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The Mist Stage One: The Prelude/The Cumulative Effect Kindle Edition

by Nagwa Malik (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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THE MIST is a spy thriller dealing with today’s conspiracies, mostly political, and regarding intelligence agencies. Our spy Tanya is a Pakistani black ops agent belonging to a secret intelligence agency that officially doesn’t exist. This intelligence agency, called THE MIST, is independent with the power to investigate the governing bodies, including the President, as well as the other intelligence agencies working under the government or the army. THE MIST Stage One (The Prelude) is the first of a two-part series where we follow our lovely spy, Tanya into a world of intrigue, exploring different cultures amazingly linked, discovering the colours and flavours of various societies within societies, historical legends- and basic human nature- in her quest for the truth.
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    June 7, 2015
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A whole masala load of conspiracies, political intrigue and espionage, The Mist series is a demi-noir, fast paced, action packed spy thriller that defies stereotypes of its genre. In today's warfare of information and disinformation, we follow Tanya in her chase towards exposing the truth, while keeping her cover, evading the imminent danger from her rival black ops and juggling her relationships with friends and fellow ghosts.

  • The Mist Stage One: The Prelude
  • The Mist Stage Two: The Culmination

Nagwa Malik

Language, Behavioural and Speech refinement Coach, Screenwriter and Author

Author of The Terrific Three and The Mist series, Nagwa Malik has had national success for her writing abilities. Nagwa has an MA in Screenwriting from City University, London, and has been an academic for the greater part of her life having taught Languages and Screenwriting in reputed colleges and universities in Lahore, where she lives. She now works independently as a Language Coach and full time writer. She loves nature, animals, her solitude and watching K and J Dramas.

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  • The Mist Series Bundle (political Spy Conspiracy thriller)
  • A Novel (cozy mystery/Romance/Life)
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The Mist Stage One The Mist Stage Two The Mist Stage One & Stage Two (The Complete Series) A Novel
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We follow our lovely spy, Tanya into a world of intrigue, exploring different cultures, discovering the colours and flavours of various societies within societies, historical legends- and basic human nature- in her quest for the truth. In the second of the two-part series, as Burke and Tanya continue to disentangle the web, they only find themselves going back and forth like a ping-pong ball. Want to know more? Jump straight into a world of intrigues, political conspiracies, global warfare, espionage, information and misinformation, of betrayal, trust and friendship, of faith and lack thereof. He was nonchalant, blunt and audaciously flirtatious, and he promised adventure, excitement and danger—just the kind of life she thought she wanted to leave behind.

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The Mist - Stage One: The Prelude, is a fast paced and hard to put downbook. It features Pakistani special agent Tanya, and follows herexploits as she uncovers the truth behind the war on terror and givesreaders a new and authentic side of this war.
The story and atmosphere is similar to the Jason Bourne series. The main difference between that series and The Mist is that in The Mist, NagwaMalik provides and honest and unbiased version of characters and eventsthat are more realistic than the Bourne series.
If you like fast paced spy thrillers, do yourself a favor and get this book.
spacenomad on smashwords.com

I have read some of The Mist and have found it both surprising andintriguing. The way the characters are portrayed are very well done andthe style of the story is terrific.
Abrilliant read!
Well done Nagwa!
Dan Tonkin Express Tribune (reader's comments)

This is a very exciting and fast-paced read. The characters, places andscenes are well depicted. The pages are littered with facts, suspenseand so many turns and twists. I could not put the book down till I readthe last page. It is a total page turner.
Jewel Sikdar Express Tribune (reader's comments)

From the Author

Thank you for reading my book. Although the first of the current two books published on Amazon, it is the 2nd book I have published till date. I started writing at a very young age, and it was fun, so i ended up writing quite a lot. I am hoping to share more of those books with all of you here, as I digitize them (more than half my work are manuscripts). Writing this book was a success to me in the way of breaking through my writer's block. I stopped writing for quite a number of years and I thought I needed to force myself to write. I was working on scripts with some producers when I got a chance to get a degree in Script-writing. To me that was the best way to force myself to write: anything - just write. The result of that Master's degree are these two books: Stage One and Stage Two of THE MIST series.Stage One, as the name "the Prelude" suggests, is where we find Tanya beginning to put the pieces of the puzzle together as she tries to get concrete evidence to Intel already in her hands. Knowing something and proving it are two different things: the truth becomes conspiracy, and lies and myths become the truth...the truth is a narrative. It is what sells. In today's world simply knowing the truth isn't enough. One has to dig deep down and follow through numerous paths in order to get to the actual, undiluted truth. How much further will she have to go and will she manage to get evidence of the real truth after all?Read on to find out.Nagwa Malik

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00Z7LT07G
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 7, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1584 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 293 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Nagwa Malik

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Nagwa has been telling stories for as long as she remembers. At bedtime, the two sisters would have a tradition of making up or adding to the adventures of the ladybird series "Peter and Jane", which then led to creating and telling original stories. It was only natural, perhaps, that she would graduate into writing stories later on.

