Sam Abel has always been good at hiding—but he’s been found. A mysterious man who knows a surprisingly great deal about Sam’s true past corners him with a request that's really a threat: launch a reconnaissance mission to obtain information about the business dealings of American tycoons meeting with a German official. In return, Sam is promised both his freedom and a new, clean identity.As the threat of war approaches America’s shores, the mysterious man—only identified by his bat...

Ray Sleet is a sleuth who recognizes a payday when he sees one. So, when a mysterious woman named Elvia Fleer appears at his office in the middle of the night, he’s enticed by opportunity. Elvia’s husband, wealthy hotel owner Ernst Fleer, is missing. If Sleet can find him, he might just be able to keep the lights on at his agency—and then some.But much like the city they play in, Ernst Fleer’s life is full of secrets and lies. In every dark corner, Sleet uncovers a new clue about E...

Hank Brandt has received information no spy chief ever wants to hear: one of his operatives has disappeared, and with him, valuable intelligence about a Nazi rocket program. This threat grows more dangerous by the day as Brandt rushes to gain information about its operations and hopefully, its weaknesses. But he can't put the pieces of the failed operation back together alone, and calls upon his most cultivated spy, Sam Abel.Meanwhile, behind enemy lines, Lothar Eichler feels the f...

Roger Fowler’s time as a spy has come to an end. In Nazi Germany, the hunters are relentless, and even the best operators are at risk of being caught. When his enemies come knocking at his door, Roger has no choice but to surrender.Now compromised, Roger is fearful of his ability to withstand torture and interrogation. The infamous spy hunter Aksel Falke, commonly known as Der Fänger, aims to test him. Word has traveled about Falke’s uniquely terrifying interrogation methods—and th...

The elusive burned man has called on Sam Abel once more. After foiling the plans of the Nazis to ensnare American entrepreneurs in their secret weapon projects, Sam has solidified his place in a shadowy organization tasked with turning the tide of the war. This time, Sam must infiltrate the Nazi establishment in Germany while disguised as one of their own.A German defector, the enigmatic Sigrid Lang, has conferred slivers of information to British spies embedded in Pforzheim: whisp...

Like any good weapon, Sam Abel can’t go unused for long. After narrowly escaping death in Germany, he’s returned home to the nation’s capitol to play a different kind of spy game. Tasked with stealing secrets stateside, Sam must lurk in the shadows once more to obtain valuable information hidden at foreign embassies in D.C.He’s not alone. Working closely with him behind the scenes is Cat McAlister, a thief playing the part of Washington D.C. debutante. She’s just one of many new, a...

Al Ader is dying and doesn’t have much time left. Determined to leave a legacy behind, he devises a plan to mystify the masses…and the authorities. Armed with a bomb, he hijacks a commercial airliner on Thanksgiving Eve of 1971. If he can survive long enough, he might solidify his place in history as a folk hero.Robin Kraft is getting married, if she can make it through this flight. As authorities scramble to intervene, Robin must comply with Al’s demands if she is going to keep he...

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This book deals with how sounds are produced.In most cases sound reaches the ear through the air; but air is not the only medium through which sound is carried. A loud noise will startle fish, and cause them to dart away, so we conclude that the sound must have reached them through the water. An Indian puts his ear to the ground in order to detect distant footsteps, because sounds too faint to be heard through the air are comparatively clear when transmitted through the earth. A ge...

Minx Montgomery’s only light in a terrible childhood was her neighbor and best friend, Mouse. When he left Texas at the age of seventeen, she never heard from him again, though she’s never forgotten him either. She moved in with her uncle, went to college and became a counselor. Her supervisor at the clinic sexually harassed her. Reporting him backfired. Demoted, she’s transferred to another branch in the city–to the same district she’d finally managed to escape.Laszlo Jensen, a fo...

When a young woman darts into traffic and into Dakota’s path, life takes a dark turn for both of them.Bailey, recovering from the loss of her husband, retreated from life. Going to work and coming home was the extent of her days and weeks. Until she walks into work early one morning, witnesses a murder and flees into traffic, nearly getting killedThe near death experience awakens the spark of life inside of her. So does the man in the car. A different kind of a spa...

Jager Hannover, a former SEAL, has recovered from the damage done when his squad’s truck drove over an antitank landmine more than two years ago. Six other team-mates were also badly injured, the seventh–Mouse–dead, in what their team leader Badger Horley realized later had to be a trap. On the hunt for answers about Mouse’s history and the one who set up the trap, Jager ends up in Vail, Colorado.He followed Mouse’s best friend here only to discover he’s already disappeared, leavin...