One of fifty-eight thousand names carved on black granite in the nation's capital, Lieutenant Kenneth Wentworth is distinctive. A prodigy endowed with a unique talent or perhaps a terrible curse, the young officer is hastily recruited to join a clandestine project bearing the military's most enigmatic classification. Mortally wounded, Wentworth is laid to rest, moldering in a hero's grave...but not for long. Fellow officer Ken Canary escorts Wentworth's remains home from Southeast Asia. Serving the Pentagon's infamous Armed Forces Courier Service (ARFCOS) and charged with transporting and protecting national secrets, Canary becomes obsessed with solving one of the world's darkest and most guarded mysteries. With Vietnam angst as a catalyst, Canary soon becomes entangled in a sordid labyrinth of plots and subplots, meticulously connecting dots that lead him through smarmy jungles, federally protected safe houses, pristine Florida beaches, and eventually a ghoul-haunted Savannah cemetery. A strange raven-haired widow with Druid propensities and several murky secrets of her own accompanies him. intelligent who-done-it that will have readers alternately chuckling, sobbing and occasionally scrambling for cover under a very large bed.

A high-voltage thriller as electrifying as today's headlines. Marly McCalley, a secretive computer expert, is thrown from her Chicago high-rise, leading police to tag her boyfriend, Zack Dreyben, as their prime suspect. Struggling to prove his innocence, Zack narrowly escapes his own murder and soon realizes that he, too, is a target. Unwittingly, Zack has become embroiled in an anarchist's plot to destroy the electrical infrastructure of the U.S. But, rather than using explosives or hijacked jets, this ingenious scheme is designed to attack the power grid using the Internet, prompting the grid into cascading failures of self-destruction. Trains and subways will stall. Fuel and water supplies will evaporate. Worst of all, survival riots will violently pit citizen against citizen. Until now, the important things in Zack's life have been limited to business success and his current lover. Suddenly thrown into a struggle of monumental importance, Zack must confront not only his own death, but the deaths of additional thousands. Who is Zack Dreyben? And, can he muster the courage and command to save himself and the American way of life?

Hal Lutci, a former Chicago detective, exiled to Battle Creek, Michigan, encounters bio-terrorists in the Cereal Capital of the US. He has to figure out what they trying to do and stop them even though it appears that the nation's leaders may be involved.The action entensifies when they kidnap his girlfriend. In four other stories he encounters slain lion, blood diamonds, lost gold mines, oil well scams and the workingsof an ancient secret society.

Deep-cover Arab terrorists plan a catastrophic attack on the United States with a smallpox-like virus for which there is no vaccine and no cure. Washed out Wall Street whistle blower Adam Trent crosses their path, they kill his daughter and he vows to hunt them down.

THE BROKEN LINE What do you really know about your parents? ..".Look, when you get this message, call me," Elaine's twin brother tersely instructed. And before Lane could terminate the connection, she snatched up the receiver and greeted her younger brother. It had been a while since they had last spoken, and when he mentioned their parents, she was curious and picked up. Missing? How could that be? Where were her parents? In The Broken Line, Elaine steps into Kash Bennett and Leslie Scott's world of mystery and intrigue while retracing their steps and realizing that much of the existence she enjoyed as a child was a cover for a double life. Not unlike Alice falling through the proverbial rabbit hole where nothing is as it seems, Elaine realizes that her parent's disappearance might be far more than a tragic accident and her own life may be more complicated than she ever thought possible; especially when she learns her soon-to-be ex-husband, Jack Phillips is in the family business as well. Combining the journals she finds in her parent's attic, Elaine follows the clues from as far back as 1947 China to the present day in trying to locate her folks. She blends new age technology with old world spy techniques to close the gap in finding Kash and Leslie and the mole they had been chasing for nearly six decades.

Deep undercover special ops commander Jake Stone and his team track smugglers using the mega sailing Yacht Kings Ransom. Their secret orders come from high up and outside normal channels. Unlimited resources are provided by an unknown government official. They believe their task is to assure the iron fisted Captain and his rag tag crew of naive innocents make it to America but after infiltrating the crew and sailing half way around the world Jake discovers the real cargo and horrific plan about to be unleashed upon the country. Multiple story lines and adventures will have you laughing, crying, cowering, and shuddering.

