In 2009, Russian soldiers carried out a genocide in the smaller reaches of Russia, especially those being shielded by the clerics of St. Catherine's.Nearly two decades later, when the genocidal Russian general seeks sanctuary inside Vatican City, the Vatican Knights are given an order that tests everything they stand for: keep him alive.Kimball Hayden has spent years atoning for the sins of his past, trading the life of a government assassin for the cloth of a Vatican Knigh...

A dying Stasi operative known only as Cabal breaks forty years of silence to deliver a message no intelligence service has ever intercepted — a transmission revealing the existence of the Talisman, a state‑sponsored assassination network that has operated flawlessly for decades. Its kill‑list is updated across three independent nodes, and when a name appears on all three simultaneously, the assignment is already funded, scheduled, and unstoppable.The newest name on the list is Pope...

In an exclusive restaurant in Budapest, Kimball Hayden confronts his protégé, The Black Monk, for the final time.Two weeks later, in a Texas town, Kimball finds himself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy after the shocking and violent murder of a news reporter in an adjacent room.When the body is discovered, it becomes the catalyst for an explosive cover-up involving high-end corruption linked to a local mining company.As the dominoes begin to fall, Kimball crosses...

When former Vatican Knight Kimball Hayden seeks solitude in a remote South Dakota cabin, he stumbles upon a catastrophic threat that could ignite World War III.Russian operatives have stolen nuclear launch codes from a secret Black Hills facility and are hiding in a neighboring cabin with a dark server capable of hijacking American satellites. As FBI Agent Shari Cohen races against time to locate the breach, and the President faces an impossible decision in the Oval Office, Kimball...

Seven years ago, Norman Tomac made a deal with a man who should never have been trusted.Now the debt has come due.When Norman dies, his son David inherits a million-dollar estate in Hollowbrook—a town he remembers as vibrant but now finds decaying, deserted, and strangely alive with secrets. David has spent two years rebuilding his life after a drunk driver killed his wife and child. He wants nothing more than peace.Instead, he finds Mr. Crowley.Every year, ...

Fifteen hundred years ago, a fisherman off the coast of Greece, while diving, discovers a subterranean channel that leads to an underground lair where he finds a relic as old as the universe. Two days later, his body washes up on shore covered with burns and blisters.Centuries later, during an excavation of an old Greek fishing village, a map with ancient writings recounts a legendary Greek tale of Aphrodite's Heart, a relic once belonging to the goddess imprisoned by Hades, the go...

In Mindanao, Philippines, a terrorist faction holding members of the clergy hostage is summarily liquidated.On the same night in Manila, a separate team of sophisticated thieves with a considerable amount of military training enter a high-tech security facility to steal the coveted Scepter of Light, a staff once used by Saint Peter as he spread the Gospel of Jesus.In Greece, the buyer of the relic learns that the item he purchased for one hundred million in American funds h...

While on a mission in Jarablus, Syria, Jon Jericho, codename the Hunter, is severely wounded, ending his career as a Special Field Operative for Delta Force. When he returns stateside to begin life anew, he quickly finds himself caught up in a scandal involving the appropriation of documents for an undetectable state-of-the-art ICBM by the Islamic State. But what if Jon Jericho discovers something different? What if he learns that the plans were appropriated by American intelligence and th...

In Niger, a coup that is staged and funded by ISIL puts a vicious leader in command. People are summarily slaughtered, the government is in shambles, and a terrorist regime rules with impunity. But deep inside the sublevel of a defunct hospital is the key to annihilation. It is a secret known only to the members of the ISIL regime and the Iran Ministry of Intelligence. The world is impotent to respond, and there seems to be no counteroffensive to stop the rogue efforts that could bring the...

In southeast Turkey where the heads of the four main rivers once met, a magnificent temple created 14,000 years ago is discovered beneath the desert floor. Believed to have been created by lost technology, it is quickly determined by a team of archeologists to be the centerpiece of Eden, a once illustrious civilization and the cradle of mankind. But what if Eden is not the Paradise texts make it out to be? What if it held dark secrets and unholy terrors instead? As Senior Archeologist Alys...

Previously Published as The VALLEYIn a dystopian future, a self-contained valley in Argentina serves as the 'far arena' for those convicted of a crime. Inside the Valley: carnivorous dinosaurs generated from preserved DNA. The goal: cross the Valley to get to the Gates of Freedom. The chance of survival: no one has ever completed the journey. Convicted of crimes with little or no merit, Ben Peyton and others must battle their way across fields filled with the world's deadliest apex...

While on a visit to the United States, Pope Pius XIII is kidnapped by a terrorist cell calling itself the Soldiers of Islam. If the United States and its allies do not meet their demands, they will execute the pope. So when FBI Specialist Shari Cohen is called to duty to track down the terrorist cell responsible, she learns that she is not alone. Deep behind the Vatican walls a secret order dispatches a clandestine op group of elite commandos known as the Vatican Knights. Their mission: br...