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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller > Espionage & spy thriller
Move over James Bond; meet Captain Peterson Smith, formerly of the
US Navy. Smith is the son of a famous senator. He's a former US
Navy SEAL, an F-14 pilot, and an intelligence specialist-all
without breaking a sweat. He even makes time to have coffee with
his mother. Yes, Smith is the perfect soldier and perfect son ...
and the only person on earth who can save the world from mass
destruction. Follow Captain Smith through three separate vignettes
into the brave world of minisubs in Sweden. We first meet the
honorable Smith in "Minisub 83," as the captain leaves his American
home to serve in the Royal Swedish Navy. There's no time to
acclimate, however; he must use specially designed weapons against
an evil foe. In "Minisub 99," Smith must find a way to destroy
wicked Dr. Dimitriov's underwater headquarters. If Dimitriov
succeeds, he could blow the planet to smithereens But of course
Captain Smith has more than a few tricks up his sleeve. Finally, in
the rousing, rampant "Minisub 2010," the notorious Wizardess has
plans for global domination by mining gold from the Martian
surface. Can she be stopped? It's all up to Peterson Smith.
Shane Ryan is a wrong guy. Wrong race. Wrong gender. Wrong class.
Wrong side of the tracks. Wrong attitude. America in the near
future is a cold, cruel place, especially in the hardscrabble rural
Pacific Northwest. There's war in the Middle East, a revived draft,
mass unemployment, an economy permanently on the skids, greed and
corruption, incompetence and stupidity at the top. Poor blue-collar
kids from the trailer park are last in line for everything. America
has screwed Shane Ryan, and he returns the favor. He joins the
Northwest Volunteer Army, a terrorist organization dedicated to
overthrowing the United States government and establishing an
independent nation. America is about to learn the hard way that
what goes around, comes around.
This is a story about a modern day pirate, the most ruthless
gangster and feared crime boss to ever come off the streets of
Boston. Some readers would no doubt recognize this man, so his name
and the other characters in this story have been changed to protect
the dead-- and those who could become the dead. For twenty-five
years, he ruled the Boston underworld, controlling illegal
gambling, loan sharking, and drug dealing in Boston, up and down
the East Coast from Maine to Rhode Island. He was the Don of
Boston's Irish Mafia. Who is this modern day pirate? What was his
secret deal with the FBI? Where is this man now? Only The Phantom
Pirate knows
"Lines of Neutrality" is a window into the lives of two modern-day
assassins - Raven Yin and Christian Delacroix. Unbeknownst to
either of them, they are both hired to kill the same mark and
coincidentally choose the exact same night and time to strike. This
begins a chain of events that brings Raven and Christian together
to fight a war far larger and more complex than either of them
could have imagined. It is a war being waged against secret
societies whose agendas are more enigmatic than their rumored
existence.
Their personalities and methods are fundamentally different,
yet each of them discovers more about themselves by studying the
other. Despite secret societies, internal betrayal, stolen memories
and personal battles, Raven and Christian defy the odds to show
that the Society of Assassins is nobody's pawn.
The eleventh classic Dirk Pitt novel, where the adventurer is drawn to
a secret in the burning African desert, which could destroy all life in
the world's seas.
Deep in the African desert, Dirk Pitt discovers that a top secret
scientific installation is leaking a lethal chemical into the rivers,
threatening to kill thousands of people - and to destroy all life in
the world's seas.
To warn the world of the catastrophe, Pitt must escape capture and
death at the hands of a ruthless West African dictator and French
industrialist, and undertake a long, perilous journey across the
merciless Sahara...
When American citizens are hi-jacked at sea and a Cuban military
base goes up in flames, the eyes of the world turn towards the U.S.
with suspicion. Thus begins a maelstrom that both nations are
helpless to control or even comprehend. Accusations fly as the
situation deteriorates towards a military showdown.
The executives of Global Risk, an international risk management
company, know the truth behind the attacks. And one man stands at
the vortex, Frank Shepard, Chief of Staff to the President of the
United States and former executive at The Corporation. He
understands the extent of the company's ambition and their ability
to fulfill it. Frank must ride the razors edge as he guides the
President through the crisis and attempts to control a company that
would usurp a nation. "The Corporation"
Just another day at the office.
Examines the lives of the Cambridge spies, and in particular Anthony Blunt. The story is told by Blunt, in the form of a journal which starts on the "first day of the new life". The author uses the "secret life" as a way to explore the darker realms of the 20th century and its hidden minds.
In Scotland, an embryonic terrorist movement targeting the medical
establishment expands globally to include self-help groups, as well
as the Chechen terrorist underground. World leaders, now aware that
the alleged Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction are in Chechnya, fear
this knowledge will catalyze an unwanted Russian military coup. The
CIA sends Dick Swept to retrieve the WMD and stop the terrorist
attacks.
"His appointment to defend a man accused of harming a child had
changed all that. It had revived everything in his life that was
ever painful. It had returned to his mind and soul an emptiness
that once had overwhelmed him. It had set him on a course where he
must again confront and deal with the same emotions that had almost
destroyed him.
As he watched the water move slowly by his deck, he winced at
the thought of going to work. He was scheduled to be at the Public
Defender's office that morning to view the Brewton file. Perhaps
that explained why he thought the pull of the river was unusually
magnetic. The more his sleepy head cleared, the more he realized he
wasn't being attracted by the river. He was being repelled by his
intense dislike for a man he'd never met.
Clay had tried to picture him many times, but had failed. He
tried venting his anger with imaginary punches, thrown as hard as
he could. But, he got no relief hitting a man who had no face. It
was time to get on with his dirty chore and learn all the things he
didn't want to know about a man called Harco."
Matthew McKitrick, an ordinary 'Joe' with a wife, a home and a job
at CIA headquarters as a low security level programmer, is coerced
by a desperate government into tracking down his evil twin brother.
Cruelly seperated by a random kidnapping while very young, Matthew
and his identical sibling find each other twenty-six years later.
Saddam Hussein prepares for invasion. America gets ready for an oil
war. Driven by commitment, Matthew begins a quest to find his
brother Sean, who is discovered to be working for a notorious
Iranian weapons dealer named Mahtob. This incredible journey takes
Matt from the depths of fear to pinnacles of courage, and across
two continents on the brink of Armageddon.
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