A young girl's life is torn apart when her parents are killed in the NATO bombing of Belgrade, Serbia, during the 1999 Kosovo War. An embittered Katarina Petrovic grows up with a hatred for Americans and becomes a willing candidate for special training by Russian agents.
Alex Baker commanded an Air Force Office of Special Investigations unit until an incident forced him to resign his military commission. Still in his thirties, he finds a new career as the owner of a Manhattan-based travel agency specializing in tour packages. When his father is assassinated, Alex is promised to be kept in the loop regarding the investigation. The OSI, the FBI, and CIA begin a global hunt for a female assassin who appears to be targeting American pilots involved in the Belgrade bombing. Alex is suddenly thrust into the middle of the investigation when events suggest he could also be on the assassin's kill list. Is the woman making threatening phone calls the one who murdered his father? Or is she the alluring Dee Norton he meets supposedly by chance? Piece by piece, the mystery is unraveled, culminating in a thrilling conclusion on the island of Key West. |
2004 – Chicago gangster Nick Nicoletti was dying of heart failure. Who could he trust to help him keep control of his criminal enterprises before it was too late? Who had the cold-blooded killer instinct and cunning required to do what his businesses required and would accept the mantle he had to bestow when his time came? No man in Chicago could fill his shoes, as far as he was concerned. But he knew a woman who could.
It had been twenty years since Cyn Hardy breezed into Las Vegas from small-town Michigan, a wide-eyed eighteen-year-old innocent looking for excitement in her life. During that time she married the son of mobster Joe Spagnoli, became the owner of the largest call-girl service in Sin City, and survived the murders of her husband, then her father-in-law, and finally her twenty-year-old son. As she was immersed in grief, her father-in-law’s closest friend, Nick, sent for her. Cyn had something no one in Chicago had – Nick’s complete trust. And she owed Nick big time.
So Cyn Spagnoli was back in the Mafia again, learning Nick’s gambling and loan-sharking businesses and his specialty – assassination, tapped to become his successor.
It had been twenty years since Cyn Hardy breezed into Las Vegas from small-town Michigan, a wide-eyed eighteen-year-old innocent looking for excitement in her life. During that time she married the son of mobster Joe Spagnoli, became the owner of the largest call-girl service in Sin City, and survived the murders of her husband, then her father-in-law, and finally her twenty-year-old son. As she was immersed in grief, her father-in-law’s closest friend, Nick, sent for her. Cyn had something no one in Chicago had – Nick’s complete trust. And she owed Nick big time.
So Cyn Spagnoli was back in the Mafia again, learning Nick’s gambling and loan-sharking businesses and his specialty – assassination, tapped to become his successor.
A shaman in the Amazon rainforest has a problem: children in his village are dying of an unknown ailment. When a large disc-shaped object falls from the sky onto a river bank, he enters the object through a gash in its wall.
A prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon is staying in the house of his pediatrician cousin, who is away for the weekend. He goes to sleep that night in the guest room and awakens the next morning lying on the ground in a jungle.
Thus begins a story of aliens, teleportation, and telepathy involving unwitting physicians, the Pentagon, international scientists, espionage agents, a Las Vegas gangster, and a psychic. A colorful cast of characters takes the reader on an exciting, and often amusing, journey from the Amazon jungle to southern California, and eventually to the NBC television studios in Manhattan. Side trips along the way include Moscow, Beijing, North Korea, Sao Paolo, Brazil, and the infamous Area 51 in Nevada.
Enjoy the ride!
A prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon is staying in the house of his pediatrician cousin, who is away for the weekend. He goes to sleep that night in the guest room and awakens the next morning lying on the ground in a jungle.
Thus begins a story of aliens, teleportation, and telepathy involving unwitting physicians, the Pentagon, international scientists, espionage agents, a Las Vegas gangster, and a psychic. A colorful cast of characters takes the reader on an exciting, and often amusing, journey from the Amazon jungle to southern California, and eventually to the NBC television studios in Manhattan. Side trips along the way include Moscow, Beijing, North Korea, Sao Paolo, Brazil, and the infamous Area 51 in Nevada.
