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Frank Kane is dying. The bioweapon that nearly killed him has left his legendary skills in ruins. His hands shake. His strength fails. The man who once protected presidents can barely lift the stones he needs to rebuild his lighthouse. When a simple assignment protecting a foreign prince goes catastrophically wrong, Frank discovers the boy isn't just another spoiled royal. Sixteen-year-old Prince Alexander has been trained since childhood never to make a mistake—and it's broken him. He can analyze a hundred tactical options but can't choose his breakfast without having a panic attack. Now...

A dying town. A dead man walking. One final chance for justice. A terrorist attack on a pipeline outside a quiet Pennsylvania town tears open the past when it reveals an abandoned mine filled with hazardous waste. Within hours people get sick. Within days they start dying. Local officials deny responsibility. Companies deny involvement. Records vanish. And the town is told to stay calm, stay quiet, and trust the process. Frank Kane doesn’t trust any of it. As the body count rises, Kane uncovers a chain of corruption that runs from corporate boardrooms to town hall offices—men who buried...

A worn-out veteran forged by a dark past is unwanted until an enemy comes home. Heavily scarred with a voice like broken glass, society has cast Frank Kane aside. A worn-out relic of forgotten wars. He's okay with that. He never liked people much anyway. Renovating a dilapidated lighthouse, he finds peace fixing a broken thing. Hard work. Honest work. The men who kidnapped his niece should have left the sleeping dog lie. Their actions forced Frank to return to his old ways. Unknowingly, they awakened something terrible – a relentless architect of pain who will stop at nothing to find ...

A conspiracy thriller where patriotism becomes treason A midnight raid on Camp Pendleton. The base commander, his wife, and a dozen Marines dead. Truckloads of military-grade weapons stolen. Enough firepower to start a war or end a government. Frank Kane is back and merciless as ever. But this time his assignment is not so clear… His body ruined by war, Frank is a map of scar tissue and broken bones. A man who sacrificed everything for his country only to be discarded when the fighting ended. Now that same country needs Frank for one final mission: stop Mitchel Walker, the former brother-...

The law failed her sister. She won’t let it fail again. The system didn't fail. It was bought. Dr. Erika Tsai speaks for the dead. As the city’s Chief Medical Examiner, she deals in cold, hard facts: the angle of the wound, the toxicology report, the silence of the morgue. She trusts the science. She trusts the law. Until her sister ends up on her table. The police call it an overdose. Erika knows it’s a lie. The toxicology confirms what she fears: her sister was murdered by Victor Reyes, the city’s most ruthless drug lord. But Reyes doesn't just sell drugs; he owns the precinct. ...

"He doesn't speak. He doesn't hesitate. He doesn't miss." Frank Kane seeks peace in silence and solitude. The war was supposed to be over. A key genetic researchers vanishes overnight. Her breakthrough could grant humanity centuries of life. Instead someone has turned healing into horror. The weapon ages victims to death in hours. Murder disguised as time. World leaders debate the ethics of longevity research. Who deserves to live forever? What happens when the poor die of old age while the rich live for centuries? Frank wants no part of it. His damaged throat barely speaks. His scarred ...

In a divided America, the deadliest weapon isn't a gun or a bomb but an algorithm. Stone by stone, former military operative Frank Kane rebuilds a lighthouse on Maine's savage coast. A worn-out relic trying to bury a violent past. Then his former handler appears at his door, eyes cold with purpose. One last mission. Save America from itself. No choice just duty. Behind the glass walls of Helix, one of Washington's elite think tanks, lurks Fulcrum—an AI system designed to predict civil unrest. But Mitchel Reed, a brilliant and ruthless former intelligence developer, has secretly weaponized...

Justice failed Lily Alcott. The report said accidental drowning. The photos said otherwise. And for Erika Tsai—New York medical examiner and daughter of a woman the system already buried once—those details were enough. Erika doesn’t rage. She doesn’t plead. She documents. And when the evidence points to men untouchable by courts or prosecutors, she becomes something far more dangerous than a vigilante: precise. As bodies begin to fall, FBI Special Agent Kate Harding is assigned to the case. What she finds isn’t chaos, but pattern. The killings are disciplined. Clean. Intentional. ...

The Nomad slaughtered his girlfriend and framed him for murder. Now, Billy Gamble, a drifter turned fugitive, will stop at nothing to find and exact his revenge on the sadistic serial killer traveling the world and sowing chaos wherever he goes. His search for the nomad will take Billy to the exotic islands of Thailand, the old colonial towns of Malaysia and into the darkest jungles of Borneo. But the real question is...who is hunting whom and why? To find the answers, Billy must delve into the mind of a madman and question his own sanity.

In 1942, America pinned its hopes on one woman to prevent the Nazis from developing an atomic bomb... Elsa Kristiansen, a brilliant young physicist and a committed pacifist, finds herself torn from her moral foundations and thrust into a world of danger and deception during the height of World War II. As she embarks on a perilous mission to stop the Nazis from developing a devastating weapon, Elsa must confront not only the enemy but also her own deepest beliefs. Impersonating the enigmatic Dr. Paula Aadland, a woman whose values and actions she despises, Elsa must become the very thing she...

