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The Hells Angels. The Bandidos Asian triads. Russian mobsters and corrupt cops. Even the KKK. Just part of a day’s work for Alex Caine, an undercover agent who has seen it all.

Alex Caine started life as a working-class boy from Quebec who always thought he’d end up in a blue-collar job. But after a tour in Vietnam and a stretch in prison on marijuana-possession charges, he fell into the cloak-and-dagger world of a contracted agent or “kite”: infiltrating criminal groups that cops across North America and around the globe were unable to penetrate themselves.

Thanks to his quick-wittedness and his tough but unthreatening demeanour, Caine could fit into whatever unsavoury situation he found himself. Over twenty-five years, his assignments ran the gamut from bad-ass bikers to triad toughs. When a job was over, he’d slip away to a new part of the continent or world, where he would assume a new identity and then go back to work on another group of bad guys.

Told with page-turning immediacy, Befriend and Betray gives a candid look behind the scenes at some familiar police operations and blows the lid off others that law enforcement would much prefer to keep hidden. And it offers an unvarnished account of the toll such a life takes, one that often left Caine to wonder who he really was, behind those decades of assumed identities. Or whether justice was ever truly served.


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Young Elizabeth Balcombe, or Betsy to friends and family, found life on the remote island of St Helena intolerably dull. Most fourteen-year-olds would. Her father had been posted to that unforgiving station in the Atlantic and, being a family man, he took his family with him.

Life was bleak in Balcombe's bungalow on the fringe of James Town. But then, in October 1815, the situation was transformed by the arrival of an unusual visitor. Napoleon Bonaparte, one-time master of Europe, now prisoner and exile, stepped ashore. The Balcombes, like all the islanders, were amazed. And even more so when Napoleon, taking a fancy to their bungalow (the Briars) moved in with them. Betsy, overcoming her surprise at sharing her home with an emperor, delighted in his company and the two became firm friends.

Miss Betsy Balcombe made the most of her time with the world's most famous prisoner, keenly observing all around her, noting down conversations, recording moods. The result is a unique set of memoirs which records in astonishing detail an almost unbelievable story. That of how a precocious teenager and an emperor talked, argued, played, confided and teased their way through grim years of exile on the barren rock of St Helena.

This attractive, illustrated edition brings this remarkable story back to life..
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A million messages bombard us everyday about what our body should look like and how we should feel about it. It's time to get beyond those relentless TV messages that day-after-day insist that to be happy we need a new body -- a perfect one.

In God Knows You'd Like a New Body the authors argue that what we really need to do is to make friends with the body we've got -- no matter how flat-or fleet- footed, bald or bushy headed, slim or portly we are. Otherwise we can become so obsessed with our imperfections that our body becomes our enemy.

Utilizing stories of persons who have affirmed their body-self, this inspiring, practical book spells out not only why we should befriend our body but practical ways to avoid the "perfection trap."

Tune out the TV messasge that happiness is reserved for the perfect. The message here is that the body is wonderful, miraculous, amazing and sacred. It may not be perfect but as God said when creating it: "It is good!"

* About the GOD KNOWS Series… Through shared stories, thoughtful insights, and practical suggestions, each title in the God Knows series offers clarity, comfort, and encouragement as we move through the twists and turns of life's journey..
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The Wings of the Dove is a 1902 novel by Henry James. One of the masterpieces of James' final period, this novel tells the story of Milly Theale, an American heiress stricken with a serious disease, and her impact on the people around her. Some of these people befriend Milly with honorable motives, while others are more self-interested.

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It is not by looking into the light that we become luminous, but by plunging into the darkness " - Carl G. Jung What is your shadow? The shadow is everything that we have driven back into the unconscious for fear of being rejected by people who played a determining role in our upbringing. Afraid we would lose their affection if we disappointed them, we soon learned to discern what was acceptable in their eyes and what was not. To please them, we eagerly relegated large portions of ourselves to the faraway realms of the unconscious. Is your shadow your friend or your enemy? That will depend entirely on how you view your shadow and how you interact with it. At first it will appear to be your enemy, but gradually you can welcome and befriend it. That is the challenge this book presents, the challenge of welcoming and befriending your shadow. Failing to do risks its unexpected upsurge with negative consequences. Each chapter of How to Befriend Your Shadow begins with a story through which the reader can get an intuitive grasp of the ideas to be developed. Then Monbourquette uses examples from real life as well as interactive exercises to invite the reader to take an active part in his or her own personal growth. With his help, we can discover this hidden treasure within us and transform it into a creative force to achieve a more fulfilling life. John Monbourquette's uniquely heartfelt explorations of our emotional lives have helped countless readers around the world understand themselves better and continue their emotional and spiritual growth despite life's challenges..
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Book DescriptionThe Hells Angels. The Bandidos Asian triads. Russian mobsters and corrupt cops. Even the KKK. Just part of a days work for Alex Caine, an undercover agent who has seen it all.Alex Caine started life as a working-class boy from Quebec who always thought hed end up in a blue-collar job. But after a tour in Vietnam and a stretch in prison on marijuana-possession charges, he fell into the cloak-and-dagger world of a contracted agent or kite: infiltrating criminal groups that cops across North America and around the globe were unable to penetrate themselves. Thanks to his quick-wittedness and his tough but unthreatening demeanour, Caine could fit into whatever unsavoury situation he found himself. Over twenty-five years, his assignments ran the gamut from bad-ass bikers to triad toughs. When a job was over, hed slip away to a new part of the continent or world, where he would assume a new identity and then go back to work on another group of bad guys.Told with page-turning immediacy, Befriend and Betray gives a candid look behind the scenes at some familiar police operations and blows the lid off others that law enforcement would much prefer to keep hidden. And it offers an unvarnished account of the toll such a life takes, one that often left Caine to wonder who he really was, behind those decades of assumed identities. Or whether justice was ever truly served. About the AuthorAlex Caine now acts as an adviser on biker investigations, and speaks frequently at police conferences. He is a certified fifth-degree black belt martial artist, recognized by the World Kickboxing Association. Befriend and Betray is his first book..
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