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 ...

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...

“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...

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...

Calculus, a Russian intelligence officer, approaches the FBI claiming he knows of several Americans who are supplying information to Russia. But when Calculus is recalled to Moscow, the Bureau suspects the worst. The race is on to track down the informants, and Steve Vail is the ideal candidate for this kind of stealth mission. But it soon becomes clear that this mission won’t be easy. In fact, it could be downright deadly…

Andrew Boyd Claytor III (Com 49 A/M) of Bedford County, Virginia, died May 23, 2009. He served in the US Navy during World War II. Mr. Claytor was the owner and operator of Southern Flavoring Company, Holiday Company and their subsidiary corporations. He was a founding director of Liberty Bank of Bedford and Giftco Inc. of Chicago. He also owned and operated Cloverlea farm in Bedford County, which was donated to Lynchburg College and is now the Claytor Nature Study Center.

“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...

After a surveillance mission in Sevastopol goes badly wrong, Stratton finds himself doing penance at MI16, the government's clandestine organisation that creates weapons equipment for special forces and the secret service.But Sevastopol has started something. In the North Sea a team of hijackers take over the giant Morpheus oil platform. They are demanding two billion dollars. Inside twenty-four hours. Or the bodies will start falling.With the SBS overstretched and its survei...

Two hundred miles south of the Devon coastline, Palestinian freedom fighter Abed Abu Omar and twenty men prepare for their most daring mission yet - the hijack of a supertanker, a five-storey superstructure laden with oil. Meanwhile, in an Elizabethan country house, SBS operative Stratton has been seconded to bodyguard work and is bored by the lack of challenge. Not for long.With the helter-skelter pace that defined Duncan Falconer's brilliant debut THE HOSTAGE, Stratton has been w...

When elite operative John Stratton is sent to Yemen by the Secret Intelligence Service to track down a suspected al-Qaeda cell, he thinks he knows what he is dealing with.But when he and his colleagues get captured by Somali pirates, all bets are off. Stratton discovers what it is like to be held hostage by ruthless men who have a deadly agenda - men for whom Stratton and his colleagues are just bargaining chips. And this is no ordinary hostage situation: Stratton has stepped right...

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...