The Belarius Rougge, a rusted freighter, steams through the murky water of the Baltic Sea. The mystery freighter is carrying secret cargo and a dangerous crew. It's destination: Copenhagen and danger. Pietro Segretti, an Italian arms dealer, conspires with members of the Russian Mafia to hatch a plot to broker the sale of nuclear armament to foreign countries. The plan promises to provide enormous profit but is laced with unparallel risk and unrivaled treachery. A trailer truck crashes in the Painted Desert of Arizona and sets off a corporate cover up to conceal its mysterious freight. Executives of a U.S. chemical conglomerate with access to nuclear materials used in their food irradiating facilities siphon off nuclear waste for illegal sale and profit. Sheriff, Joseph St. Cloud investigates a multiple homicide committed by rival members of the Russian Mafia. The investigation thrusts St. Cloud into a sinister weave involving members of the Russian Mafia and the corporate executives. Against insurmountable odds, St. Cloud must confront the power of the corporate conglomerate and the dangerous criminal society that have been so tightly woven together.. In the end, St. Cloud must unravel the mystery.the mystery of the Gordian Weave.

Lie Down With Lions is the thrilling tale of suspense and deceit from master of the spy story, Ken Follett.

A Dangerous Romance

In Paris, rival spies Ellis and Jean-Pierre both fall in love with Jane, and all three become gripped in a tangled web of lust and deception as they battle terrorist conspiracies. Ultimately Jane can marry only one and chooses Jean-Pierre.

A Fight for Freedom

In Afghanistan the Mujahedeen are fighting to free their country of the Soviet invasion and the newlyweds travel to the Valley of the Five Lions to help the cause as doctors. Fierce fighting means they must find a way out of the line of fire.

A Perilous Escape

Help unexpectedly comes in the form of Jean Pierre’s nemesis, Ellis, and knowing both men have dangerous secrets, Jane must once again choose who to trust if she is to make her escape over one of the most remote mountain ranges in the world . . .

Ralph Bleeker, a scientist with a high security clearance with the U.S. military has worked on perfecting technology for beam weapons. These weapons utilize electro-pulse microwave beams that travel at the speed of light and are capable of disabling the electronics on guided missile systems and satellite stations. Because of their speed and accuracy no preemptive weapon or satellite surveillance station can escape their destructive power. Due to a personal tragedy Bleeker becomes disenchanted with his loyalties to the military and seeks to sell the secrets of this beam weaponry. Carlo Fry and Jim Tyler, rogue mercenaries with CIA ties conspire with Pietro Segretti, an arms broker, to sell the weapons to the highest bidder. In an alignment of destinies, that at first appear unrelated, Jennifer Mission-Mills, Sheriff Joseph St. Cloud's fiance, has vowed if elected state senator, to stop the strip mining in the Black Mesa area in Arizona. Mining executives concerned over the effect of Jennifer's proposal hire an assassin, Frank Brill to put an end to her senate race. In an effort to confront the hired assassin, Sheriff St. Trying to hide the secrets and stop the sale of the beam weaponry is a joint effort between Alston Lawler of the CIA and General Ken Bradshaw of the U.S. military. General Bradshaw pursues Segretti and Bleeker around the world to try and prevent the sale of the weapons. In the process he must also try to conceal the origins that are the secrets of beam technology.those secrets that are, in reality, a secret to no one.

The book involves internaional travel from Iraq to Sydney, Australia, to Mendoza, Argentina, to Hong Kong and other cities around the world. The main characters are being held against there will to carry out assignments for Alquida's plan to attack America. Main characters are from Jackson, Mississippi and have traveled extensivly in the US and Europe in there normal business practice Food Brokerage Busines

Denise James takes the money and runs in this heist-caper of deceit and deception. After stopping a drug dealer fleeing a police raid, she finds more than three million dollars in cash. The Moneybag is her struggle to keep it.

"Nikolai found the cottage without trouble, but it was empty. Its occupant, only recently departed, had left the stub of a cigarette, its pungent Turkish scent heavy in the room. He exited the cottage and wandered down the path; it was still soggy from the last rain and here and there revealed the dainty imprint of a small foot." "Nikolai followed the stream and paused just short of a narrow pedestrian bridge. A solitary figure was hunched at the crest of a gently arched railing, staring into the water. The location was remote to the point of mystery. The silence was enormous." In all the tens of thousands of fantasized confrontations, this one had never manifested itself. Prescient, the man brought his head up. He looked around, and saw Nikolai. But there was no recognition. "Nikolai came closer. The face was much changed. It was bloated; the skin was mottled and pocked by sores. His hair was much thinner, and when he opened his mouth, there was a gap on one side." ""Do you bring me the shot?" the Baron asked. The English was serviceable, but multiaccented, the voice cracked, but still imperious." "Nikolai replied in German, "Do you know who I am?""

