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The Treasure Trail: A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine
By Marah Ellis Ryan. 2012
Combining thrills of Mexican-American border life, German-Mexican plots, the adventures of a cowpuncher-miner and the happy termination of his quest…
for love and wealth, this tale holds the reader's attention from beginning to end.The Stone of Archimedes
By Trevor Scott. 2013
Jake Adams finds himself in a Tunisian prison, being held for murdering an international terrorist who happens to be well…
connected in that country. When a mysterious man suddenly shows up to offer him a get out of jail free card, Jake is a bit suspicious. But what choice does he have? To secure his release all he has to do is one favor for a wealthy Texas senator--find his sister who is missing somewhere in Europe. No problem. When Jake picks up a tail almost immediately after leaving Tunisia, he quickly discovers that this case might not be as easy as it seems. The case takes Jake across Italy, from Rome to the catacombs of Sicily, and finally to a harrowing rescue that could get him killed.Running Game
By Trevor Scott. 2015
When Tony Caruso is hired to go undercover for the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, he has no idea…
that his life will change forever in the remote mountains of Oregon. He is tasked to track down an Asian ring of smugglers who are killing black bears for gallbladders and shooting elk and deer in velvet for their antlers. He narrowly escapes with his life, but follows the smugglers to Portland. Eventually, he ends up in the southern Cascades in the mushroom fields, where he must fight not only the Asian game smugglers, but Asian gangs from San Francisco and Seattle. As Tony tightens the noose around the smugglers, the case becomes personal. Now he must encounter these brutal killers in the remote forest, where his survival depends on his own military training and his favorite sidekick, Panzer, his giant schnauzer and former German military working dog.Berlin Game (Bernard Samson #1)
By Len Deighton. 1983
The first part of the classic spy trilogy, GAME, SET and MATCH, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a…
city but a world. East is East and West is West - and they meet in Berlin... He was the best source the Department ever had, but now he desperately wanted to come over the Wall. 'Brahms Four' was certain a high-ranking mole was set to betray him. There was only one Englishman he trusted any more: someone from the old days. So they decided to put Bernard Samson back into the field after five sedentary years of flying a desk. The field is Berlin. The game is as baffling, treacherous and lethal as ever...Charity (Bernard Samson #9)
By Len Deighton. 1996
Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the final novel in the classic spy trilogy, FAITH, HOPE and CHARITY. Bernard continues…
to chip away at the mystery of his sister-in-law Tessa Kosinski's death in Berlin on the crucial night when his wife Fiona was brought out of the East. Fighting to uncover the truth, he must also confront the key relationships in his own life: Fiona is still far from stable now that she has returned to work, and their children remain in the clutches of his wealthy and manipulative father-in-law. Meanwhile, Werner Volkmann, Bernard's friend since childhood, is reluctant to get involved in Bernard's crusade.The Narcotic Tsunami
By John Elcomb. 2015
John Hall considers himself lucky. After years as a spook, he has come home from his final mission full of…
plans to reunite with his daughter and his dog to take up a life where he won't be forever looking over his shoulder. Having landed in Launceston, Tasmania, he heads out to the woolsheds he and his friend Bill Shian plan to develop as a tourist attraction. There he discovers a mutilated body apparently fallen from the sky. Reluctantly, John finds himself sucked into the dangerous world of international crime.... and this time it's personal. This time it's a lethal drug and the bad guys have his daughter.Holbox - Spies at Dusk
By Franco Mimmi, Margaret Leah Wood. 2016
Holbox, a small Mexican island, the perfect setting for a getaway. A European secret service agent, tired of dirty wars,…
decides to disappear with 2 million dollars of his agency's money that was earmarked to buy weapons for armed mercenaries in a covert operation. Two years later he allows himself to be discovered by a former collegue: the story tells of their encounter, their reasons, their doubts.Greenmantle
By John Buchan.
The Kingdom of the Blind
By E. Phillips Oppenheim.
