A sort of genre and style I essentially like....but oh please... to have a woman make a fool of herself because she has fallen in love wtih the lead character after about a minute.... this author seems to have a pretty piss poor concept of realistic character development. It rminded me of a ...
The skyjacking of a plane bound for Cuba left four people dead, two of them CIA operatives. To reveal the true nature of the incident, the CIA knows of one man that can get them the answers they need; a man whom they had relied on before... Kirk McGarvey is a man with a past; a past that has rece...
Suicide bombers are coming to America's heartland.Their targets: our most precious and vulnerable assets, our children. Following the most terrifying lead of his life, CIA Director Kirk McGarvey traces the threat to a Saudi playboy prince, but the White House wants nothing to do with McGarvey's ...
From the USA Today bestselling author of Joshua’s HammerThe President of the United States has appointed Kirk McGarvey interim director of the CIA while his nomination winds its way through Congressional hearings. But what should have been the culmination of McGarvey’s career, has activated a twe...
From the USA Today bestselling author of Joshua’s Hammer and High FlightOn the Bay of Bengal a civilian research vessel witnesses a submarine fire a laser into the sky. Before they can process what they see, the sub blasts them out of the water and captures the lone survivor.Immediately, one of t...
On American soil, a terrorist bomb explodes at a Georgetown restaurant, killing CIA operative Kirk MGarvey's girlfriend and wounding his daughter. Now Mcgarvey seeks vengeance while at the same time struggling with the growing crisis in the Far East where a mysterious underground nuclear explosio...
When a one-kiloton Russian nuclear demolition bomb the size of a suitcase ends up in the hands of multimillionaire Osama bin Laden, the entire world sits up and takes notice. And when the United States launches an attack on the terrorist's base of operation in Afghanistan, killing his daughter, r...
First electronics. Then automobiles. Now the Japanese are ready to strike at our largest industrial export--airplanes. Intrigue and danger heighten as America faces its worst industrial challenge since the Great Depression. With the Cold War over, Japanese industrial espionage may succeed tomorro...
Based on the screenplay by Jonathan Mostow, John Brancato, and Michael Ferris The novel of the blockbuster hit film For two generations of moviegoers, the Terminator movies have defined adrenaline-soaked action filmmaking. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a machine from the future, a machine w...
He was vexed and he let it show. “Don’t pout, dear, you’ll trip over your lower lip,” she told him. “My jet has a fax machine and yours doesn’t, so Tommy sent me what he’s managed to dig up on our professor.” Frances had directions to the FBI safe house, so she rode shotgun while Lane drove the p...
Roemer dropped Manning off downtown and went over to his own office. He got a cup of coffee and a roll from the canteen and took the elevator up. The only people on duty were the switchboard girl and the night officer. Neither noticed Roemer’s arrival. He took off his coat and opened the six-inch...
Martínez told Ruiz on the encrypted satellite phone. He was calling from a thatched roof porch at the front of the fishing shack right on the beach a few miles to the west of the coronel’s compound. “Same spot?” the pilot asked. He’d been standing by on Little Torch Key near Newfound Harbor ever ...
This was the day, however, when the shit was very likely to hit the fan. He had taken a calculated risk, and it was about to come back and bite him. It was just seven-thirty. The president had agreed to see him in his study. He rose from behind his desk when Murphy came in. He was a large man, wh...
Nothing moved below, but there were lights in most windows; late classes in some of the buildings, and students settling down to their studies in others. He keyed the burst walkie-talkie. “I’m in position. Everything looks quiet from here.” He hit the TRANSMIT button. A moment later Liese came ba...
But he’d waited until the man she’d bumped into in the lobby had come out of the hotel and disappeared in the crowd. For a moment when McGarvey had crossed the street, Kim had been horrified that he’d somehow spotted her, and she had reached in her purse for her gun. But he’d disappeared behind a...
It was a few minutes after noon, and several last-minute passengers for the boat to Palermo shuffled across the quay and boarded. A thick miasma hung in the windless air over the minarets and domed mosques of the surprisingly oriental Libyan capital. Within the city, the noon traffic was heavy. A...
traffic on the parkway like he had done often just before he was off to the badlands somewhere. A time to reflect, to consider his options and even his reasons for going. He’d never considered himself to be a Don Quixote, and yet at times, he knew that was exactly the figure he cut for some peopl...
The Speaker of the House had called for an update on the goings-on across the river. The president’s chief of staff asked Page to come in at nine in the morning to help with Norman Hearney’s briefing—Hearney was the new director of national intelligence. And Stanford Swift, an old friend from IBM...
Close up the massive pile looked more like a fortress or a prison than a governmental office. It felt ancient—and menacing: Abandon hope all ye who enter these gates. He paid off the cabby, who was escorted back to the main gate. As he stood waiting next to an armed guard ...
Human settlements, sometimes hanging on only by sheer determination, were critically important because they were the last pockets of resistance. They also were important because of the sharp decrease in the human birth rate. Who wanted to bring a child into a world of chaos, death, and destructio...