Kent Steele, 38, a brilliant professor of European History at Columbia University, lives a quiet life in a New York suburb with his two teenage daughters. All that changes when late one night he gets a knock on his door and is abducted by three terrorists—and finds himself flown across the ocean to be interrogated in a basement in Paris. They are convinced that Kent is the most lethal spy the CIA has ever known. He is convinced they have the wrong man. Do they? With a conspiracy around him, adversaries as smart as he is, and an assassin on his tail, the wild game of cat and mouse leads Kent on a perilous road—one that may lead back to Langley—and to a shocking discovery of his own identity.

     Jason King and Will Slater, the two most lethal operatives in government history, are out on their own. They’ve been through their personal journeys into hell, but they unite in New York City as brothers in arms. So begins a vigilante crusade against the city’s morally bankrupt inhabitants. But their private war doesn’t last long... Sometimes you can’t escape the past, no matter how hard you try. They’re revisited by old government contacts with an agenda, and soon enough they’re fighting tooth and nail to prevent the destabilisation of the entire country. Outnumbered, overwhelmed, beat down, battered, broken — it's just another day at the office. Witness the unification of the two baddest men on the planet... What readers are saying about King & Slater: ★★★★★ - “Slater and King working together is a whole new adventure. Twice as much death and destruction. Twice as much adventure and excitement.” ★★★★★ - “One hell of a ride from the very beginning to a fantastic finish.” ★★★★★ - "Two of the best warriors I've met in a long while. Can't wait to see who they tackle next time." ★★★★★ - "Both characters retain their richness of personality, yet share their intellectual disdain for the evil in the world." ★★★★★ - “This book was a treat from start to finish. I continue to be amazed by Matt's ability to come up with truly creative situations for our beloved King and Slater to be thrown into." ★★★★★ - "This was one of those late night page turners that you would give up sleep for with no problem.” ★★★★★ - "Matt has taken the best of Jason King and the best of Will Slater and combined it into a new format, yet kept his hard-hitting action and surprising twists."

    It would be so much easier without her special forces code – no man left behind. It’s a cross-country cat and mouse game while maintaining her undercover status. It’s hard to explain why a criminal would go to such lengths for the guy who is determined to throw her behind bars.EVEN ODDS –A plan is hatched to insert the two intelligence officers into the action—under the cover of a fake marriage—painting a target on Raine’s back, enticing the mole out into the open.Damian wasn’t there when his Delta Force brothers saved Raine from the terrorists in Afghanistan, will he be there for her this time when she’s in the sniper’s rifle sights?

    Then his former bureau chief shows up at his house with a risky new assignment: travel undercover to Moscow and locate a Russian agent believed to be killing members of a clandestine US spy cell known as the seven sisters.Desperate for money, Jenkins agrees to the mission and heads to the Russian capital. But when he finds the mastermind agent behind the assassinations—the so-called eighth sister—she is not who or what he was led to believe. Then again, neither is anyone else in this deadly game of cat and mouse.Pursued by a dogged Russian intelligence officer, Jenkins executes a daring escape across the Black Sea, only to find himself abandoned by the agency he serves. With his family and freedom at risk, Jenkins is in the fight of his life—against his own country.

