Sylvia de Matteo, an American single mother, is taken hostage by terrorists during a political assassination at Stazione Centrale, Milan's train station. She is seized at gunpoint and thrown into the back of a van.Moments later, a Paris-bound train with Sylvia's fiancé and ten-year old daughter aboard departs Centrale without Sylvia. The terrorists drive Sylvia to a warehouse where she is imprisoned in a cell.When the terrorists discover Sylvia's father is a wealthy Wall St...

True crime.When Brad Baker met Andrea Currier, it was classic middle America meets old money. Brad was from Indiana and dabbled in politics; Andrea was the great-granddaughter of Andrew Mellon, former Secretary of Treasury for three Republican presidents. Andrea's net worth was in the range of $500 million.It started out like a romance novel and ended with a shotgun blast New Years Eve.

Sylvia de Matteo, an American single mother, is taken hostage by terrorists during a political assassination at Stazione Centrale, Milan's train station. She is seized at gunpoint and thrown into the back of a van.Moments later, a Paris-bound train with Sylvia's fiancé and ten-year-old daughter aboard departs Centrale without Sylvia. The terrorists drive Sylvia to a warehouse where she is imprisoned in a cell.When the terrorists discover Sylvia's father is a wealthy Wall St...

A San Francisco wife plots to murder her philandering husband by being in two places at one time.She commits the Perfect Crime -- and starts an exciting life with a sexy new boyfriend, living off her dead husband's generous life insurance policy.Until her doorbell rings one night . . . .

Thirteen Days in MilanAn American single mother is kidnapped during a political assassination at Milan's Stazione Central train station.No One SleepsMilan's anti-terrorism police search for a secret cell of Islamic terrorists who have received deadly sarin gas from Pakistan. The terrorists are planning to release sarin gas during the premiere of La Scala Opera House December 7 with high level politicians, executives, and foreign dign...

A schoolboy is bullied by a classmate to follow a beautiful young woman when she gets off a bus after work. He follows her, and becomes intrigued by her private life.Years later, he meets her in a professional setting and learns intimate details of her life. His fantasies become an obsession; he begins stalking her, watching her with lovers, imagining what it would be like if he could become one.She invites him to her home for a brief business meeting not knowing how this fee...

A Russian banker embezzles millions laundering money in Switzerland for Russian oligarchs. He flees with his Italian wife to a remote location on Lake Como near Milan, where their daughter lives.Putin wants him dead and sends a GRU assassin to Milan to find and poison the banker.But Milan's antiterrorism police cannot locate the assassin, Vasily Egorov, who is traveling with phony documents, carrying a vial of poison, and speaking Italian. Unexpectedly, Egorov meets an intr...

Milan's elite antiterrorism DIGOS police receive a tip that a sleeper cell of Muslim terrorists have received toxic chemicals from Pakistan to make deadly sarin gas. The cell leader, a highly educated Italian-Pakistani engineer, has access to Milan's centers of finance, technology, commerce, and entertainment -- all high profile targets with hundreds of casualties in a terrorist attack.But the police have no names or leads to identify the terrorists. After months of investigation t...

Max and Amanda are America's dream couple. Former college sweethearts, they marry and embark on exciting careers, Max as a star infielder for the Boston Red Sox and Amanda as an up-and-coming Hollywood actress.But the stress of travel—Max during the baseball season, and Amanda when she flies off to exotic filming locations—takes a toll on their marriage. They purchase homes in Boston and Los Angeles, which only increases the strain.But their marriage suffers and they divorc...

A married couple is enjoying a Saturday night at their remote home in Central California while the husband's parents take care of their young boys in town. Drinking vino, eating pizza, smoking joints in their hot tub, they witness strange lights in the night sky, lights like at the end of a commercial jet's wings, but no plane, only lights, many, many lights.

Two military school cadets, one a junior and the other a senior, compete in an intense academic competition before the entire academy. When the junior cadet wins, the senior cadet verbally attacks and threatens him.Their paths cross frequently as they attend university and later pursue careers—the junior as a university professor and author, the senior as a corrupt lobbyist in Washington, and eventually, a member of Congress.Years later, hearing that he is about to announce h...

Former high school football teammates meet at a wedding ten years after a violent tackle on the football field crippled one.The crippled teammate, whose promising tennis career was ruined, is a bartender at the wedding reception. His teammate is the arrogant groom. Revenge becomes a deadly wedding present.