Enjoy the ride!
As his 40th birthday nears, former Navy SEAL Adam Taylor faces a desk job - an executive position in the paramilitary security firm he works for, devoid of the adrenaline-rush missions he's craved for his entire professional life. So he joins the U.S. Marshals Service, hoping to be selected for its elite Special Operations Group. Soon after, he finds himself in a hunt for Russian spies.
In a secret base near Irkutsk, Russia, espionage agents are trained to pose as Americans, then inserted into the United States. Their mission: gather political and social views from their neighbors and manipulate them to affect U.S. elections.
When this massive program is discovered by serendipity, the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service, and the FBI combine forces to weed out the spies as the 2018 midterm elections approach.
Adam and a cast of characters take the reader on an action-packed, suspenseful journey as the Russian agents scramble to keep ahead of the hunters by eliminating those who can expose the spymasters.
As his 40th birthday nears, former Navy SEAL Adam Taylor faces a desk job - an executive position in the paramilitary security firm he works for, devoid of the adrenaline-rush missions he's craved for his entire professional life. So he joins the U.S. Marshals Service, hoping to be selected for its elite Special Operations Group. Soon after, he finds himself in a hunt for Russian spies.
In a secret base near Irkutsk, Russia, espionage agents are trained to pose as Americans, then inserted into the United States. Their mission: gather political and social views from their neighbors and manipulate them to affect U.S. elections.
When this massive program is discovered by serendipity, the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service, and the FBI combine forces to weed out the spies as the 2018 midterm elections approach.
Adam and a cast of characters take the reader on an action-packed, suspenseful journey as the Russian agents scramble to keep ahead of the hunters by eliminating those who can expose the spymasters.
A young boy’s life is torn apart in 1973 Vietnam when U.S. soldiers assault his fishing village, mistakenly thinking it’s a Viet Cong base. The scary image of a tattoo on the arm of one of the soldiers haunts Nguyen Chinh over the years as he rises to a position of status and wealth. Now he has the means to finally put his nightmares to rest.
Vincent Taggart, the soldier with that tattoo, has also become a successful businessman. But he has problems that could destroy everything he’s accumulated. His company has run afoul of the law, and he knows it will only be a matter of time before the feds come after him; his wife knows he’s been cheating on her; and an organized crime boss, with whom he’s had dealings over the years, will likely seek revenge when he discovers Taggart’s treachery.
Unaware at first of Chinh’s search for him, Taggart knows one thing – he has to escape before it’s too late
Vincent Taggart, the soldier with that tattoo, has also become a successful businessman. But he has problems that could destroy everything he’s accumulated. His company has run afoul of the law, and he knows it will only be a matter of time before the feds come after him; his wife knows he’s been cheating on her; and an organized crime boss, with whom he’s had dealings over the years, will likely seek revenge when he discovers Taggart’s treachery.
Unaware at first of Chinh’s search for him, Taggart knows one thing – he has to escape before it’s too late
As the NSA gets a strong lead on one of the most prominent faces of ISIS, the Islamic State embarks on a bold strategy - an attack on U.S. soil.
Former Navy SEAL Adam Taylor, on a break between assignments for a global paramilitary security firm, is visiting his folks in his hometown when he gets a new assignment: provide security for a controversial rock star, in town to give a concert. Unknown to Adam, a team of American ISIS soldiers will soon arrive, determined to wreak havoc on the Jersey shore, and Adam will get caught up in a deadly game of wits between the terrorist menace and those tasked to protect the homeland. |
Luke Elliot has been a respected businessman for years. But he's also had a secret life no one knows, one that he gave up to settle down completely. But when tragedy tears his world apart, he flees in despair from everything that would evoke painful memories to another part of the country.
And there he meets the beautiful and mysterious Jessica Morrow, who is also trying to escape the past. As they get closer, and Luke finally learns her backstory, he realizes their fateful meeting could end up getting them both killed.