    With just the right mix of romance, and psychic twists, you'll keep turning the pages to see what happens next.Weakest LynxWhere would you go if no where was safe?Lexi is a young woman on the run. She has secrets to hide and a madman on her heels.Her truths might set her free or become a trap.Her psychic knowings can either help her survive or drive her into deeper dangers.She's to young to be thrust into an adult world. Yet, her worldly experience surpaces most adults.She is an enigma who must solve the puzzle.Now what will she do with the team of ex-special forces security operators whose job it is to keep her alive when they bring danger to her door?WASPZoe knows the secrets, now they're coming for her.The enemy will stop at nothing to get to Zoe and the military secrets that could change everything. What Zoe knows is getting people killed. Is she next?Gage is a hardened Marine special forces operative with only one soft spot: Zoe.Her desperate screams echoing from inside her home switch his instincts from lover to guardian. To keep America safe, to protect the love of his life, Gage is coming full throttle.In Too DEEPSometimes Trust Can Get You KilledRetired Marine Special Operator Deep Del Toro watched the newscaster play the video of the woman he loves fighting off the FBI agent and escaping from a murder scene the night before. Now, Lacey's turning herself over to the police. What Deep’s practiced eye saw in the video was a highly-choreographed crime. But somehow Lacey had thwarted the professionals’ plans.She is in imminent danger.Enmeshed in a mystery that includes the FBI, the CIA, and a tangle of interconnected international crimes, Deep and Lacey work to discover who plays the good guy and who plays the bad guy in a gray world where right and wrong easily overlap.Lives depend on them.MineA sleepy town in southwest Virginia wakes up to a nightmare of untimely deaths.Not safe at home in Boston, science teacher Kate Hamilton seeks refuge in the small Virginia town where she was born and raised.Scarborough is no longer the bucolic village that she remembered. Pleasantries are only skin deep as big city issues and the politics of the world roil just under the surface.A string of untimely deaths has the whole town grieving. Only Kate thinks something nefarious is afoot.Can Kate convince the local police that coincidences like these are only found in fiction?Kate is determined to solve the puzzle and save lives, especially her own.Open SecretRussia is playing mind games…… they’ve changed the rules.Can 280 characters destroy a nation?Avery Goodyear, a romance editor from the suburbs, becomes a player in an international game of psychological warfare.The FBI watches the attacks unfold in real time. The enemy’s strategy: win hearts and minds to destroy American unity. The FBI focuses its secret weapon, ex-Army Ranger Rowan Kennedy, at the crisis.With a PhD in propaganda, Kennedy puts everything on the line to expose the wealthy oligarchs and high-powered schemers threatening our way of life……and to protect Avery.To beat the enemy at their own game, Rowan and Avery must break the rules.It only complicates things that they’re falling in love.The game is on. The set is in play. Who will win the match?

    Series Still trying to survive what Nick promised his wife would be a combat free Alaska cruise, instead involves the Unholies and John Harding’s Monsters in a mission filled madness of drug runners and human traffickers. Finally ending the vacation from hell, the crews accept an ongoing battle to turn the tide on human trafficking they discovered on the cruise, stemming from Washington State’s liberal Mecca: Seattle. A gang, luring children from twelve to seventeen years old into sex trafficking, meet the Monsters and Unholies. Meanwhile, New World Order advocates, trying to oust California’s Governor, Florence Brown, learn the consequences of going toe to toe with America’s toughest Governor, and her defenders. A new opponent for John Harding, Indonesian Kadek Maimpo, lures him into a title match at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium for an Australian combat interlude needing Kade’s finned friend, Captain Hook, again for training purposes. ------- "Bernard Lee DeLeo is one of the purest writing talents I have ever had the pleasure of reading - a brilliant writing talent that I can only envy." James Byron Huggins - New York Times Bestselling Author "DeLeo's COLD BLOODED series owns the cutting edge of modern crime fiction. Action, suspense, humor, it's all there! Block out some time, because once you start one of these masterfully written adventures, you won't want to stop. I had to tear myself away to get some sleep!" Andrew Peterson, bestselling author of the Nathan McBride Series

    He’s on the hunt for a mysterious and powerful arms-dealing organisation named Kali—and they have him squarely in their sights.Along the way he falls for a mysterious woman who may just be the death of him.Fast-paced with whip-smart dialogue and twists at every turn, Kiss My Assassin is the very definition of unputdownable.Note to the reader: Although the Bishop novels can be read in any order, the events described take place before those in the Eva Destruction novels.

