Political Adventure

In Men of Conviction, Lionel Ross tells the fascinating tale of three desperate and disparate young men, released from prison on the same day. They are Hussein, the Islamist preacher of Jihad; Wayne, the burglar and Dovid, the religious Jew and 'one offence fraudster'. Men of Conviction is their story over the ensuing ten years.

While investigating the murder of a Marine veteran at a motorcycle rally, reporter Ben Teller infiltrates the D.C. Mormon Temple and uncovers a secret that could shock the nation and determine the presidential elections. In the tradition of Vince Flynn, David Baldacci, Nelson DeMille, Daniel Silva, and Ken Follett, The Mormon Candidate will enthrall listeners who love a good story, filled not only with lively characters, intricate plotting, and breathtaking action, but also with passionate conflicts and crucial questions of loyalty, religion, and justice.

In order to prevent World War III, Agents Stills and Mackey are sent to Iran to take action from within. But the mission is not merely to take out Iran's weapons grade nuclear material intended for Israel - they've been instructed to incite an Iranian revolution.

On Spain's Costa Brava, passion and intrigue are everywhere - especially in the hearts of those who dwell there. As the dictator Franco teeters on the edge of overthrow, two couples are entwined. One is a husband and wife bored with the existence they have drifted into, the other a passionate, combative pair who relish every moment of life. Into this potent mix comes a young American seeking his missing lover - bringing a shadow of danger into the machinations already at work.

As the dictator Franco teeters on the edge of death - a death that will completely overturn the political structure of Spain - two couples are entwined. One, a husband and wife bored with the existence they have drifted into. The other, a passionate, combative pair who relish every moment of life. Into this potent mix a young American arrives, seeking his missing lover - bringing a shadow of danger into the machinations already at work. Soon the political tension in the country reaches the breaking point....

She is a painter. He is a poet. Their art bridges time.

It is 1978. Merle is in her first year at the Corcoran School of Art, catapulted from her impoverished Appalachian upbringing into a sophisticated, dissipated art scene. It is also 1870. The teenage poet Arthur Rimbaud is on the verge of breaking through to the images and voice that will make his name. The meshed power of words and art thins the boundaries between the present and the past—and allows these two troubled, brilliant artists to enter each other’s worlds.

Code 5 is a story about terrorism and the devastation it creates when left unchecked by the United States. It also involves two kids just out of college who inadvertently get swept up into an adventure that tests their innocence against some of the most vicious terrorists in the world. Tom has just graduated from Oklahoma State University but when his dad (who works on ultra-classified projects at Livermore Labs) is a no-show for his graduation, it initiates a search that will take them into a black-ops mission they aren't even aware of.

What Primary Colors by Anonymous did for the Clintons, Schopenhauer's Maxim by Formichella does for the politics of the religious right. Part political intrigue, part fairy tale, and all humor at its darkest and most noir.

Investigative reporter Ben Teller pursues a disgruntled Air Force veteran, who is determined to punish America for the commercialization of Memorial Day. Their conflict straddles the fine line separating right from wrong and turns into a fierce match between cutting-edge technology and human resilience. The unraveling series of dramatic events lead up to a climactic confrontation at the Gettysburg National Battlefield.

Dark Star is the invisible angel of justice, fighting the Home World Security Agency in the name of truth, justice, and the old home-world way. The Earth is ruled by a dictatorship: a one-world government and a chairman dictator gone insane with power. This is the story of Starship Captain Beryl Stone, the mysterious Dark Star. Dark Star turns the enemy inward against itself. He uses psychological methods, trickery, and technology to evoke justice while maintaining his secret identity.

Slater Stone is running for President. He thinks that the President is in charge. He can’t wait to call the shots.

Driven and controlled by people and forces that no one knew existed, he finds out that the President is only a puppet.

Who runs the world? Will President Stone be able to make things right? Or are we all doomed to live in a world government?

There were five of them, each prepared to kill, each with his own reasons for accepting what might well be a suicide mission. The pay? $20,000 a piece. The mission? Find a way into Cuba and kill Castro. This breathtaking thriller, originally published the year before the Cuban Missile Crisis (under a pen name by Lawrence Block), is the rarest of Block's books - and still a work of chilling relevance all these years later, with Castro and Cuba once again commanding headlines.

