Fit For Fate Gene Stratton is among the most erudite suspense novelists, and his knowledge of the material always shines through. --Robert Eversz, author of Killing Paparazzi Cornish Conundrum A joy to read, with plenty going on, lots to perplex and please. --Robert Barnard, recipient, Diamond Dagger Award Follows the fine tradition of Daphne Du Maurier in offering much to savor and entertain...in a well-researched Cornish setting. --Peter Lovesey, recipient, Diamond Dagger Award Excellent atmosphere, good mystery...I love it. --Paula Gosling, prize-winning mystery author Killing Cousins Genealogy, genetics and keen detective work mesh. --Publisher's Weekly I read Killing Cousins with enjoyment... Stratton] writes English with a practiced fluency, tells his tale well and] deserves a wide public. --Colin Dexter, author of the Inspector Morse mysteries. A plague of troubles revolves around Greek Police Director Spyro Roussos. His American opera singer lover, Victoria, is stalked by a professional terrorist. His superior, who plots to become dictator, schemes to replace Roussos with a sadistic crony. and rescued by another mysterious, deadlier group. Meanwhile, forces try to involve Greece in a Balkan War that will start World War Three. Two men love Marilyn. The Ambassador doesn't like one, Embassy Security Officer Bob Jensen. Marilyn falls in love with Roussos's son with Greek-god-like features, Dimitri, but that can have complications. In this Byzantine atmosphere, Athens is seen in all its splendiferous, but threatened, glory.

The start of a gripping new crime thriller series introducing Intelligence officer Sophie Racine and featuring ex-SAS officer Aidan Snow! 'Alex Shaw is one of the best thriller writers around!' Stephen Leather A TRAITOR WHO CAN'T BE CAUGHT French Intelligence officer Sophie Racine is tasked with travelling into the heart of a warzone in Ukraine. Her mission is to assassinate a Russian spy who took the French secret service apart piece by piece and gave their secrets to the Kremlin. A PRISONER WHO CAN'T BE KILLED Ex-SAS trooper and MI6 Officer Aidan Snow is also in Ukraine. Sent by British Intelligence, he must extract an innocent citizen caught up in the conflict in rebel-controlled Donetsk. A WAR THAT CAN'T BE WON When their missions collide, Snow and Racine find themselves outgunned and outnumbered. Even if they make it out of the warzone alive, danger won't be far behind... Perfect for fans of Killing Eve, Chris Ryan, James Deegan and Vince Flynn, this is an explosive action thriller you won't be able to put down. Don't miss the first book in the explosive Sophie Racine thriller series! Readers love Sophie Racine! 'Literally took my breath away*****' Netgalley reviewer 'An absolute must-read powerhouse smash-hit! *****' Netgalley reviewer 'I stayed up all night reading it! *****' Netgalley reviewer 'Wow, this was a cracker of a read! *****' Netgalley reviewer

Eva was following the way of her patron, St. Therese of Lisieux, by doing little things for people as a pediatric nurse in a New York hospital when she fell in love with Marek, a Polish exile. They are married and living in London in the spring of 1981, and Marek is trying to foment a popular uprising in Poland to liberate his home country from Russia. Though he drags Eva into a world of political intrigue and tests her faith, she keeps her vow to love him no matter what he does, until she confronts the truth about him and about herself.

Four hundred years ago a Chinese porcelain maker loses his family in a plague. Grief stricken, he becomes a Taoist monk and rids himself of his fortune in gold, concealing it in the bottom of four priceless vases. Unwittingly he includes a deadly cache of the recent virulent plague. Bashir, a present-day terrorist on the hunt to resurrect such ancient plagues, traces in archives the story of the lost vases, but loses the trail when the ship is wrecked off the Balinese coast. Watching closely are agents of the American President's newly formed Terrorist Threat Integration Centre. hunt is on for the other three. On a collision course with the terrorist group and the TTIC agents is Lim, an importer, who has learned of the hidden gold. In their way is Chad Handelmann, a Balinese-Australian importer and ex-SAS captain, whose family are the guardians of a map leading to the vases. The thrilling race to the burial place of the vases leads to a ruined temple deep in the rainforest of Mt Agung. Nobody is prepared for the danger that lies inside. Suddenly, it is no longer only about recovery of the sacred vases. It is a struggle just to stay alive.

Mary Valone is thinking about resigning from her position as medical secretary at Valleyview General Hospital. A saga surrounds the hospital and its executive director, whose swift rise to power has left countless bitter enemies in its wake. As her devoted son John urges her to retire early, Anthony DeTorrio is busy proving that he always gets what he wants. When Mary begins experiencing back pain, her doctor diagnoses her with a serious infection-a decision that propels John and his mother into a web of deceit, misdiagnoses, and vindictiveness directed by none other than DeTorrio himself. As John attempts to reignite a romantic relationship he lost once before, he realizes that someone wants his mother dead and decides nothing will stop him from finding vengeance for the inhumane treatment she has received. His journey to the truth takes him from western Pennsylvania to the glamour of fabulous Las Vegas and back again, leading him to answers no one would have ever expected. "Perceptions of Morality" is a strikingly candid tale of medical malpractice and retribution encompassing unscrupulous doctors, a corrupt hospital administration, and a civil case like no other.

