Political Assassinations

If you read Vince Flynn and Brad Thor, you'll love the thrillers of Allan Leverone: When air traffic controller Nick Jensen's wife - a Pentagon auditor - is killed in a car accident under suspicious circumstances, a grief-stricken Nick throws himself into his work at Logan International Airport in Boston. Days later, on duty during a midnight shift, Nick spies three heavily armed men dressed in black fatigues patrolling the corridors of the supposedly secure FAA facility. Nick escapes capture by the thugs and with United States President Robert Cartwright scheduled to fly into Logan the ...

Ivan Lazar was one of Russia's greatest generals until he was set up and ruined by his enemies. What followed was an epic plan for vengeance to not only destroy his enemies, but the world as we know it. Ex-assassin, Chuck Brandt, had tracked the General to Cusco, Peru. After a violent cliffside confrontation Brandt watched as the madman’s body fell hundreds of feet into the raging Apurimac River. Now, Chuck is living a quiet, peaceful life of service in a soup kitchen in Seattle when he gets a phone call from Maria Lazar. She tells a harrowing tale of survival at the hands of a Black ...

Wie lebt man, wenn man weiß, dass die eigenen Tage gezählt sind? Savianos wichtigstes Buch seit „Gomorrha“ erzählt das Leben des größten Mafiajägers der Geschichte. Nicht nur als Richter, sondern auch als Ehemann, als Bruder, als Freund. Mit seinem Geldwäsche-Gesetz forderte Falcone die Mafia heraus. Als er am 25. Mai 1992 mit seiner Frau unterwegs zum Wochenendhaus ist, sprengt die Mafia sie mitsamt einem Stück Autobahn in die Luft.

In November 1934 as the United States and Japan drifted toward war, a team of American League all-stars that included Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, future secret agent Moe Berg, and Connie Mack barnstormed across the Land of the Rising Sun. Hundreds of thousands of fans, many waving Japanese and American flags, welcomed the team with shouts of Banzai! Banzai Babe Ruth! The all-stars stayed for a month, playing 18 games, spawning professional baseball in Japan.

Freedom’s Detective reveals the untold story of the Reconstruction-era US Secret Service and their battle against the Ku Klux Klan, through the career of its controversial chief, Hiram C. Whitle.

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. When U.S. Secretary of State J. Robert Humphries is kidnapped out of his Washington, D.C. home at gunpoint, all evidence points directly to the Soviet Union as the responsible party. Still recovering from her injuries suffered earlier in the summer, covert ops specialist Tracie Tanner is tasked by CIA Director Aaron Stallings to follow the evidence and recover Humphries safely from the Soviets. There's only one problem - Tanner's not convinced the Soviets are involved. Soon...

After years of great sacrifice and deep personal tragedy, Florentyna Kane's has finally become the first woman president in America. But on the very day that she is sworn into office, powerful forces are already in motion to take her life. The FBI investigates thousands of false threats every year. This time, a reliable source has tipped them off about an assassination attempt. One hour later, the informant and all but one of the investigating agents are dead.

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. A SOVIET TACTICAL NUKE HAS DISAPPEARED AND AN AMERICAN CITY MAY BE TARGETED... Tracie Tanner is back at work, tasked with infiltrating the home of a Russian general and acquiring intel regarding a rumored breakthrough in Soviet radar technology. But what she finds is far more horrifying than a technological advance: a tactical nuclear device has been stolen out of a supposedly secure Soviet military base. Together, Tracie and CIA Director Aaron Stallings determine that a ...

For the first time in one place, the reader will see all the likely conspirators revealed. The Warren Commission and the FBI agreed that President John F. Kennedy was killed by a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald. Fifteen years later, the House Committee on Assassinations re-examined the evidence. They announced that he was not killed by a single gunman, but probably murdered as the result of a conspiracy.

US President Keegan Barrett swept into office on his success as director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with a deadly motive: revenge. President Barrett personally orders Special Agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. As CIA agents, they've sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all threats, both foreign and domestic. When the threat comes directly from the Oval Office, that's where the blowback begins.

