Government Mysteries

An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice, the government commissions a new road connecting two halves of the state. Two men, foreign contractors from the same company, are sent to finish the highway. While one is flighty and adventurous, wanting to experience the nightlife and people, the other wants only to do the work and go home. But both men must eventually face the absurdities of their positions and the dire consequences of their presence.

Stephanie Patrick is devastated after her whole family dies in a plane crash. But when she discovers that the downing of flight NE027 wasn’t an accident but an act of terrorism, Stephanie enters the fight of her life to achieve her one goal: revenge. When she’s recruited by a covert intelligence organization, Stephanie sees a means to an end. Now, with nothing and no one left to lose, Stephanie undergoes rigorous training to become “Petra,” a mercenary terrorist based out of Germany, and “Marina,” an international businesswoman based in London.

In the dead of night, a man’s body is found strapped to a chair in Glasgow’s Elder Park, his identity unknown. As forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod examines the scene, the violence on display suggests a gangland feud could be the cause. At the post-mortem, a bullet engraved with a snake’s head is found in the man’s stomach, lending weight to the theory. Elsewhere in the city, a major Hollywood movie is being filmed but comes to a standstill when its lead actor is reported missing. As the news spreads, Police Scotland believe the two cases may be connected.

For centuries, a mysterious syndicate known as the Thirteen has staged a silent coup, infiltrating governments and manipulating the course of world events. It’s more powerful than any nation, deadlier than any army. The time has come for it to emerge from the shadows and claim the entire world as its own. And only FBI Special Agent James Mason and his longtime friends stand in its way. After narrowly preventing a global pandemic, Mason and his team discover an even deadlier threat has already been set into motion.

Emerging from an underground prison was only the beginning to finding freedom. Edith and Benjamin have longed for the fresh air and independence of the Above, but now that they’ve reached it, they discover a world where the women’s rights movement never occurred and the 19th amendment doesn’t exist. Vivian, a conspiracy theorist who has a strong online following, has tried to warn the public of the Elite and the secret underground society buried beneath Cades Cove, part of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park in Tennessee. Along with her team and a surprising co-leader, she strives ...

Scientific and weapons secrets and personnel are being sent via the people-smuggling routes from China, through Albania and the former Yugoslavia to Europe and Britain. Stephanie's personal feelings for one of the victims of this trade causes her to make a rare professional mistake, and the consequences are far-reaching, vicious, and challenging, even for her skills and expertise.

On August 1, 1990, Flight 149 was scheduled for its routine London-to-Kuala Lumpur run. But when the plane, carrying 385 passengers and crew, landed at a Kuwait airport to refuel that day, it was surrounded by Iraqi tanks and about to be bombed by fighter jets. The passengers and crew were kept as hostages and suffered brutal treatment including violent attacks, sexual assaults, and mock executions.

In Burning the Reichstag, Benjamin Hett offers a gripping account of Hitler's rise to dictatorship - one that challenges orthodoxy and recovers the true significance of the part the fire played. At the scene the police arrested 23-year-old Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch Communist stonemason. Though he was initially dismissed abroad as a Nazi tool, post-war historians since the 1950s have largely judged him solely guilty - a lone arsonist exploited by Hitler.

Taylor pointed the weapon at the professor. Tears streamed down her face at seeing Reb hanging like he did. His face beaten and swollen and bruised. Violence marked his whole body. Was he even alive? “Don’t think what you’re thinking. He is the strongest person you know,” Chloe whispered. “Why, professor?” The professor spun around. “Back off, Taylor. I’ll kill him.” “Why? What did he ever do to you?” “What did he do me? Plenty. He screwed my mission to find those damn ciphers. He got me drummed out of the Marine Corps.” “That’s not his fault you were acting ...

Hanna Arnol, a Silicon Valley exec, leads an ordinary life. Until her favorite uncle, her sole family, dies unexpectedly. Was it a mere accident or a carefully planned murder? If the latter, who killed him? In pursuit of answers, Hanna embarks on a globe-spanning quest to unravel her family’s dark secret. She finds herself thrown into a world of blackmail, crime, and intrigue. The world where political parties dig up hundred-fifty-year-old dirt on their opponents to win the general election in one of the oldest democracies. But don’t underestimate Hanna. In this nefarious jungle, she ...

