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In this third Keenan Fitzpatrick Mystery, Fitz is called in to investigate a double homicide in the sleepy outback of Nevada. The county commission has illegally suspended the duly-elected sheriff and installed a young deputy with no tangible investigative experience. When Fitz gets to this former stagecoach stop by the old Pony Express, he immediately clashes with the locals. Soon, Fitz is butting heads with the federal government and established families that want this case to just go away.

T.S. Eliot tells us in his poem “The Hollow Men” that the world will end not with a bang, but with a whimper. Well, he was wrong. Dead wrong. When death and destruction come, the screams of terror, horror, and excruciating pain will rend the blood-red sky and be heard across the world. When your number is up, there’s nowhere to run and no place to hide. You can't cheat death; death will find you. It always does.

Jake Adams, former CIA officer and Air Force Intelligence captain, is back with a new thrilling adventure. This second installment pits Jake against some of the most idealistic terrorists ever to strap on a suicide bomb. Jake is hired by a Portland, Oregon company as a private security agent during an international agriculture conference in Odessa, Ukraine.

When a tech rep in charge of an avionics retrofit at a United States Air Base in Germany comes up missing, Jake Adams, a former Air Force intelligence and CIA officer, is hired to find him. Was the man selling vital technology for the new Joint Strike Fighter? Back in a changed Europe, Adams struggles to survive in a world where profits are more important than past ideologies. Conspiracy, murder, espionage and mystery lead Jake Adams from an aircraft carrier off the coast of Italy, to the chilly banks of the Rhine. Can Adams keep the technology away from ruthless German and Hungarian agents?

Karl Adams is a new CIA officer undercover and immersed in Murmansk, Russia, as a Spanish graduate student at the local university. On a cold February night, while flying a drone, he takes video of a missile on a transporter erector launcher being loaded aboard a merchant ship. This could be a violation of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed by Reagan and Gorbachev.

When Max Kane gets word that a retired Navy SEAL friend of his has been picked up for suspicion of murder, he rounds up his sister and they drive to NAS Corpus Christi, Texas to discover the truth...Max must fight JAG lawyers who don’t seem interested in alternative theories, as well as an old friend who might have been too drunk to know if he killed his former wife. As everything seems to be stacked against this highly-decorated SEAL, Max relentlessly fights for the truth. Can he return his friend’s stolen honor and find the killer?

CIA officer Karl Adams has become a Russian SVR officer. He is also living with a beautiful GRU officer in Moscow, the daughter of the general in charge of the GRU, general of the army, and minister of defense. He is now undercover so deep that his own agency has no idea what he’s doing. The CIA has resorted to old-school dead drops to contact Karl. The Russians are actively recruiting agents worldwide, but especially across the Baltic region, attempting to build hegemony over former satellite states.

CIA Officer Karl Adams is undercover in Moscow, Russia, tracking a professor of international relations and geostrategic studies. A series of brutal events forces Karl to escape on the Trans-Siberian Railway toward the Russian Far East, where he must encounter a new threat. Soon, the murder of a passenger puts Karl in the cross-hairs of a brusque old Russian police officer. Karl must now prove his innocence while maintaining his legend as a college grad student.

CIA Officer Karl Adams is now deep undercover within Russia, having recently finished training as an SVR officer. With his perfect English language skills, Karl is tasked to travel to America to infiltrate a high-tech aerospace company as an engineer. As Karl makes his way back to America, he must make tough decisions. He knows he can’t steal this new technology for his current Russian organization, because he is still a CIA officer and a loyal American citizen.

In a world where nothing is private, Clive Stark has found it difficult to comply to the new norms of society. Like so many others from America, Clive finds himself in a reeducation camp on a remote island in frigid waters. Here he awakes from a deep sleep and can’t remember anything from his past. When Ruby is assigned as his reintroduction Navigator, Clive starts to understand the reality of his new existence.

