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When a luxury yacht called My Last Hope glides into the Turkish port of Marmaris, art historian–turned–insurance man Spenser Ratcliffe thinks he’s filming superyachts on vacation. Instead, he stumbles into a covert pipeline moving lost Old Masters—some plundered by the Soviets, others freshly stolen from war in Ukraine—toward a private collection on the Black Sea. A Turkish Coastguard patrol is blown apart on open water and Spenser’s tight-knit group of old friends is shattered. Spenser becomes the only witness who won’t stop asking what really happened.

Thirty-two-year-old, fourth-generation St. Paul Homicide Detective Michael “Mac” McRyan thought his day was going to be less stressful. His day would involve paper work, coffee, and maybe even an early trip to the pub. Then his cell phone tells him his day is about to change. A body has been found in a high-end condominium between Summit and Grand Avenues; and it's not just anyone.

In this magnificent novel, Charles McCarry returns to the world of his legendary character Paul Christopher—the savvy intelligence agent as skilled at choosing a fine wine as he is at tradecraft, at once sophisticated and dangerous, and no stranger to the world of dirty tricks. Now Paul Christopher has mysteriously disappeared. But a group of his retired colleagues - the “Old Boys” from the Outfit - refuse to believe Christopher is dead.

The echoes of a murder reach deep into the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court in this electrifying new thriller featuring defense attorney Paul Madriani from New York Times bestselling author Steve Martini. Terry Scarborough is a legal scholar and provocateur who craves headline-making celebrity...

James Ballantyne travels to Kazakhstan on a minor diplomatic mission. He falls for the glamorous aide Ocksana Petrova sent to guide him through the process. Fate leads him to the rescue of a US special agent who is the target of assassination by the Kazak authorities. What should he do? Stick to his mission or be lead by compassion? Events force his hand, and he recruits smugglers to get the agent away from Kazakhstan. The escape route is dangerous, and it becomes clear they are monitored every inch of the way. Is his new love Ocksana behind the surveillance?

From the watery depths off the coast of Brazil, an eighty-year-old mystery emerges: the wreckage of a plane that crashed during an escape attempt by high-ranking Nazi officers at the end of World War II. The downed plane is of particular interest to historians, as it holds a watertight box in the largely undamaged cockpit that is said to contain a logbook with plans for a secret weapon developed by inventor Nikola Tesla—with which the Nazis had hoped to win the war. But the coveted container is nowhere to be found . . .

While in Las Vegas on his way to a family Fourth of July celebration, FBI bomb expert Paul Grale hears a deep blast and sees the smoke rising. In an unfolding nightmare, Grale discovers his sister, brother-in-law, and many friends were caught up in the explosion. Grief stricken, he is pulled from the main bomb investigation to sift orphan leads. Quietly he begins a relentless search for the bomb maker.

"We become important only because of our decisions," Katya Volkova advised him. What she meant by this, Iraqi-war veteran Paul Drake wasn't quite sure at first. In this fast-paced sequel to Against the Dusk, Paul confronts a dangerous world of shifting global power politics and illicit weapons deals. A cat and mouse game to ferret out Russian-backed arms dealer Bogan Zoidze leads Paul, Katya, and a cast of other memorable characters to war-torn Syria, the posh avenues of Paris, ancient Black Sea ports, and hidden island retreats in Malta and Sicily.

The existence of two simultaneous presidents has split the country along ideological lines. The protests are becoming violent. Sections of the country have formed their own militias, along with the militias of the two warring parties. In the midst of shortages of food and other necessities, gangs and thugs are terrorizing formerly safe neighborhoods. Realizing that it is no longer safe to remain in their home, Mike McNerney decides to pack the camper and flee to Canada with his wife, Marie, and disabled teenage daughter, Elly. Unfortunately, everyone else has the same idea.

After a harrowing escape, we follow our hero as he flees to France, a dream comes true and a safe haven. But now, with the spoils of his fortune safely stored in Bitcoin, what to do next with his life, and how to elude the desperate characters that may now be hunting him.

What if a single group of conspirators was behind nearly every political happening since World War II? What if this secret society of comprised leading men from every major industry, from oil to the media to the CIA? 8Men reveals the sinister possibilities that lurk in the shadows of recent American history. Franklin D. Roosevelt could have prevented the attack on Pearl Harbor; the same influencers who ensured John F. Kennedy’s election later orchestrated his assassination; the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death was not, in fact, because of his leadership in the civil rights movement.