Echoes of Truth: A Journalist’s Fight Against Corporate Deceit Investigative journalist Sarah James is no stranger to uncovering the dark secrets lurking within the corridors of power. At the "City Times," her reputation for digging deep and exposing corruption is unparalleled. But her latest assignment, investigating the mighty Grayson Enterprises, threatens to push her beyond her limits. Haunted by the mysterious death of her brother, an environmental activist, Sarah dives headfirst into a web of corporate greed and governmental collusion. When an anonymous tip leads her to evidence of ...

The turning point in history came with the exposure of the government's betrayal of basic freedoms. The spy agency BIM cloaked itself behind the computers, cell phones, and postal service communication systems of World Aid organizations. Albert, a simple, honest accountant, exposed the truth behind the illusion of freedom for all the world to see. The day the world stopped being a secure place began like any normal day. Albert Bach enjoyed his job and loved the thought of providing a needed service. He viewed himself as a loyal citizen. He believed in the country's policies until he saw ...

UFOs: On the Border of Truth and Myth delves into one of humanity's most enduring mysteries: the existence of extraterrestrial life and the truth behind UFO sightings. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of UFO phenomena, examining historical accounts, modern sightings, and notable cases, from the infamous Roswell incident to the latest government-released videos of unidentified aerial phenomena. Through a careful balance of scientific analysis and cultural insight, the book investigates the ongoing debates, the role of government agencies, and the influence of media on public ...

In The Beckett Cypher – Book 3 – The Politicians, Shane’s cypher team incorporates advanced technology that transforms the Beckett Cypher into an Artificial Intelligence Spy System, known as BaCayse. Once perfected, the powerful cyber-weapon is capable of bypassing cybersecurity barriers to investigate and control enemy operations at multiple remote locations around the world, simultaneously. As she develops, BaCayse evolves into a complex, unique personality struggling to balance logic with the emotional concepts of right and wrong. BaCayse weaponizes the Beckett Case Investigation, ...

On the surface, Anna Witherall has the perfect life. Married to her university boyfriend David, she has an enviable job, beautiful home, and gorgeous three-year-old twin daughters, Stella and Rose. Their competent and capable nanny, Maria, is practically part of the family. But beneath the veneer of success and happiness, Anna is hiding a dark secret, one that threatens to unravel everything she has worked so hard to create. Only one thing is certain: to protect her children, she must betray them.

A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the terrorist campaign that took them away.

Four years ago, a plane disappeared without a trace. Now someone is killing those who know what happened to it. As David Hudson investigates the murder of suspected CIA assassin Charles Harris, he finds that the killing might be connected to the mysterious disappearance of a passenger jet that occurred four years before. Harris had a hit list with five names in his wallet when his body was found. Days before he was murdered, he tried to warn the targets that a very powerful man wanted them dead. As David tries to figure out how the people on the hit list are connected, he comes to suspect ...

Finn is contacted by a federal agent who asks for his assistance in a delicate case. A piece of equipment disappears from a government-funded secret lab. The nature of the experimental equipment is so secretive that not even the agent knows what exactly it contains... This is Book 2 of "Orthia" - the second series of the "Orthia Labs" saga.

When a woman dies in agony—her veins filled with a crystalline substance that defies medical explanation—it becomes the first sign of an unstoppable catastrophe. Dr. Michael Bond has seen death in all its forms. As a combat physician, he thought nothing could shock him anymore—until he examines the impossible: human DNA being systematically rewritten from within. Now Bond and his elite team—brilliant pathologist Dr. Clarice Washington and epidemiologist Dr. Nathan Shaw—are in a desperate race against an adversary who has weaponized evolution itself. A modified prion disease is ...

Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines in 2016. In his first 18 months in office, 12,000 people were murdered on the streets, gunned down by police officers and vigilante citizens - all with his encouragement. Duterte is a serial womanizer and a self-confessed killer, who has called both Barack Obama and Pope Francis "sons of whores." He is on record as saying he does not "give a shit" about human rights. Yet he is beloved of the 16.6 million Filipinos who voted for him, seen as vulgar but honest, a breath of fresh air, and an iconoclastic, anti-imperialist rebel.