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Damn the Torpedoes. Full Speed Ahead! The Mediterranean recently became an active war zone. Russia bolstered its naval fleet on the coast of Syria north of Beirut and in the Black Sea to support its invasion of Ukraine. Newly promoted Captain Dan Phillips just reported to duty aboard the USS Harry S. Truman as the new Information Warfare Officer for NATO whose job was to coordinate exercises for Strike Force 8 based in Naples. The exercises had barely begun when Russia cut off its oil flowing to Europe when an LNG tanker loaded with gas from a new source in Israel was sunk by a Russian ...

Pearls Aren't for Kids A young Chinese boy by the name of Wong Chun Li accompanies his parents to Hawaii where his father plans to purchase the Outrigger Reef on the Beach Hotel. His father takes him to watch pearl divers and buy a string of pearls. The boy associates the pearls with the Hawaiian Islands and as he presents the gift to his mother says, “We have conquered the Islands of Hawaii for you.” Forty years later Bordeau and Bristol are asked to assist an intelligence officer with SUBPAC, Hawaii to investigate the murder of a radio operator on the attack submarine USS NORTH ...

He Will Have Two Horns Like a Lamb Renaldo, the childhood friend of Maurice Bordeau, recently became a Cardinal at the Vatican. He asks Bordeau and his detective agency to help investigate activities in the Vatican to see if there's any truth to the rumors that Pope Francis is organizing a global political/religious federation. Unfortunately, the rumors seem to be true. The Pope is building a robotic creature, called the Beast, and creating a biometric financial system called Diablo that mirrors some of the frightening scenarios of the End Times prophesied in the Bible. Renaldo asks Bordeau...

Empires Come and Go. Will This One Be the Last? Maurice Bordeau and his team of investigators are returning home to London after touring America, Europe, and Israel for eighteen months of sabbatical leave from Scotland Yard. Before Bordeau and Bristol get settled they're assigned to investigate an attempted shooting of Prince Charles as he was horseback riding in Hyde Park. Horatio Hornbladt, Chief Investigator with MI6, joins them to meet with the Prince and provides preliminary information that he's already uncovered. Bordeau and Bristol begin their own investigation that finds an ...

Masada Shall Never Fall Again The B4 Detective Agency has free time between murder investigations during a three-week visit to the Holy Land. Stacie Schlomo, an Israeli Mossad Agent who helped hire Bordeau as a consultant offers to take his team to tour the Masada National Monument. While Bordeau's team is at the historical site a large group of Orthodox Jews in black, remove all tourists from the mountain to stage a protest. Stacie's small tour group is overlooked and swept up in the protest. They help recover the body of a fallen tourist, treat the head protestors for wounds, and capture ...

Gog, I will put hooks into your jaws Mossad Agent Abe Gagin returns from Iran with the unsettling news that Russia plans to push back against NATO and the West by invading Eastern Europe. Even worse news is that Russia has already started the offensive by moving into Ukraine. Abe meets with the B4 Detectives he hired earlier to solve the murders of Israeli leaders in the book, Israel Besieged. He assigns Bordeau and Katherine to travel by train from Istanbul to Stockholm and scouting for evidence that the Russians are coming. Bristol and Cindy will travel through Turkey and Iran looking for...

Mount Zion, the city of the great King! After taking a Mediterranean cruise for their honeymoon the B4 Detective Agency is looking forward to a three-week tour of Israel. They'd barely gotten settled in Haifa before Bordeau's friend and Mossad Agent, Abe Gagin, recruited them to solve the murder of three high-ranking Israeli officials. They investigate the murders and an attempt on the Prime Minister's life while simultaneously touring Israel. By the end of the first week they learn that Iran planned the killings and chatter in the intelligence community hints that the King of the North may...

Alas, poor Charles, I knew you well. Bordeau and Bristol have arrived in London after traveling for a year in America. They return home with not only many wonderful memories but two wives. They met Katherine, Bordeau's wife, and Cindy, Bristol's wife in Dodge City, Kansas the previous summer as they were heading back to England. They were married by the captain of the Queen Mary on their way from New York to London and are now jockeying for dominance in their new relationships. At the same time Bordeau and Bristol are asked to solve murders at Westminster Abbey and a break-in at the ...

Could One Bomb Turn Off the Lights? Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico is about to test its latest design for protecting the Nation's electrical grid from an electromagnetic pulse by a nuclear explosion at high altitude. The design is to be tested over Bikini Island in the western Pacific by dropping an atomic bomb from a B-2 Spirit Bomber based at Whiteman AFB in Missouri. Bordeau and Bristol are tasked by the head of security, Joseph Warbucks, a former student of Bordeau's at Scotland Yard, to find the nest of spies stealing highly classified secrets about the design ...

