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This story is a work of speculative historical fiction. It begins with real names, real offices, real memoranda, and real national traumas, then moves deliberately into the shadowed space where rumor, secrecy, and imagination have always gathered around power. "The purpose of the novel is not to present a historical claim, but to explore a question that history often leaves behind but always exists in our imaginations: what happens when secrecy outlives the emergency that created it? In th...

Former marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger investigates one of the most enduring controversies of our time—the JFK assassination—in this New York Times bestselling “terrific thriller” (Booklist, starred review).It’s not even a clue. It’s a whisper, a trace, a ghost echo, drifting down through the decades via chance connections so fragile that they would disintegrate in the puff of a breath. But it’s enough to get legendary former Marine sniper Bob Lee S...

“Dylan Kane leaves James Bond in his dust!” FROM AWARD-WINNING USA TODAY & MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY THE COUNTRY'S BEST HOPE IN DEFEATING A FORGOTTEN SOVIET WEAPON LIES WITH DYLAN KANE AND THE COLD WARRIORS WHO ORIGINALLY DISCOVERED IT.While in Chechnya, CIA Operations Officer Dylan Kane stumbles upon a meeting between a known Chechen drug lord and a retired general once respo...

After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author and award-winning reporter Ronald Kessler reveals their secrets for the first time.Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, that elite corps of agents who pledge to take a bullet to protect the president and his family. Kessler portrays the dangers that agents face and how they carr...

'Craven has unleashed Ben Koenig into the thriller world. Long may he raise hell in the pages.*'* David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author'Perhaps for the first time, Jack Reacher has a convincing rival in the form of MW Craven's Ben Koenig' The Times-----The man who can't feel fear is back, in a race against time to find the woman who knows a secret that could take do...

"Tension, suspense, betrayal, and revenge.… David Ignatius is the best in the world at this stuff." —Lee ChildIn this latest novel from the "dean of international intrigue" (Brad Thor) and New York Times best-selling author David Ignatius, CIA operations officer Michael Dunne is tasked with infiltrating an Italian news organization that smells like a front for an enemy intelligence service. Headed by an American journalist, the self-styled bandits run a cy...

From the USA Today –bestselling author, an assassination attempt on the president-elect sends a covert agency on the hunt in this "terrific thriller" (Lee Child, #1 New York Times– bestselling author).Hard Target by Alan Jacobson is a ticking time bomb that will keep you clinging to the edge of your seat . . . and turning the pages.An explosion pulverizes the pr...

Christopher Reich electrified readers with Numbered Account and The Runner, his first two international thrillers. Now the New York Times bestselling author whose work has been called “gripping” (Chicago Tribune), “chilling” (The Denver Post), “wonderful” (The New York Times Book Review), ratchets up the stakes in an ingeniously plotted story of nerve-jangling intrigue and hot-wired suspense. Using today’s cutthroat glob...

Autumn 1943. American agent David Spaulding is among the global espionage elite who have converged on Buenos Aires. His top-secret mission can bring World War II to an explosive end. But what happens in this city of assassins, betrayals, and sensual encounters is the most sinister and terrifying deal ever made between two nations. Intense, high-level covert negotiations will soon bear dangerous fruit with the aid of expatriate German industrialist Erich Rhinemann. But suddenly the game cha...

Washington, DC, 1953. The Cold War is heating up: McCarthyism, with all its fear and demagoguery, is raging in the nation's capital, and Joseph Stalin's death has left a dangerous power vacuum in the Soviet Union.The CIA, meanwhile, is reeling from a double agent within their midst. Someone is selling secrets to the Soviets, compromising missions around the globe. Undercover agents have been assassinated, and anti-Communist plots are being cut short in ruthlessly efficient fashion....

THE FIFTH INTERNATIONALE SynopsisFrom Spies to Oligarchs...The Iron Curtain had come crushing down, Soviet satellite countries switched allegiance to the United States, and their communist spies must be let go. Hundreds of thousands are discharged, but not retired -- they unite under the banner of The Fifth Internationale, building a global conspiracy that will allow them to manipulate world governments to their own end.Only one man can stop them.

An explosive novel of suspense and intrigue set at the turning point of the Second World War.David Spaulding is the most feared and efficient Allied agent in wartime Europe. Expert, deadly and professional, he is also high on the Gestapo's 'most wanted' list. Now Spaulding has been selected by Allied Command to transact an undercover deal in Argentina involving top-secret Nazi scientific plans. The dealer is Erich Rhinemann, an exiled German Jew who is awaiting the...