They landed at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa early in the morning and rented a blue, four-wheel-drive Toyota Highlander, big enough for the five of them. After a stop at the embassy to pick up a trunk holding weapons and back packs they headed north out of Ethiopia's capital on Highwa...
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The pictures she'd taken of the tablet were displayed on her computer monitor, where she could zoom in on parts of the inscription with ease. She'd been at it for hours. Some words had been easy, similar to the version of Linear A she was used to. Not that anything about L...
She'd been searching through the archived files of the East German secret police for more than three hours. Even with the high level translation program she was using, it was tough going wading through the stilted prose of the East German bureaucratic mind. She'd found nothing about Joseph Connor...
The night was dark except for a distant streetlamp and a faint glow from within the church. Mist from the Thames and an elaborate stone portico outside the entrance helped conceal them. There was no one about. A light rain drifted down. "Got it," Ronnie said. Nick heard t...
Always a center of banking and commerce, the city had been governed by a hereditary class of merchants until early in the twentieth century. During the Nazi era it had been a launching port for Hitler's U-boats and a major shipyard of the Third Reich. Hamburg was one of the busiest ports in Europ...
They visited Stephanie first. She had two black eyes and bruises all over. Aside from that, she'd escaped with nothing more than an aching body and a wrenched shoulder. It was Elizabeth's side of the car that had taken most of the impact in the crash. The new baby lay on t...
The night shaded from dark to gray. The eastern sky glowed with reddish orange and deep blue behind the mountains. Selena stood between two slabs of jagged rock, thirty yards from the entrance of the cave. Nick crouched behind a massive, tottering boulder perched on the edge of the ravine. Large,...
Cuba lay ahead off the port bow. They'd taken the shortest route home, with Cuba to the left and the chain of islands that included the Bahamas off to their right. But they had a problem."We have to get him to a hospital," Selena said.They were talking about Lamont. His fever was worse. He was sl...