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Under Color of Law is a devastatingly tense legal thriller that operates on two levels: as a gripping, high-stakes race against time and as a profound meditation on loyalty, corruption, and the integrity of the American justice system. The result is a novel that is impossible to put down and impossible to forget. The Core Conflict • The story begins with a brutal act of political self-preservation.

Der bigotte Investmentbanker Edvin Golm, der bereits während seines Studiums in Harvard die Grundlagen für gigantische Transaktionen mit Finanzmarktpapieren entwickelte, steht als Vorstandsvorsitzender von Bank Trust Investments, einer der weltweit größten Investmentbanken, im Mittelpunkt von hemmungslosen Spekulationen, die von maßloser Gier getriebenen sind.

In this suspense-charged, touching novel Counting on Trust, information is stolen from a US genetic engineering company (Omniprotein) by an employee, who's promised payment by a Chinese general. The general wants to profit from selling the company’s technologies in the military region of China he commands.

In the post-COVID near future, mysterious explosions cripple Japan's power infrastructure. Tokyo's lights go dark, and bullet trains grind to a halt. Brad Oaks and wife, Amaya Mori, put family plans on hold to answer a call for help from Japan's new prime minister. What power can Japan's first woman prime minister wield - even in her own family? What good can come from a nationwide power outage? Russia, China, and America have high stakes in solutions to these puzzles.

Samantha Reid, the brilliant Director of the White House Office of Homeland Security, is enjoying a rare evening away from Washington at a Florida charity ball when a bomb sends the well-heeled attendees stampeding into the night. Narrowly escaping the blast, Reid returns to the White House, where she has been trailing the massacres and illicit arms sales of a shadowy group of Russian oligarchs... all of whom want her dead.

As the ultimate battle between Jesus and Lucifer draws near, a demonic spell is cast upon the earth and with this; confusion takes center stage in every way possible; right aligns with wrong, bitter becomes sweet and sin itself is second-guessed as even the very elect begins to cling to hope. Adult fans of horror, thriller, and suspense will enjoy the unpredictable plot and complex historical elements in Hughes's work. In addition to the question of the Antichrist's identity.