STEPHEN COONTS

"[A] Swashbuckling Thriller...Coonts takes us on a heck of a good ride."--"Kirkus Reviews""" In "Pirate Alley," a luxurious vacation cruise to the exotic locales of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden turns into a nightmare for passengers and crew when their ship is suddenly attacked and captured by a band of bloodthirsty Somali pirates. An initial rescue mission ends in failure--and the decks are covered in blood. Unless they are paid a ransom of $200 million within seven days, the pirates threaten to execute all their hostages. But information gleaned from a captured Al Qaeda operative indicates that there is a far more dangerous conspiracy afoot. "Coonts details this ship hijacking and take-down as if he has firsthand experience "with" the SEAL Teams."--Howard Wasdin, author of "Seal Team Six" Once the ransom is paid, Islamic militants intend to swoop in and slaughter the passengers in an orgy of terror, hoping to provoke a massive American military response that will set the Muslim world aflame. Jake Grafton is assigned to negotiate with the brutal pirate chief while his right-hand man, Tommy Carmellini, and a team of CIA and Navy SEAL operatives mount an undercover operation not only to save the hostages, but to keep the United States from being maneuvered into a murderous war... "A stomach-clenching nail-biter that will leave readers exhausted and satisfied."--"Publishers Weekly"

High stakes on the high seas- Jake Grafton and Tommy Carmellini combat Somali pirates in the deadly Gulf of Aden. Stephen Coonts is the author of sixteen New York Times bestsellers that have been t

En el Ártico, dos agentes de inteligencia norteamericanos son secuestrados mientras investigan la presencia secreta de submarinos nucleares rusos, ocultos bajo las capas de hielo. En Washington, el ex marine Charlie Dean y su equipo rastrean a la mafia rusa como implicada en el secuestro, que fija su objetivo en las enormes reservas de petróleo que se encuentran en el fondo del Ártico. Mientras Dean es enviado al Ártico para rescatar a los rehenes, la hermosa Francesca Lia se introduce en una dacha fuertemente custodiada a orillas del Mar Negro. Allí descubre la verdad sobre los planes rusos y su petróleo del Ártico... que podría conducir a las superpotencias del mundo al borde de la guerra.

Abu Qasim, el despiadado y astuto líder de Al Qaeda que casi consiguió volar una reunión del G-8 en París, se ha fugado y está tramando su siguiente paso. Un pequeño grupo de hombres poderosos, dirigentes de alto nivel de la industria y la política en Occidente, ha decidido acabar con el terrorista y su círculo antes de que pueda golpear de nuevo. Cuando un eminente disidente ruso es envenenado en Londres, sin embargo, está claro que hay una fuga muy peligrosa dentro de las filas occidentales, y ahora es Abu Qasim el que persigue, y su objetivo es matar. El almirante Jake Grafton envía al agente especial Tommy Carmellini para infiltrarse en la trama. Se realiza un seguimiento de la preciosa y seductora Marisa Petrou, una francesa que puede ser la hija de Qasim y que tiene sus propias razones para desear atraparlo vivo o muerto. Qasim, mientras tanto, tiene un as en la manga, planificado durante años

Abu Qasim, el despiadado y astuto líder de Al Qaeda que casi consiguió volar una reunión del G-8 en París, se ha fugado y está tramando su siguiente paso. Un pequeño grupo de hombres poderosos, dirigentes de alto nivel de la industria y la política en Occidente, ha decidido acabar con el terrorista y su círculo antes de que pueda golpear de nuevo. Cuando un eminente disidente ruso es envenenado en Londres, sin embargo, está claro que hay una fuga muy peligrosa dentro de las filas occidentales, y ahora es Abu Qasim el que persigue, y su objetivo es matar. El almirante Jake Grafton envía al agente especial Tommy Carmellini para infiltrarse en la trama. Se realiza un seguimiento de la preciosa y seductora Marisa Petrou, una francesa que puede ser la hija de Qasim y que tiene sus propias razones para desear atraparlo vivo o muerto. Qasim, mientras tanto, tiene un as en la manga, planificado durante años. Sobre el Autor Stephen Coonts es autor de catorce bestsellers aparecidos en las listas del New York Times, obras que han sido traducidas y publicadas en todo el mundo.

The mission seems routine: go to London, meet someone in a park, obtain a list of computers that are being used secretly by terrorists to pass messages. But just as Deep Black operatives Charlie Dean and Tommy Karr are about to meet their contact, a sniper guns the stranger down. A Deep Black investigation begins. Former Delta Force trooper Lia DeFrancesca gets called in to help and the three operatives start cracking some leads. But the investigation doesn't kick in to high gear until the murder is found to be connected to a devastating terrorist plot to set off a nuclear warhead in the Chunnel. The explosion will create an earthquake and thus a tsunami that will wipe out the coasts of France and England, killing hundreds of thousands . . .

