Can suicide bombings be stopped? Not so far. It was the most effective and vicious method of killing ever devised. But Al Kaufmann had an idea. His son was killed in Iraq by a suicide bomber, and he was determined to try. His idea was totally illegal, and many would think it was monstrous. But if it worked, it could save thousands of lives. To prepare, he assembled a team. The search took them to the Arkansa Ozarks, where outsiders are not welcome; to New York City where they had to deal w...

A Kuwaiti Princess is abducted. The kidnappers first demand is total secrecy. The second demand is political, and cannot be met. The vast wealth of the Emir of Kuwait is of no use. They must somehow rescue the Princess. The U.S. government cannot be involved, so a private team is assembled; two retired U.S. Army Colonels, an ex-FBI agent, an ex-U.S. Marine Captain, a retired Mossad agent, an Israeli journalist, and a young Kuwaiti living in New York. The team tracks the kidnappers to Marse...

A brilliant scientist has stolen research documents to develop the most important weapon the U.S. has developed in the last half century. He has taken them to Mexico, where he plans to sell the secrets to a U.S. enemy. The FBI cannot arrest a Mexican citiizen, so a private team of ex-military professionals is assembled to recover the stolen documents. Two retired U.S. Army Colonels, and ex-U.S. Marine Captain, and ex-FBI agent, a retired Mossad agent and a Special Service soldier. The NSA ...

Retailers Choice Award winner, 2012The world is on the brink of disaster and the clock is ticking. Iran has just conducted its first atomic weapons test. Millions of Muslims around the world are convinced their messiah—known as “the Twelfth Imam”—has just arrived on earth. Israeli leaders fear Tehran, under the Twelfth Imam’s spell, will soon launch a nuclear attack that could bring about a second holocaust and the annihilation of Israel. The White House fears Jerus...

Part detective story. Part spy thriller. Part techno action blockbuster. This story absolutely does reads like a Tom Clancy novel, but true. FIVE STARS!"Amazon reviewer - PersephoneAmazon reviewer - Tony Carcieri"I have to believe that either Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff is one heck of a researcher or he is getting his information from sources inside the government or the U.S. Military..." - Steve Samblis, ICPlaces.comis a concise and detail-rich telling o...

The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West.On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people. The attack was a geopolitical turning point. It marked the beginning of Hezbollah as a political force, but even more important,...

Zack Brewer faces a choice. It can prevent the next war. But it will cost the life of the person he loves the most. JAG Officer Zack Brewer’s prosecution of three terrorists posing as Navy chaplains was called the “court martial of the century” by the press. Now, with the limelight behind him, all Zack wants to do is forget. But the radical Islamic organization behind the chaplains has a long memory—and a thirst for revenge. Now the Navy has a need for Zack that eclipses all else. When an ...

The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man.It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on America. The book became a New York Times bestseller and the essential portrait of the most formidable terrorist enterprise of our time. Now, in Manhunt,

From one of our most trusted counterterrorism experts, a sweeping, insider's account of the decade-long chase for America's deadliest enemy.This landmark history chronicles the dramatic, decade-long war against al Qa’ida and provides a model for understanding the ebb and flow of terrorist activity. Tracing intricately orchestrated terrorist plots and the elaborate, multiyear investigations to disrupt them, Seth G. Jones identifies three distinct “waves” of al Qa’id...

A riveting, panoramic look at “homegrown” Islamist terrorism from 9/11 to the presentSince 9/11, more than three hundred Americans—born and raised in Minnesota, Alabama, New Jersey, and elsewhere—have been indicted or convicted of terrorism charges. Some have taken the fight abroad: an American was among those who planned the attacks in Mumbai, and more than eighty U.S. citizens have been charged with ISIS-related crimes. Others have acted on American soil, as with...

"A chilling account of a killer who slipped through the hands of a daft justice system….Triple Cross chronicles one of the most vicious spies of our time."— Toronto SunIn the years prior to 2001, no single agent of al Qaeda was more successful in compromising the U.S. intelligence community than Ali Mohamed. For almost two decades the former Egyptian army commando succeeded in living a double life—marrying an American woman, becoming a naturalized citizen, and infiltrating...

The long and secret effort to track down Osama bin Laden has been called the biggest, costliest manhunt in history. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post, this reconstruction- compiled from reporting from more than two-dozen Washington Post correspondents and staffers from over more than 15 years- traces the hunt from its beginnings in 1997, during the Clinton administration.THE HUNT FOR BIN LADEN is a behind-the-scenes narrative that reveals the fourteen-year, billion-dol...