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Once an orphaned farm boy in his native Sicily, Michael Tiranno made millions by mastering the intricate world of high finance, and is now the fabulously wealthy owner of Las Vegas' The Seven Sins, the grandest and most extravagant casino in the world. But he also has secrets that he and Naomi Burns, his driven corporate attorney and confidante, have gone to great lengths to bury. When an enemy from the past threatens to undermine everything he has...
3) Nobody move
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Jimmy Luntz, a compulsive gambler, owes money to Juarez, who tracks Jimmy down in Bakersfield, California, and sends Gambol to collect, but in a lucky break, Jimmy escapes and runs into Anita Desilvera, a femme fatale who is plotting to steal the millions of dollars she has been accused of embezzling.
4) Risk
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An honest lawyer, a Czech hand model, and a box of mysterious Christmas ornaments--each plays a part in Colin Harrison's compelling new intrigue
George Young never thought of himself as a detective, but that's pretty much his vocation--an attorney at a top insurance firm, it's his job to pin down suspicious claims. But Mrs. Corbett, the rich, eccentric wife of the firm's founder, has it in mind to put George's skills to a peculiar assignment. With...
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For the Soviets, war hero and sharpshooter Tat̓yana Levchenko's newfound friendship with the wife of the most powerful man in the world is an opportunity to garner public support for a much-needed second front in the WWII--but it's also a chance to gather information about President Roosevelt's plans. Then Tat̓yana vanishes. Did she defect? Was she silenced--and if so, by whom? Decades later, a clever journalist will discover Tat'yana's story ....
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Sara Cross is the lone woman sheriff's deputy in Florida's St. Charles County. One night, Cross, a single mother who's coping with her son's leukemia and the remnants of a two-years-gone post divorce fling with fellow deputy Billy Flynn, arrives on the edge of a cypress swamp where Flynn has just shot a 22-year-old black man from New Jersey allegedly fleeing a traffic stop. Sara tries to smother her still-simmering lust for no-good Billy, but her...
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It is America's worst nightmare: A nuclear bomb destroys a major city, killing thousands. Many more will die. Threats of more attacks spread panic. National security advisor Sean Falcone is tasked with identifying and tracking down the attackers. Powerful forces in the Capitol point the finger at Iran, but Falcone discovers an astonishing secret hidden among the upper echelons of Washington's elite. Will the President - or the American people - believe...
9) Young Philby
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When Kim Philby fled to Moscow in 1963, he became the most notorious double agent in history. Exposure of other double agents led to the revelation that Philby had been working for Russia longer than he had been part of MI6. Yet he escaped to spend twenty-five years of his life in Moscow. A fascinating, flawed man who kept people guessing until the very end.
10) The caretaker
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"Ranjit Singh, a former Indian Army Captain trying to escape a shameful past, lives with his family among the migrant workers of Martha's Vineyard, working as a caretaker of the vacation homes of the rich and powerful. Needing a place to stay, Ranjit moves his family into an empty Senator's home. Happily, but illegally ensconced in the house, he tries to forget his brief affair with Anna, the wife of an African-American senator, and focus on providing...
11) Ratlines
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Ireland, 1963: as the Irish prepare to welcome President John F. Kennedy, a German national is murdered in a seaside guesthouse--the third foreigner to die in the span of a few days. Lieutenant Albert Ryan, Directorate of Intelligence, is ordered to investigate, pushed to solve the crime rapidly by the Minister for Justice Charles Haughey, who wants the perpetrator caught before a shameful secret is exposed: the dead men were all Nazis granted asylum...
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"In Washington, the Kill Committee gathers in the White House's Situation Room to pick the next targets for the United States drone program. At an airbase just outside Las Vegas, a team of pilots, military personnel and intelligence officers follow through on the committee's orders, finding the men who have been deemed a threat to national security and sentenced to death. On the other side of the world, in the mountains where the drones hunt their...
15) Collision
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"Former Secretary of State William S. Cohen provides a Washington insider point of view in this new political thriller, Collision. Sean Falcone, former National Security Adviser to the president of the United States, attacks a gunman during a mass killing at an elite Washington law firm. A second shooter flees with a laptop containing vital information about an asteroid being mined by an American billionaire and his secret Russian partner. The incident...
16) Killers
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"Whitey Bulger is gone from Boston, but Bench McCarthy is here to take his place. Bench McCarthy is a thug's thug, a hitman, an underworld jack-of-all-trades running his own mob out of Winter Hill in Somerville while simultaneously handling 'wet work' for Sally Curto, a half-demented, totally obscene mob boss. After years of gangland peace, Bench and Sally suddenly find themselves clay pigeons for unknown hit crews coming at them from every direction....
17) One man's flag
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"Spring 1915. As the Great War burns its way across Europe, Jack McColl, a spy for His Majesty's Navy, is stationed in India, charged with defending the Empire against Bengali terrorists and their German allies. In England, meanwhile, suffragette journalist Caitlin Hanley begins the business of rebuilding her life after the execution of her brother, an Irish republican sympathizer whose plot Jack McColl--Caitlin's ex-lover--had foiled. The war is...
18) Pinnacle event
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"Against the backdrop of the 2016 presidential election, five simultaneous murders on three continents leads a cyber sleuth to a thread revealing someone has just bought five nuclear weapons. But who and what is their target? American intelligence expert Ray Bowman is brought in to find out. With the help of a Mossad agent and a female South African intelligence officer, he races around the world to stop nuclear terror. Washington fears the bombs...
19) A divided spy
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"Thomas Kell thought he was done with spying. A former MI6 officer, he devoted his life to the Service, but it has left him with nothing but grief and a simmering anger against the Kremlin. Then Kell is offered an unexpected chance at revenge. Taking the law into his own hands, he embarks on a mission to recruit a top Russian spy who is in possession of a terrifying secret. As Kell tracks his man from Moscow to London, he finds himself in a high stakes...
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"The blistering sequel to The Ascendant: An action-packed thriller starring a bond trader turned anti-hero. Unlikely patriot Garrett Reilly can identify threats against America from both inside and outside the nation's borders. But now the whole world's economy is at risk... Garrett Reilly sees what others do not: numbers, patterns, a nation on the brink of collapse. His unique talents saved countries from falling into a world war in The Ascendant....
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