Well financed and well armed, the drug cartel gang known as Los Zetas operates with seeming impunity in Mexico. After deadly bombings on both sides of the Rio Grande River, a majority of American lawmen tend to blame the Zetas for the carnage. ATF explosives expert Pam Robinson disagrees. She suspects an Islamic terrorist connection, which puts her at odds with her own boss, most of official Washington, and Texas Rangers Captain Steve Oliveras. When she and Oliveras are assigned to the sam...

In the dead of Winter 1934, massive amounts of mountain snow force Lakes and Western engineer Caleb McCamy to stop his train. It will be five hours before a railroad snowplow can reach his location. Conditions call for significant decisions, and he relies on Tim Marlow, the train's veteran conductor, to come up with appropriate solutions.Among the passengers, one is particularly upset. Oil man Stephen Coombs needs additional funding to enlarge his enterprise. Delay threatens his sc...

What begins as a delightful seven-day Caribbean cruise for two thousand passengers becomes a nightmare when Cuban pirates attack the ship. Rico Cruz, ruthless leader of the raiders, has no compunctions when it comes to killing. His victims include both passengers and crew, men and women alike. For the ship's officers, trying to protect their charges seems an impossible task. Travis Wheeler, master of Neptune's Queen, faces one critical decision after another as he tries to thwart the hijac...

Ray Denton has "a reputation," as some Indy car owners like to express it. Observers both inside and outside the racing fraternity see his personality as volatile, and he seldom tries to mitigate that. His on-again-off-again fiancé, Sharon Firestone (no, not that Firestone), hates racing and would like nothing better than to see his career come to a close. In trying to achieve balance in their lives, they face challenges that cannot be resolved with air pressure changes or wing adjustments...

Grady Nash's life becomes extremely complicated when he finds himself caught between two women in competition for his affection.Brunette Lisa Terrell, a coworker, has had her eye on Grady for quite some time, but her subtle flirtations seem to go unnoticed. Her roommate urges her to go after him, but it's not in her nature.Blonde, blue-eyed Cindy is much more direct in her approach. Only two problems may afflict their relationship. First, she is eight years older than Grady. ...

Even though smuggling humans is a federal crime, Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety Jim Travis sends Steve Oliveras from Austin to Galveston, his assignment to monitor progress of the investigation, help if he can, and keep his bosses and the governor up to date on the latest developments. In addition to re-meeting alluring, saucy FBI agent Maria Esparza, he finds himself working with Tom Grady, another agent he knew from the Mexico border taskforce. He and Grady had not got...

Collins works his way through a maze of government bureacracy and financial complexity. He is attacked more than once, and learning the reason appears impossible. Even the FBI becomes an adversary based on unreliable information. Aided by a comely former FBI agent and distracted by an attractive, amorous neighbor, Collins eventually tracks his suspect into the woods of West Virginia, where it will require all his skill, cunning, and determination just to survive.

Murphy and Hooper, both stranded in Puerto Rico and in need of more rewarding employment, accept positions as bodyguards for members of a cabal plotting Trujillo's removal. But after a few incidents that attract the attention of the dictator's military secret police, they become the prey. Not only must they fight for their own survival without compromising the plot against Trujillo, they also have to find a way out of the country before the conspirators strike lest they be caught in the ne...

Team owner Carl Anderson finds a new sponsor to support a second car. Paul Cord has money to burn, and he spends part of it on brand new Dallara. There is just one problem. He does not have a driver for it."I'm just the test driver," Denton insists, but his contract with Anderson trips him up. He will drive the Cord car or go on unemployment. His first competition outing with the new car goes sour when a rookie driver collides with him, ending his race on the opening lap.His ...

Recently returned from her assignment in Texas and still nursing an arm wounded by a gunman in Mexico, ATF Special Agent Pam Robinson learns that she is to hit the road again. A bomb attack in Cincinnati has all the earmarks of sabotage, but could it be a reprisal over a Chinese takeover bid? Or possibly both?With each new revelation of clues, her assignment becomes more complicated. Her boss sees her as more than a forensic specialist, the top man in Cincinnati sees her as a threat...

Post-blast investigation is Pam Robinson's forte, and she works closely with other ATF and FBI agents to identify and analyze explosive events. When not in the field, her regular workdays consist of reviewing incident reports and preparing depositions for use in prosecution of criminal acts involving explosives, tasks that at times become onerous. But when the call for NRT goes out, she must drop everything and respond to the deployment order immediately.In the course of doing her j...

Pam Robinson is tasked to substitute for a retiring senior ATF agent, but that means spending time in Houston, a city she loathes. Worse, the man she is replacing temporarily has a sour disposition and unloads his venom on her. Before her interim assignment runs its course, she is indirectly involved in a double homicide and directly involved in a shooting incident on a Houston street. Then her boss in Washington tells her he is quitting ATF, which will leave her high and dry.