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CIA operative Titus Ray is supposed to be enjoying his time off after a grueling mission. His division head specifically told him to go home and have a good time with his family. But then, in the middle of his daughter's birthday party, when he receives disturbing news about an imminent threat to Americas heartland, he postpones having a good time with his family and agrees to lead a joint FBI/CIA operation to the southern border. How could he do otherwise?

No one could have predicted the terrifying impact of human interference in the Arctic. Shifts in the Earth's crust have led to catastrophe. Nathan Tolley is a talented mechanic who has watched his business dry up due to gas shortages following the drastic tectonic shifts. His wife Cyndi has diligently prepped food and supplies, but it’s not enough to get them through a never-ending winter. After the Shift: The Complete Series includes: Freezing Point, Killing Frost, and Black Ice.

CIA operative Titus Ray isn’t interested in getting involved in Ben Mitchell’s love life. Not until he discovers Ben is lying about being in love with the daughter of a Turkish cleric. Ben’s love life is complicated, confusing, and cunning...and then, it turns deadly. Book I in the Ben Mitchell/Titus Ray Thriller series builds on the relationship Titus developed with Ben in the Titus Ray Thriller series and continues Titus’s reluctant mentoring of the younger covert operative when he becomes involved in a dangerous love triangle.

Dead prostitutes can seem like part of the landscape in South Los Angeles. What, then, could render two veteran homicide detectives speechless as they stand over their latest victim? Tightly-wound Dickie Jones and his smart and cocky partner, Matt “Pretty Boy Floyd” Tyler, find themselves entangled with gang members and a sexy drug dealer as they uncover a nefarious plot rife with greed, sex, and betrayal. Can law enforcement’s “odd couple” survive fights, shoot-outs, and a sniper who wants them dead?

Redeye Fulda Cold by Bill Fortin is a first in series of a "MASH-like" war stories. Set in 1969 West Germany; the deployment of the newly developed Redeye ground to air missile system is brought to bear inside the 3rd Armored Division’s 1st/48th Infantry Battalion. This very inspiring tale inside a very Cold War takes the men of the 3rd Armored Division though a series of history making operations. Carefully crafted CIA planning provides the pause necessary and ultimately prevents a nuclear showdown with Russia. The infamous Fulda Gap becomes the center stage of the action.

CIA operative Titus Ray knows nothing about his next assignment. Nothing, except the person in charge of the operation will be Ben Mitchell. Operation Concerned Citizen will be Ben’s first assignment as the primary officer in charge of a mission. When Titus learns it’s a simple mission with a clear objective but requires a complicated plan, he questions whether Ben will be able to handle it. After he discovers there are underlying circumstances, he questions whether he’ll be able to let Ben handle it.

When a shakeup in the leadership at the CIA opens up the division head position at the Russian desk, Senator Mitchell uses his influence to recommend Ben for the job. The problem is, Ben doesn’t want a desk job. He’s content being a covert operative. To thwart his father’s efforts, Ben plans to showcase his skills as an intelligence officer by volunteering for an upcoming mission to Venezuela. To do this, Ben needs Titus’s help, and although Titus agrees to be part of the operation, he discovers there’s a problem with Ben’s plan. Well, several problems.

Titus and Nikki begin their new life together in a church ceremony in Norman, Oklahoma, and immediately fly to Marrakesh, Morocco, for their honeymoon. Then, the unexpected happens, and Titus has an encounter with Jihadi terrorist Baran Asan. Cutting their honeymoon short, Titus and Nikki head over to Israel to search for their foster child's grandmother, but then, an unexpected discovery leads to a second sighting of Baran Asan and reveals disturbing news about a planned assassination in Iraq.

Reminiscent of Nick and Amy in Gone Girl, Jack and Maria have a tortuous history. Currently, they live in a claustrophobic Manhattan apartment with their eight-year-old son, Jonah. Jack has quit booze, but his music career ended abruptly, and he isn’t doing much better as a real estate agent. Maria’s doing well at her corporate job, but she travels frequently. While they both love their son, they don’t seem to have much else in common, and their sex life is nonexistent.

