19th-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In France, during the Paris Commune, people eat mice, plan bombings and rebellions in the streets, and celebrate Black Masses. Every nation has its own secret service and secret organizations that are plotting against each other, perpetrating conspiracies...

When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens. One night, Cutler follows Walsh to a secret meeting with Christopher Farrington, the president of the United States. The following morning, Walsh's dead body shows up and Cutler has to...

"From the award-winning and bestselling author of Black Buck, a speculative novel about a young woman--invisible by birth and relegated to second-class citizenship--who sets off on a mission to find her older brother, whom she had presumed dead but who is now the primary suspect in a high-profile political murder"-- "Despite the odds, Sweetmint, a young invisible woman, has done everything right her entire life--school, university, and now a highly...

President Francis Xavier Kennedy is elected to office, thanks largely to the legacy of his forebearers -- good looks, privilege, wealth. He is the very embodiment of youthful political optimism. But the political process gets to him and, unbelievably for intimates and the public alike, he suffers something very like a personality change. When a terrorist targets his daughter, Kennedy responds with bloody decision. Not for nothing has he studied the...

A suspense novel that blends elements of the political and social upheaval of the Middle East, Mafia intrigues, and the machinations of Saddam Hussein.

His job is to keep terrorists off American soil. But when he fails and an assassin sets his sights on an innocent woman, America's future is in the line of fire. The Gatekeeper. He let a killer in, now he's got to let him out. Hollis Fremont is a keen, resourceful, gutsy woman who battles relentlessly to free her life from threats of violence and death. As an innocent trapped in high-stakes affairs, Hollis is forced to rely on her instinct, intelligence,...

Saddam Hussein develops a plan to steal a part of U.S. history and then destroy that symbol in front of the world's media.

"A historical thriller that takes streetwise but reluctant investigator CJ Floyd into the bowels of one of the most intriguing assassination cases in world history as he tries to find out how JFK was set up for the kill and who really killed him"--Provided by publisher.