Assassin Thriller

It is 1644, and Parliament's armies have risen against the King and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the rebels' hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion. One of Bridget's friends, Esther Cooper, has been convicted of murdering her husband and sentenced to be burnt alive. Convinced that her friend is innocent, Bridget sets out to find the real killer.

Book 6 in the NYT & USA Today Bestselling “Signs of the Zodiac” dark Urban Fantasy series. She was once a heroine, the prophesied savior fighting for Light in the darkest corners of Las Vegas. A product of an improbable union between Shadow and Light, Joanna Archer has been stripped of her identity, her fortune, and her power. With an apocalyptic war threatening to consume her glittering hometown, a child growing inside of her, and her lover held captive in another realm, Joanna joins forces with a band of rogue Shadow agents to storm the stronghold of her greatest foe. This time, ...

[Original Novella Version, now replaced by the novel length Extended Version] Detective Richard Burnside is a long way from Earth system. For two years he's been tracking a serial killer, and finally he falls only hours short of preventing the next kill. Avon PD are as much use as any other PD when it comes to this killer, but this time, has the killer finally slipped up? Thinking you know the next target doesn’t help much unless someone will believe you. General Price introduces Burnside to Captain Jane, and with Janet's help, they set a trap for the killer on Hunter's Redoubt. But is ...

Five Assassins dropped off by submarine in the Scottish Highlands all competing for a million pound killing contract, the head of a secret service 'dirty tricks' department and a top politician plotting political intrigue and the very secret civil service 'Department For Internal Concerns' all brought into a deadly conflict on United Kingdom soil. For new recruit to the 'DIC' David McKie and his co-workers it's a deadly two week watch as part of the DIC's roving duty team. Choices are made, the race to the death has begun and it's Kill or Be Killed. A spy thriller that breaks the genre ...

How does a decorated Irish Ranger end up living in America as a highly-skilled international assassin? It was what Quinn wanted, and what he thought he’d be doing for the rest of his life. Until fate thrust two innocent children into his path. Someone had put out a contract on ten-year-old Charlie McAndrew and his sister Sophie. The FBI was getting nowhere. Valuable time and resources were being squandered trying to catch Quinn for past crimes instead of worrying about a sinister organisation willing to go to any lengths to protect itself from exposure. Quinn could have walked away. Was ...

Learning the Dark Arts When an ambitious Colonel Romanovich Boronovsky takes over the secretive Russian SVR Foreign Security Service, his protégée, Anna Petrov begins a career built upon death and deception, swiftly becoming Russia’s number one contract assassin. However, a restless Anna cannot be at peace with herself until she tracks down the murderer of her lover and father of her stillborn child, Gorky Valentin. Focus and determination Eventually, the need to settle her mind and track down the British assassin known as ‘Ginger’ becomes paramount and she leaves the SVR, setting ...

A conspiracy with deadly consequences. He is the only one who can stop them. When Dr. Claire Rossi makes a groundbreaking discovery with the Prometheus prototype – an artificial eye capable of restoring sight to the blind – she’s unprepared for the cost of her achievement. In the heart of Rome, an elite group infiltrates BioVita Therapeutics, stealing the prototype and igniting a high-stakes chase across Europe. Hugo Xavier and his Novus team must pull out all stops to get ahead. As Claire fights to uncover a traitor within her organization, mercenary Gavrial Zaytsev faces the ...

“Chilling...satisfying...offers up tasty tidbits of San Francisco lore . . . [Russell] has a gift for dialogue, slyly using it to reveal character.”—New York Times Book ReviewSan Francisco P.I. Stuart Winter looks into the death of a young, deaf heiress who volunteered as a sign language instructor—for a gorilla who may have witnessed her murder. “Polished and provocative...a California mystery of the hard-boiled school...very well written, with a corking good plot and fine characters.”—Booklist “Remarkable...[hops] from avant-garde theater to a deaf school, from winos’ ...

THIS IS A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED INDIVIDUALLY. Filling in some of the gaps between the full-length novels, this collection of short stories starts in 1987 when Bill Jedburgh is still in the Royal Hong Kong Police and first meets some of the key characters that appear later in the books. The final story is set in 2009 when Jedburgh gets help from an unexpected ally freeing a Danish diplomat who has been arrested in Shenzhen. Along the way we find The Reliable Man tasked to kill the Mayor of Davao (unsuccessfully, since he’s now the President of the Philippines) ...

