Political Crime

Does the eradication of genetic diversity cleanse a society of crime and political corruption? Following the devastating Race Wars, the ruling order concluded that only by eliminating differences could further bloodshed be prevented. After witnessing a brutal murder, clone Hal LK2154 joins a shadowy organization to apprehend the mutants supposedly responsible for such crimes. With increasing knowledge of the group’s police-state tactics, Hal learns that the roots of human violence grow deeper than the public suspects.

An obscure, ramshackle ranch on the southern bank of the Rio Grande turns out to be the secret gateway for major terrorist attacks suddenly breaking out throughout the United States. Pete Cortez, an on-the-outs FBI special agent with the Houston Field Office, is temporarily sent to the border on a make-or-break assignment to salvage his precarious career. Set amid the gritty landscape of south Texas, RANCHO BUENA FORTUNA is the first book in Bill King's Pete Cortez FBI Thriller series. If you enjoy quirky characters from authors like John Sandford, Robert B. Parker, and Elmore Leonard, ...

A COLLISION BETWEEN PRIVACY & NATIONAL SECURITY! Cirrus Corporation is a hot new cloud computing company that is also covertly running a top-secret operation for the Defense Intelligence Agency called Project Ferret, which electronically scours private data in “the cloud” to root out terrorists. When a mysterious person called The Truth accuses Cirrus of financial fraud, the company hires Ryan Thorne, a corporate spy with a checkered past, to conceal Project Ferret from an ambitious female lawyer who is investigating the fraud. But when Ryan discovers that the project is being ...

A divided border. A hidden enemy. A race against time.. Rye Dalton has always fought to protect her land, but now, the Arizona desert hides a threat far more dangerous than she ever imagined. As a rancher and counterterrorism analyst, she’s no stranger to danger—but when she uncovers a deadly conspiracy exploiting illegal migration routes, the stakes become personal. Teaming up with Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Rye plunges into a ruthless game of deception, where powerful enemies will do anything to keep their secrets buried. Every move she makes could tip the balance ...

Hitler's niece is found shot to death in his apartment. The Nazi party is on the verge of power. A scandal could ruin everything... It is 1931. Germany is in turmoil. The Communists and the Nazis are locked in a desperate struggle for supremacy. Violent clashes erupt in the beerhalls and the streets. The German people are bewildered and looking for a saviour to rescue them from fear, political uncertainty and the economic chaos that's thrown millions out of work. A scandal swirling around the suspicious death of his niece could ruin Hitler's chances forever. Two Munich detectives, Kurt ...

Who decides which child succeeds? Parents? Teachers? Luck? Fate? Barry Mackay had seen failed lives, early deaths and inevitable prison sentences. Violent attacks on innocents. Broken children becoming broken adults. He had also seen privileged kids grow into failed adults. Today, three men whose parent's wealth and power made them unscrupulous tycoons, are planning on assembling the world's deadliest force against an unknown craft approaching from afar. As the clock ticks, other voices are silenced. It is up to Barry to bring those voices to the table. Nothing less than the future of human...

A year ago, Danny Ryan lost his wife and son in a car accident. He's still reeling from the tragedy when Michael Cohen, his friend and fellow journalist, drives into the pond in front of his house with a bullet through his gut. With Michael's death ruled a murder, Danny must work to get his name crossed off the list of suspects, and that means digging into Michael's last article, an exposé of the twisted side of Philadelphia politics.

After barely avoiding becoming a casualty of his boss’s financial fraud at National Airlines and the break-up of his second marriage, Lonny Jones passes on a promotion to Vice President and relocates to Austin, where he’d attended college twenty years ago, to recharge and figure out his future. By chance, he rents a house owned by a politically active couple and is unwittingly drawn into a down-and-dirty mayoral primary election campaign where the powerful, charming and corrupt mayor uses his office to dispense favors to developers. The challenger is an upstart political novice with an ...

In the South African veld poaching gangs are resorting to extreme levels of violence to hunt down valuable rhino horns. Battling to defend the dwindling rhino population, a veteran anti-apartheid freedom fighter is forced to break his lifetime loyalty to the ANC as he confronts corruption at the very highest level.

He lost the game. Then they let him win. Now the real game begins. When down-on-his-luck Vegas local Jack Rios is dealt into an underground poker match run by the city’s most powerful criminal elite, he thinks it’s his last shot at redemption. But the hand he plays is more than a bluff—it’s an invitation into a dark network of power, secrets, and surveillance that goes far deeper than he imagined. As Jack digs into the truth behind his father’s mysterious death, he uncovers a file that could destroy everything—and everyone—in its path. Now he's being hunted not to be silenced,...

