Special Criminals

In the late summer of 1944, 80 British Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers undertook a covert commando raid, parachuting behind enemy lines into the Vosges Mountains in occupied France to sabotage Nazi-held roads, railways, and ammo dumps, and assassinate high-ranking German officers, undermining the final stand of Hitler's Third Reich. Despite their successes, more than half the men were captured, tortured, and executed. After the war ended, a top-secret black ops unit was formed to hunt down the SS commanders who had murdered their special forces comrades....

Borderline personality disorder, autism, narcissism, psychosis, Asperger's: All of these syndromes have one thing in common---lack of empathy. In some cases, this absence can be dangerous, but in others it can simply mean a different way of seeing the world. In The Science of Evil, Simon Baron-Cohen, an award-winning British researcher who has investigated psychology and autism for decades, develops a new brain-based theory of human cruelty.

The Thunderbird Motel, 1977. J. J. Wedick and Jack Brennan - two fresh-faced, maverick FBI agents - were about to embark on one of their agency's first wire-wearing undercover missions. Their target? Charismatic, globetrotting con man Phil Kitzer, whom some called the world's greatest swindler. From the Thunderbird, the three men took off to Cleveland, to Miami, to Hawaii, to Frankfurt, to the Bahamas - meeting other members of Kitzer's crime syndicate and powerful politicians and businessmen he fooled at each stop.

Would she ever forgive him? Can he forgive himself? As a Marine Raider Commanding Officer, Alex Wolf was haunted not only by what he did and saw, but by what he didn’t do. In one firefight, he’d lost both his best friends. Ty was killed by enemy fire. Katlin blamed him for not saving her husband. When Katlin suddenly appears back in his life, Alex’s entire world turns upside down. She is not the woman he remembers, either as Ty’s wife, or the woman he once loved in college. Now that destiny has thrown this woman into his arms, he can’t let her go, again. Can he convince her that ...

Special Agent Ana Grey (familiar to Smith's readers from North of Montana) becomes both criminal investigator and criminal when she shoots her own partner during a Santa Monica kidnappiDid ng investigation.

"Hiding my telekinetic powers and living a life of crime to support my baby sister, I never thought I'd have a chance at redemption. But when I joined the Interplanetary Space Patrol, everything changed. I finally had a purpose and a chance to leave my past behind. Until Shey walked back into my life. Little did I know, she's seeking revenge for her brother's death, and I'm the target." Set on the Meta Base Station of the I.S.P., where secrets and betrayals lurk around every corner, this sci-fi thriller follows the story of a reformed criminal and his fight to protect his loved ones in a ...

Recently returned from a harrowing vacation, FBI Special Agent Megan Luchek tries to settle into her day job in sunny Hawaii. But practically before her feet hit Oahu, a crisis catapults her back to the mainland. The Popularity Contest: Somebody kidnaps Megan’s sister to star in an online gambling contest. The Hero Contest: When the Club seeks to run a contest for heroes only, Megan tops their list of candidates. The Criminal Contest: Megan’s recent adventures have put her in the Club’s crosshairs again.