David Tolfree - Böcker

Micro-nanotechnologies (MNT) are already making a profound impact on our daily lives. New applications are well underway in the US, Asia, and Europe. However, their potentially disruptive nature, along with the public’s concerns, has produced a number of challenges. Commercializing Micro-Nanotechnology Products provides a snapshot of the current market situation and details the need for MNT development. It outlines the problems facing today’s businesses and discusses the processes for commercialization, road mapping, technology transfer analysis, and entrepreneurial development.The book begins by detailing the steps required to turn an idea into a marketable product. The editors give examples of previously successful products and relate to their own experiences in development. Next, the text focuses on the importance of entrepreneurship and the required steps to finance and develop a marketing strategy. It contains various definitions of nanotechnology and how each relates to roadmap and production issues. Three detailed case studies from the leading MNT development and manufacturing companies describe how each venture started and progressed to become a market leader. These studies offer valuable insight into overcoming the challenges related to achieving financial backing and specifying the right product for development. This reference provides the only insightful appraisal of the current status of micro-nanotechnology products. It describes a concise process for product commercialization, from market research to end product realization. Commercializing Micro-Nanotechnologies provides a clear strategy for choosing the right product to development and overcoming challenges in the growing global market.

This fast-moving political thriller about conspiracy, intrigue, terrorism and murder takes the reader back from the late 1990s to the political upheavals in the 1930s that led to the Second World War and the momentous 1945 Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in the US. In 1999, Paul Cane, a freelance investigative journalist, uncovers secret documents in a Cotswolds cottage written by a dead nuclear physicist which reveal the existence of a secret organization named the New Order that is bent on world domination. It is conspiring with al-Qaeda to destroy New York and London on the eve of the millennium.Cane accepts an invitation to an international press conference at the White House in Washington where he is duped by the CIA into working with them. At the conference Cane meets Valerie Day, who eventually becomes the love of his life. Since the documents Cane possesses contain the coded names of leading members of the New Order, he becomes their murder target. With the help of US agents and a veteran nuclear scientist, he embarks on a mission to discover their identities and the secret behind the millennium bomb plot. With the threat of destruction of two capital cities and millions of lives at risk, it’s a race against time to find the bombs and those responsible.This exciting story with its many characters has twists and turns that will hold the reader to the last page. It has a tentative connection to the 2022 Russian attack on Ukraine.What is the Millennium Secret?Who are the real conspirators?

Another Paul Cane thriller with surprises in every chapter. In this story, which is a sequel to The Millennium Secret, Paul Cane is the only survivor from a plane that is blown up by a terrorist bomb over the estuary of the river Thames. Al-Qaeda is suspected of being responsible but intelligence reports received by the CIA and MI6 after the event indicate that a Russian terrorist group could be to blame. After recovering from his injuries, Cane vows retribution for the death of his wife and the other aircraft passengers. The covert search by MI6 and the US Counter Terrorist Unit for those responsible uncovers a web of criminal and political conspiracy which lead to murder and further acts of terrorism. It also reveals an al-Qaeda plan which eventually results in terrorists high-jacking planes and flying them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington on 11 September 2001. Who is really behind the London plane bomb? Why does the Head of MI6 take a personal interest in the search? Why has the FBI not arrested suspected al-Qaeda terrorists? What secrets do the US President and British Prime Minister share? Retribution, murder, intrigue, assassination and political conspiracy, all underpin this exciting page-turning thriller that takes the reader up to and beyond 9/11.

The international journalist, Paul Cane, is sent to Iraq early in 2003 by a US magazine to write about the situation developing in the country. He finds himself again unwittingly caught up in the intrigues of British and American politics and their respective secret services after he agrees to act as unofficial agent to verify the existence of weapons of mass destruction. In the UK, Cane is drawn into mysteries surrounding the deaths of two biochemists, one of whom had been a UN weapons inspector in Iraq, and the theft of a deadly anthrax virus from the Biochemical Warfare Defence Establishment at Porton Down. An MI6 agent disappears while on a mission in Israel investigating the sale of Russian-made atomic bombs thought to be destined for Iraq. The seller, who was close to the Russian President, possesses a secret that could destroy the integrity of the British Prime Minister and the presidents of America and Russia. He escapes to Australia hotly pursued by US and Russian agents. An extreme right-wing group in Washington who want to extend the Iraq War, conspire to replace the US President. A mole in the UK Counter-Terrorist Group reveals Cane’s real mission to the Iraqis forcing him to find an escape route from the country. He is helped by unexpected sources. Does Paul Cane discover weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? What happened to the stolen anthrax viruses? What secret does the Russian possess? Why does the group want to replace the US President? Who are the sources helping Cane escape?