The true, untold story of the real beginning of the Vietnam War... In 1945, OSS sniper René Granier parachutes into the misty mountains of Indochina with his elite Deer Team. Their mission: ally with Ho Chi Minh's guerrillas against the Japanese. Side by side, they fight. Some die. Trust forms in the crucible of war. As the war winds down, old powers move to reclaim their colonies. Promises are broken. Branded a spy without a chance to defend himself, Granier finds himself betrayed by the very warriors who once called him brother. Now he stands at the crossroads of history with one bullet ...

After surviving the brutal Cambodian-Vietnamese War, battle-hardened veterans Granier and Spitting Woman return to their village in Northern Vietnam, hoping to find peace at last. But fate has other plans. As they settle into a quiet life among their tribe, tensions between Vietnam and China reach a boiling point. Vietnam's occupation of Cambodia has drawn the ire of its powerful northern neighbor, and China is poised to teach Vietnam a lesson it won't soon forget. When Chinese forces pour across the border, Granier and Spitting Woman's village finds itself in the crosshairs of an ...

"Not only are the characters compelling, but Corley skillfully builds tension… using sensory details and vivid descriptions." — Forward Clarion In 1951, the Indochina War rages between French imperialists and the Viet Minh rebels. After several victories, the French Army is dealt its first major defeat by Ho Chi Minh and his Viet Minh rebels. Cautious, China and Russia wait in the wings, watching America’s resolve. Nobody wants World War III. With the French desperately short on troops, weapons, and aircraft, America must wrestle with how deeply to become involved in the growing ...

In the heart of the Cambodian jungle, as Vietnamese forces push towards Phnom Penh, two unlikely heroes find themselves at the crossroads of duty, morality, and survival. Granier, a seasoned sniper with a troubled past, and Spitting Woman, a fierce and enigmatic tracker, are tasked with scouting ahead of the Vietnamese army's advance. As they navigate the treacherous terrain, Granier and Spitting Woman uncover a web of corruption that threatens to undermine the entire campaign. Caught between exposing a dangerous conspiracy and preventing further genocide by the Khmer Rouge, they must make ...

How far will America go to win the Vietnam War? Torn by terrible loss, an American pilot finds distraction when he develops a new weapon that could change the war in Vietnam. As it appears in the night sky, the terrified Viet Cong call it “dragon.” Will it be enough or is it already too late? After enemy torpedo boats attack the US Destroyer Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin, President Johnson decides to expand the war and bomb North Vietnam. When a second attack occurs, the US Congress gives the president the power to declare all-out war against the communists. But are the attacks real or ...

One bullet could start a war or prevent it. His bullet… Granier is CIA. A sniper and the leader of an elite paramilitary team stationed in Saigon. Nothing will stop him from completing his mission - blocking the Viet Minh rebels from overrunning the South. Ambush, sabotage, and assassination are part of his bag of dirty tricks. But anything is allowed as long as they don’t get caught. He has no remorse. Remorse is for others. Before American soldiers landed in South Vietnam, the CIA fought a covert war against the communists. They were committed to stopping communist expansion and ...

“A historical novel that reads like a modern political thriller, full of exciting action, larger-than-life characters, and unforgettable events.” — Kirkus Reviews A Daring Plan. A Deadly Trap. The Siege at Dien Bien Phu. Hanoi 1953. An American fighter pilot, Tom Coyle, volunteers to fly for the French military during the Indochina War. “Just cargo and troops, no combat” that is the deal. Make some money and head back to the states before he and his friend, Earthquake McGoon, get their asses shot off. But things rarely go as planned… French commander Major Marcel Bigeard is the ...

How far will an American sniper go to save the lives of his fellow soldiers? Is there a line he will not cross? CIA officer Rene Granier heads up a covert team of specialists out to hunt down and annihilate the very heart of the Viet Cong. Will their merciless tactics shorten the war? Will it be worth the price? In 1966, the Vietnam War rages with no end in sight. The Americans try everything in their power to stop the flow of arms to the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces in the south, but nothing works. The generals at the Pentagon underestimated their enemy and the army of dedicated ...

"David Lee Corley establishes himself as one of the masters of the thriller genre with rock-solid characters and a great plot." — Readers' Favorite Algeria and France 1954. Encouraged by the Viet Minh triumph over the French at Dien Bien Phu, Algerian rebels seize the moment and rise in rebellion against their imperial masters. But Algeria is not Indochina; it is considered part of the homeland, and the French are determined to keep it. French paratroopers once again lead the fight and find this is no ordinary enemy. The rebels attack from the shadows but live in plain sight in the Casbah...

A stolen nerve agent. A manufactured cover story. The one man they can’t control. Frank Kane was building a quiet life on the Atlantic coast when a highway ambush in Nevada rips open a sealed chapter of America’s darkest program. The chemical compound known only as Stygian Mist is in play—and the people who moved it will do anything to erase their tracks. Dragged back into the hunt, Frank follows a trail of burned cutouts and dead handlers from the blast-scored desert to the back rooms of Washington, while a ruthless operator called Kozlov clears the board. Every lead points to ...