Tony Acero, a Mexican-American veteran of four combat tours, has a problem on his hands. His undersized 13-year-old son Luke is floundering at his new Kansas prep school. To save the young teen from his downward spiral, and to cheer up older brother Matt, Tony proposes to take both sons on a elk hunt in Colorado. Meanwhile in Boston, rootless young brothers, Pel and Moom Adams, are plotting a Colorado expedition of their own. Radical anarchists, the brothers have contracted with a trio of hardened Chechen terrorists to carry out a plot that will shake America to the core.

In Europe for a crucial NATO summit in Warsaw, US President John Henry Harris is ordered by a secret cabal within his own administration to have the president of France and the chancellor of Germany assassinated. Refusal, he knows, will mean his death. Afraid to trust anyone, the president flees for his life. Pursued by the Secret Service, the CIA, and Spanish Intelligence who believe he is the victim of foul play, Harris joins forces with rogue detective Nicholas Marten and the beautiful but enigmatic French photo-journalist, Demi Picard.

Someone is spying on them. But who is it? Can they use it to their advantage? Winters must keep their plans close to the vest after suffering a major blow costing them lives. This fatal error weighs him down as he is forced to revisit his past. Can he move past this in time? Dark Toll is Book 4 in The Shadow Patriots series. Pick it up today! Revised and Updated April 2022

Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela has been free for three years and is in slow-moving power-sharing talks with President FW de Klerk when a white supremacist shoots Mandela’s popular young heir apparent, Chris Hani, in the hope of igniting an all-out civil war. Will he succeed in plunging South Africa into chaos, safeguarding apartheid for perhaps years to come? Or can Mandela and de Klerk overcome their differences and mutual suspicion and calm their followers, plotting a way forward?

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. When top executives at a defense department contracting agency are brutally murdered, CIA Director Aaron Stallings unleashes his secret weapon on the case, beautiful Black Ops specialist Tracie Tanner. She's been given instructions to follow the evidence wherever it leads and stop the killers at any cost, but almost immediately Tanner finds herself operating alone and without backup, knowing if she's caught or killed, the CIA will cut her loose like she never existed. The ...

From a bluff overlooking Georgia's untamed Chattooga River, an assassin fires three shots. The President of the United States is wounded; his best friend and a Secret Service agent are killed. Two days later, a man in Landover, Maryland, commits suicide and in the man's home is overwhelming evidence that he was responsible for the assassination attempt.

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. SOMEONE IS STEALING CLASSIFIED MATERIAL AND MURDERING AMERICAN CITIZENS... And only one person can stop him...but she's being hunted by the KGB... ********** They call him "The Weasel." A Soviet operative so skilled at acquiring American secrets and murdering American citizens he has achieved near-mythic status in the intelligence community. When The Weasel is forced to leave a victim alive during his latest theft, legendary CIA Director Aaron Stallings realizes this might ...

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. American CIA operatives in the Soviet Union are dying. One by one, they fall ill and perish, all exhibiting the same frightening symptoms: weakness, vomiting, hair loss, hemorrhage, death. Eventually, the cause of death becomes clear: assassination by radiation poisoning. Somehow, the KGB has learned the identities of American operatives and are eliminating them. Without knowing the source of the leak and who has been compromised, CIA Director Aaron Stallings has little ...

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln set off a hysterical burst of international conspiracy theories, with all eyes turning first to Canada - once a hotbed of Confederate plots - and then, as evidence mounted, to the Catholic Church and Rome. Now from best-selling author Max Byrd, comes a long forgotten true story: a confidential mission to track down and capture any Europeans (and fugitive Confederates) who may have aided John Wilkes Booth.

In a riveting novel rooted in one of American history's great "what ifs," Jim Lehrer tells the story of two men haunted by the events leading up to John F. Kennedy's assassination. November 22, 1963. As Air Force One touches down in Dallas, ambitious young newspaper reporter Jack Gilmore races to get the scoop on preparations for President Kennedy's motorcade. Will the bubble top on the presidential limousine be up or down? Down, according to veteran Secret Service agent Van Walters.