The Lucifer Gospel
By Paul Christopher. 2006
Young archaeologist Finn Ryan and charismatic pilot and photographer Virgil Hilts are scouring the Sahara for the long-lost tomb of…
an apostle. But they find something they weren't looking for: signs of a decades-old murder, along with an ancient Roman medallion bearing the infamous name of a fallen archangel. It doesn't take long for them to realize that they've found a piece of a much bigger puzzle--and a trail of clues that could get them killed. Forced to flee from a relentless enemy, Finn and Virgil are pursued across the globe. From the sinister ruins of an ancient monastery to a sunken ship in the Caribbean, the two desperately search for a truth that can save their lives, but might shake the foundations of history. . .The Riddle of the Sands
By Eskrine Childres. 2012
While on a sailing trip in the Baltic Sea, two young adventurers-turned-spies uncover a secret German plot to invade England.…
Written by Childers--who served in the Royal Navy during World War I--as a wake-up call to the British government to attend to its North Sea defenses, The Riddle of the Sands accomplished that task and has been considered a classic of espionage literature ever since, praised as much for its nautical action as for its suspenseful spycraft.The Amazing Interlude
By Mary Roberts Rinehart. 2012
Now and then amazing things are done on this great stage of ours: lights go down; the back drop, which…
had given the illusion of solidity, reveals itself transparent. A sort of fairyland transformation takes place. Beyond the once solid wall strange figures move on -- a new mise en sc?ne, with the old blotted out in darkness. The lady, whom we left knitting by the fire, becomes a fairy -- Sara Lee became a fairy, of a sort -- and meets the prince. Adventure, too; and love, of course. And then the lights go out, and it is the same old back drop again, and the lady is back by the fire -- but with a memory. This is the story of Sara Lee Kennedy's memory -- and of something more. . . .The Zeppelin Destroyer: Being Some Ch
By William Le Queux. 2013
William Le Queux was a successful author of more than a hundred books, most of them in the genre of…
'invasion literature', focusing on spies, intrigue, and new technologies. Written in the middle of The Great War, The Zeppelin Destroyer tells the story of British aviators trying to battle sophisticated German zeppelins making nightly bombing raids in Southern England and Wales. Teddy, Claude, and Claude's fiance, Roseye are bent on developing a new weapon capable of stopping these powerful invaders, but all the while, they must contend with 'The Invisible Hand', a network of German spies and sympathizers in Britain who will stoop to anything to destroy the weapon and steal its secrets.Long Live the King!
By Mary Roberts Rinehart. 2012
This is a story of love, intrigue and adventure in a European court. In this story Mrs. Rinehart combines mystery,…
heart interest, and excitement of her past successes into a story that will be hailed as the most interesting of all her stories.The Gemini Agenda
By Michael Mcmenamin, Patrick Mcmenamin. 2011
A string of strange deaths in 1932 leads Bourke Cockran, Jr., and his lover Mattie McGary to uncover a plot…
by Nazi scientists to conduct lethal experiments on American twins in order to create a master race. They confront an international conspiracy connecting Wall Street to Washington, DC; from Long Island's fabled Gold Coast to the marble corridors of the Barlow Palace in Munich, headquarters of the fast-rising Nazi Party; and finally to a sinister clinic hidden deep in the Bavarian Forest. The Gemini Agenda is a historical thriller, the third in the Winston Churchill trilogy. Michael McMenamin is a trial lawyer and author, and his son Patrick McMenamin is a producer at Fox News.The Complete Hypershot Series
By Trevor Scott. 2013
Shadow Maker
By James R. Hannibal. 2014
How far will collateral damage from a CIA drone strike reach? When a suicide bomber shatters the peace of a…
winter afternoon on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., former pilot and undercover Cerberus operative Nick Baron receives an eerie invitation from the chess app on his phone--a mysterious figure named The Emissary wants to play. Nick and his covert unit--the Triple Seven Chase team--soon find themselves drawn into battle against an unknown opponent who has resurrected an ancient order of assassins: the legendary Hashashin. And there is a long-awaited prophecy being fulfilled by a series of violent attacks which may culminate in a final apocalypse over Jerusalem. As the Triple Seven fight to stop each attack, Nick tries to keep The Emissary on the hook by playing their digital chess game. The lines between the game and the fight begin to blur, as every time Nick loses a piece on the board, he loses one of his men. And if Nick cannot find a way to stop the terrorist mastermind, a checkmate may kill millions...Ride a Pale Horse
By Helen Macinnes. 1984
Blood Eagle
By Robert Barr Smith. 2007
While the apparent suicide of Hitler's niece in 1931 may have gone unquestioned in its time, two modern American agents…
must race to uncover the truth behind her death before the KGB and a well-financed neo-Nazi group interfere As the death toll rises and time runs out, this compelling story comes to a thrilling conclusion as those in search of answers must fight to keep the truth from being hidden forever.Burned
By Sarah Lovett, Valerie Plame. 2014
Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson has dedicated her career to capturing one man: Bhoot, the world's most notorious nuclear…
arms dealer. That mission has been impeded by the murders of her assets, who were betrayed by a mole within her own agency. When she narrowly escapes death during a devastating explosion at the Louvre, Vanessa immediately suspects that Bhoot was the architect of the brazen terrorist attack. But when a previously unknown militant group claims responsibility for the bombing and promises even greater carnage, she is forced to rethink her initial assumptions--especially when Bhoot himself contacts her to deny responsibility and confirm her suspicions that a miniaturized nuclear device may have fallen into hands more dangerous than his own. Of course, Vanessa knows Bhoot can't be trusted. But she begins to fear that a new and even greater threat to the world's fragile balance of power may have emerged.As Vanessa's investigation leads her ever closer to the identity of the mole and the real terrorists' plans, she finds herself drawn against all her better instincts into a perilous alliance with one of the world's most dangerous criminals--a man who has become her darkest obsession . . . and perhaps her savior.Moving swiftly from Paris, to Amsterdam, to Venice, to Istanbul, Burned is a nerve-shattering, intricately woven thriller about the mission to capture a brilliant and elusive mastermind--and an exhilarating new chapter in the Vanessa Pierson saga.