Crime Conspiracy

A sinister organization has burst out of nowhere, their roots forged in old Russia, but with a modernized ideology and global aspirations. Violence and destruction are unleashed, plunging the world into disarray and revealing powerful connections. Those in the intelligence community scramble to catch up, as some of their own were unveiled as sympathizers.

What if a single strain of bacteria were responsible for over 300 diseases affecting Americans today, including: Multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, Lou Gehrig's disease, Alzheimer's, and chronic fatigue syndrome? And what if the federal government were responsible for the outbreak of these bacteria? Connecticut State Police Detective Taylor Marshall is contending with an all-boys' club at work. When she is assigned a homicide case involving a retired government scientist she is determined to solve it..

Rick O’Shea’s intuitive nature and sense of curiosity led him into a career as an investigator. Not a private eye - he is a “seeker” and “finder” of things that have been lost, stolen, or hidden. His methods may be unusual, but he is rewarded with lucrative finder’s fees for his trouble. Due to his fame and the substantial worth of the items he seeks to recover, Rick’s seemingly innocuous livelihood has its share of dangerous situations and harrowing experiences - hazardous encounters with hijackers, kidnappers, thieves, and drug dealers, to name a few.

The president in the crosshairs. A deep-state conspiracy. Can Secret Agent Steven Popoford expose the truth before he lands in an unmarked grave? California mountains, 1986. Retired secret agent Steven Popoford spends his days nursing his shattered mind. But when his cover is blown and he kills a stranger inside his home, he’s thrown back into the world of spies. And trapped in the twisted reality of the very agency that broke him, Popoford plunges into his most treacherous mission yet: Assassinate the POTUS.

The most innovative and daring theft of America’s most critical resource is underway. Initiated by a ruthless oil man during one of the industry’s cyclic downturns, the theft is not what you might think. The foundation of the crime starts at the local level, involving petty criminals, and escalates to individuals at the highest levels of the US government. The value of the theft is so essential, it cannot be calculated.

Pain and Agony are two madcap masters of mayhem, but even they need friends. What are friends for? Companionship, support, and a helping hand when your luck is down. But the cost of friendship becomes something altogether different during their latest escapade. If you aren't going to help when things get rough, then what are you but a traitor? When longtime allies are at odds, and enemies new and old close in, the answer has lethal consequences.

An FBI team arrives March 6, 2020, in a small Florida surfing village to investigate a series of terrorist attacks. The Bureau has a hot lead on a woman with a violent past and instructions to work with the local deputy, JP Barnett. Barnett's overly relaxed and incompetent techniques are instantly at odds with the federal agents. While the team awaits the terrorist specialty group from FBI headquarters, the local deputy seems to be doing his best to divert the investigation. The federal investigators are bewildered by the quirky locals and everyone's party-at-the-beach attitude.

Napoleon famously observed that "history is a set of lies agreed upon", and Edward Steers Jr. investigates six of the most amazing frauds ever to gain wide acceptance in this engrossing book. The controversies that Steers presents show that there are two major factors involved in the success of a hoax or forgery - greed and the desire to believe.

In July 1970, 18-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling left her house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and never returned. A cold case for 50 years, Paula’s story had been largely forgotten when Katherine Dykstra began looking for answers. A woman was dead. Why had no one been held responsible? How could a community give up and move on? Could there ever be justice for Paula?

¿Puede un terrible hecho del pasado seguir teniendo consecuencias devastadoras? Cuando una botella que contiene un mensaje escrito con sangre humana llega al Departamento Q, el subcomisario Carl Mørck y sus asistentes Assad y Rose logran descifrar algunas palabras de lo que fue la última señal de vida de dos chicos desaparecidos en los años noventa. Pero ¿por qué su familia nunca denunció su desaparición? Carl Mørck intuye que no se trata de un caso aislado y que el criminal podría seguir actuando con total impunidad.

Buried beneath the streets in the holy city of Jerusalem, American tourist Siobhan McLane discovers an ancient inscription hidden for 1,000 years. But the past will not give up its secrets easily. Before translation can even begin, terrorists want her dead, and she finds herself framed for murder. With a disgraced former government agent as her only ally, Siobhan will have to confront her own past and discover the truth about the history of the Middle East.

It's hard to make Diane Harbaugh flinch. A former prosecutor notorious for her aggressive tactics, she's now a DEA agent who interrogates witnesses so effectively, she has them confessing in tears. But when she hears from Gustavo, a high-ranking cartel member with an invaluable secret about the international black market, she's thrown for a loop. She heads to Mexico to meet him, and her entire understanding of justice and duty is thrown into question.

A fast-paced thriller from the author of the international bestselling "Shepherd series". The gruesome killing of more than 300 white squatters in a South African village is still unsolved when the alleged assassin enters a storage facility in the US and takes several hostages. No demands and an obvious play for time leave hostage negotiators on edge. When the FBI is called in, they bring Dr. August Burke, a young man with James Dean looks and a brilliant mind capable of seeing behavioral patterns where others can't.

When a man’s body is discovered in a Swiss glacier thirty years after he went missing, his son, Foster Treherne, hopes he’ll finally have closure on what happened to the father he never met. But then the autopsy reveals signs of a struggle, and what was assumed to be a tragic accident suddenly looks more sinister. Foster tracks down his father’s old friends, but when he starts to ask questions it becomes clear that there’s something they don’t want to tell him.

Ranna Abramson wants to disappear. But she knows she can’t keep running when a former enemy tracks her down in Mumbai with dire news: her onetime lover, journalist Alex Derksen, has disappeared back home in South Africa. Torn between her desire for him and fear of a homecoming, Ranna knows she’s the only one who can find him. But only two things in South Africa would welcome her - the inside of a cell or the bottom of a grave. There, to the police she’s the prime suspect of three murders. To the press she’s the serial killer Black Widow.

The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter company, more than a decade before the arrival of the Osborne 1, the Apple 1, the first Intel microprocessor, and IBM's PC5150.

President Franklin Blake survives a terrorist attack at a ceremony marking the anniversary of the Murrah Federal Building bombing in Oklahoma City. The First Lady isn't so lucky.

Henry Matheson owns the drug trade in East London. To his competitors, he’s feared. To his customers, he’s God. To the police, he’s untouchable. But when the smoldering remains of Henry’s closest competitor are discovered dangling from a lamppost in the middle of his estate, one man decides to take him on: Jake Tanner. But he can’t do it alone. And with The Cabal’s clandestine network of corrupt officers threatening him and his family at every turn, Jake doesn’t know who to trust.

From Martin Cruz Smith, "a master of the international thriller," comes an audacious novel of exotic locales, intimate intrigues, and the mysteries of the human heart. "A superb thriller and a remarkable evocation of a place," raves Booklist in a starred review. "A moving, believable love story in which individual lives are invested with great dignity, even in the face of national ideals."

An urgent plea from a former flame brings CIA agent Scott Stiletto to San Francisco. Ali Lewis was once a capable spy herself before striking out on her own, creating a fashion empire that stretches around the world. Now her father has been murdered, and Stiletto is the only man Ali can trust to learn the truth behind the killing. Evidence points to a growing international conspiracy orchestrated by Iran involving the smuggling of nuclear bomb parts, kidnapped scientists, and a decades-old mafia/Silicon Valley alliance the government has been powerless to stop.