Russian Spy Thriller

Praise for Pattaya Heat: "IF YOU ENJOY OLD DETECTIVE STORIES, YOU'LL ENJOY THIS." "EXCELLENT BOOK AND A GREAT NEW DETECTIVE!" Welcome to Pattaya City, Thailand. This piss-poor paradise makes Las Vegas look like a PG-13 Disney movie. Pattaya is where Richy Sky has landed for a premature mid-life crisis. This is not where he wants to be, scraping by taking small-time PI jobs, mostly infidelity investigations. The fun, if you could call it that, can't last forever, and now Richy sees a way out -- a new job, one that pays very well. All he has to do is find a missing antique watch that's worth ...

“Amazingly intricate and impossible to put down." There could be a new president of Russia... and she has plans. Her nation stands at a precipice, but are they ready to usher a woman into the Kremlin? Will she allow anybody to stop her? With a dissident voice leaking her secrets to the world, Svetlana might not have that chance—she will give anything to know the identity and whereabouts of this whistleblower. Russian oligarchs continue to gather in secret—a vicious cage fight, controlled by a bloodthirsty man, whose actions surpass anything that The Games have seen before. Is this one...

Paul Samson is living in London and picking up some extra work for a private security company when he is almost killed by a thuggish assassin while tailing a mysterious and gifted young employee of a powerful environmental NGO. The murder of legendary spy Robert Harland, the poisoning of billionaire philanthropist Denis Hisami with a neurotoxin in the United States House of Representatives, and a second attempt on Samson's own life send him on the run to Estonia to figure out who is trying to kill him, and why.

At an important multinational cocktail party in Washington, D.C., attended by everybody who is anybody among the political elite, the Vietnamese ambassador’s wife, Thuy Nguyen, spills her glass of wine. The hostess, Ingrid Fischer, a Swiss diplomat’s wife, accidentally mutters, “Damned Fidschi,” a racial slur used exclusively by East Germans against people from Southeast Asia. Little does anyone know that her Freudian mishap will be the catalyst that unleashes a joint investigation that takes the CIA and Thuy down a KGB rabbit hole. Who is the real Ingrid Fischer? And can Thuy ...

The President’s Son Is Missing. The Blackmail Has Begun. When the president’s only child vanishes without a trace, Washington teeters on the brink. The kidnappers’ demands are simple: obey—or the boy dies. But this is no ordinary ransom. It’s the opening move in a conspiracy that could topple the nation. Enter Otis Thorne—ex-agent, burned by his own government, and the only man ruthless enough to hunt them down. To save the boy, Thorne must uncover a secret buried deep within U.S. soil: a Russian program creating human weapons and infiltrating the highest levels of power. The ...

Recipe for Admission into Main Street, USSR Ingredients: Ambitious or orphaned East German and Russian children KGB and Stasi spymasters A KGB spy school in Vinnytsia, Ukraine Directions: Stir lightly – do not shake. Teach them how to act, speak, and live like Americans. Ship to the US until Mother Russia activates them. Follow one class from 1962 until they graduate in 1965. Then we pick them up again in 1989 when a potential defector offers up the names of the Lenin Five sleeper agents operating in the US. 1989: A pivotal year in history as a deadly cocktail of espionage and deceit is ...

Nostrils crosses the Rubicon Nostrils is making a modest living writing police fiction; often reminiscing about his early years in the job. While attending the funeral of the late Queen, he accepts an opportunity to serve his country for one final time and the retired detective sets off to New York. As winter bites, Nostrils becomes increasingly addicted to heroin and ever more distanced from his loving family. Just when he believes his task is complete, destiny delivers to him the most brutal of choices.

Berlin, 1948. Almost four years after the war's end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. In the West a defiant, blockaded city is barely surviving on airlifted supplies; in the East the heady early days of political reconstruction are being undermined by the murky compromises of the Cold War. Espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life.

Mike Lacondeguy is enjoying quiet semi-retirement until a Georgian winemaker’s dogged pursuit of vengeance and an ancient myth changed everything. In the electrifying conclusion to The New Americans trilogy, THERE YOU GO thrusts Mike Lacondeguy into a world where the boundaries between reality and ancient myths blur, and the pursuit of justice knows no bounds. Mike is beginning to figure out the next phase of his life when he meets Lasha, an enormous enigma from the nation of Georgia. Everyone loves Lasha, and Lasha loves life until Russian soldiers kill his family. Lasha is a renowned ...

