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A technology billionaire, Jason Overly, establishes an independent intelligence agency called Purple Frog to further world peace. He recruits a team of brilliant players to accomplish his objectives. The first in a ten-book series, Purple Frog sets out a sprawling, high‐stakes web of covert operations that spans international borders, pitting the agency against a secretive assassin. The story plays out against a backdrop of powerful political and corporate forces and involves personal transformation, moral ambiguity, and the human cost of clandestine work. A fast-paced thriller that will ...

Mike Young, a computer hacker, develops a set of malware that can delete every file and every piece of software from any computer that he targets. Initially, he sees this as an approach to extort money, but others see it as a powerful weapon of destruction. After successful demonstrations of the code’s power, a major enemy of the United States develops a plan to use it to further its goal of world domination. The cybersecurity forces in government and the corporate world find themselves unable to counter the threat, so it falls to the hackers and field operations staff of Purple Frog, a ...

St. Noblis, a small island in the Caribbean, facing economic ruin, decides on a bold plan. It offers St. Noblis citizenship to a small group of wealthy U.S. citizens, who are serving time in U.S. jails for serious crimes. Under a little-known act of Congress, this allows the inmates to transfer to a prison on the island where they can live in luxury while serving their sentences. The first batch of five felons include a New York socialite convicted of insider trading, an art dealer guilty of art theft and forgery, a crypto fund manager who ran a Ponzi scheme, as well as an Army general ...

St. Noblis is an isolated island in the Caribbean that has adopted an innovative business model to avert bankruptcy. It has transformed itself into a prison in paradise, providing a luxury alternative to the U.S. prison system for those high-net-worth individuals who can afford it. The current inmates welcome new arrivals – the Next Six. One of the newbies, Charlie Drake, has been convicted of spying and retains, in his memory, the detailed specifications of a developmental aircraft that will be the primary defense for the United States over the next several decades. The Chinese want ...

November Swan is the third richest person in the world, but his portfolio of companies is turning sour. To tackle this threat, he decides to go “all in” acquiring a startup company that is developing next-generation, solid-state batteries for electric vehicles. His plan requires access to rare earth components which are needed for large-scale manufacturing. These are located only in China. Having always skirted the law and regulations, Swan pushes into more criminal acts to achieve his objectives, including a deal with China that puts the U.S. economy and its security in peril. The ...

Frederik Verwoerd is successful and rich but wants more. His desire is to become a major player on the world stage and decides that his South African armament company, MetalWorks, will develop a new weapon of mass destruction which he will sell to the highest bidder. The weapon is neither nuclear, chemical nor biological but is able to destroy an army of 5,000 tanks in the field, or even a major city. To demonstrate its power, he targets a well-protected symbol of the United States and will live telecast its destruction. It falls to Purple Frog, a private and clandestine organization to ...

"The Citadel is the real threat." The dying words of the CIA Chief of Station in Moscow are cryptic, but no one knows what his message means. Yakutsk is a remote city in Siberia. It boasts the coldest weather of any city on the planet and is home to a clandestine facility in subterranean caves deep beneath the conurbation. This secret metropolis is the headquarters of Alexi Rackov, a Russian general who has developed a plan to expand Russian territory by invading eight countries and to bring eighty-eight million European citizens under Russian hegemony. While there are rumors about such a ...

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination – Voltaire (about 1750) In the face of an unstoppable force, the only option left is to fight back. In Final Bow, the world hangs in the balance as an alliance of China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran develop an offensive they call “Global Strike”. With the future of the Western world at stake, the clandestine spy team at Purple Frog must decide if they will use their own bold, and risky, plan for world peace, accepting its ethical and practical risks. With the stakes so high, the tension builds as each...

The head of a drug cartel, a billionaire, a spy’s wife, and a killer experience grief and resolve it in different ways. A DEA team raids the headquarters of a South American drug cartel, but things don't go as planned and the daughter of the cartel chief seeks revenge on the United States. She develops a new narcotic which she plans to release, killing several million Americans. With political tensions running high, the U.S. governmental agencies are unable to act, and the task of preventing the disaster falls to Purple Frog, a clandestine organization devoted to world peace that does not...

Customer Experience programs are gaining momentum in small and large companies but most have been designed for the Business-to-consumer (B2C) model. When the approaches that work for B2C are applied in the Business-to-business (B2B) world, they fail. Based on 27 years’ experience consulting to major, global B2B companies including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Dell, VMware, EMC, Samsung, AT&T, Verizon, BT, Telefonica, Honeywell, Motorola, Accenture, Nokia, Siemens, Fujitsu and Xerox, Harry Bunn sets out practical approaches to getting it right in the B2B world. This book shows how ...

Outside Washington, DC, one million armed white supremacists have assembled to march on the capitol and seize power. They are led by Gideon Page, a charismatic, but ruthless white supremacist, and Jonathan Greer, a televangelist. They have a symbol for their insurrection which is an ancient skull, previously owned by Adolf Hitler. A rogue US senator, Jeffrey Kendall has teamed with them and expects to become the new president of the United States after the Brotherhood of the Skull overthrows the present elected government. Law enforcement is hamstrung by legalities and political correctness...

Alan Harlan, and his new wife, Jess embark on their honeymoon to a Greek island but they encounter an old enemy and a Saudi prince who have deployed a bioweapon on an ecologically advanced super yacht. Alan and Jess find themselves on the vessel's maiden voyage from Athens to Venice, discover the plot and need to identify which of the passengers or crew will be responsible for triggering the device on their arrival in Venice. Alan is head of operations for Purple Frog, a clandestine organization mirroring the CIA and MI6 but with less constraints. He brings many of Purple Frog’s resources...

A new president in Venezuela, Mateo Videgain, is facing a multitude of problems including a collapsed economy. He regards the United States as a major reason for this and his main enemy, deciding on a bold plan to consolidate his place in history. Just 520 miles to the north is the US territory of St. Croix and Videgain decides to invade and occupy the island. All hell breaks loose as, with help from Russia, his helicopters, warships, and troops attack. When the locals fight back against his vastly superior forces, the battle is short, and the Venezuelans take control. Few countries have ...