Crime Conspiracy

USA, 1958. President Joseph McCarthy sits in the White House, elected on a wave of populist xenophobia and barely‑concealed anti‑Semitism. The country is in the firm grip of McCarthy's Hueys, a secret police force evolved from the House Un-American Activities Committee. Hollywood's sparkling vision of the American dream has been suppressed; its remaining talents forced to turn out endless anti‑communist propaganda.

Harper Winston’s brother has disappeared. Pursuing his dream of sailing the Caribbean, Michael hasn’t responded to texts or emails in days. When even the Coast Guard can’t find him, Harper is forced to take desperate measures. Which means going to Chase Garrett, once her brother’s best friend, now the only man she can trust...or so she hopes.

When Detective Constable Lillian Tate arrives at a remote paleontological research site in the harsh Nullarbor Plain, she expects a routine missing person case. Dr. Noah Henshaw, a respected scientist studying ancient fossils, has vanished into the red dust of the Australian desert. What begins as a straightforward welfare check quickly transforms into something more sinister. The discovery of Dr. Henshaw's body reveals a brutal murder that shatters the quiet academic world of fossil research and threatens to expose secrets that powerful people will kill to protect. As Tate delves deeper ...

International Politics with a dirty politician The action begins with a terrorist attack and is quickly followed by an assassination attempt, a pretty girl, a supermarket bombing, a train hijacking and Jack finding himself being circled by a hungry shark. Jack Hamma, ex SAS Commando has to cope with it all and in the end, much like in the beginning Jack finds himself in the drink and swimming for his life. 'A cracking little book, this is definitely one for the fans of Jack Hamma’ ‘Looking forward to Jacks next adventure.' ‘Thorogood just gets better with these larger than life action...

Future Fiction Detective Series The small Arab village of Ascoa, Naseria, is destroyed. Every man, woman, and child is murdered. In a tit-for-tat move, the nearby African village of Latriki, Fazerique, is also destroyed. Then, like a freshly lit string of firecrackers going off, a brutal war explodes. Master Detective Drake Blast is sent under the cover of being an ambassador for peace. His covert duty is to find something hidden by the prior UN Ambassador shortly before he was murdered. Drake knows the item is significant, but he does not know what it is or why it matters. His ...

Dr. Kay Scarpetta has left Virgina in quest of peace, but instead finds herself drawn into baffling, horrific murders in Florida, where she becomes entangled in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the shock of her life.

Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, he has secretly entered into a deadly game of cat and mouse. He is about to disappear, leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths; an air-crash investigation team that wants to know why the plane he was booked on suddenly fell from the sky; and a veteran FBI agent who leaves no stone unturned.

A woman’s body washes ashore. A scar on her skull matches one Dr. Evelyn Reed has seen before—on her missing sister. Forensic artist Evelyn Reed is used to speaking for the dead. But when a grotesquely staged crime scene reveals a pattern too precise to ignore, she finds herself caught in a game she never agreed to play. Someone is sending a message—written in bone. And Evelyn is the only one who can read it. As she peels back layers of deception, encryption, and buried trauma, she realizes the truth is more disturbing than any murder: someone is rewriting reality—one mind at a time...

Former Legionnaire Jens Schacht is in hiding from the British Government after wiping out a British army unit in Iraq. He covertly enters the United Kingdom, intending to hide out in the Highlands of Scotland until the official heat dies down. But fate has other plans for him. A local woman in the police witness protection program has her cover blown and her gangster husband tries to kill her. When Schacht intervenes, he is rewarded with unwelcome attention by the local police. This in turn brings the SAS to Scotland, on the orders of the Prime Minister, to get revenge for Iraq. Not only ...

From the number-one best-selling author. Former SAS operative Ben Hope is running for his life. Enlisted by the beautiful Leigh Llewellyn--world-famous opera star and Ben's first love--to investigate her brother's mysterious death, Ben finds himself caught up in a centuries-old puzzle. The official line states that Oliver died whilst investigating Mozart's death, but the facts don't add up.