    Targeted by New World Order sycophants, trying to get ahead in the Illuminati order, the teams strike back in gun blazing answer. With families at risk, the deadliest killers in the world make it known the body count will cower even the most dedicated minions of world power. John Harding’s son Kade, delivered to him by a woman named Julie he had an affair with years before, threads into the Harding family and Monsters with ease. Captain Hook, an over twenty-five-foot long Great White Shark; that has chosen to be one of John Harding's Monster crew, becomes John’s ocean training partner and deadly ally.

    In the meantime, Nick recruits Dom Bello, consigliere of New York City's five families into the fight against the New World Order.

    Fifty years later, Walter Gersdorff, the widow’s son, who was eleven years old in the spring of 1938, discovers the carefully hidden diary the boarder had kept during his stay, even though he should never have written any of its contents down.What Walter finds is a scathing chronicle of one the most tumultuous years in German history, narrated by a secret agent on a deadly mission. Josef Hofmann was not the returned Argentinian immigrant he’d said he was—he was a communist spy under Moscow’s command to try to reconnect with any remnants of Germany’s suppressed communist party. Hofmann’s bosses believe the common workers are the only way to stop the German war machine from within. Posing as a railroad man, Hofmann sets out on his game of “Russian roulette,” approaching Hamm’s ex-party members one at a time and delicately feeling out their allegiances. He always knew his mission would most likely end in his death, and he was satisfied to make that sacrifice for the revolution if it could help stop Hitler and his abominable ideology. But as he grows close to the Gersdorffs, accidentally stepping into the role of the father Walter never had, Hofmann begins to wish for another kind of hope in his life.

    Nick receives a friend’s plea on the Arizona border and answers it in Terminator mayhem. The border war expands into the states, as assassin teams, enabled by Cartel owned American politicos meet a network of killers prepared to end the new threat no matter what the consequences. Captain Hook, the great white shark who adopted John Harding, and Harding’s son, Kade, bond beyond the paranormal. Hook sees the youngster as a mini-me of John Harding, receiving the youngster into his scope as one to be accepted completely. Gangs, traitors, and treasonous ghouls all make their play against an array of American patriots, hell bent on regaining our lost land.

    Why do the police want to talk to Rob? And what is he running away from?Nick wants to find his brother but if he does, he risks losing the woman he loves. Because Susie has her own secrets, and as the truth emerges, Nick finds it is those closest to us we should fear the most… What everyone says about CJ Carver “Keeps you guessing” - Susan Opie“Don’t expect to sleep, because this is unputdownable” - Frost Magazine“A terrific page-turner” - Harlan Coben“An author who has a unique voice and a magical plotting ability” - Frost Magazine CJ Carver is the critically-acclaimed and bestselling author of The Dan Forrester and India Kane series. Over Your Shoulder is a tense and compelling psychological thriller which will appeal to fans of authors like Mark Edwards, Harlan Coben and Sibel Hodge.

    or is he?Demoted FSB Agent Max Thorne, struggling with a troubled, unknown past and aimless future, accepts a near-impossible assignment: bring a traitor who is hiding in the United States back home to Russia.Max has never lost any of the high-value detainees he transports, and this mission could prove his allegiance to the agency. But he’d be working in hostile territory, with an untested new team, and his career and life are on the line.As the Russian team is ambushed while descending on Washington, DC, Max discovers that his fate is inescapably linked to that of the “traitor.” Now there is even more at stake … his mysterious past may tie him to the CIA.With no time to determine whom to trust, will he find the courage to stand between the Russian service and an innocent man? And in doing so, will Max be deemed a traitor himself?

