Political Assassinations

Wie lebt man, wenn man weiß, dass die eigenen Tage gezählt sind? Savianos wichtigstes Buch seit „Gomorrha“ erzählt das Leben des größten Mafiajägers der Geschichte. Nicht nur als Richter, sondern auch als Ehemann, als Bruder, als Freund. Mit seinem Geldwäsche-Gesetz forderte Falcone die Mafia heraus. Als er am 25. Mai 1992 mit seiner Frau unterwegs zum Wochenendhaus ist, sprengt die Mafia sie mitsamt einem Stück Autobahn in die Luft.

The plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy has been shrouded in secrecy and deceit, leading most Americans to doubt the veracity of the Warren Commission's findings. Now, after forty years, Barr McClellan exposes the secret, high-level conspiracy in Texas that led to Kennedy's death and L.B.J.'s succession as President.

Freedom’s Detective reveals the untold story of the Reconstruction-era US Secret Service and their battle against the Ku Klux Klan, through the career of its controversial chief, Hiram C. Whitle.

In November 1934 as the United States and Japan drifted toward war, a team of American League all-stars that included Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, future secret agent Moe Berg, and Connie Mack barnstormed across the Land of the Rising Sun. Hundreds of thousands of fans, many waving Japanese and American flags, welcomed the team with shouts of Banzai! Banzai Babe Ruth! The all-stars stayed for a month, playing 18 games, spawning professional baseball in Japan.

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. Actions have consequences. Tracie Tanner understands that better than most. She is about to discover just how devastating those consequences can be. Last winter, on a mission to root out and eliminate the driving force behind a Soviet assassination program, Tracie tortured a KGB operative to extract critical intelligence. In a fateful decision, she spared the Soviet operative's life. Now that man has returned, vowing to extract the ultimate vengeance on the woman who ...

What if the conspiracy theories are true? In The Shadow Protocols: Five Tales of Conspiracy and High Strangeness, award-winning journalist Chet Dembeck presents five chilling stories that blur the line between fiction and reality. From secret government projects that breach the barriers between dimensions, to cyber warfare that threatens the fabric of society itself, these tales explore the dark corners where truth and imagination collide. The Niverna Project reveals a classified experiment gone terrifyingly wrong. Between Dimensions asks what happens when reality tears and something comes ...

After a devastating bombing rocks Whitehall, British Prime Minister Gabriel Bryce awakens in hospital—injured, disoriented, and one of the few Cabinet members left alive. As the country descends into chaos, another explosion rips through Britain's largest mosque, killing hundreds. The perfect scapegoat? Danny Whelan, an Afghan war veteran with a murky past—now Europe's most wanted man.

Buying a seat belt doesn’t mean you have to necessarily crash the car, but someone forgot to tell a determined ex-Inspector Paul Devereaux. A presidential assassination, a complex political conspiracy and the murder of a data manipulating genius named Maddi Brown eventually combine to expose a group of powerful conspirators.Alison Zeigler is a maths prodigy who stumbles across a complex assassination plot when she works out what happened in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963, the day President Kennedy is murdered. So what is the link between a recognised mathematical genius, American citizen ...

In the shadowy world of international diplomacy, death is rarely what it seems. When Inter-Agency Liaison Investigator Derek Thomas arrives at the American Embassy in Brussels, he's told he's replacing a diplomat who committed suicide. But Thomas knows better—Lucius Briggs was murdered, and his death is just the first move in a deadly game. As Thomas unravels a conspiracy targeting a landmark African oil agreement, he discovers an assassination method so elegant it borders on artistry. The perfect crime, untraceable and seemingly impossible. His investigation leads him to Heidi McNamara, ...

A leading tech guru is the first—shot dead in public. A popular senator is brutally ambushed during lunchtime. A sniper’s surgical assassinations threaten to rip the country apart. Bob Stevens, a world-class sniper trained to kill by the military, is using his skills to eliminate the powerful elite who he believes are destroying the America he loves. After each kill, he leaves his calling card—a patch with the name of Detective Brian Kilbraide scrawled across it. A government Black Ops reinstates Kilbraide’s military commission and orders him to track down Stevens and take him out ...

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. When top executives at a defense department contracting agency are brutally murdered, CIA Director Aaron Stallings unleashes his secret weapon on the case, beautiful Black Ops specialist Tracie Tanner. She's been given instructions to follow the evidence wherever it leads and stop the killers at any cost, but almost immediately Tanner finds herself operating alone and without backup, knowing if she's caught or killed, the CIA will cut her loose like she never existed. The ...

