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Release : Nov 2011


Hardcover
ISBN: 

978-1-6080902-29-7

Retail Price: $25.95

A top secret drone crashes in the lawless Horn of Africa. The CIA is prepared to write off the loss until evidence surfaces that the wreckage of their prized aircraft is hidden in a hangar outside Khartoum’s main airport. The hangar is owned by a shady cargo airline that flies ancient DC-3s across Africa and the Middle East. The name of the company does nothing to still concern: FBN–Fly By Night Aviation.

The U.S. government must find out what is in the hangar, and when an FBN airplane crashes, the opportunity arises to send an investigator to get to the bottom of things. Jammer Davis is the NTSB’s biggest headache, but also its best solo operator. He goes to Sudan in the name of solving an air crash, but with the true aim of locating the priceless remains of America’s latest technological marvel.

As Davis enters this inhospitable world, he finds the two disparate mysteries strangely intertwined.  True to his nature, Davis barges ahead. Yet everything he finds takes him in reverse, disproving what little he has been given as fact. From Khartoum, to the Sudanese desert, to the Red Sea, Davis is unstoppable. He soon discovers that more is at stake, an incredible conspiracy that will tear the region apart. And one that will threaten America like nothing before.


Release : Sept 2010


Hardcover
ISBN: 

978-1-933515-86-1

Retail Price: $25.95
 
     It is the world’s most advanced cargo aircraft. The C-500 is a revolutionary flying wing design, a fuel-sipping behemoth that has become the airframe of choice for freight operators worldwide. Until a routine delivery goes horribly wrong.
 
    Falling like a stone from six miles up, a brand new C-500 crashes in central France. Two pilots are dead. With over a hundred of the type already in service, interest is keen to get to the bottom of the mystery. France takes over a highly public air crash investigation. The aircraft is built by an international consortium, a company funded by a group of oil-rich states. Given the global nature of the design, governments and corporations across the world have a stake in the outcome. The French call in the best experts available. They call in Jammer Davis.

    A retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, Davis is on the NTSB’s “go team.” He’s an experienced investigator, a no-nonsense guy with a reputation for getting things done—and pissing people off. He’s also a widower who is struggling to raise a teenage daughter. Davis initially turns down the assignment, not wanting to leave home, but reluctantly he accepts. Right away he runs into trouble. The other investigators have padlocked their attention on the crew. The captain of the tragic flight was dealing with a divorce, and had recently gone through alcohol rehab. Then the Frenchman in charge of the investigation makes a stunning public accusation—the crash was an act of suicide on the part of the captain.

    Davis shifts into high gear, only to be sideswiped by his own first finding. His very appointment to the inquiry was not by chance. He has been inserted by the CIA. Davis is drawn into an uneasy relationship with Anna Sorensen, an undeniably attractive CIA officer who suspects that the aircraft manufacturer may have a highly disreputable partner—Caliph, the world’s most elusive terrorist. The two navigate through an investigation that is clearly spinning its wheels. Soon, however, news of the air crash is driven to page two by an even more spectacular disaster.

    Groups of suicide bombers attack oil refineries across the world, sending governments and financial markets into a reactive tailspin. The United States, having the most to lose, ratchets up its efforts to find the man responsible—the White House wants Caliph. Yet he seems a ghost, the only clue to his whereabouts being a dubious messenger, a wretched Arab woman who is as inept as Caliph is cunning. More refinery attacks leave a world on the edge of economic ruin. Gasoline is hoarded, rationing is implemented, financial markets dive.
 
    Jammer Davis keeps digging. He finds tainted evidence, runs into a late-night scrum. Nothing stops his progress. And when Davis uncovers the true cause of the crash, it is a conspiracy of unthinkable proportions. 

    A conspiracy he may not be able to stop.

Release: Oct 2008

ISBN: 
978-1-933515-17-5
Retail Price: $24.95
Hardcover

 

     When the balance of world power is at stake, the fight for control could be explosive.  In the last days of WWII, the Third Reich makes a desperate grab to retrieve its most valuable asset, Die Wespe, a spy buried deep in the Manhattan Project. The man chosen for this mission is Alexander Braun---American born, Harvard educated, and a ruthless killer.

     British Intelligence learns of the Nazi plan. Unable to convince their American counterparts of the magnitude of the threat, they dispatch Major Michael Thatcher to track down Braun.

     The trail leads to Rhode Island, where Lydia Cole, a young heiress, has unwittingly taken Braun back into her life. Braun is forced to run, and there is one place where he must go--Los Alamos, home of the Manhattan Project.

     On July 16, 1945, the world’s first atomic bomb is tested – code named Trinity. In the days that follow, four people – a tenacious British investigator, a determined young woman, a killer, and the spy who could compromise America’s greatest scientific endeavor – will have a fateful rendezvous, all vying for control of the secret that will shape the world.

 


WINNER
National Best Books 2008 - Fiction & Literature:Thriller/Adventure

Indie Next Notable November 2008
 

Praise for Stealing Trinity     Reviews



ISBN:

978-1-933515-01-4

Retail Price: $22.95
Hardcover

Award-Winning Finalist
"Best Books 2006"
   The Atlantic:  A young woman sailing solo across the Atlantic makes an incredible discovery – a man narrowly clinging to life in the open ocean.  But the desperate survivor is more than he appears.  He is a Kidon – an Israeli assassin who forcibly commandeers her boat with a new destination in mind, England.  There the two are forced into an uneasy partnership as they run from a secretive and lethal organization.  The resulting wake of destruction brings Scotland Yard to the hunt – searching for an accomplished killer and a woman whose life has be capsized.  One Shot: The Kidon soon uncovers the true enemy – a manipulator responsible for the tragic event that shaped him to be what he is.  There is only one solution.   With deliberate, inescapable precision, he will hunt down the one who created... The Perfect Assassin.

WINNER
Royal Palm Literary Awards 2007
Published Mystery/Suspense Category

GOLD MEDALIST
Military Writers Society of America Book Awards
Fiction Category

SILVER MEDALIST
ForeWord Book of the Year Award 2006
Mystery Category

Finalist - Award - Fiction & Literature: 
Mystery/Suspense Category
National Best Books 2006

Finalist - Mystery/Suspense/Thriller Category
INDIE Excellence 2006 Award


Praise for The Perfect Assassin    Reviews
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