"Captain Cabrillo and his intelligence agents plan to strike a deal with the Russians and Chinese to exchange a golden Buddha containing records of oil reserves for Tibet's freedom, but his enemies will do anything to stop him."--Provided by B&T.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times called it "a perfect little gem, the best Cold War thriller I've read in years," and the praise kept coming with critics hailing Littell as "the American Le Carré" (New York Times) and raving that his books were "as good as thriller writing gets" (The Washington Post). For his fourteenth novel, Robert Littell creates an engrossing, multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic yet utterly candid saga, bringing

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In 1901 Germany invades the United States when the U.S. refuses to give up Cuba and the Philippines. New York is taken and a prolonged conflict follows. The hero is General Patrick Mahan, commander of the Bastard Brigade, made up of German-American and African-American regiments.

After learning of the assassination of an investigative reporter in Marburg, along with a series of attempts on other government affiliates, Delta Force Lieutenant Colonel C.G. Castillo heads the Office of Organizational Analysis in an attempt to find a link between the crimes, but quickly discovers that he is the next likely target.

Former undercover officer for the Royal Naval Intelligence Division, David Trevellyan tries to clear his name after he is accused of murdering a homeless man in New York City, and begins to realizes he is in the middle of an international conspiracy.

"The head of Egypt's State Internal Security is brutally murdered in a Cairo caf-̌-his assailant a faceless killer known only as 'the Palestinian.' It is the opening move in a chilling game of terror that has caught the international intelligence community completely off-guard, and the CIA turns to the one man they believe can get to the twisted roots of a looming nightmare shrouded in mystery: a former Company operative code-named Scorpion"--Publisher's...

When a photographer is murdered while recording cargo being secretly loaded in Shanghai, Covert-One director Fred Klein is brought in to find the cargo ship, which is rumored to be carrying thousands of pounds of chemical weapons.

A high-level assassination attempt in Russia has the newly elected Ryan sending his most trusted eyes and ears-including antiterrorism specialist John Clark-to Moscow, for he fears the worst is yet to come. And he's right. The attempt has left the already unstable Russia vulnerable to ambitious forces in China eager to fulfill their destiny-and change the face of the world as we know it...

Iran is weeks away from acquiring nuclear weapons and has every intention of using them to strike first-- only Tommy Carmellini and Jake Grafton can stop a nuclear nightmare.

After a gruesome discovery escalates America's involvement in a naval war in the South China Sea, U.S. President Douglas Surber must choose to take a stand against evil or save the life of his daughter, who is stationed aboard a U.S. submarine tender.