A New Sun Rising—Bringing Darkness It’s happening all around her—a blur of panic and pandemonium. Cryptic symbols. A strange, ancient monument. Something about Halloween. Dark silhouettes, overseeing it all. Then: the explosion. And Kit Chase wrenches awake, stirred in the post-midnight hour by the same terrible dream she’s been having all week. Between a tattered personal life and her work as a prosecutor for the Office of International Development and Coordination in Kosovo, this isn’t the first time Kit has suffered sleep troubles. This particular dream, however, has her ...

Sprawling and illuminating, Dan Gretton’s I You We Them is an unprecedented study of perpetrators of crimes against humanity: the “desk killers” who ordered and directed some of the worst atrocities of the last century. From Albert Speer’s Nazi complicity to Royal Dutch Shell’s role in the murder of the Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, Gretton probes the depths of the figure “who, by giving orders, uses paper or a phone or a computer to kill, instead of a gun.”

When the inner circle of President John F. Kennedy conspires to assassinate him, they turn to organized crime and the very powerful New York City based LaCasa crime family to get the job done. Irish/Italian mobster Jimmy Fallen came out of World War Two a disillusioned man and followed the career path of his father as a hit man for organized crime. Scarred by years of fighting in the war, Fallen’s existence is bleak and lonely. However, his professional services are highly sought after and he lands the prize of contracted hits when Tommy LaCasa hands him the assassination of President ...

A kidnapping in London, a disappearance in Beijing… the past is catching up with the future for her. Nancy Wu, the renowned lawyer and Queen’s Counsel, has lent her formidable skills to DCI Pole and Scotland Yard for many years. It is high time she directs her exceptional mind to solving a cold case that has been haunting her for far too long... her father’s disappearance from Beijing 30 years ago. When her young friend Ollie, a genius biotech researcher, is kidnapped, drugged, and left for dead in London, she joins forces with Pole to find the culprit. As the links between the two ...

"Blood Moon Judgment" is the concluding book in this 5-part series and, according to Jack Watts, "It is the best book." When you watch the fireworks on the 4th of July, you always know when the finale comes. There are far more explosions. It's the same way with "Blood Moon Judgment." You be on pins and needles from age one, and it will not let up until the surprising conclusion. You've come to expect twists and turns from a Jack Watts book, and "Blood Moon Judgment" has them—lots of them. Like the other books in the Moon Series, you will definitely not be disappointed.

Matthew Keating, a one-time Navy SEAL and a former US President, has always defended his family as fiercely as he has his country. Now these defences are under attack. And it's personal. Keating's teenage daughter, Melanie, has been abducted, turning every parent's deepest fear into a matter of national security. As the world watches, Keating embarks on a one-man special-ops mission that tests his strengths: as a leader, a warrior, and a father. Because Keating knows that in order to save Melanie's life he will have to put his own on the line . . .

An art historian finds – then loses – a portrait by Johannes Vermeer in this thrilling art mystery set in Munich, Heidelberg, and Amsterdam. When Zelda Richardson investigates a new lead about a missing portrait by Johannes Vermeer, no one expects her to actually find the painting in a retired art dealer’s home in Munich, Germany. Not her parents visiting from America; her boss, private detective Vincent de Graaf; or the rightful owner of the Nazi-looted artwork. However, Zelda’s jubilation turns to horror when she arrives to pick up the portrait and finds the art dealer dead and ...

When a disgraced politician is found dead at his London flat, there are few people who mourn his demise. George Dent’s reputation was in tatters, and his suicide surprises nobody - except one. Dent’s childhood friend Peter Timms is certain the MP’s downfall was a set-up; why else was he being stalked in the weeks before his death? Timms can even name the culprit - the only problem is, he’s been dead for seventy years. But broke PI Kenny Gabriel can’t afford to be cynical. He agrees to round up Dent’s old school gang, although some of them are less than keen to be found.

A reconstruction of the life and milieu of Dan Mitrione, his work as a US police advisor in Brazil and other South American countries, and his kidnapping and murder by Uruguayan guerrillas.

In Ukraine a modern-day human rights' crusader disappears. In London his mother seeks the only person who can save him before it is too late… Lawyer and former Queen’s Counsel, Nancy Wu receives a desperate call from an old friend whose son vanished 6 months ago. What terrible facts of abuse did he unearth that made him a target for the oppressors? Has he gone in hiding or is his disappearance much more sinister? On a crusade of her own, Nancy accepts an offer from the International Criminal Court to join its team of investigators. She’s prepared to challenge any authority in any ...