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The death of a French intelligence agent on an Air France flight to Amman, Jordan, is the trigger for Tommy Carmellini''s latest adventure.Within the European Union, the national espionage agencies are fiercely competing for supremacy against each other - and against the CIA. When the Americans discover that the director of the French spy agency has secret investments in the Bank of Palestine, alarm bells go off. To investigate, the Americans send Jake Grafton, who has been brought back from retirement to unravel a tangle of espionage, terrorism and murder. And of course, the man Grafton wants on the point is Tommy Carmellini. Together they uncover an elaborate strategy to infiltrate the highest levels of Al Qaeda with a top-level plant - but who is playing whom? As Carmellini delves deep undercover he finds he is running for his life. Grafton and Carmellini uncover a horrifying plan to shake the West as never before - and a Catch 22: can they stop the conspiracy without compromising the intelligence source that could bring down Al Qaeda once and for all?

Tommy Carmellini, hero of Liars & Thieves, sets aim on a deadly international conspiracy in this latest offering from suspense master Stephen Coonts

An enigmatic Russian spymaster makes contact with Jake Grafton in the aftermath of the savage attacks on the World Trade Center in New York to give him a warning. A disaffected Russian general has sold four tactical nuclear weapons to the Sword of Islam, a terrorist organisation determined to mount a deadly strike designed to destroy the US as a world power. The goal is nothing less than the final destruction of western civilisation. This time, Jake learns, the foreign terrorists have domestic friends. Someone within America wants the attack to succeed. Fighting bureaucrats and traitors, Jake Grafton is up to his eyes in agents and double agents with time running out as he hunts for the weapons.

Coonts''s perennial hero Admiral Jack Grafton is after a crooked Russian general who is believed to have sold nuclear arms to a particularly evil terrorist group called the "Sword of Islam." It''s up to Grafton to stop them by any means possible from launching nuclear weapons on American soil--even if he incurs the wrath of the FBI and the CIA. The conclusion of the chase takes place inside the Statue of Liberty, with Grafton at his best.

Coonts''s popular hero, Jake Grafton, returns in a geopolitical tale of missing American attack submarines and the final appearance of ''Son of STAR WARS'' - America''s space-based anti-ballistic missile system. America''s newest attack submarine the USS America has been stolen by a rogue CIA team, and Jake Grafton is drafted in to investigate. When the sub fires cruise missiles - containing new, classified, electromagnetic warheads - over Washington and then New York, trillion-watt pulses fry every circuit, switch, and microchip - along with a major portion of the internet . . . AMERICA is a brilliantly gripping thriller encompassing huge concepts and worldwide action.

Rugged geologist Rip Cantrell unearths a 140,000 year old flying saucer in the Sahara, setting off a comic series of misadventures that take him across the world and back.

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