Abu Qasim, the ruthless and cunning Al Qaeda leader who nearly succeeded in blowing up a meeting of the G-8 in Paris, has escaped from the grasp of the Americans and is plotting his next move. A small band of powerful men, highly placed leaders of industry and politics in the West, have decided they need to target and destroy the terrorist and his inner circle before he can strike again. When a prominent Russian dissident is poisoned in London, however, it¿s clear that there¿s a very dangerous leak within the ranks of the Westerners, and that Abu Qasim has turned the tables on his rivals---it is now he who is pursuing, and his aim is to kill. Admiral Jake Grafton dispatches special agent Tommy Carmellini to infiltrate the plot. He tracks the gorgeous and seductive Marisa Petrou, a Frenchwoman who may be Qasim¿s daughter and who has her own reasons for wanting him alive---or wishing him dead. Qasim, meanwhile, has a trick up his sleeve---one that he¿s been planning for years. Who is behind the methodical assassinations of the wealthy and powerful Western vigilante team? Will Abu Qasim slip the noose once again? In this pulse-pounding thriller, Tommy Carmellini must put a stop to a master of terror before he unleashes even more death.

Dr. James Kegan, a world-renowned scientist specializing in germ warfare, has vanished from his upstate New York home. But this is no ordinary missing-persons case. Kegan has left behind an unidentified dead man with a .22 caliber hole in his skull - and a contact trail that leads to an alleged terrorist cell. Unraveling the mystery is a job for Kegan's best friend, NSA operative Charlie Dean. His mission is to infiltrate the scientist's circle of associates and decipher Kegan's confidential research. Dispatched to cover Charlie is Delta Force trooper Lia Francesca. The trail leads them to the core of a widespread killer fever that's been dormant for centuries - and its link to a virus that's quickly spreading victim by victim. With time running out Charlie and Lia must find Kegan, uncover his secrets, cut a terrorist threat to the quick, and stop the unimaginable outbreak of a new biological nightmare.

The US Consul-General in Hong Kong, Virgil 'Tiger' Cole, was Jake Grafton's bombardier-navigator during the Vietnam War, and both have come a long way since: Grafton has risen to Rear Admiral, commanding a US aircraft carrier; Cole has become an internet billionaire, and a major political donor. Now something is going wrong in Hong Kong. A CIA agent is dead, as is a Chinese fixer too-closely associated with Cole. Grafton, his Chinese-speaking wife Callie, and CIA agent Tommy Carmellini are sent to find out what is going on, and what they begin to uncover horrifies Grafton. For Cole is closely involved in a conspiracy, code-named The Scarlet Team, to overthrow the Chinese communist government. Before long, Callie is kidnapped by members of The Scarlet Team, and as a revolution unfolds, Grafton faces a race against time to rescue his wife.

In Central Asia, a dangerous shipment has vanished. Twelve nuclear warheads—with a combined power greater than the Hiroshima bomb—have been stolen by a deadly new alliance of international terrorists. Their plan: Use man-made weapons to trigger a devastating natural catastrophe—the largest tsunami the world has ever seen… Enter Deep Black: a secret unit of the NSA led by former Marine sniper Charlie Dean. With his hand-picked team of special ops, Dean follows the terrorists' trail to the Canary Islands. But time is running out. In hours, the warheads will be detonated and a thousand-foot wave will rise. In it's path of destruction lies every city on America's eastern coast

Unafraid to walk both sides of the law to attain his goals, CIA operative Tommy Carmellini is sent to post guard duty at a farmhouse in West Virginia. When he arrives, he finds the guards shot dead and a ruthless team of American commandos killing everyone in sight. Carmellini escapes in a hail of bullets with what seems to be the sole survivor-a stunningly attractive translator, who then steals his car and abandons him after a deadly mountain car chase. But someone else survived the massacre-someone who holds the answers to a deadly conspiracy. Catapulted into a life and death struggle, Tommy must employ all his savvy and skill just to stay alive. But to find out who is hunting him and why, he'll need the help of retired Admiral Jake Grafton. Now they must learn to tell friend from foe as they fight their way through a poisonous wilderness of intrigue, all the way to a presidential convention in New York City-and to the surprising identity of someone standing on the verge of absolute power who has jeopardized the safety of the entire nation to prevent a dark secret from ever seeing the light of day...

On a quiet park bench in Manhattan---just miles from the ruins of the World Trade Center---spymaster Jake Janos Illin delivers a chilling secret message to Jake Grafton: A rogue Russian general has sold four nuclear warheads to a radical Islamic terrorist group, the Sword of Islam. The group intends to detonate them in America in the ultimate terror strike, the apocalypse that will trigger a holy war between Western civilization and the Muslim world. After passing Illin's message to his superiors, Grafton is charged by the president with the task of assembling a secret team to find the warheads before America's population centers are consumed by a nuclear holocaust.As he hunts for the terrorists, Grafton soon finds himself up to his neck in power politics, techno-billionaires, money-grubbing traitors, anarchists, and spies. He also discovers that the terrorists don't all come from the Middle East. They come from places close to home. They masquerade as patriots. Some may even have the president's ear.With the survival of Western civilization at stake, Grafton pulls out all the stops. Calling on the assistance of the indomitable Toad Tarkington, and CIA burglar Tommy Carmellini, he raids the prisons to assemble his team while the clock ticks toward Armageddon.Peopled with the rich, vivid characters that have made Stephen Coonts famous worldwide, Liberty is all action and suspense from the very first page. And it poses the unanswerable question: How far should civilization go to defend itself from its mortal enemies?