Denise Gibson, a computer expert with a special unit of the FBI, is drawn into an intense investigation of a life-threatening Anthrax outbreak. With her colleagues they travel to Bayside, Maine to investigate along with two other federal agencies

eclipse \i-'klipse\ n 1 a: the total or partial
obscuring of one celestial body by another b: the passing into the shadow of a celestial body ---
compare OCCULTATION, TRANSIT 2: a falling into obscurity or decline; also: the state of being eclipsed 3: the state of being in eclipse plumage

After being exiled to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1964 at the age of six, Alex Bell has managed to put his parents' tragic death behind him and lead a somewhat normal life. In 1991, Alex is working as a high school history teacher and wrestling coach in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is astonished when he's chosen to go to Russia as an exchange teacher.

Alex seizes the opportunity and travels to Moscow, hoping to make his peace with the past. Things take a strange turn, however, when he receives a mysterious note asking him to help America. A meeting with a CIA agent opens a door into Alex's former life. If he helps the government, Alex could learn the story surrounding his parents' accident and his true identity.

Alex delves deep into the shadowy world of espionage and soon becomes embroiled in a plot to thwart the assassination of President Mikhail Gorbachev. Alex knows that if Gorbachev is eliminated, then communism can continue, leading to a destabilized Soviet Union. What he doesn't know, however, is that the leader of the rebel group holds a connection to Alex's past, one that will set Alex down a dangerous-and deadly-path.

Full of twists and turns, Almost Armageddon is an action-packed thrill ride.

Triple-O Five and his bride are pulled back into action sooner than planned, when a mad Viking wannabe hires ethically-challenged bioweapons experts and a Russian missile scientist who has gone rogue, in a bid to take over as much of the world as possible. It doesn't make it easier when one of the scientists is Durand's beloved uncle. That the old man is more naive than evil is rather beside the point, since the men he's serving intend to use his genius for wicked gain, and don't much care how many corpses they leave strewn in their path. It also doesn't help that much of the investigation must take place in the USA, whether the feds like it or not. Which they don't. This edition was freshly edited in 2014.

Jacob Sellars, a New York City newspaper reporter, is assigned to cover the memorial services for oil tycoon Joshua Crane, whose corporation has an ambiguous history and suspicious ties to U.S. intelligence agencies. Sellars, who is trying to come to grips with his own troubled past, seizes the chance to write a freelance article about the Crane family, one of New England's most venerated.

In the process, Sellars develops an obsessive romance with Crane's granddaughter, a strident critic of the current administration's foreign policy in the Middle East. His investigations uncover the fact that Crane's company is being used as a front by the U.S. government for nefarious activities in oil-producing countries. Despite efforts to silence him, Sellars intends to publish a blockbuster story revealing the scheme. But he must first survive a beating by thuggish mercenaries, two horrifying terrorist attacks, and his own inner turmoil. Sellars's determination will be the deciding factor in whether he will escape with his life-and his heart-intact.

A masterful mix of high-level corruption, personal conflict, love and loss, "The Patriarch" is a vivid portrayal of the world for one American in the decade after the infamous terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

At a young age, Sandy Lewis and Mark Matthews were gifted with psychic powers. Together, they now form a team of covert government operatives that can easily infiltrate any crime ring. As their abilities have developed, they have become further and further immersed as in their roles as agents.

Their newest case takes them to the world of a Colombian drug cartel. Their job is to get close to the syndicate's don, discover his secrets, and bring him down. Sandy will pose as a go-go dancer in a gentleman's club frequented by the don; Mark, operating as a DEA agent, will go undercover to keep Sandy safe.

Soon, however, they realize they might be in over their heads. The true nature of the don shocks them. They are no longer battling drugs; it appears they are facing an international terrorist attack. Sandy and Mark are the only people with the knowledge and psychic skills to stop the horrific destruction that has been planned.

In this the sequel to The Bee Charmer, a young couple pursuing criminals using their mind bending psychic powers become immersed in the danger of international terrorism.