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Jonathan Hunt has forty-eight hours to rob the Vatican, stop a biological apocalypse, and make it to the altar on time—assuming the super-soldiers don't kill him first. Jonathan Hunt thought the hardest part of his week in Rome would be choosing a font for the wedding invitations. He was wrong. In the Eternal City to marry the love of his life, the former CIA operative is dragged back into the shadows by an old ally with a desperate plea. A ghost from the past, Abraham Pale, has resurfaced. Known in the underworld as "The Plague," Pale isn't just selling weapons anymore; he’s creating them.

A former wet-work operative just wanted to get married, but the Italian mob had other plans for his Sunday morning. Jonathan Hunt is done with war. After years as a black-ops cleaner for a government agency that doesn't exist, he’s retired to the Amalfi Coast with a simple mission: marry the woman he loves and raise their children in peace. But his fiancée, Rosa, has one non-negotiable condition for the wedding—Jonathan must make a full confession.

Reality TV and pop superstardom are billion-dollar industries built on image, ego and ruthless ambition. When former chart-topping pop star Jillian Moore launches a hit reality show designed to create the next music sensation, the spotlight burns hotter than ever… and attracts dangerous attention. Threats begin to surface cryptic warnings, unexplained sabotage, and signs that someone wants Jillian’s comeback stopped permanently. With her newly reborn career hanging in the balance, she turns to Orlando private investigator Scott Jarvis for protection.

Whoever controls the Solomon Islands controls the vital sea lanes between the United States and Australia. When Imperial Japan seizes Tulagi and begins constructing a strategic airfield on Guadalcanal, the balance of the Pacific War hangs in the balance. America must strike first—or risk losing the entire theater. As a massive invasion force prepares for the first major U.S. offensive of the war, Lieutenant Commander Art Turner and the decorated crew of USS Bull Shark are assigned a dangerous covert mission deep behind enemy lines.

In the lawless shadows of the Louisiana bayou, blood is thicker than swamp water —and someone is spilling it by the gallon. When former sniper Deacon McCray reaches out to his old battle buddy, Jonathan knows immediately that it isn’t a social call. Down in the murky depths of the Louisiana swamp, Deacon’s father has barely survived a boat bombing. It’s the opening shot in a brutal war against the McCrays, a powerful local family that commands a private militia and dominates the bayou.

The Coat & Scope Podcast examines and diagnoses the stories behind remarkable people. Hosted by physician, entrepreneur, author, and international speaker Dr. Scott Cook (The Travel Doctor), each episode goes beyond the résumé to uncover the experiences, decisions, failures, risks, and defining moments that shaped extraordinary lives. Through candid conversations with entrepreneurs, physicians, business leaders, innovators, and other fascinating people, Dr. Cook explores success, resilience, leadership, career growth, business, wealth, health, and the lessons learned along the way. Using a ...

They think they’ve cornered a fugitive, but they’re about to discover they’ve unleashed a man trained to dismantle empires. In the frozen dead-end of Nome, Alaska, Jonathan Hunt just wanted to be left alone. Two years ago, he was a CIA "architect of collapse" who broke nations for a living; now, he’s a scarred giant dredging gold in the Bering Sea, keeping a promise to a woman named Rosa: no more violence. But the silence of the frontier is shattered when a local girl vanishes, and a serial killer begins carving a path through the ice.

The dirt under Jonathan’s fingernails used to be the dust of Kandahar and Caracas. As a former operator for the CIA’s Special Activities Division, Hunt was a "Gray Man"—a ghost trained to dismantle insurgencies and vanish without a trace. His specialty was asymmetrical warfare, until he faked his death two years ago. He thought he was out. He thought he could replace the violence with the silence of the vines. He was wrong.

It started with a downed Nazi submarine and moved into the jungles of Nicaragua...now, the ultimate plan behind the deadly U-boat cargo and one man’s attempt to seize power in Central America teeters on the edge. All it takes is a single nudge to tip the balance.... Scott and Lisa are enjoying a sailing race when Jarvis is approached by a Miami business man. Ramon Tavares suspects that his fishing and shipping businesses are being used to smuggle cocaine into the country, and he needs private investigators Scott Jarvis and Lisa Gonzalez to discover who’s behind it.