A gripping story of deception in the world of international fine art. Restorer and spy Gabriel Allon embarks on a dangerous hunt across Europe for the secret behind the forgery of a 17th-century masterpiece that has fooled experts and exchanged hands for millions.

French Foreign Legion Assassin ... Instrument of Vengeance. A non-stop thriller fueled by Fury, Guilt, and Revenge. Lucas Martell was only seventeen-years-old when his life was turned upside down and his family destroyed. At eighteen, he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion with only one wish ... to become brave and strong. The Legion did more than that. They transformed him into a stone cold killer. After surviving twelve years of every hell hole in Africa, he receives news that his father was killed in an accident in the haven of the ultra-rich, Monte Carlo, and when he returns the dark ...

Today's world is complicated: companies are becoming more powerful than nations, the lines between public and corporate institutions grow murkier, and the internet is shredding our privacy. To combat these onslaughts, people everywhere - rich and not so rich, in business and in their personal lives - are turning away from traditional police, lawyers, and government regulators toward a new champion: the private investigator.

A PRIVATE EYE IS WARNED OFF A CASE HE DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT! Alton Rhode was sitting in his office minding his business when a gunman walked in and shot up the place. He told the private eye he would come back and kill him, if he pursued the Frank Pace case. Since Rhode didn't know anyone named Frank Pace, and in fact had no clients at the time, he wasn't really worried about what was an obvious case of mistaken Identity. But later, a nun walked in and said she was looking for her brother, Frank Pace. He was about to hire Rhode but had been murdered, and his body misplaced. Then, things really...

SHE WAS RICH AND BEAUTIFUL, AND ASKED ME TO SAVE HER DYING CHILD! A woman begs Alton Rhode to find the bank-embezzler lover who left her pregnant and in the lurch. She says her waif-like daughter needs the fugitive’s bone marrow to survive. But the trail has been cold for 14 years! That’s the least of Rhode’s problems. Local mobsters have their own agenda. Only a mysterious guardian angel – with an automatic pistol – keeps the private eye alive long enough to find the missing man. Then things really get weird! “DE MARIA HAS WRITTEN A STUNNER OF A PRIVATE EYE MYSTERY, WITH AN ...

The war has come home. For over 40 years, Art Keller has been on the front lines of America’s longest conflict: the War on Drugs. His obsession with defeating the godfather of the Sinaloa Cartel - Adán Barrera - has cost him people he loves, even taken a piece of his soul. Now Keller is elevated to the highest ranks of the DEA, only to find that in destroying one monster he has created 30 more that are wreaking chaos in his beloved Mexico. But not just there.

What had started as a simple case three years earlier, forever altered the course of FBI Agent Alex Toles’ life. A committed investigator, Alex had always avoided personal entanglements. That was until she meet Cassidy O’Brien. Alex had been sent by President John Merrow to investigate threatening letters that had targeted Cassidy and her ex-husband Congressman Christopher O’Brien. Three years later, Alex finds herself a devoted wife and parent. Her life and her work center on Cassidy and their two children Dylan and Mackenzie.

'A tightly plotted and highly enjoyable action thriller series.' - BestThrillers.com Tom Wiseman struggles with a conundrum: How to find meaning after a life shaped as an old-school FBI investigator and military man? Surrounded now, by high-tech gizmos and waffling teenagers. Dark forces, power hungry and driven by revenge, stalk him to home soil, intent on shattering his already imperfect picture of soon-to-be domesticated life. Pitted against enemies foreign and domestic, Tom must utilize every skill and nuance, dusting off old tradecraft. Combined with finding newer, tech savvy methods ...

On the gritty, forgotten streets of Larissa, Galen Tor is more than just a gambler. Once a soldier with a reputation for calculated risk, now he's a man willing to bet it all—even his last route off this desolate rock. But when a high-stakes card game with an old enemy goes sideways, Galen’s life spirals into an underworld of deception, violence, and shady alliances. As the stakes rise and a powerful rival threatens to take what little he has left, Galen finds himself entangled in a job he can’t walk away from—a dangerous rescue operation, led by a corrupt commissioner with his own ...

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.