"In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crises while adopting selective changes -- a coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal crises. Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent upheavals...

Whether you're a politician caught with his pants down, a publicly traded company accused of accounting improprieties, a family-owned restaurant with a lousy Yelp review or just the guy in the corner cubicle who inadvertently pushed "reply all, " a crisis doesn't have to be the make-or-break moment of your career. For those of us that aren't natural spin doctors, it's hard to resist the impulse to cover your tracks, lie, or act like nothing happened....

Fresh off the harrowing events of The Golden Hour, State Department crisis manager Judd Ryker is suddenly thrown into a quickly developing emergency in Zimbabwe, where a longtime strongman is being challenged for the presidency. Rumors are flying furiously: armed gangs, military crackdowns, shady outside money pouring in, and, most disturbing for the United States, reports of highly enriched uranium leaking into the market. And that's all before Ryker...

Op-Center finds that the kidnapping of a Catholic priest in Botswana is really a cover-up for a plan by outside forces to destabilize the governemnt and sieze the nation's diamond mines.

A crisis management expert and consultant, Charlotte Lyon is called in to get to the bottom of a mysterious derailment that had killed both the train's engineer and a film celebrity and finds herself investigating a very clever homicide.

A new era begins as Mellie Grant becomes President, but the real authority lies with the new, self-appointed head of B613: Olivia Pope. Unfortunately, the more power Olivia gains, the more of her soul she loses, until a battle of wills with Rowan leads to a shattering betrayal.

The kidnapping of a Catholic priest by a group of African militiamen, who order all Catholic missionaries out of Botswanna, sends the Op-Center, with their own military team, Striker, out of commission, into the middle of a dangerous civil war in Africa as they discover a plot by outside forces to destabilize the local government.