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John Carr, a.k.a. Oliver Stone - once the most skilled assassin his country ever had - stands in Lafayette Park in front of the White House, perhaps for the last time. The president has personally requested that Stone serve his country again on a high-risk, covert mission. Though he's fought for decades to leave his past career behind, Stone has no choice but to say yes. Then Stone's mission changes drastically before it even begins.

Veteran pilot Tyler Zahn was the Air Force's rising star until personal and professional tragedies shattered his life and spiraled him into depression. The lesson he learned? When Zahn's in charge, people get hurt. Seeking a fresh start, Zahn moves to the quiet town of Buena Vista in the Colorado Rockies. His plan is simple—join the local search and rescue team, get in shape, and cut back on the beer. He hopes to find a way to be useful again.

It's 1984. Winston Smith lives alone in London. He is a secret rebel plotting his escape from the Party: the deadly dictatorship led by Big Brother. Winston dreams of finding freedom, love and peace: everything that is outlawed. His act of defiance will get him killed—but his courage is unshaken. He risks everything in his desperate search for truth and humanity as he once knew them. The story of Winston's rebellion, and his need to love others, reveals the strength of the human spirit against the darkest sides of human nature.

A sinister enemy is stalking elite military operator Red Harmon and his loved ones. Turning the hunter into his prey, Red uncovers a plot that spans nations and draws him into the remote snow-covered ravines of North Korea. His objective: penetrate the darkest prisons of this mysterious nation to restore national security - and save all he holds dear. Red's not the only one who's been living with secrets. His wife Lori is a lot more than the typical suburban soccer mom she appears to be, and she's stumbled onto something massive.

The world stands at a crossroads. With plague and violence stalking the streets and a new Cold War brewing in the East, America has never been more unprepared to face her enemies. There’s blood in the water, and the sharks are circling. When CIA assassin Jason Trapp is called to the Middle East to identify a man suspected to be feared ISIS terrorist Khaled al-Shakiri, he expects to be in and out in a matter of hours. Unfortunately, fate has other ideas. After surviving the most violent prison break the region has ever seen, Trapp is left chasing shadows. But he knows this was no coincidence.

In the wake of Muammar Gaddafi's demise, the Mediterranean's strategic waters become the stage for a new power play. Ali Hakim Sherif, emerging as Libya's formidable strongman, dreams of resurrecting the glory of the Ottoman Empire. His eyes are set on the riches of Egypt, and he's willing to employ brutal tactics and ancient claims to seize control. Sherif's quest for dominance finds eager allies in Russia, Iran, and Qatar, setting the stage for an explosive confrontation.

High in the Himalayas, armed with a host of barbaric, improvised weapons, Chinese troops ambush a contingent of highly decorated Indian soldiers. The brutal, hand-to-hand combat lasts for over six hours, destabilizing the already tenuous relationship between the two nuclear neighbors.

Jack Noble’s world is on fire. His enemies have drawn a line in the sand, and Jack is the man they plan to bury beneath it. Lured into a trap and framed for a crime he didn’t commit, he finds himself cut off from his closest allies, labeled a fugitive, and marked for elimination. But if they thought that would stop him, they don’t know Jack.

A thirty-four-year-old American woman—a secret agent—is sent to do dirty work in France. “Sadie Smith” is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader. Sadie has met her love, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by “cold bump”—making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone Sadie targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her “contacts”—shadowy figures in business and government—instruct.

Berlin, 1938. Groundbreaking physicist Dr. Hannah Weiss is on the verge of the greatest discovery of the 20th century: splitting the atom. She understands that the energy released by her discovery can power entire cities or destroy them. Hannah believes the weapon's creation will secure an end to future wars, but as a Jewish woman living under the harsh rule of the Third Reich, her research is belittled, overlooked, and eventually stolen by her German colleagues.

In 1773 when twenty year old Lieutenant Owen Spence is wrongfully dismissed from the British Royal Navy he finds himself set adrift on the Caribbean island of Jamaica. Alone and despairing for the future Owen is desperate to find work, for he has minimal resources. Aided by a Spanish woman who becomes his lover he finds work ferrying sugar along the Jamaican coast for a plantation owner, but he abhors slavery and knows the life is not for him. His fortune changes when he meets an uncle he hasn’t seen for years and is offered work as a merchant Captain trading goods throughout the ...