Thank Heaven for Little Girls Bordeau and Bristol leave London with their new wives, Katherine and Cindy and travel by Eurostar to Marseille, France to meet Katherine's father, Liam Barnett, and family. But first, they plan to celebrate New Year's Eve in Paris. While there they enjoy classic tourist attractions, eat at well-known restaurants, and watch fireworks at the Eiffel Tower. An urgent message from Katherine's father causes them to hurry home to help Liam find who killed one of his nephews. When they arrive in Marseille Bordeau and Bristol are informed by Katherine's father that they...

Were Our Founders White Supremacists? Roger Steele, a Charlottesville FBI Agent and long-time friend of Bordeau"s, requests that Bordeau and Bristol help stop the local Antifa group from burning down Monticello. Antifa wants to make a political statement that America is racist and elitist since its founding. Bordeau identifies the leaders of the radical movement and develops a plan to capture them to prevent Monticello from being burnt. Coincidental to the investigation, the two confirmed bachelors become infatuated with two ladies from France they met the month before in Dodge City, Kansas...

A Smooth Sea Never Made a Skilled Sailor Bordeau and Bristol end their year-long tour of America and return to England in this suspenseful romantic comedy, murder mystery. They've become infatuated with two women from Marseilles, France. The unlikely suitors attend plays and concerts in New York with their new girl friends, Katherine and Cindy, before departing for home. Friendship turns to love and Bordeau and Bristol decide to propose marriage at the top of the Empire State Building. After they learn how to properly say, I love you, and clear up a few misunderstandings, the Captain of the...

Hurricanes are Full of Sound and Fury On their way to New York and finally home to London Bordeau and Bristol's train intercepts Hurricane Jaye, a category five storm, on the Amtrak Crescent through Louisiana. They're forced to seek refuge at the L'AuBerge Lake Charles Resort along with other train passengers and tourists trapped in the hotel. On the first night someone's murdered in the room above by someone driven mad by the incessant sound of the one hundred fifty-mph wind. Bordeau and Bristol volunteer to assist the hotel manager investigate the murders and attempt to rescue the crazed ...

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There's Go'na Be a Lot'a Shak'n Go'n On The San Andreas fault runs directly through California and under a portion of San Francisco. There have been fears for many years that another major earthquake like the one in 1906 could occur any time destroying the city and sending California into the Pacific Ocean. Two disenchanted college-age terrorists decide to use a bomb to trigger the built-up energy in the fault and wipe out the shambles thirty-million Californians had made and start again. One terrorist wishes to clear away the pollution, the industrialization, and the destruction of the ...

Give Me Some Iron and I'll Give You an Ice Age Bordeau and Bristol are requested to assist the New Orleans Police Department investigate why two helicopters carrying graduate students to oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico have mysteriously crashed killing five people. Suspicions are raised that the crashes were not accidental. The students were working on a National Science Foundation grant designed to solve global warming by seeding the Gulf with iron and removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Rumours are circulating among the maritime community and local environmentalists that the ...

Most families have interesting histories and personalities. There’s sometimes an Uncle Ted that never came back from the war or a cousin Rose who married the Grand Duke of Moravia. But most families in the Mid-western U.S. live normal lives and don’t move far from the farm or small town where they grew up. Doc’s Tribe, originating in Missouri and Illinois, was unique. Phillip and Louise, the parents of the Vardiman family, believed in culture, education, travel, and adventure that propelled their children into exciting careers and experiences. They also moved frequently and owned ...

The Big Boom Dreaded by All Mid-Eastern terrorists smuggle a dirty bomb through a tunnel under the border from Tijuana, Mexico with the intent of spreading death and destruction to millions of people living in Southern California. The terrorists come from five different Muslim countries to exact revenge on the infidels who defiled Muslim lands with their prescence. The plan is to bring as much pain and suffering to the West Coast as the New York Towers attack did to the East Coast. Two American Border Patrol agents are killed when they discover the smuggling operation. Bordeau and Bristol ...

Will socialism replace capitalism? Three Starbucks coffee shops near Washington Square in Lower Manhattan are firebombed early on Saturday morning of a march and rally by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). The bombings are intended to start a revolution to replace capitalism with socialism. During the rally rumors are circulated that a 'Big Surprise' is expected somewhere in Manhattan later that afternoon. Only a few members of the DSA know that the surprise is to be the destruction of one of the Trump towers. They plan to float a nuclear weapon under the building through one of ...

All Babies Go to Heaven. Will Seniors?Why are hundreds of seniors in the Denver metropolitan area disappearing? Bordeau and Bristol receive an invitation from the Denver Police Department to assist in the investigation and must decide if they're willing to forgo part of their travels around America to help. Of course, Bordeau always wants to lend a hand, but neither he nor Bristol anticipate the abominable scheme they uncover in Denver. Bordeau invites a reporter from the Denver Post to help, in return for publishing the scheme on the front page of his newspaper. They discover that a new ...