Paths that began in Chicago and San Diego, with stops at Santa Fe and Philadelphia along the way, converge in Seattle, where a deadly cat-and-mouse game ensues, forcing Luke to call upon his lethal skills once more to save himself and the woman he loves.
And there he meets the beautiful and mysterious Jessica Morrow, who is also trying to escape the past. As they get closer, and Luke finally learns her backstory, he realizes their fateful meeting could end up getting them both killed.
Paths that began in Chicago and San Diego, with stops at Santa Fe and Philadelphia along the way, converge in Seattle, where a deadly cat-and-mouse game ensues, forcing Luke to call upon his lethal skills once more to save himself and the woman he loves.
This story follows four men as they back away from a youthful mistake and flee into their bright futures and then drops in a would-be political kingmaker determined to make his mark in history. Dr. James Dawson is sucked into a murderous scheme that could get him, his friends, and all their families killed as one of the most powerful men in the country tries to permanently bury a secret Dawson thought long hidden by time and silence but might now be exposed.
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Jack Lansing, M.D. is trying to get his life back together when a chance meeting with a beautiful young woman changes everything - but not in the way he hopes. After a one-night tryst with the enticing vixen, the unsuspecting surgeon finds himself the target of a powerful U.S. senator, organized crime, and a figure from his past he had long forgotten - all because he succumbs to the charms of a woman he can't resist, despite the predicament she has put him in. Beginning in Jack's once-peaceful North Carolina beach town, a deadly game of sex, money, and retribution plays out to a thrilling conclusion.
A sequel to Get the Picture?, this story takes place a few years later. Jack Lansing has retired from medicine and has begun a new career as a mystery writer with the success of his first novel - a fictional account of the adventure told in the prequel. At a book-signing event, he meets an old colleague who, unbeknownst to Jack, has carried a grudge against him for thirty years. Then murders start popping up in and around Jack's peaceful beach town - murders that mimic the plots in his books and make him a suspect. He must convince the police and the FBI of his innocence while trying to solve the mystery himself. Because, he realizes, he and his wife could be the killer's final victims. It is a chilling tale of twists and turns, worthy of Jack's imagination, but this time he doesn't know how the story will end.
When a German anthropologist researches a primitive people in the 1930s, he makes an amazing discovery. This leads, eighty years later, to the development of a miracle drug that promises to be one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of man's fight against disease.
But American physician Scott Cutler suspects the drug might have a serious side effect - one with dire consequences for ethnic Jews. He begins an investigation, not knowing that a scientist who created the formula, a man with a secret past, will stop at nothing to prevent the truth from becoming known.
From the jungles of New Guinea, to the laboratories of Nazi Germany, to the boardrooms of the modern pharmaceutical industry, it is a story in which profit, prestige, and an undercurrent of racial intolerance provide the motivations for keeping a deadly secret from the world. Dr. Cutler races against time and powerful forces to reveal the truth before isolated cases of tragedy become full-blown genocide.
But American physician Scott Cutler suspects the drug might have a serious side effect - one with dire consequences for ethnic Jews. He begins an investigation, not knowing that a scientist who created the formula, a man with a secret past, will stop at nothing to prevent the truth from becoming known.
From the jungles of New Guinea, to the laboratories of Nazi Germany, to the boardrooms of the modern pharmaceutical industry, it is a story in which profit, prestige, and an undercurrent of racial intolerance provide the motivations for keeping a deadly secret from the world. Dr. Cutler races against time and powerful forces to reveal the truth before isolated cases of tragedy become full-blown genocide.
When twelve-year-old Craig Fletcher is first attracted to his classmate, Laura Forsythe, he has no idea that his unrequited puppy love will develop over the next twenty years into an addiction to the seductive woman Laura becomes, a siren whose call he can't resist.
The Flame is the story of Craig's obsession for a femme fatale, which threatens to destroy his reputation, his career, and jeopardizes his very survival. Finally, on the brink of disaster, he looks into the abyss and wonders if it is not too late to, if not save himself, at least obtain some measure of redemption. |