A blockbusting thriller introducing maverick FBI agent Steve Vail.“Move over Jack Reacher, here comes The Bricklayer.” James PattersonSTEVE VAIL IS A MAVERICK.A trained killer and former agent, Vail despises authority and he's never met a rule he didn't break. These days he's working as a bricklayer.Now, Deputy Kate Bannon of the FBI desperately wants his help.Because someone is killing their operatives – in complex, subtle, twisted ways – and the bo...

The gripping action thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former FBI agent Noah Boyd. Steve Vail has brains, brawn and balls – and is back for his latest mission.Steve Vail visits Kate Bannon, Assistant Director of the FBI, for a well-earned and romantic New Years Eve in Washington, DC, but he suddenly finds himself knee-deep in a very complicated and unusual case.A man known simply as Calculus, an intelligence officer at the Russian embassy, approaches the FB...

A former FBI agent is recruited to help take down a group terrorizing the bureau with blackmail and murder in this suspenseful thriller."Terrific pace, surprises galore. . . . Move over Jack Reacher, here comes The Bricklayer ." —James PattersonBasis for the Major Motion Picture starring Nina Dobrev and Aaron EckhartSomeone will kill and kill again if it means he can fool ...

In this espionage thriller from a New York Times –bestselling author, a former FBI agent hunts down an elusive Russian Spy.The follow-up to Noah Boyd's debut thriller The Bricklayer —basis for the movie starring Nina Dobrev and Aaron Eckhart.Ex-FBI agent Steve Vail is looking forward to a well-earned and romantic New Years Eve in Washington, DC, when he ...

“Vail is in the mold of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher and Robert Crais’s Joe Pike….This guy has movie written all over him.”—Chicago Sun-Times“Fans of Sam Spade and Jack Reacher will feel right at home with this new tough guy.”—Boston Globe“We have a new American hero in Steve Vail.”—Patricia CornwellSteve Vail, former discarded covert operative and the FBI’s new go-to guy for the toughest jobs, returns in Agent X—the puls...

It was once said that you must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible . . .Alli Carson has been through her own personal hell. With her father, the President of the United States, recently dead and her mother in a coma from a terrible accident, she has poured herself into her training to become one of the best FBI agents at the Fearington Institute. Her inspiration and solace comes from the one man with whom she has ever felt a kinship, National Sec...

Joseph Finder introduced Nick Heller, a "private spy" who finds out things powerful people want to keep hidden, to widespread acclaim from the critics and wild enthusiasm from the readers, in the New York Times bestselling novel Vanished. Now, in Buried Secrets, Nick Heller returns, finding himself in the middle of a life-or-death situation that's both high-profile and intensely personal.Nick has returned to his old home town of Boston to set up his own s...

“Steve Martini ranks among the top authors of legal thrillers.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette“You like Law & Order? Or even a John Grisham novel? Well, Steve Martini is one of the best of the best when it comes to crime thrillers.”—Asbury Park PressThe reasons why Steve Martini is one of the most popular thriller writers around are abundantly clear in Trader of Secrets: an ingenious plot, great characters, gripping storytelling th...

In 2009, the CIA's Kabul Station fell for a source who promised to lead it to Bin Laden, but instead he blew himself up, taking the station's most senior officers with him. Now, more than two years later, the station is still floundering, agents are dying, and at Langley the CIA's chiefs wonder if the unthinkable has happened, if somehow the Taliban has infiltrated the station.When they ask John Wells to investigate, he reluctantly agrees to return to the country where his career a...

From the New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder comes a fast-paced legal thriller, High CrimesMeet Claire Heller Chapman. A criminal defense attorney who's made a name for herself by taking on—and winning—the toughest cases, Claire still manages to have a relatively calm life as a Harvard Law School professor, devoted wife, and proud mother to six-year-old Annie. Until one night, when the family is out having dinner, a team of government ...

A John Wells thriller and the first Headline title from NYT #1 bestseller Alex Berenson.Those in power always need an unofficial option. Meet John Wells.Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah fears he is fast losing control of his family and his people. A series of terrorist attacks has put his kingdom on edge and, with powerful factions turning against him, the king must turn to the one man he has been told will make the difference.Ex-CIA operative John Wells knows all too wel...

Milo Weaver has nowhere to turn but back to the CIA in Olen Steinhauer's brilliant follow-up to the New York Times bestselling espionage novel The TouristThe Tourist, Steinhauer's first contemporary novel after his awardwinning historical series, was a runaway hit, spending three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and garnering rave reviews from critics.Now faced with the end of his quiet, settled life, reluctant spy Milo Weaver has no cho...