     The year is 1942, and American secret agent Catherine Thornton has no idea whether she will be dropped behind enemy lines in an inflatable raft launched from a submarine or be flung through the moonlit sky from a low-flying British Halifax. Either way, the young embassy wife and erstwhile journalist knows there’s always the chance she’ll be picked off by German sharpshooters, although nothing in her imagination prepares her for the trial-by-fire to come. Only she understands why she volunteered for such “unwomanly warfare” and the secret reasons she joined a handful of female American spies destined to risk her gilded life on French soil--yet former Vichy diplomat Henri Leblanc, code name Claude Foret, thinks he knows the answers. As Catherine’s missions grow more harrowing each day, and she fears she’s fallen in love with a captured fellow agent, the German SS begin to close in on the world of Madame “Colette Durand” and her Résistance network embedded in coastal cities along the French Riviera—an exposure that could threaten the Allied victory itself. And hanging in the air like a half-opened parachute is the life-or-death question: Who is the betrayer and who will be betrayed in this, their finest hour? New York Times & USA Today bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning former broadcast journalist Ciji Ware once again displays her extraordinary talent for weaving historical fact into compelling fiction to produce novels so engaging that one reviewer warned of her work: “…do not start unless you want to be up all night.” “Thoroughly engaging” - BOOKLIST

    But in relaying his suspicions to John Bachelor, who babysits retired spies like Solly, he sets in train events which will alter lives. Bachelor himself, a hair's breadth away from sleeping in his car, is clawing his way back to stability; Hannah Weiss, the double agent whose recruitment was his only success, is starting to enjoy the secrets and lies her role demands; and Lech Wicinski, an Intelligence Service analyst, finds that a simple favour for an old acquaintance might derail his career. Meanwhile, Lady Di Taverner is trying to keep the Service on an even keel, and if that means throwing the odd crew member overboard, well: collateral damage is her speciality.A drop, in spook parlance, is the passing on of secret information.It's also what happens just before you hit the ground. **THE LIST** 'Mick Herron is an incredible writer and if you haven't read him yet, you NEED to' Mark Billingham Dieter Hess, an aged spy, is dead, and John Bachelor, his MI5 handler, is in deep, deep trouble. Death has revealed that the deceased had been keeping a secret second bank account - and there's only ever one reason a spy has a secret second bank account. The question of whether he was a double agent must be resolved, and its answer may undo an entire career's worth of spy secrets.**previously published as two separate editions**

    The nights are dark and ominous. It’s thriller season… From your favorite thriller authors... Get into the holiday spirit with eight tales of thrills, chills, and twists and turns. Eight best-selling and award-winning authors leave you breathless with their high-octane novellas designed to bring their signature heroes and villains to life against the backdrop of the holiday season. Plane crashes, assassins, archeology and nonstop action. This anthology has it all. Your favorite action heroes, in brand-new, never-before-seen stories 8 novellas, 700 pages, 140,000 words. Get it now, while you still can.

    • An Army Ranger makes a snap decision that sets in motion events beyond his imagination.• In New Mexico, caver Tom Littleton discovers a 10,000-year-old coded tablet far too advanced for ancient people to have created it.• In Boston, Rachael Friedman, a leading physics professor, unlocks a key to the mysterious code.• And in Italy, a violin maker and his autistic daughter show the way to a secret chamber where a medieval scholar has locked away more clues.Wealthy adventurer Nicholas Foxe leads this unlikely team to solve the mystery of the code. But dark forces threaten to destroy The Tablet and the people who know about it…• The Televangelist who intends to profit from his “religious” interpretation of The Tablet.• A Washington Senator who secretly serves a powerful constituent.• The mysterious Texan who foresees extraordinary wealth by owning The Tablet.• A Bombmaker in Queens who serves the latest in destructive products.The Code Hunters is a Thriller for the reader who:• Wants the Adventure of Indiana Jones,• Likes the pace and puzzles of The Da Vinci Code,• Or just enjoys a Mystery Page-Turner.