A killer without a master. A monster without a leash. Xavier “X” Blood is a contract killer. Cold, calculating, devoid of feeling. He knows the best way to drive the life from another human beings eyes, but what he doesn’t bargain on is wanting to save a life he’s meant to take. Mercy Reid was good at running from her demons. That was until she met X and her life was thrown into chaos. Mercy finally has him on her side…and in her bed, but it’s at a cost far greater than she could’ve anticipated. On the run, they must learn to trust one another beyond their burgeoning love if ...

Books 7 and 8 of the VIGILANTE Series Femme Fatale: Less than two years earlier, Leslie Robb, an accountant in her late twenties working for the Imperial National Bank, had seen her life-partner and co-worker, Gina, shot to death during a bank heist subsequently foiled in part by Chris Barry, millionaire and clandestine operative of the government's 'Discreet Activities'. Taken as a hostage along with Chris by the remaining robbers onto a helicopter secretly piloted by two 'DA' operatives, including 'DA' head, Jonathan Addley, Leslie had played an integral role in helping bring the ...

The body lying on its back before us was unquestionably that of the man who had attempted to kill Holmes and I with explosives at Glenbury Gardens. He wore the same dark clothing, although his hat was gone, and the hare lip was a livid scar on his pallid face. Strangely, it crossed my mind that what could be seen of his expression in death was softer than that he had worn in life.

He tried to think how many men he had killed and could not remember. "How many do you need to kill before you lose count?" he wondered. Sir Stephen Mendal, head of MI6, looked up from the report. Apparently an unknown secret organization had been recruiting ex-MI6 agents, specifically those that specialized in "wet work", the nasty side of the business. One of these old employees had just been shot dead by the authorities whilst robbing a bank in Switzerland. He had to know more. What was this organization up to, and why employ such specialists? He decided he needed a spy.

A charismatic leader rises up in Havana, Cuba. With his ascent to power, the citizens of this country find hope for democracy. The communist regime that is in power is determined to undermine the progress he and his movement have made. Will the Cuban government succeed in ending the life of the leader and his movement? Not if Radford has something to say about it.

MI6 operative Elliot Kane has spent 15 years managing events overseas that never make the papers. He is a ghost in his own life, assuming and shedding personalities as each new cover story comes into play. But when the woman he loves, another operative named Joanna Lake, vanishes without a trace in Kazakhstan, he is forced center stage in his own life.

Her parents are spies. To save her from one of their enemies, they gave her to the Ghost Agent Initiative. Thus, the government became her mother, father, and guardian. Now, it’s ready to be teacher as well. Cassandra is happy to learn the survival skills, but she’s less thrilled with the idea of becoming a killer.

He is darkness. She wants him dead. In a city starved of light, she might just succeed. She moves like a shadow; she kills silently: Raven. This elegant assassin has been on the run for years. This time, though, she has picked the wrong target. The hitman known only as "Victor" is as paranoid as he is merciless and is no stranger to being hunted. He tracks his would-be killer across the globe, aiming not only to neutralise the threat but to discover who wants him dead.

Bane — Family and the CIA are all that matters. Until my cousin’s best friend ends up in a coma under mysterious circumstances. My cousin pleads with me to investigate, off the books and I can’t turn her down. I never imagined following the truth would lead to a face-to-face showdown with Japan’s most ruthless hitman — a ghost even the shadows fear. More shocking was falling in love on the job with an extraordinary, enigmatic, and otherworldly woman. The kind of woman a man like me has no business wanting. But I do. Suddenly, lives are hanging by a thread, and I’m the only one ...

In the wake of the 1995 Oslo Peace Accords, a wave of Palestinian terror hits Jewish targets. Israel responds with a clandestine war in Paris, Zurich, and Tel Aviv. When a beautiful Mossad agent is critically wounded in Amsterdam, master spy Jerusalem Gerster pursues the attackers back to Israel, where he uncovers a sinister conspiracy to perpetrate an unprecedented national catastrophe--the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin.

The explosive events in Deadly Intent changed the world forever. Now, Adrian is separated from his allies and on the run, hunted by the US government, who believe he was responsible for a devastating terrorist attack. But only he knows the truth.