A grunt level view of Charlie Wilson’s war - a Cold War adventure that peers inside the exploits of Senator Charlie Wilson and CIA’s Task Force Chief Gust Avrakotos. Strange bedfellows they were. Their alliance proved to be one of the most successful partnerships in the history of the CIA. Stinger: Operation Cyclone centers on the results of these efforts. The adventure begins with the election of Ronald Regan in 1979. This was the same year that the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.

He was in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong person. Now, he’s forced to assume an identity from his past. CIA covert operative Titus Ray always figured one day he might encounter someone who knew him as a different person from a previous operation. He just never expected it to happen on a family vacation. It was the wrong place, wrong time, and wrong person, but it was the right decision. The decision Titus made to resume his old identity could have had disastrous consequences.

In the dawn of a new Ice Age, families everywhere are taking to the road to escape the frigid landscape-but you can’t outrun the cold. No one could have predicted the terrifying impact of human interference in the Arctic. Shifts in the Earth's crust have led to catastrophe and now the North Pole is located in the mid-Atlantic, making much of the eastern United States an unlivable polar hellscape.

In January 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev had agreed to enter a treaty agreement that would be labeled START II. The Russian SS-20 medium-range missile was to be removed from Eastern Europe...Nine 150 kt nuclear bombs were unaccounted for...This story is mostly fiction. Some of the characters are real, most are not. The year is 1987. This was the last year of the Reagan presidency. It would be nearly 30 years before we would see anything like it again.

When Titus is summoned to the White House, he expects to be offered a top secret assignment. What he doesn’t expect is where that assignment will take him, and how he’ll survive if he accepts it.

With 12 years under his belt as a highly-regarded paramedic in Detroit, Bobbie Badger has seen it all. Despite a tragic loss that shattered his home life, he has remained a stoic guardian to the city, committed to saving lives. Until someone, or something, chose him as a target.

As ominous warnings surface, and those closest to him begin to turn up dead, Badger's only salvation could rest with his estranged wife, Holly - a combat veteran and sheriff's deputy.

Will skill, passion, and determination be enough to overcome what hunts him?

CIA covert operative Titus Ray is used to keeping secrets. This time, it’s different. This time, he’s keeping secrets from his boss, his handler, and his wife. Operation False Flag is the secret Titus is keeping from his boss...While his boss, Deputy Director of Operations, Robert Ira, would ordinarily be aware of any operation being run out of the Agency, this mission concerns the DDO himself, a mission that could cost him his job. The whistleblower behind the operation is the secret Titus is keeping from his handler...

Nathan Tolley’s wife is gone, leaving him adrift in a vast ocean of bitter white that promises nothing but heartache and despair. Yet, his weary band of travelers continue to look to him to secure their safety. But Nate’s no leader. Every decision he’s made on their dangerous cross-country journey has taken them from bad to worse. First Detroit. Then Chicago. Now, Wyoming, which proves the deadliest of all.

Nathan was led to believe Detroit would be the Promised Land, but when his family arrives they find a city struggling just to survive frigid conditions. Nathan’s old friend Stryker has made a safe haven in the ancient, Masonic building, but it soon becomes clear the comfortable life within his walls is unsustainable. Resources are running out fast, and with a new baby to feed and a son in need of medicine, Nathan and Cyndi face a difficult choice: dig in with the dangerously naive Stryker or head west to Wyoming with their friends Donie and Dave.

East Berlin, 1961. Kirstin Beck is determined to escape to the West. She watches from her townhouse window as the border with West Berlin is closed and a barbed wire fence strung through the cemetery behind her house. With a grandmother in West Berlin who needs her, Kirstin knows she has to go. Tony Marino is an American writer living in West Berlin.

How far would you go to keep yourself alive? Society has been on the brink of collapse for a long time. Only a few knew it. When the collapse comes, everyone will be in the same boat. Those who'd prepared quickly find that circumstances aren't what they thought they'd be. And those who are completely unprepared...well, they're going to have to learn fast. Jake's a regular guy with a regular job. The only thing different about him is that he's observant. Clever. Smart, but not in the test-taking kind of way. Sometime he'll notice what others don't.