Worth and Niccola Caivano are more than husband and wife. Long-married business-and sparring-partners, the Caivanos are always looking for the next exciting business venture. When they are invited to Cancun to meet up with Parker, a "Golden Boy" full of promises, they are exposed to more than just a sweet business deal.

While Worth, a financial and management expert, tends to approach each new venture with enthusiasm, his attorney wife relies on her intuition and skepticism to lead her decisions. After Parker tells the couple about the huge potential in strife-torn areas of West Africa, Niccola has some misgivings but is eventually lured into an innovative but complicated housing and diamond deal along with her husband. Things turn sour when one of the major investors is found beaten to death with strategically placed blows in an airport lounge and Worth, an Aikido novice, becomes a suspect.

From Houston to Tel Aviv, Africa, and Antwerp, the intrepid couple must clear Worth's name and determine the actual killer-that is, until they witness a second murder and discover that they have been placed in serious danger.

A renowned research biochemist is murdered. Nuclear material is stolen and an extremely deadly bio-chemical agent is compromised. A group of international terrorists, presumed to have been terminated years before, are confirmed to be alive and operating within the boarders of the United States. Now they have the capability to unleash weapons of mass destruction within the United States and their third world conspiracy to successfully undermine the stability of the U.S. Government looks to be inevitable. Brent Martin, a former U.S. Intelligence agent once tasked with the terrorists' destruction, is summoned back to the agency to counter their plan and preserve the safety of millions."Emerald Rain" is a suspense thriller which pits European and Middle East terrorists and global conspirators against the United States of America. The story brings to light how unprepared the United States, as a whole is able to combat overt acts of terrorism within the boundaries of our nation. At the same time it depicts the resiliency of our countries resolve to improvise, adapt and overcome any obstacle of freedom and defeat the terrorists at their own game.

Michael Dayne is accused of murder; he had motive and opportunity. Now he has control of a chemical weapon. The CIA, Yakuza, and North Korean agents want it. Forced on the run halfway around the world, his problems really begin.

Lee Robert Jackson's ability to detect spoken lies by the odor emitting from the speaker brings a rush of federal agents to Farmers Mill in an effort to hire the young farmer or to prevent him from being used against their agencies. Seedy characters mingle with FBI agents and CIA operatives in a battle of wits.

Fear of lie detecting creates conspiracies from the White House to Congress. Bureaucrats fear the orderly function of their activities hangs in the balance.

Jackson must earn money to regain Four Oaks, Lucy Crabtree's family farm before the fiery redhead will agree to marry him. CIA's beautiful McCoy twins set a trap for him as Sherry, the judge's daughter initiates a campaign of her own to acquire Four Oaks for herself.

A post 9-11 America sees a wave of suicide bombings by the members of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization, who have slipped through the cracks and remain in the country. The Federal Government, facing the pressures of political correctness and dissent amongst enforcement means, has its hands tied. President Dobson leans on his old friend Todd Fox, who is a professor at the University of Virginia.

Fox, already in the planning stages with an intelligence shadow known as Jefferson, commissions a collection of hand-picked students at the University. This collection, known as "the Liberators," moves in an expeditious manner to train, mask and prepare for surgical operations aimed at rooting out the remaining Al-Qaeda cells in the country, and freeing America of the festering explosions of evil.

By 1933, life in Vienna is in chaos. The Nazis have taken over just north of the border; the rail workers are threatening to strike, and the economy is in shambles. Jean Louis Stein has completed his engineering studies, but jobs are scarce. Worse yet, his mother has not heard from his brother Franz in nearly two years. Frantic, she asks Jean to travel to the United States to search for him. Jean has no choice but to agree-he will do anything to stop his mother from crying-but his decision is about to lead him into a trap between two warring worlds.

Jean's ship docks in New York as the threat of war looms in the distance. After he finally connects with Franz, it is not long before his world turns dark once again-his mother has been captured and placed in a concentration camp along the Danube River. Through a network of operatives, Jean is soon coerced into spying for the Germans in order to keep his mother alive.

But as World War II breaks out and pandemonium envelops both the United States and his homeland, Jean is forced to make a life-altering decision once again.

The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle -- young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. When Justin sets out on a personal odyssey to uncover the mystery of her death, what he finds could make him not only a suspect among his own colleagues, but a target for Tessa's killers as well.
A master chronicler of the betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, John le Carre portrays the dark side of unbridled capitalism as only he can. In The Constant Gardener he tells a compelling, complex story of a man elevated through tragedy, as Justin Quayle -- amateur gardener, aging widower, and ineffectual bureaucrat -- discovers his own natural resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love.