    Along with her roommate, his only daughter, Becca is missing in Key West during Spring Break. The president reluctantly listens to FBI director, Frank Graham and turns to Special Agent Sinclair O’Malley to find and bring Becca home safe. There is only one problem: since Charlie’s passing, Sin has been living “off the grid” in Weir’s Beach, NH with no interest in returning to the FBI. After seeing a video of Becca Lancaster sent by the kidnappers, she agrees to come back, but only on her terms. Sin enlists the help of her old friends, Troy and Tiffany, to help track down the kidnappers and find the missing girls. What begins as a simple kidnapping case soon becomes much more. Sin finds herself embroiled in a cesspool of street gangs, Jamaican voodoo (Obeah), organized crime, and a possible leak in the West Wing. From the streets and bars of Key West to the Florida Everglades to the high-priced neighborhoods in downtown West Palm Beach, Sin hunts for the girls and their assailants. When the kidnappers strike close to Sin’s heart, all bets are off. Pitting herself against the president, she turns to her old squad for help. Along with old and new friends, Sin takes the fight to the streets and will leave no stone unturned to recover her family and take down everyone involved. “Gang members are like Dominoes, topple one, and the all fall down.”

    This time it wasn't fighting terrorist or whatever the Mossad came up against. This time is was closer to home.She had left the past behind, a new life opened to her and once again her past dragged back into open warfare. Could Blackbird survive the internal conflict of the past and future?Or would those demons from the past be her undoing?Book Four, Silent Secrets Series

    And survival…Karen Jones was a promising young police detective when she got embroiled in a controversial trial for the murder of a homicide suspect. Traumatized, betrayed, and publicly vilified, Karen could only watch as her career rapidly descended towards its premature end. Her boss--a decorated officer--offered his help to get her out of this mess but it came with a huge cost.Karen wanted to be in the force to make a difference but now she had to decide between selling her soul or pursuing this dream she had stitched together with her father. The clock is ticking and Karen had to choose her options very fast.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------What Readers are saying about Chase Austin's Books;★★★★★ "One heck of an entertaining and intense ride... Fast, entertaining, suspenseful and action-packed… you will find yourself flying through and it will be hard to let it go!" - Amazon Review★★★★★ "Full of awesome action. I can't wait to read the next book" - Amazon Review★★★★★ "Fast-paced, lots of thrills. Highly entertaining." - Amazon Review

    With many job offers in hand, Neera is in a quandary about the choice she has to make. A brilliant scholar who secured his Ph.D. at the young age of twenty-six, Dr. Prakash Rao has had a long-standing relationship with crime and espionage from his college days. In a riveting tale of crime, perseverance, valiance, and quick-wit, The Invisible Protectors is about the resolve of these two agents as they delve into the truth behind the death of three Indian spies. Though they died in accidents, the Agency believes they were murdered.

    Where the government cannot and will not go, he will. There is no guarantee that he'll succeed every time but he doesn't have a choice or does he?✓ His mission: Extract Carlos Cruz-Diez—a New York Times reporter from the clutches of death.✓ Location: Venezuela Consulate in Vienna, Austria.✓ The obstacle: Venezuela’s National Intelligence Service has sent sixteen of their best to execute this mission.✓ Timeline: Twenty-four hours.Time is running out. Bullets are flying. Bodies are piling up. Nothing is as it seems. Will Sam Wick succeed?

    The covert terror cell with a clandestine leader that no government or agency can identify.A Kurdish soldier slave who could hold the key to unmasking the mastermind terrorist.Looted ancient antiquities funding terror on a mass scale.The clock is ticking. No rules except think fast or die… Rick has narrowly escaped a hidden army base deep in the Pakistan desert. Injured and exhausted, he tackles a series of terror incidents starting with bomb plot that would kill ten thousand people. No one else can stop the cell. A new handler is assigned to Rick who needs him fighting the terrorists in Syria. He hates Syria but a new evil has arisen. The assignment is non-negotiable. Director’s orders. Rick plunges into a human trafficking operation which must be stopped. Sarya is trapped as a slave in a bidding war when Rick aids her escape. Together they search for a phantom cell leader that only she has met. On a parallel assignment Rick investigates American Mullenger whose arms-dealing and smuggling has caught the watchful eye of the CIA. Rick and Sarya know the entrepreneur must be connected to the mastermind terrorist. Join in on the break-neck journey from Pakistan, Syria through to Egypt and back again as Rick strives to defeat the deadliest cell that ever existed. Millions of lives are at stake. Superpowers under threat. Only one outcome can restore temporary peace and bring stabilisation.

