Donavan Chronicles

This is a prequel for the Donavan Chronicles. In the Middle Eastern conflict, one group of dedicated men have contrived to build a nuclear device - not to detonate on American soil but on their own in order to cripple the industrial might of the West. One small team of DIA operatives is dispatched to ensure the failure of that plan. Nothing ever goes as planned.

The president of the United States is on board Air Force One and is within 20 minutes of landing at Atlanta. He receives an unexpected call from his special black operations agents, Bridget Donavan and Matt Higgins. They inform him that a nuclear device is set to detonate when he lands. The Secret Service also learned there is a bomb on his plane, and any deviation from the planned flight route will cause the weapon to detonate. The question that POTUS and everyone onboard wonders is: What can we do, and how the devil can this happen on Air Force One?

We know what happened to the robe of Christ. We think we know what happened to his cross. What really happened to the Crown of Thorns? A controversial thriller set in modern times solving an ancient mystery.

In the fourth century of the Christian era, the Emperor Constantine ordered the Bishop of Jerusalem to make fifty copies of the Holy Scriptures in Latin. His mother, Saint Helen, had gone to Jerusalem where she reportedly found true cross of Christ and brought with her an earth shaking secret to her son. The Emperor passed that secret on to the Bishop of Jerusalem and swore him and all of his successors to secrecy forever on pain of death and the loss of his soul.

In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the FBI intercepts an arms deal. One agent is dead and the agent in charge quits. The arms dealer, who works for a Russian warlord, escapes. He possesses an icon that comes from the time of the Byzantine Empire, stolen from the Vatican in WWII, and containing a Nazi secret from the occupation of Italy. The secret the icon contains is a bank code to Swiss accounts.

FBI Agent Matt Higgins, along with Bridget and Scott Donavan, are targets for assassination. Three simultaneous attacks leaves one of them apparently dead and the two survivors bent on revenge. Matt embarks on a mission to find the man who gave the orders. Doing so turns out to be far more difficult than expected. They have a long list of enemies located in various parts of the world. Narrowing down the list will cause them to break a few rules. But does he have the right target for his vengeance?