Italy’s most classified intelligence archive has been breached by a man the world believes is dead. A deadly, fast-mutating pathogen is already on its way to Moscow. And somewhere in Rome, a professional assassin is calibrating an eight-hundred-yard shot at Italy’s president—while the Kremlin watches and waits.Pia Lamberti, Italy’s intelligence chief, has spent her career in the shadows so ordinary people never have to know how close to catastrophe the country comes. This time, thre...

Knowing its oil reserves will be depleted by the end of the next decade, Saudi Arabia has implemented a strategic plan to maintain its global economic and geopolitical dominance. To avoid raising suspicions about the diminishing size of their oil reserves, they've carefully managed their export levels. As a result, the world is largely unaware of the impending decline in the Saudi oil supply, despite a recent statement from one of their ministers that all resources extracted from the earth...

Ten years ago, a Prague police officer died in a darkened parking lot after stumbling upon a secret rendezvous between an Uzbek special forces operative and an Iranian official.Several months ago, a sightseeing boat erupted in flames off Trieste, Italy—claiming the life of one of the world's leading nuclear scientists.Two weeks ago, a mother and her young daughter vanished into the night, seized as pawns in a conspiracy deadlier than any ransom demand.Present day, beyo...

The United States' most highly classified military weapon, code-named Vigilant, has been stolen from an unmarked Navy ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Consisting of ninety-seven missiles, each with multiple nuclear warheads housed in a crush-proof capsule, they're to be lowered to undiscoverable locations in the deepest depths of the Atlantic Ocean. However, before the system is deployed, an unknown group seizes Vigilant, making them the third-largest nuclear power on Earth. Only ...

China is as tough a business environment as youll experience anywhere in the world, remaining one of the most complicated places to do business. Just ask all the company executives and entrepreneurs whove tried to do business there, lost money, and closed shop. They learned the hard way that success elsewhere doesnt always lead to riches in China.Alan Refkin and Scott Cray, with Thornhill Capital, have spent years doing business in China, and they have a long-term track record of h...

Gunter Wayan is again in over his head, accepting an assignment from the Indonesian Minister of Defense that sends him, Eka, and Persik to Russia to rescue a defecting scientist and his wife from the FSB. Before they leave, the Minister makes clear that if they’re captured, the government will deny any involvement and say they acted alone rather than create a diplomatic incident. The defector, a Ukrainian scientist on the brink of achieving the holy grail of camouflage technology, which is...

Milan’s chief prosecutor is killed when his car is pushed off a narrow mountain road, the city’s mayor is shot by an assassin on the steps of his office building, and an abbot and his librarian are killed in a monastery. This occurs days before Chief Inspector Mauro Bruno, whose father is one of the victims, comes to Milan to arrange for the funeral. Suspicious by nature and generally acknowledged within the Polizia di Stato as being the best detective in Italy, Bruno uncovers clues that l...

Following a gala, the presidents of the United States and China disappear after retiring for the night within their heavily guarded palaces inside the Forbidden City. After an intense investigation ensues, no one can determine how the dignitaries were abducted while under constant surveillance. When an internet video is released that shows the heads of state kneeling before the flag of the Protectors of Islam, the question of who abducted them and what they want is answered. The Islamic te...

Detectives Mauro Bruno and Elia Donati, surviving numerous attempts on their lives while bringing Duke Rodolfo Rizzo to justice, decide to take a vacation in Paris to celebrate and relax. However, not long after they arrive Donati is cleverly framed for a murder he didn’t commit, but which he finds impossible to refute since the killing was captured on the hotel’s camera security system. With Donati in jail, Bruno tries to discover why he’s been framed and who’s behind it. Helping him is a...

An Italian shipbuilding magnate and a prostitute are found dead beside each other in the bedroom of a luxurious mansion at a famous resort in Bali. A hidden security camera shows the only other person to enter that room was the victim’s ex-wife, the resort manager. When the police discover she volunteered to help room service at the last minute and delivered the food, which the autopsy confirmed contained the poison which killed them, she moves to the top of the suspect list. As if to put ...

Anyone who wants to do business in China must understand its customs, people, and culture. Just because its economy is exploding doesnt mean that anyone can go there and make a fortune. In fact, business practices are still deeply rooted in ancient cultural traditions. A Western businessperson who wants to succeed must understand all the ruleseven the ones that arent written down.Join Alan Refkin, an American financier, as he takes a Chinese company through a painstaking process so...

For only the fourth time in two centuries, the French have allowed the Mona Lisa to leave the Louvre, this time at the request of the pope, who wants to exhibit it in the Vatican Museums. However, once on display, the Museums’ former curator notices a nearly imperceptible discrepancy in the painting, leading to the discovery that it’s a forgery. Faced with the crisis of losing the most valuable painting in the world, the pope turns to Mauro Bruno and his associates, who’d previously perfor...