Deep undercover CIA Officer Karl Adams finds himself on a mission with his GRU officer wife in the US Virgin Islands, where he and Olga must trade wits with American intelligence officers. Karl soon discovers that things are not as they seem in this serene Caribbean paradise. Meanwhile, the CIA is in transition during a change of administrations, and Karl is concerned that his status could change without warning. While the husband-and-wife team struggle with life together, Karl begins to question how he can keep his various personas alive.

When former Reno, Nevada, sheriff Keenan Fitzpatrick wins a free moose hunting trip to Newfoundland, Canada, he is happy to get away from his current job as a casino security officer. Shortly after arriving at the isolated hunting lodge forty miles from the nearest road, a man is shot to death. The other guests and guides immediately recruit Fitz to solve the murder. But without any technology to run background on all of the characters at the lodge, Fitz must rely only on his personal skills to uncover the killer.

Warfield hires Chad Hunter, a private weapons designer who had worked for the German company, to go to Germany to convince the company that Warfield is the perfect partner. To sweeten the deal, Hunter must first convince Frank Baldwin, a struggling optics engineer from Wyoming, who has developed the most advanced rifle scope ever conceived, that his scope would be the perfect match for this new German rifle.

During Burning Man, the annual event of debauchery and independent self-reliance, a woman is found dead in a high-end RV, suspected to have overdosed on drugs. Former sheriff Keenan Fitzpatrick is hired by the woman's boyfriend to discover the true nature of her death. But there are complicating factors. First of all, the boyfriend is an actor who is starring in a detective series filming in the Reno, Nevada, area. Second, the actor is a conspiracy enthusiast who sees a government plot in everything from Bigfoot to Area 51.

Max Kane continues to wander around the country, solving crimes and helping people. When his twin sister Robin invites him to drive out east on a personal journey of discovery, he drops everything to help her out. After a DNA test turns up relatives that neither of the twins knew existed, both of them are skeptical, uncertain, but hopeful for what they might find in rural Vermont. How could they have living relatives, since their parents had always said they were the last of the Kane clan?

Jake Adams is back with his fourth thrilling adventure. When an old Cold Warrior from Russia asks Jake to observe the launch of their newest ICBM, Jake finds himself in the taiga of the Russian Far East. But something goes terribly wrong with the missile, and the Russians discover an American plane has shot down the missile with their new Airborne Laser system. This event sets into motion a chain of events that span from the United States capitol, California, the Pacific Northwest, a remote Aleutian Island, and across the Pacific to China and South Korea.

CIA Officer Karl Adams continues up the ranks in the Russian SVR as Nikolai "Niko" Ivanov. When the director of the SVR calls him into his office, Karl wonders if they have discovered his secret. Instead, the director tasks Niko to travel to Hong Kong to investigate the death of two SVR officers. Additionally, he must continue their mission to recruit a high-level engineer to defect with top-secret information. When Karl’s CIA contact discovers his Hong Kong mission, he demands loyalty to the agency, along with information America can use in the war in space.

Johann is at a crossroads in his life. He is living a simple life in northern Minnesota, teaching disinterested students high school English, and contemplating retirement. But he carries with him dark secrets from his past as a sailor during the Vietnam War. His scars, both physical and psychological, have been suppressed for decades. Now, when he feels that the final chapter of his life might be over, he embarks on a journey across the country to visit the remaining men from his navy squadron. What he discovers could propel him into his golden years, or send him to an early grave.

Brother and sister team Max and Robin Kane are hired by an old high school friend to look into the mysterious death of his brother in a Wyoming mining incident. Max must first break the barrier of small-town law enforcement and the powerful mining company to discover the truth. When Max invariably rubs folks the wrong way, he must not only search for a killer, but also keep himself alive. The old west comes to life again in a battle over rights of the individual and those of powerful forces determined to profit from the land.

Max Kane and his sister Robin are hired to discover what happened to a young forest service worker in the vast Boundary Waters canoe area wilderness of Northern Minnesota. Was she, as the local authorities surmise, attacked and killed by a rogue black bear like her male colleague, or did she simply escape the bear and get lost in the massive wilderness? According to her sister, this was impossible.