This timely, present day novel is a combination of suspense and intrigue filled with foreign interest and entanglements. The plot is breathtakingly imaginative and inventive. It involves greed, power and money, spiced and twisted with ruthless individuals determined to control the world around them. makers and involves a national presidential election. Months before the election, the clandestine members go to murderous lengths to place key personnel in staff positions. Finally, days before the general election, the president and vice presidential candidates make a final swing visit to northern Iowa. party rallies. After a very successful private fund raising appearance, the candidates prepare to leave a private home. As the presidential candidate walks to his car, he is shot. After surgery, he dies. party representatives use their power to influence the vice presidential candidate to run for the now vacant presidential office. The candidate accepts, putting the final stages of the detailed plan into motion. investigate the shooting, another person is murdered. As the characters develop, the story becomes extraordinarily gripping with fascinating and riveting action. color. It is an unusual, absorbing novel that will hold your interest and make you wonder if such events are possible.

A spy novel, that addresses contemporary issues of terrorism in a light-hearted and witty manner, in Mrs. Thatcher's England and democratically emerging Turkey

From the time Jeff Kendrick and Joshua Allison Beaumont became roommates at Harlan's Preparatory School in San Francisco, they maintained a roller-coaster-like relationship. Though they followed divergent paths, their lives were bonded by fate.

Each was mutually driven in their quest for military careers, but Beaumont, better known as Jab, flunked the West Point entrance exam and eventually became a pilot for a Central American drug cartel-flying at least ten thousand kilos of drugs out of Panama during the last two years. Jeff Kendrick's life takes a different path-pursuing a notable career in public service as an agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration and later as a college professor.

When Jab refuses to sabotage a plane for the cartel, he fears his life is in danger and flees to the United States. Hoping to save his life, Jab requests the aid of Kendrick, who rejoins the DEA to help decipher the conspiracy. Jab and Kendrick are assisted in the mission by Danielle von Sedvels, a sociologist and expert in Peruvian politics.

The three become irrevocably united as they join forces for a concerted and dangerous action against narco-terrorists bent on attacking US vital interests in the Panama Canal.

Eighteen-year-old Mark Matthews has adored Sandy Lewis ever since he can remember. Unfortunately, Mark, a gifted athlete, and Sandy, a genius with lofty goals, are first cousins caught in the web of forbidden love. Seemingly destined to only see his soul mate twice a year, Mark hangs onto the hope that one day he and Sandy will be together. But Sandy is about to discover something about herself that will change both their lives forever.

As soon as Sandy discovers the ability to achieve astonishing physical feats, she begins to suspect that she has inherited powers that not only make her athletically dominant, but also telepathic. After she discovers that Mark is also psychically gifted, Sandy begins to show off her newly discovered capabilities of charming bees, but quickly reins in her gift after she is warned by a neighbor to keep her powers a secret from everyone. But when someone goes missing in their town, Sandy and Mark have no choice but to rely on their gifts to help.

The Bee Charmer is the engaging tale of a young couple's evolving love and unique abilities as they become immersed in the danger, intrigue, and mystery emerging in their small New England town.

In the cold waters off the coast of northwestern Washington, the Cold War rages on. The USS Ohio, a newly refitted Trident ballistic missile submarine based in Bangor, Washington, is a source of great curiosity to the Russian military. If their intelligence is to be believed, the US Navy now possesses the technical ability to render its fleet invisible.

When a scuba diver is killed in the waters that US Coast Guard Commander Matthew Reynolds patrols, Reynolds finds himself caught up in a war of international intrigue. Tanya Andrushyn, a specialist from the US Navy's satellite intelligence operation in Hawaii, is called in to investigate. Just how did the Russians manage to plant deep-water spy buoys in the waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca without being spotted?

A group of specialists and their secret team of trained dolphins are also brought in to neutralize the sono-bouys. When one of the dolphins gets trapped on the ocean floor, however, Andrushyn and her team must make an impossible choice: sacrifice the animal and risk detection or risk her own life to rescue it. To even attempt such an operation, they risk disclosing the existence of top-secret underwater breathing-unit technology. She makes her decision ... and soon finds herself in need of rescue.

Andrushyn suspects the sono-buoys are uploading data via satellites, so she and Reynolds try to trick the equipment into sending misinformation instead. The race is on to complete the modifications before their plan is discovered.

It is an era of paradox. Current events contradict common sense. America is the sole superpower basking in extraordinary wealth and military success. Yet, external attack and internal corruption continue to plague its democracy. Nuclear disaster is looming. Financial fraud is endemic. Individual freedom has eroded. Tragically, President Jerry Ashton suddenly vanishes in a terrorist event. Paradoxically, two decades later, Ashton's agenda to reverse these trends has taken place. A beautiful, successful young woman, Kathryn Austin, encounters a reclusive, aging author completing the astounding chronicle of Michael Tyme, who played a crucial role in Ashton's disappearance. Embarking on a gripping quest, Kathryn seeks the purpose behind the paradox. Christian A. Carrington, in his carefully reasoned novel, delves deeply into recent paradoxical, yet troubling trends. America's military success has heightened the probability of nuclear terrorism. Unbridled corporate freedom has reined in the power of the people. Privatization has inadequately met public needs. Media consolidation threatens freedom of expression. packed with mystery and suspense. A real page-turner, Tyme glimpses the consequences if we fail to act. A captivating read, the story offers perturbing paradoxes and beguiling possibilities for the probing mind.

The settings of this book are many and varied. One setting is the Philippine city of Manila; the next setting is the container ship which transports the villains. The third setting is the Panama Canal; the fourth setting is the Republic of Panama itself. Nick Savage is the protagonist secretly employed as a sleeper agent, working for the CIA to keep watch over the Panama Canal. He is to report anything suspicious and discovers an Al-Queda plot to destabilize the free world, using the Panama Canal as a pawn. The antagonists in this book are a group of Philippine Nationals of a designated "Moro" faction of an Al-Queda branch. This book is likely to appeal to readers because therein is a plot that leads the reader through true descriptions of many of the Panama Canal Locks operations and hardware. The target audience could be anyone who enjoys an action adventure with a different plot With a lot of insight into the operation and maintenance of the Canal itself. I worked at the Panama Canal Locks so that the reader will benefit from an insider's look at the operation of the Panama Canal. I also know the weaknesses that are inherent in the operation. I lead the reader through many of my own personal experiences on board ships, and an abundant knowledge of ship handling from many aspects.