Early one morning in West Berlin, a nervous courier delivers the handwritten manuscript of a dissident Russian novel to Paul Christopher. Minutes after the handoff, the courier's spine is neatly snapped by an impact with a passing black sedan. Meanwhile, in Rome, Christopher's wife Cathy takes a famous film director as a lover to stir her husband out of the stoicism that defines his personality.

Sam Capra and his thirteen-year-old son, Daniel, are living a quiet life in Austin, Texas, where Sam continues to run his collection of bars and nightclubs around the world. He's had no recent contact with his former partner, Mila, and is working for America's most secret espionage agency, known as Section K—all while trying to be a good suburban dad. Suddenly, Sam is approached by a fellow spy with an incredible revelation: Markus Bolt is missing. Bolt is the last American traitor, who had turned over allied agent names and military secrets to the Russians.

Rogue officials within the Chinese and Russian intelligence agencies conspire to use a decades-long and extremely effective covert program of political infiltration and influence of United States officials to replace the US president with someone more sympathetic to the interests of the two foreign powers. They must execute the mission before the president can enter into an international agreement with other Pacific Ocean nations restricting Chinese and Russian interests in the region. The mission includes a horrific attack on the president that shocks the world. US Defense Secretary Colt ...

Life after the State Department was supposed to be a peaceful respite for Mike Lacondeguy, but an unlikely friend and the Russian mob surfaced with other plans. In FISHING WITH TOLSTOY, the exhilarating introduction to The New Americans trilogy, ex-diplomat Mike Lacondeguy snaps out of his retirement blues and into a world of deception and betrayal. This time, the fight is on his turf. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine draws two Cold War adversaries back into the game to stop the hostilities from escalating. Mike worked with the State Department for three decades in and around Russia, while ...

In this 1876 "Mission Impossible" tale of intrigue set in Russia, a traitor has inspired the fierce Feofar Khan to invade Siberia and foment a rebellion. A sinister plot to assassinate the Czar's brother, the Grand Duke, is discovered but all telegraph lines have been cut.

When a justice of the Supreme Court is killed by the police officer assigned to protect him, the country is shocked. Hayley Chill’s superiors suspect the assassination is part of a major conspiracy. In Maui, where one member of the Supreme Court owns a vacation home, a busload of children is taken hostage with the justice’s death as ransom. Together with a deputy US marshal, Hayley embarks on the monumental task of rescuing the children while also protecting the justice.

In 1949 Frank Weeks, fair-haired boy of the newly formed CIA, was exposed as a communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Iron Curtain. Now, 12 years later, he has written his memoirs, a KGB-approved project almost certain to be an international best seller, and has asked his brother, Simon, a publisher, to come to Moscow to edit the manuscript. It's a reunion Simon both dreads and longs for.

An authorized mission to rescue a friend may be the last adventure of Stiletto's career...or his life. A coup stirring in Russia to overthrow President Putin faces the wrath of Moscow police and government agents. Suspects are arrested or assassinated. Survivors run for their lives, including Vladimir Glinkov, a friend of Scott Stiletto. Glinkov desperately calls for help, but the US government will not get involved. Despite his pleas to aid a friend in need, Stiletto is ordered to stand down.

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.

Fifth Ace MQ Ashcraft The late 1980s were a time of complex foreign relations. Without the modern surveillance technology we have grown accustomed to today, the KGB operated freely, dealing in secrets and manipulation within its own borders and ours. Likewise, crime was rampant along the US - Mexico border. In the quiet border town of Ya Basta, Texas, Sheriff Deputy Bo Jernigan faces a baffling murder involving local teens and a mysterious extra playing card. Coupled with a rash of car thefts along the border and Bo has his hands full policing his town. Adding to the chaos is a mafia hitman...

Assigned to the CIA's survivalist school in the Appalachians, Sasha Kopytina intercepts a short wave radio transmission from a long-dormant Russian sleeper agent, a spy ring headed up by her father. They went off the grid after the Berlin Wall fell twenty-five years ago. A quick phone call to her half-brother, Sam Mulchay, in the CIA's Black Ops, and he appears on the scene under the guise of FBI Special Agent Adam Brookfield. Sam arrives in the dusty, hot small town of Brownville, Alabama, to investigate and quickly finds himself caught up in the spiraling mystery of the disappearance of ...