In a prequel to Trevanian's "Shibumi," amid the chaos of the Korean War, the CIA offers Nicholai Hel his freedom only if he kills the Soviet Union's Commissioner to China in Beijing, a mission that draws on all his strengths.

With rumors flying about the death of Fidel Castro, Christian Gillette is called in for a meeting with President Jesse Wood at Camp David to take part in secret negotiations with Cuban capitalists to ensure that changing policies favor U.S. interests.

"The merchant kings of the Age of Heroic Commerce were a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life men who, for a couple hundred years, expanded their far-flung commercial enterprises over a sizable portion of the world. They include Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the violent and autocratic pioneer of the Dutch East India Company; Peter Stuyvesant, the one-legged governor of the Dutch West India Company, whose narrow-minded approach lost Manhattan to the British;...

A documentary on the impact of globalization on the world's different wine regions. Filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter travels to France, California, Italy and New York, speaking with winemakers both large and small. The film offers a look at how business concerns and the homogenization of tastes around the world are changing the way wine is being made. Nossiter's primary focus is on American vintners and their new degree of worldwide acceptance as well...

Cyber-security engineer by day and vigilante hacker by night, Elliot struggles with his beliefs when he is recruited by a mysterious underground group to destroy the firm he is paid to protect.

"In Trump/Russia: A Definitive History, Seth Hettena chronicles the many years Trump has spent wooing Russian money and power. From the collapse of his casino empirewhich left Trump desperate for cashand his first contacts with Russian deal-makers and financiers, on up to the White House, Hettena reveals the myriad of shady people, convoluted dealings, and strange events that suggest how indebted to Russia our forty-fifth president might be."--Amazon.com....