In the savage world of hired guns, Malakai is a legend, a god, a trigger-puller without peer. His childhood innocence twisted by an abusive father, blood and bullets have become his religion. He sells his lethal skills to the Company, the quintessential lone wolf assassin. When Malakai is contracted to stop a powerful Japanese crime syndicate from blackmailing the chairperson of the Senate Intelligence Committee, he discovers someone is playing Judas and he needs to figure out who it is before he gets burned.

Francis Urquhart's eventful career as Prime Minister comes to a spectacular end in the final volume in the Francis Urquhart trilogy. He schemed his way to power in ‘House of Cards' and had a memorable battle of wills with the new king in ‘To Play the King'. Now Francis Urquhart is about to take his place in the record books as the longest-serving Prime Minister this century. Yet it seems the public is tiring of him at last, and the movement to force him from power is growing.

Venezia, 1755. Giacomo Casanova è tornato in città, e il precario equilibrio su cui si regge la Repubblica, ormai prossima alla decadenza, rischia di frantumarsi e degenerare nel caos. Lo scenario politico internazionale è in una fase transitoria di delicate alleanze e il disastroso esito della Seconda guerra di Morea ha svuotato le casse della Serenissima. Il doge Francesco Loredan versa in pessime condizioni di salute, e l'inquisitore Pietro Garzoni trama alle sue spalle per ottenere il consenso all'interno del Consiglio dei Dieci e influenzare così la successione al dogado.

Era el detective más caro y exclusivo del mundo. Sus servicios solo estaban al alcance de importantes corporaciones a las que les habían robado sus secretos y necesitaban urgentemente recuperarlos. No tenía ni oficina, ni sede conocida y sólo unos pocos sabían contactar con él. Usaba personalidades diferentes para cada caso, siendo una sombra para sus clientes e invisible para sus enemigos. Ninguno de sus encargos tenía nada de vulgar o corriente, pero cuando aceptó su último trabajo, no podía imaginar que las cosas se iban a complicar tanto: la chica, el cliente y el objeto a recuperar.

Daniela Ivanir es miembro de uno de los comandos más temidos del mundo, el famoso Sayeret Matkal. Reclutada por el Mossad para convertirse en la nueva Medusa, la joven es sometida a más de veinte cirugías plásticas para transformarla en una hermosa pero letal modelo. Como agente del Mossad, entrenada en el arte de seducir a hombres y mujeres, la Medusa descubre la conexión entre Lucía Mendoza (nieta del Shadowboy, uno de los espías más buscados desde la Guerra Fría) y Nikita Sokolov. Sokolov encabeza la lista de los diez principales enemigos de Israel.

Habían descubierto el arma definitiva. A petición de cualquier cliente que lo pudiese pagar, podían fabricar un virus letal capaz de eliminar solo a la etnia seleccionada... La más novedosa tecnología farmacéutica al servicio de la muerte. Intriga, suspense, asesinatos, en la carrera de venderla al mejor postor. Sin quererlo Yoko Yoshida, se había visto envuelta en la conspiración. Para enfrentarse a ella solicitó la ayuda de la única persona a la que confiaría su vida: Sergio.

En un país ficticio situado en América del Sur, asistimos a la desaparición de un embajador norteamericano. Pronto sabremos que ha sido raptado por una fuerza armada que pretende derrocar al gobierno actual en el país. Tendremos una visión caleidoscópica del conflicto desde los puntos de vista de un periodista nortamericano será el encargado de realizar las negociaciones con la fuerza armada, la hija de unos latifundistas locales, un artista o uno de los guerrilleros.

Tierra Virgen aborda una de las obsesiones más presentes en la carrera literaria de Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa: el ecologismo. En ella seguiremos a un veterano de la guerra de Vietnam que decide dejar su vida de privilegios y unirse a los yubani en sus territorios de la tierra amazónica. Sin embargo, pronto la situación se torcerá con la aparición de ingenieros blancos que pretenden partir en dos las tierras yubani con la construcción de una carretera. La extinción amenaza al pueblo yubani, y quizá lo único que pueda salvarlos sea nuestro protagonista.