Sylvia de Matteo, an American single mother, is taken hostage by terrorists during a political assassination at Stazione Centrale, Milan's train station. She is seized at gunpoint and thrown into the back of a van.Moments later, a Paris-bound train with Sylvia's fiancé and ten-year old daughter aboard departs Centrale without Sylvia. The terrorists drive Sylvia to a warehouse where she is imprisoned in a cell.When the terrorists discover Sylvia's father is a wealthy Wall St...

A married couple is enjoying a Saturday night at their remote home in Central California while the husband's parents take care of their young boys in town. Drinking vino, eating pizza, smoking joints in their hot tub, they witness strange lights in the night sky, lights like at the end of a commercial jet's wings, but no plane, only lights, many, many lights.

Thirteen Days in MilanAn American single mother is kidnapped during a political assassination at Milan's Stazione Central train station.No One SleepsMilan's anti-terrorism police search for a secret cell of Islamic terrorists who have received deadly sarin gas from Pakistan. The terrorists are planning to release sarin gas during the premiere of La Scala Opera House December 7 with high level politicians, executives, and foreign dign...

A San Francisco wife plots to murder her philandering husband by being in two places at one time.She commits the Perfect Crime -- and starts an exciting life with a sexy new boyfriend, living off her dead husband's generous life insurance policy.Until her doorbell rings one night . . . .

A Russian banker embezzles millions laundering money in Switzerland for Russian oligarchs. He flees with his Italian wife to a remote location on Lake Como near Milan, where their daughter lives.Putin wants him dead and sends a GRU assassin to Milan to find and poison the banker.But Milan's antiterrorism police cannot locate the assassin, Vasily Egorov, who is traveling with phony documents, carrying a vial of poison, and speaking Italian. Unexpectedly, Egorov meets an intr...

True crime.When Brad Baker met Andrea Currier, it was classic middle America meets old money. Brad was from Indiana and dabbled in politics; Andrea was the great-granddaughter of Andrew Mellon, former Secretary of Treasury for three Republican presidents. Andrea's net worth was in the range of $500 million.It started out like a romance novel and ended with a shotgun blast New Years Eve.

Milan's elite anti-terrorism DIGOS police receive a tip that a sleeper cell of Muslim terrorists have received toxic chemicals from Pakistan to make deadly sarin gas.DIGOS discovers the terrorist cell leader has access to Milan's centers of finance, technology, commerce, and entertainment -- all high profile targets with hundreds of casualties in a terrorist attack.A team of top DIGOS agents attempts to penetrate the cell and stop them before they act.

Milan's elite antiterrorism DIGOS police receive a tip that a sleeper cell of Muslim terrorists have received toxic chemicals from Pakistan to make deadly sarin gas. The cell leader, a highly educated Italian-Pakistani engineer, has access to Milan's centers of finance, technology, commerce, and entertainment -- all high profile targets with hundreds of casualties in a terrorist attack.But the police have no names or leads to identify the terrorists. After months of investigation t...

Sylvia de Matteo, an American single mother, is taken hostage by terrorists during a political assassination at Stazione Centrale, Milan's train station. She is seized at gunpoint and thrown into the back of a van.Moments later, a Paris-bound train with Sylvia's fiancé and ten-year-old daughter aboard departs Centrale without Sylvia. The terrorists drive Sylvia to a warehouse where she is imprisoned in a cell.When the terrorists discover Sylvia's father is a wealthy Wall St...

Serena Lancer and Fox Wolfe are a couple you mightwant to have as friends. Serena is a former teenage Hollywood actress,now an artist, who travels the world to paint landscapes.Serena calls herself Bad News because she brings to Fox her friends who are in a spot of trouble.Fox is a former undercover intelligence officer and private investigator who uses his skills to rescue Serena's Bad News friends.But first he has to rescue Serena.

The weekend before Memorial Day, Shasta County Sheriff divers recover two decomposed bodies from Lake Britton, a peaceful vacation resort near Mt. Shasta.The first body is that of Rex Royale, a charismatic Las Vegas casino mogul who is building a controversial Indian casino on Lake Britton. The second body is that of an itinerant woman with no apparent connection to Royale.A San Francisco Chronicle reporter, Tyler Bonnard, who discovered Royale's body, links up with freelance...

A schoolboy is bullied by a classmate to follow a beautiful young woman when she gets off a bus after work. He follows her, and becomes intrigued by her private life.Years later, he meets her in a professional setting and learns intimate details of her life.His fantasies become an obsession, he begins stalking her, watching her with lovers, imagining what it would be like if he could become one.She invites him to her home for a business meeting not knowing how this f...