Conor McColl is an aging assassin who began his career in the IRA during the violent years of the ‘Troubles’. Now approaching 40, he’s living off the grid in Spain and hoping for a quiet life. A random encounter with an assault on a beautiful Danish journalist named Katrina Madsen, propels him back into his old life. Madsen has a secret so deep and dark that the highest levels of the Russian government are determined to stop her and retrieve the stolen documents. McColl and Madsen must try to escape the onslaught of Russian assassins sent to prevent the dissemination of these ...

In a world of espionage and covert operations, a team uncovers a chilling plot involving Nazi war criminals. As they race against time, danger lurks at every turn, testing their skills and resolve. This gripping mystery suspense will keep readers on the edge of their seats as secrets unfold and hidden agendas are revealed. Will they succeed in their mission, or will the shadows of deceit consume them?

Malone fights off a serial rapist, and it's business as usual for the tough private investigator. Only later does she realize that he is more--much more...He is a rogue Black Ops whose attack on her may--or may not--be part of a very elaborate deep cover plot to expose an International terrorist. When Malone realizes that everything she has worked hard to build up--her business, her reputation, her relationships, even her very life -- is merely collateral damage to the 'powers that be', she gets mad--and even. Because when all hell breaks loose and the odds are against you, even murder ...

Russian Oligarchs are dying under mysterious circumstances. Crossing the Kremlin has turned out to be a deadly proposition. Natalya Barandova barely escaped the detonation of the letter-bomb that killed her father, Kiril Barandov, one of the richest and most influential of the oligarchs. Not only had he amassed a king’s fortune, he held onto a treasure trove of secrets that the Kremlin was determined to acquire. Natalya knew she was now the target, the inheritor of her father’s fortune and secrets. She needed to go underground. The CIA was willing to help her. But it had to be ...

The Caribbean 1780 In 1780 little is going right for the British in the ongoing fight for America as food shortages and crushing storms in the Caribbean add to their woes. Compounding this are Spanish and Dutch forces joining the French to fight the British for military dominance in the Caribbean. Captain Owen Spence continues to sail Caribbean waters seeking to learn their enemies plans. Massive amounts of weapons and gunpowder for the Americans are still being smuggled through the island of St. Eustatius. Although the British Royal Navy invades to stop it, they ultimately fail to prevent ...

The system called them "unaccompanied minors." Maria made them familia. They threatened her residency. She hijacked their bus. Maria built a quiet life from the ashes of her own traumatic border crossing, but when she learns two terrified orphans will be sent back to the hell she barely escaped, she refuses to let it happen. Official bureaucracy offers a system designed to process, not protect. So she does what her enigmatic employer, Sam Harper, would do: get creative and take matters into her own hands, no matter the potential cost. The Feds have protocols. She has a toy gun, an ATV, and ...

A toxic presidential election is underway in an America already badly weakened by internal divisions. While politicians focus entirely on maintaining their own power, ISIS kidnaps a brilliant French microbiologist and forces him to begin manufacturing anthrax. Slickly produced videos chronicling his progress and threatening an imminent attack are posted to the internet, intensifying the hysteria gripping the United States.

Former NTSB Investigator Jake Pendleton faces a dilemma as the line blurs between right and wrong. After his judgment comes into question, Jake is entrusted to his new mentor, an eccentric old man who sees beyond Jake’s flaws. A man who makes ‘toys for spies.’ A man known as The Toymaker. Jake’s first assignment reunites him with Gregg Kaplan in a daredevil mission to rescue a fellow agent held captive in Yemen. He risks his life to stop the first attack of an al Qaeda mastermind.

When local teenagers discover a body at the disused Denbigh Asylum, it seems that his murder might be linked to a modern slavery ring trafficking young people from the Indian subcontinent. However, social media then reveals that the victim was involved in a toxic relationship which may provide a clue to his death. When there is another murder, the focus of the investigation switches again. With time running out, Ruth and the Llancastell CID team must find the killer before they flee the country and disappear.