![]() Jake Grafton takes his wife, Callie, along when the U.S. government sends him to Hong Kong to find out how deeply the U.S. consul-general is embedded in a political money-raising scandal. And why not? Jake and Callie met and fell in love in Hong Kong during the Vietnam War, and the consul-general is an old friend from those days, Tiger Cole. ![]() This time, for Admiral Jake Grafton, the stakes are chillingly personal... ![]() Landing an excruciating eight-month cruise on an aircraft carrier, Navy lieutenant Jake Grafton is ordered to teach his Marine charges about carrier aviation and is met with strong hostility. Reprint. ![]() 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. ![]() Jake Grafton, former Vietnam pilot and air-wing commander, has been assigned to the Pentagon. His orders are to lead the development of the navy's new top-secret attack plane, the A-12. But, faced with political and technical problems at every turn, he soon finds himself drawn into a hunt for the Minotaur - a mole hidden in the Pentagon who is selling America's most precious defence secrets. The FBI's chief spy-catcher is hot on the Minotaur's trail - or is he? Just who are the traitors? Four people are dead and a test pilot is near death before Grafton homes in on the shocking identity of the Minotaur - and his even more chilling motive ... ![]() Rear Admiral Jake Grafton is dispatched to Moscow to ensure that the twenty thousand tactical nuclear weapons about to be auctioned off by the Soviet military do not fall into the hands of terrorists. 250,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour. ![]() The death of a French intelligence agent on an Air France flight to Amman, Jordan, is the trigger that launches 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? |
![]() With Flight of the Intruder, Final Flight and The Minotaur, Stephen Coonts has established himself as one of the nation's premier novelists of technological suspense thrillers. Following the Summer '90 release of the major film version of Flight of the Intruder, the pool of Coonts fans will surely increse. Coonts' hero Jake Grafton is back in D.C. as the war on drugs escalates to an unexpected climax. ![]() Ralph Peters follows a German officer in the starving days after World War II as he makes his way on foot back home, where a defeat far more terrible than the Allied victory awaits him. ![]() The author of Flight of the Intruder presents twenty-six real-life accounts of aerial warfare, drawn from a variety of sources, including ""The Hero's Life"" by Captain Eddie V. Rickenbacker, ""The Flight of the Enola Gay"" by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts, and Ted Lawson's ""The Doolittle Raid."" ![]() An excellent book for anyone who wants to understand why so much software is so poorly designed and an even better book for anyone who wants to DO something about the problem. Must reading (and doing!) for programmers of any level. ![]() "WANTED. YOUNG, SKINNY, WIRY FELLOWS. NOT OVER 18. MUST BE EXPERT RIDERS. WILLING TO RISK DEATH DAILY. ORPHANS PREFERRED." —California newspaper help wanted ad, 1860 ![]() In the not-too-distant future, an assassination attempt by Libyan terrorists sparks an Egyptian retaliatory raid across the borders. As the conflict intensifies, U.S. and Soviet troops are drawn into the battle. Front-line s oldiers on both sides embark on daring commando raids and face horrifi c nerve gas attacks. ![]() Trapped in Eastern Europe by a united Germany with atomic weapons, an American armyled by Lieutenant General ""Big Al"" Malinmust fight its way to the safety of the Baltic Sea. |