Bøger af William Russell Sheridan

Shortly before the reunification of West and East Germany, the body of a young woman, brutally murdered, is discovered in the quiet of a secluded forest glen below the Bavarian Alps. Detective Kommissar Roland Rieger of the Bavarian State Criminal Police is assigned to investigate the case with his rookie partner, Sylvie Schumann, a recent graduate from the police university. Despite his reputation for solving some of the most heinous crimes committed in West Germany, Rieger is forced to admit that he cannot solve this particular case, even as another body is discovered. Inexplicably, another young woman has been killed. Rieger, with the covert assistance of his Director, asks for help from an American specialist, a consultant to the FBI's Special Investigative Unit. A professor of semiotic theory, the American criminologist has pioneered the use of semiotic analysis to solve "unsolvable" cases, treating each as a unique and significant text that can be analyzed and interpreted.In The Adamantine Heart, William Russell Sheridan takes us into the exciting world of espionage, spy craft, and murder-mystery. At university, Dr. Sheridan successfully developed, applied, and published a revolutionary method for solving crimes using semiotic analysis. Autobiographical in nature, this is the first novel based on Sheridan's now declassified case files during his work as a consultant and special agent for the FBI and other agencies. Internationally renowned for his contributions to criminology, Sheridan's investigation for the Bavarian State Criminal Police takes us behind the Iron Curtain where we meet Markus Johannes Wolf, celebrated spymaster and chief of the East German foreign intelligence service (HVA). Wolf has developed a masterful plan (the ADAMAS File) to acquire hard currency to fund his country's clandestine effort to build a nuclear device (the MIJOLNIR Project) independent of the Soviet Union.In his collaboration with Detectives Roland Rieger and Sylvie Schumann from the Bavarian Criminal Police, Professor Sheridan takes the reader from East Berlin to the Soviet Union; to the diamond fields of Sierra Leone, and to Idar-Oberstein, the diamond capital of West Germany.

Internationally acclaimed author, scholar, and special consultant to the FBI, Dr. William Russel Sheridan, presents the latest thriller taken from his personal case files.For Professor Sheridan, it is a time for self-reflection and re-assessment. On a whim, he accepts a one-year teaching appointment at the research university in the Midwest where he was formerly a tenured professor. He looks forward to testing and revising his semiotic theories for the detection and solving of major crimes.At the university, Dr. Sheridan is introduced to the advanced graduate students who will learn semiotic theory in his seminar. In the second semester, he selects students for a practicum in which they are required to apply the theories they have learned and solve a real case. Sheridan gives his students the task of discovering, researching, and presenting a case they believe is unsolvable or the result of a miscarriage of justice. The case he selects from those presented to him is both shocking and one of his greatest challenges to date.A local deputy sheriff has been arrested and incarcerated for a murder he swears he did not commit. Sheridan's critical semiotic analysis of the case convinces him there is substance to the man's claim of innocence. During their investigation of the case against the deputy sheriff, they uncover an alarming pattern of missing Amish and Mennonite girls on Rumspringa who have mysteriously disappeared from their church and families as they explore and experience the outside world of the Englisch. What Sheridan and his team of graduate students discover along the way will hold you spellbound to the very last page.To further complicate matters, a young Ph.D. student in the seminar is one of the brightest, most beautiful, and intriguing women he has ever taught. Unfortunately, his private and personal analysis of her reveals she is hiding a deep and complicated secret. What he subsequently discovers about the young woman shocks him to his core as a professor, an investigator, and as a man.Fans and readers of John Le Carré, James Lee Burke, Donna Leon, Fredrick Forsyth, and Martin Cruz Smith will be thrilled and fascinated by Sheridan's latest novel, The Spy From LIvani!

While reviewing his father's now declassified documents and personal papers after his death, Professor Sheridan makes a startling discovery. He applies his renowned method of semiotic detection to discover the true story of his father Bill's service experience while stationed in Bavaria, Germany, one of the most beautiful regions in all of Europe. We are introduced to young Kommissar Roland Rieger, investigating the mysterious death of a physicist who once worked with Wernher von Braun on the V-2 rocket program during the Second World War. As the translator for the Bavarian State Police and Liaison to US military forces stationed in Bavaria, Rieger meets Airman Bill Sheridan and the two will become lifelong friends. Unfortunately, the two men become ensnared in the web of intrigue cast by East German spymaster Markus Wolf, whom we met in Sheridan's "The Adamantine Heart." Wolf has created a new and ingenious plan to gather critical information from West Germany and her allies. In so doing, he has disrupted the delicate balance of power between the two nations. As Dr. Sheridan uncovers the truth in the mysterious details behind the stories told to him by his father, a remarkable story of espionage, mystery, and romance emerges, a story that deeply affects the future course of both West and East Germany