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Enjoy this explosive, pulse-pounding action thriller series by USA Today Bestselling author Steve P. Vincent… One shot to stop an empire. Mitch Herron has a bullet in his gut and a cell to call home. But when a problem arises that only Herron's unique brand of carnage can solve, he's put to work for his captor in return for the chance to keep breathing. As he plays his part in a gambit that will kill thousands and enslave millions, Herron baulks...
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Enjoy this explosive, pulse-pounding action thriller series by USA Today Bestselling author Steve P. Vincent… Retirement sounded so good. When Mitch Herron's plans go up in flames, he hunts down the crime cartel responsible, but his simple quest for vengeance soon twists into an unpredictable and deadly game. With his future and his identity on the line, Herron is forced to deal with old friends and new enemies down the barrel of a gun. Yet none...
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Prepare to continue this explosive, pulse-pounding action series by USA Today Bestselling thriller author Steve P. Vincent… An old foe returns. To save the United States intelligence community from a catastrophe, Mitch Herron came out of the shadows and into the spotlight, exposing himself to plenty of foes who want payback. But only one of them has the resources and the ruthlessness to take down Herron, an old foe returned from the grave. Previously...
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From USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood comes another bone-chilling thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat
On a vacation in Las Vegas, a man wakes up in a hotel room that isn't his with a dead woman he doesn't recognize in the bathtub.
Panicked, he runs. Before he can get far the police have caught him, and two detectives inform him that he's the one who murdered the woman-they've even found the weapon. Only the man has...
6) The Decoy
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Throughout her public life the eyes of the world were on Diana, Princess of Wales. But who else was watching her more closely? What were their motives? What was their agenda? And what was their role in her death? On the night she died two secret operations – one connected to the British Establishment and one involving major figures in the French government – collided unintentionally with catastrophic results. From Bosnia to Baghdad, from Paris...
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Get the Summary of Ben Macintyre's A Spy Among Friends in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Spy Among Friends" chronicles the intertwined lives of British intelligence officers Nicholas Elliott and Kim Philby, the latter a notorious double agent for the Soviet Union. Elliott, from a privileged background, joined MI6 and developed a close bond with Philby, who was also recruited into British intelligence despite...
8) Rogue Target
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A British spy thriller pairing a secret service agent and a female mercenary tracking a terrorist responsible for an attack on an international flight.
Speedbird 117, a Boeing 787 flight to New York, takes off like any other flight from Heathrow. Except this plane will never reach its destination. The cause? Taher, an utterly ruthless terrorist with a score to settle.
With Great Britain's Secret Service on red alert, senior analyst Stephen Holm...
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La obra periodística más influyente de la historia, que acabó con un presidente y que ganó del premio Pulitzer.
"El libro que acabó con un presidente... Tal vez la obra periodística más influyente de la historia." Así definió la revista Time este libro, publicado por primera vez en 1974, ganador del premio Pulitzer y considerado como uno de los 100 mejores libros de no ficción de todos los tiempos. "Todos los hombres del presidente" vuelve...
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In this stunning adventure set in war-torn France-a British agent finds herself in Nazi territory-and unsure about who to trust . . .
It's the spring of 1944 and Rosie Ewing is returning to German-occupied France, by air, this time.
She's carrying a radio, half a million francs, a pistol, and two cyanide capsules to Finistere in north-west Brittany.
With D-Day looming, Rosie fears that the man who'll be meeting her on the ground tonight...
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Investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bryan Denson tells the riveting story of the Nicholsons father and son co-conspirators who deceived their country by selling national secrets to Russia. Jim Nicholson was one of the CIA's top veteran case officers. By day, he taught spycraft at the CIA's clandestine training center, The Farm. By night, he was a minivan-driving single father racing home to have dinner with his kids. But Nicholson led...
12) Plausible Denial
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When the CIA can't get the job done, its legendary director of operations turns to "Mac" MacMurphy, in this exciting sequel to Rustmann's first best-selling novel, The Case Officer. Mac is the best. A proven talent in fighting fire with fire. Able to be as ruthless as any enemy, showing no mercy where none is due. The perfect man to pit against an out-of-control drug lord who has declared war on the U.S. Consulate in Northern Thailand. But do the...
13) Crash
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A woman loses her memory in a car accident except for the memory of a man who she swears was in the car with her, but no one else ever saw the man.
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When American expat journalist Steve Collins sets off for the middle of the Amazon Jungle to cover a plane crash with a U.S senator aboard, he has no idea how his life is about to change. The Peruvian military is claiming the Shining Path rebel insurgency launched a missile attack on the aircraft, and the U.S. State Department is backing the military's claim. Steve just ain't buying it. He smells complicity, but has nothing to go on except the word...
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JAMES BOND INVESTIGATES A VILLAIN WITH THE POWER TO LAUNCH A NUCLEAR WARHEAD
Sir Hugo Drax is a multimillionaire tycoon and war hero, revered by the British public for his new Moonraker missile defense system. But there's more to this enigmatic millionaire than he lets on. When M suspects Drax of cheating at cards, he is baffled that the patriot would risk his reputation and his rocket program on a game, so he assigns Bond to infiltrate Drax's circle.
As...
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It's 2030 and the story's background is set amongst climate change as a factor creating global food insecurity through droughts, floods and changing weather patterns reducing arable land worldwide. The climate change of the 20th and the early 21st century has led to massive immigration from African regions in Europe and South American regions below the US, where they can no longer provide sufficient food due to the loss of arable farming land. These...
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When CIA Agent Alisha MacAleer's cover is blown by ex-lover Frank Reichart, she's forced into a spy game that draws a curtain back on a world she never even suspected existed...The clandestine Sicarii have hired Brandon Parker, the brilliant, estranged son of Alisha's handler, to develop an artificial intelligence capable of enforcing their divine right to rule. No one, not even Brandon's father, imagines he can do it not until Alisha herself faces...
18) Trophy
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The pilots of Number One Squadron are the NATO elite, trained to fly the new and formidable Tornado strike plane. When a combat exercise over the Norwegian Sea turns terrifyingly into the real thing, the rivals in Number One squadron find their lives in each others' hands.
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The year is 1944. The allies have landed in France. In an underground factory placed securely in the middle of Germany, the Nazis are manufacturing weapons of retaliation. The forerunners of the modern IBM, the V2 rockets, are being fired at London, and against them there is no defence. Reports reach the British intelligence service that the rockets are to be fitted with nuclear warheads and the only way of averting the threat is direct sabotage against...
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Get the Summary of Ben Macintyre's The Spy and the Traitor in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Spy and the Traitor" by Ben Macintyre chronicles the life of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer born into a Soviet intelligence family. Despite his father's staunch Communist beliefs and his own KGB career, Gordievsky harbored doubts about the regime. His espionage skills were honed at KGB's School 101, and despite initial...
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