When Hell was forged… Guadalcanal was the model! Death from the sky… death from the sea… or death from a savage horde of enraged Japanese… From the best-selling author of the USS Bull Shark series… Yamamoto and Hyakutake must retake Henderson Field at all costs… General Vandegrift and the Marines must hold it at any price… and the butcher’s bill keeps rising. Pouring on the pressure, the Japanese launch deadly aerial assaults by day and terrifying battleship bombardments by night.

They call it "Antioquia"—the lost fortune of the Medellin Cartel, buried deep in the Texas dirt. A billion dollars in emeralds and cash that was supposed to stay lost forever. Jonathan Hunt moved to the High Lonesome ranch of West Texas to let his ghosts rest. An ex-CIA operative, he spends his days dodging memories of the Sandbox and keeping a low profile. But when he intervenes to save a local kid named Silas Blackwater from a professional hit squad, Hunt stumbles onto a conspiracy that makes his old life look simple.

Private Investigator Scott Jarvis is just settling back into some sense of routine after his harrowing adventure in Central America. With Lisa back at his side, Jarvis’ world once again seems right and whole...and this assumption is about to be ripped to shreds! It starts with a bomb in a police detective’s car and a cryptic note claiming responsibility but only signed with the mysterious name “Shade”. Shade continues to target specific individuals, and it soon becomes clear that they all have one thing in common...Scott Jarvis.

With her commission in her coat and a well-found deck beneath her feet, Catherine Cook, granddaughter of the great explorer, prepares to set sail. With her new frigate and her master and commander’s warrant, Kate is ready to begin her career in the Royal Navy. Yet as every sailor knows, not all seas run smoothly. As Kate and her crew set out to defend British and American shipping from French and Spanish marauders, the young, improbable captain is sailing straight into deadly peril. For her old nemesis, Pierre Meraux, survived their last encounter and is out for vengeance.

On Guadalcanal, the Marines are battered but unbroken. Across the Matanikau, Japanese forces are massing for another deadly assault—one that could finally crush the American perimeter. To stop it, Vandegrift must push forward. But first… he needs eyes inside enemy territory. Major Al Decker and his Raiders are sent on a dangerous mission deep behind Japanese lines: gather intelligence and establish a forward observation post before the next attack begins.

The marines have seized control of the Japanese airfield on Guadalcanal, but this isn’t the end of their troubles…it’s only the beginning. The Japanese bomb them by day, attack from the forbidding darkness of the jungles by night, and their ships, like hungry sharks, prowl just offshore after the sun goes down. Whoever controls the canal controls the war. The Japanese know this, so they concoct a plan to send men and equipment ashore using fast destroyers—ships that can come by night and leave before the Cactus Airforce or Admiral Fletcher’s carrier planes can stop them.

Catherine Cook, unclaimed granddaughter of the great explorer James, Cook is on her way to America to re-connect with her mother’s family when fate intervenes and thrusts her into ultimate peril. All of her life, Kate has yearned to go to sea and to command a sailing ship in the Royal navy…an impossible dream for a young woman in 1797.

Veronica Belle came to Potter's Neck to write horror stories—not to live one. When charismatic author Vince Drake arrives in town, strange events escalate. An unseen and terrifying force is moving through the shadows… and Vince and Veronica are in its sights. Monsters are real. And whatever is rising in Potter's Neck thirsts for something far greater than anyone imagines.

On a sunny winter afternoon, Jarvis is doing nothing special when a new case walks into his life in the form of a beautiful blonde with flashing eyes. Jarvis doesn’t know it yet, but this new client is about to turn his life inside out. Audrey Lambert and her grandfather need Jarvis’ special brand of hardboiled help, and they need it fast.

After recovering from a harrowing mission near the island of Timor, Art Turner and the crew of USS Bull Shark have healed their wounds and are ready to face Japan once more. As 1943 begins, Admiral “Uncle Charlie” Lockwood is finally ready to spring a deadly surprise on Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Hideki Tojo.

Bull Shark and S-52 have just attacked a large bombardment fleet off the coast of Guadalcanal. And although they didn’t stop Henderson from being shelled, they might have at least curtailed it. Yet the Japanese are undaunted and more determined than ever…and the Empire has its sights set on some of its most deadly foes.