In a riveting tale of intrigue and betrayal, a journalist and his aide infiltrate Afghanistan on the eve of the American invasion. Skelly, a jaded war correspondent, is looking for one last scoop. Najeeb, his translator and guide, is an educated young man from the Pakistani-Afghani border with ...
Vlado Petric, a former homicide detective in Sarajevo, is now living in exile, and making a meagre living working at a Berlin construction site, when an American investigator for the International War Crimes Tribunal recruits him to return home on a mission. The assignment sounds simple enough. H...
Imagine my shock when I realized the author of this nicely-written, suspenseful story is the same one who wrote the ludicrous Layover in Dubai, which I only finished because of my participation in the "Around the World in 80 Books" challenge. It's a good thing I didn't make the connection before ...
Freeman Lockhart is working for his old friend Omar in Amman, Jordan, and is spying on him too. Hoping to prevent his own secrets from ever coming to light, Freeman has agreed to report back on his friend to a clandestine agency interested in Omar's finances. In Washington DC, meanwhile, Aliyah R...
With its musty smell and hallowed silence it felt like a library, cataloging crimes and criminals going back for decades. In Horton, tracking down old information on lowlifes could take days, even weeks, and there was little or no cross-referencing between jurisdictions. Up here they’d amassed al...
No more looking over your shoulder for a Russian with a Makarov. Which is more than I can say for the poor man we’re about to visit. Rajpal Patel, the doorman from the Palace Hotel. He is hiding in Deira, on the far side of the creek.” “Then shouldn’t we be heading south, to cross the bridge?” Sh...
on a blustery Friday in late winter, Kurt Bauer strolled nervously into the shadow of the city’s most dreaded building. The structure itself wasn’t imposing. Five stories of stone with a mansard roof, it had once been a hotel, then an art school. Its elegant rows of high windows suggested a place...
At times, they may even directly question you after you’ve spoken … . If someone other than another service member approaches you and questions you about our mission, units, or anything regarding our overall operation, you have an obligation to report it immediately. In the meantime remember that...
There was even a customer ahead of me, a dissipated-looking fellow in a long wool coat and a floppy brown hat that slouched on his head like a dumpling. I took him at first for a wino, then noticed how assiduously he was working the shelves, like an ingenious piece of farm machinery that can simu...