In the wake of 9/11, personal protection agent Eric Walker is thrust into a collision course with the al-Queda. Abdul Apoli, Eric=s client, is a self-made billionaire who has become a pawn in the terrorist groups insane plan for yet another attack on American soil. After making a bone-chilling discovery that uncovers a sinister network of well placed men who exist to help carry out the attack, Eric is pulled into a storm of violence, intrigue, betrayal, kidnapping, romance, and murder. In his attempt to foil the terrorists plan to use Abduls corporate assets for further destruction against Americans, Eric enters the most dangerous assignment of his career. It will be bigger and deadlier than he ever imagined. A duel that will be fought across the western U.S. He won=t be just risking his career, his life is on the line too.

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.

Mr. Shanks has written an excellent and exciting controversial novel of contemporary fiction in the style of Tom Clancy and Patrick Robinson with all its high tech and swift movement around the globe. It is a political thriller, a legal thriller, and sophisticated warfare thriller all rolled into one.

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.

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.