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XILLOS" (ZEE-los) is a story of intrigue woven around a quintet of major characters whose lives intertwine through stages of survival, ambition, love, violence, and revenge. The beginning finds us twenty years in the future where WorldGovernment sans frontiers has been established. "XILLOS" is now the enforcerof peace on planet Earth, ushering in a new order of law and justice. All iswell until one of the Committee of Nine, the highest office that rules, cunningly perpetrates an act of duplicity and subterfuge.

Two brilliant doctors and a Supreme Court justice collaborate to change theworld. A death camp survivor stumbles on a new, and most importantinvention of the millennium. The rapacious CEO of one of the world'slargest companies embarks on a quest that unravels in a way he never couldhave anticipated. His most trusted employee carries out his directives withan alarming ruthlessness and brutality. A teenage boy finds himself aninnocent fugitive and is stymied in his efforts to extricate himself as thetarget of both an assassin and the police, eventually becoming an unwittinghero. The closing pages stun and surprise even the cleverest of mystery buffs.

Arkady Renko returns in this tense political thriller about what it means to fight for truth and justice in today’s Russia, from one of the undisputed masters of the genre.

When Arkady Renko is charged with investigating the murder of Alexei Volkov – a wealthy Russian businessman and the son of Moscow’s mayor – he knows he has to tread carefully. Maxim Volkov is a high-profile politician and has a complicated relationship with Putin. This investigation clearly has Kremlin approval, but, as with everything in Russia, things are not always what they seem.

Already preoccupied with his developing Parkinson's, Arkady finds he has more to worry about. The war in Ukraine is gaining momentum, and his son Zhenya has become involved with the Black Army, a Russo-Ukrainian group of hacktivists. Moreover, as Arkady digs deeper into Alexei Volkov’s murder, he realizes that the man's death may have been more politically motivated than he first assumed.

Now it seems that the people behind the killing have him firmly in their crosshairs – but this time Arkady's life is not the only one on the line.

From world chemical weapons expert, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, 'A brilliant marriage of fact and fiction' Kuwait 1960. With Soviet backing Iraq plans to invade. Gordon Carlisle lives in the expat community of Ahmadi with little to worry about other than when to next don his dinner jacket. When enlisted by an MI6 agent everything changes. Even marriage to his beautiful new wife Anita breaks down as he becomes a suspect in a chain of deaths in the Protectorate. Ian Fleming's time in Kuwait is recorded at first hand as Britain prepares to meet the Iraqi forces head on with Operation Vantage. Our Man In Kuwait is a colonial-era thriller set against the background of big power conflict. The ultimate timepiece tinderbox of sun, sex and spies.

Cottswold Ommony has guts and influence. He's in the Secret Service, and heading for McGregor's office. No one in India knows what Ommony will do next.And it's a good thing. Because there are evils on the land -- evils like OM, the Secret of the Abhor Valley.(Jacketless library hardcover)

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.

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.

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.