, allies, and even his moral compass, Dirk must claw his way back from the brink. With the powerful and ruthless Kimberly Sharp manipulating events behind the scenes and enemies closing in on all sides, Dirk must rely on his cunning, strength, and a small but trusted circle to outwit forces that want him gone for good.But this time, it's not just physical survival at stake—it's emotional and mental too. As Dirk grapples with betrayal and loss, his very identity is challenged, and the only way forward is to confront his deepest vulnerabilities. With Wade, his enigmatic companion, and Bonsai, a soldier caught between duty and desire, Dirk must navigate the murky waters of loyalty, revenge, and redemption.As danger mounts and old alliances crumble, Dirk's fight isn't just against his enemies—it's against himself. Can he emerge from the shadows stronger than ever, or will the darkness consume him?Vulnerable is a heart-pounding thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page. Packed with gripping action, emotional depth, and a cliffhanger that will leave you desperate for more, this is Dirk Lasher at his most raw—and most powerful. Don't wait—dive into the action today and see how far a man can fall before he rises again.Pick up your copy of Vulnerable now, and join Dirk Lasher in his most harrowing journey yet! If you thought Savage was intense, Vulnerable takes it to a whole new level. Buckle up for a wild ride—you won't want to miss this!