Born in Gumel, Nigeria and having spent her childhood between the UK and Nigeria, she shifted to Pakistan her home country, still a young child. She currently resides in Lahore where, until recently, she taught French and Script-writing at reputed schools and universities like ISC and BNU. She is a double Masters' holder (French and Script-writing respectively) having obtained the second Master's degree from City University, London with honours. Her Master's in French was obtained from the University of the Punjab in which she passed as a position holder.

Nagwa has been writing since she was 11 and published her first novel at the age of 15 which was a success. She has written a total of 40 plus novels but has been focused-until now- on her studies and later her career as a writer/producer and teacher putting her publications on hold. Apart from that she has written articles for Newspapers like The News International. She also maintains a blog on wordpress.

Now that we are done with the official bio..a little bit of the personal: Nagwa is an ambivert who just loves travelling, nature, animals and her solitude, and has a flair for languages. She left her job at the University to work independently as a Language and Communication Skills Trainer to allow her to focus more on her books. When she is not writing, she watches her favourite K,J,C and Thai dramas...K-dramas being her most favourite as they "brought back the much needed spark" in her life.

Connect with Nagwa Malik on:

https://nagwamalik.wordpress.com/

http://www.goodreads.com/NagwaMalik

https://www.facebook.com/themistseries/

Instagram @leapingmind

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alexbaltimore
5.0 out of 5 stars Great heroine.
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2016
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I loved jumping right into the life of the kick-ass heroine, Tanya. I would love to see this made into a movie!
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Tony Parsons
4.0 out of 5 stars A very awesome book cover
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2017
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Fort Meade, MD., NSA headquarters, Dave Watson & Terry Lewis (associate), were discussing Tanya Aziz (Pakistani, black ops agent The Mist, Westminster U).
They wanted her assassinated.
Commander Shafiq (contact) could not verify that she even existed.
Cologne, Germany. Ahmed had told Tanya her contact was Sahin Bey (Islamic activist).

Why was Burke trying to contact her?

I did not receive any type of compensation for reading & reviewing this book. While I receive free books from publishers & authors, I am under no obligation to write a positive review. Only an honest one.

A very awesome book cover, great font & writing style. A very well written political spy thriller
book. It was very easy for me to read/follow from start/finish & never a dull moment. There were no grammar/typo errors, nor any repetitive or out of line sequence sentences. Lots of exciting scenarios, with several twists/turns & a great set of unique characters to keep track of. This could also make another great political spy thriller
movie, or better yet a mini TV series. To be continued. It was just OK for me so I will rate it at 4/5 stars.

Thank you for the free Author; ebookstage; Amazon Digital Services LLC; book
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Frank Paine
2.0 out of 5 stars "The Mist" is Mystifying...
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2016
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I struggled with the evaluation of this book. To begin with, I disagree with some of the other reviewers. It is not well written--it is filled with grammatical errors, and silly mistakes like failure to capitalize initial caps. A half way decent editing job could have fixed this problem very easily. Also, the story line is hard to follow. The author switches from one character to another with little or no warning--very confusing! However, I also have some difficulty with the content. Though the story is fast paced and exciting, it paints a picture of world politics that is scarcely credible. Muslims never do wrong if they are "real" Muslims. Israel rules the world [almost]. Western people, and the U.S. in particular can do no good. The world isn't like this--it's much more ambiguous. But there's subtlety: sprinkled through the evil allegedly done by Israel and the west are quite a number of things that I know are true. So which are the good events, and which are the bad? Hard to tell, and that's creepy--it is, so we're told, a work of fiction based on facts, and yet you can't tell what's fiction and what's fact unless you were part of it. On that point, NSA is an organization that appears or is referenced many times throughout the book. I was once part of NSA for about three years, and I can safely say that NSA, when I was there, was not even close to what is described in this story. On the other hand, that was a long time ago--it may have changed --but the burden of proof is on the author's side.
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Joel
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Read
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2014
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I loved this story! Extremely well written! The author is able to really add a lot of passion and feeling to the characters.
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Wife is happy
4.0 out of 5 stars One of the best spy's thrillers I have come across
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2016
One of the best spy's thrillers I have come across. Highly recommended! Pretty impressed by the versatility of the writer. Previously was following her on newspapers articles and opinion. But this book of her shows that you don't necessarily have to watch a season and a movie to get you thrill. Books are equally effective :)
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Amir Malik
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2014
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Thrilling!
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Syed Soulat Abbas Zaidi
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing novel
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2016
C/o, Zoya Ali Naqvi

Review: The Mist Stage is a fiction novel based on the political situation happening around in the present time and it's adverse effects written by Nagwa Malik; the author has been living in United Kingdom & Nigeria however her roots are in Pakistan. This story revolves around an undercover intelligence agent Tanya, from Pakistan who goes on a spree of finding out the truth behind the increasing terrorism happening in her country and in her hunt for forming a positive image she discovers different cultures and their norms related to one another. The Mist Stage two is the continuation of the Tanya's journey to put an end to the political instability and her encounter with Burke and their contrasting approaches towards solving the issue and how both of them end up with rediscovering themselves and coping with each other's differences.
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Hinna Butt
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2015
An amazing book. It keeps you guessing, lots of twist ans turns. Highly recommended.

Hinna
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