If you read Vince Flynn and Brad Thor, you'll love the thrillers of Allan Leverone: When air traffic controller Nick Jensen's wife - a Pentagon auditor - is killed in a car accident under suspicious circumstances, a grief-stricken Nick throws himself into his work at Logan International Airport in Boston. Days later, on duty during a midnight shift, Nick spies three heavily armed men dressed in black fatigues patrolling the corridors of the supposedly secure FAA facility. Nick escapes capture by the thugs and with United States President Robert Cartwright scheduled to fly into Logan the ...

From the cunning, calculating, government-trained warriors to the psychopathic, homegrown freelancers, you can find them all in Assassinations: The Plots, Politics, and Powers Behind History-Changing Murders. Exposed are the hidden agendas as well as the open warfare. The cynical preparations and devastating aftermaths are laid bare. You will quickly find yourself immersed in a world that is filled with killings made to seem like suicides, murders that were designed to look like heart attacks or overdoses, and accidents that, in reality, were carefully orchestrated deaths.

Steve Mason is pulled out of retirement to track down a genius millionaire killer bent on assassinating the President of the United States. With little time and few clues, he traces Raymond Armstrong's last known steps and finds more than he bargained for. Using his skills crafted in the heart of South American drug country, Steve searches in a race against time. Yet, his search is not as clandestine as he would like. There is a mole in the highest levels of the agency. This fast-paced, high-octane thriller is filled with twists and turns that will keep you turning page after page.

Someone is spying on them. But who is it? Can they use it to their advantage? Winters must keep their plans close to the vest after suffering a major blow costing them lives. This fatal error weighs him down as he is forced to revisit his past. Can he move past this in time? Dark Toll is Book 4 in The Shadow Patriots series. Pick it up today! Revised and Updated April 2022

A group of foreign mercenaries hired as deniable assets by a newly-formed humanitarian division of the CIA is tasked with saving Mali’s persecuted Dogon people from genocide. The operation must be carried out in stealth while journeying across some of West Africa’s most hostile terrain. As if all that’s not enough, they are also instructed to help solve an ancient astronomical mystery linked to the pyramids of Egypt. Mission impossible? Duh! Nicknamed the Deniables because their existence isn’t officially acknowledged by the CIA, the mercenaries are crazy enough to accept the ...

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. The Amber Room treasure has been missing for nearly a half-century. But suddenly, finding it becomes of the utmost importance. When an elderly, anonymous West German man disappears, CIA Director Aaron Stallings dispatches Black Ops specialist Tracie Tanner to the scene. Working with the assistance of a CIA operative she's not sure she can trust, Tracie faces her toughest assignment yet - pick up the trail of the mysterious Amber Room key, utterly unique and critical to ...

Tony Acero, a Mexican-American veteran of four combat tours, has a problem on his hands. His undersized 13-year-old son Luke is floundering at his new Kansas prep school. To save the young teen from his downward spiral, and to cheer up older brother Matt, Tony proposes to take both sons on a elk hunt in Colorado. Meanwhile in Boston, rootless young brothers, Pel and Moom Adams, are plotting a Colorado expedition of their own. Radical anarchists, the brothers have contracted with a trio of hardened Chechen terrorists to carry out a plot that will shake America to the core.

Often, Heroism Is Perceived Rather than Real, especially in a Jack Watts Novel. Life isn’t neat and tidy. More often than not, it is a baffling conundrum that only makes sense from hindsight. Few things are as they appear. Most just amble through life, being oblivious about what is really happening. It requires great discernment to know what is true, as compared to what you believe is accurate. Because Crescent Moon Darkness is full of twists and turns—like a rollercoaster—it will challenge you in a good way and require your full attention.

The #1 Best-Selling Spy Novel On Amazon.com & Amazon UK* How do you catch a man who is never the same man twice? That is the question posed in The Ninth Orphan, a top-rated international thriller novel and the first book in The Orphan Trilogy. An orphan grows up to become an assassin for a highly secretive organization. When he tries to break free and live a normal life, he is hunted by his mentor and father figure, and by a female orphan he spent his childhood with. On the run, the mysterious man's life becomes entwined with his beautiful French-African hostage and a shocking past riddled ...