    This time, he’s in Cairo – bang in the middle of the Arab Spring. ‘The only story in the world’ according to his editor. But it isn’t – there’s another story, more significant and potentially more dangerous, and if no one else is willing to tell it . . . then Carver will, whatever the consequences.William Carver spots the Arab Spring early, aided by one of the infamous ‘Listeners’ at the BBC monitoring station in Caversham. He and his producer Patrick chase the story across North Africa before arriving in Egypt where the battle between the corrupt old order and the new will be both bloody and potentially definitive.Meanwhile, in Eritrea, two brothers begin to make their way up from the Horn of Africa and across the continent, desperate to find a better life in Europe. The horrors they endure at the hands of people traffickers and others along the way test their endurance and humanity to its limit. Over a few tumultuous months, these two stories come together to prove inextricably linked.Carver knows this story is a complex one; the world is watching, but in the age of Facebook, Twitter and rolling news, its attention span is increasingly short. And if everyone is a reporter, then who can you believe?

    Two candidates. Two bombs.Rookie FBI agent Lavinia Walsh is told that her estranged father is a terrorist, and her first big field assignment is to find and arrest him.But things aren’t what they seem, and Lavinia finds herself fighting to save her father, herself, and the country."Like a really good episode of 24" - Readers' Favorite

     Double Agents - Book 4 The CIA learns that a powerful Chechen terrorist group is plotting a major attack on US soil just as the same group assassinates Russia’s Minister of Defense in Moscow. The CIA and the FSB, Russia’s internal security service, deeply distrust each other, crippling any CIA efforts to unravel this plot.Justin Hall and his partner, Carrie O’Conner—two of the Canadian Intelligence Service best operatives—are dispatched to Moscow to secure the FSB’s intelligence, which will allow them to discover the plotters. But an FSB spy and a CIA double agent are dead set against this mission.Justin and Carrie find themselves on the run on treacherous Moscow grounds and are forced to form a shifty alliance with rogue operatives. As loyalties change in the blink of an eye, Justin and Carrie hunt down Chechen militants in their stronghold in Dagestan, to uncover the truth, and to stop the terrorist attack in the US. The Diplomat   - Book 4.5 (Bonus Novella) Justin Hall is in Lagos, Nigeria, to handle the exchange a Canadian diplomat who has been taken hostage for ransom by local rebels. The dangerous exchange goes sideways, and Justin wonders if he can trust his team.With time running out and no one else to turn to, Justin and Carrie are thrust into a game of shadows as they devise a clever plan to turn the tables on the kidnappers. Rogue Agents - Book 5 Sent to kill one of your own… After a nuclear incident in Pakistan, two Canadian Intelligence Service agents disappear during a covert operation in South Korea. They end up in a prison camp in North Korea, where they are being tortured so they can reveal top secret intelligence.CIS sends in their best spy masters, Justin Hall and Carrie O’Connor, fresh off a terrorist-hunting mission in Syria. Their orders are clear: infiltrate the most hostile nation in the world. Their objective is like nothing they have faced before: assassinate the two captured agents, one of whom is Justin’s close friend.Justin and Carrie consider their allegiances and consequences of their operation, as they join forces with a North Korean defector and two MI6 agents familiar with the treacherous terrain. As new intelligence complicates their already nearly impossible mission, it is now a race against time to reach the captured agents before it is too late… Shadow Agents - Book 6 Keep your asset safe at any cost... When combat-hardened Justin Hall and his partner Carrie O’Connor, CIS’ best field operatives, narrowly foil a suicide bombing in Berlin, one of the cell members escapes and Justin is the only one that can identify him.Dispatched to track the fugitive at all costs, the terrorist hunt begins to reveal an unsettling game of deception and betrayal.