Coming of age during the Vietnam War, Mike McCurry decides to join the U.S. Army rather than be drafted or take a fl ight to Canada. He is assigned to the Army Security Agency and begins a life of covert operation as a voice interceptor.

In the late 1960s, McCurry arrives at Teufelsberg, a super-secret listening station in West Berlin. McCurry and his fellow operatives have direct access to some of the most sensitive conversations of top offi cials of the East German government's Central Committee in East Berlin. Unfortunately, McCurry's group of interpreters and analysts are supervised by regular Army personnel, who have no idea of the tasks being carried out by those under their command.

McCurry's supervisors are more interested in how their troops perform on the drill field than how they are fulfilling their assigned intelligence mission, and that doesn't sit well with McCurry when national security is at stake. It doesn't take him long to recognize that it will require a combination of guile and humor to overcome the obstacles put in his path by clueless supervisors.

But the incompetence of the leadership ultimately becomes deadly, forcing McCurry to make a choice between following orders ... or facing a court martial.

"With Campbell in the lead, they proceeded down a long, monotonously gray corridor, turned a corner, and doubled back. A tall, slope-shouldered young man passed them with a deliberate wariness and glanced back defensively. The place certainly was "different," as well as the humanoids which inhabited it. Not a window was visible. The corridors were like subterranean tunnels. What lurked behind the cold gray walls and unmarked doors? Feeling a permeating, clammy chill, Anderson grimaced as he buttoned his coat. Now he thought he knew why they were called spooks. If the human zombies he had seen, including his peculiar companion, were a reflection of what he himself might become, maybe he should head for daylight. But even that was prohibitively risky. He probably wouldn't be able to find his way back to the damn elevators on his own. That was incentive enough for him to spurt ahead and overtake Campbell. He didn't want to spend the rest of his life wandering through this eerie maze."

In the wake of the 2001 September eleventh terrorist attacks, the New York Times reported that the New York CIA station, headed by a woman, was located in a building of the World Trade Center complex. When the Trade Towers came down, the adjacent CIA office was destroyed as well. Business people and students going overseas were recruited by this CIA station to gather intelligence information while abroad. This is the story of one such person, the challenges he faced, and the affect of his longstanding relationship with the CIA Station Chief.

Autumn 1960. Nikita Khrushchev is politically adept, visionary, and locked in a fight with the Politburo and a battle with Mao and the Chinese. His country and his political future are in trouble because he has opened doors to the West and espoused the doctrine of peaceful coexistence. Meanwhile, the arms race is crushing the Soviet economy and there is unrest throughout the Communist empire. Changes are imperative. The army must be reduced, money redirected to a consumer economy, and the US neutralized. But the old boars of the Red Army will not be easily displaced; its leaders are intent on saving their country from Khrushchev. A cabal of senior Red Army patriots are led by a man who the world thinks is Khrushchev's unswerving toady. The game is treason, and the tools are Albania's mad-dog leaders, for whom assassination is second nature. What begins subtly soon turns brittle. A rocket technician disappears before a major accident at the Soviet Space Center. In Belgrade a psychotic CIA agent escapes an ambush, vows revenge, and disappears. Khrushchev turns to the Special Operations Group, the elite hunting team featured in the author's prequel, THE BERKUT. In Washington the Bay of Pigs invasion is in the final planning stages, and its timing is tied to the missing CIA agent. He must be found. Two teams, one from Russia and one from the United States, begin a desperate hunt that leads them on an inward spiral toward each other and to a lethal showdown at the 1961 summit in Vienna. There they find themselves in an uneasy alliance as they race to find the American renegade and the Albanian death team, both groups pawns in a global chess game. With a vast canvas of disparate characters and events, The Domino Conspiracy is a coruscating tour de force. Breathtakingly suspenseful, it lays open the myths of the Soviet monolith and reveals the delicate seeds of glasnost and perestroika, movements that were not to flower until three decades later. Readers know how the Soviet story ended; now they will see how it all began.

"The Pachinko Connection" takes the reader into a world of espionage, extortion and perversion, as CIA operative Adam Carver and pachinko parlor owner Noriko Kaneda attempt to follow the trail of money extorted from gambling halls in Japan and sent to North Korea, where, it is suspected, it is being used to help fund the development and sale of weapons of mass destruction.