Thy Kingdom Come: Book One in the Sam Thorpe series (40 page)
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Authors: Don Helin
“Oliver might have been the brains of the operation, but Aly’s company was the supplier. Do we have enough to go after him?”
“The attorney general thinks we have a case. The corporation will claim that Kassim acted on his own. You know, they’ll say they didn’t know anything about what he was doing. That sort of thing.”
“Right.”
“A lot is going to be determined by whether or not we can turn the professor. He knows the stakes. I believe we’ll be able to gain his support in exchange for a lighter sentence. He’s got personal information about Kassim’s involvement. I think the testimony of the two of you could hang them high.”
“What about Dubois?”
General Gerber shook his head. “He’s slipped under our screen. We’ve alerted the Canadian government. They’re watching the restaurant and his wife. We’ll find him.”
Sam wondered if the Canadian government would find him. Dubois had shown himself to be a slippery character … someone who could carry a grudge for a long time. Something about his getting away ate at Sam and made him uncomfortable. “And Elizabeth Henley? What’s going on with her?”
Gerber looked down at a paper. “Apparently she’s disappeared, too.”
“I heard from Bob O’Brien they have a lead on Sergeant Bacher. He’s a dedicated soldier gone bad.”
“I’m afraid the Army has a number of Bacher’s in the system. With all the problems we’ve got in retaining soldiers, recruiting command has dropped a number of enlistment requirements. Now we’re receiving reports of groups of neo-Nazis in the military. We’re a victim of our own high quality training programs.”
“And the public’s frustration with the war in Iraq isn’t helping with recruitment and retention in the Guard.”
“All true, I’m afraid.” The general stood. “Sam, I’d like to personally thank you for taking on this assignment. I know that you had reservations about it. A tough job. You did it well. Your country thanks you.”
Sam stood and shook the general’s hand. “I’m glad about the way it turned out. It could have been so much worse. I’d better get moving, sir. I’ve got some shopping to do before I catch my plane.”
“And I’ll bet a stop to see Alex.”
Sam flushed, then grinned. He couldn’t help himself. “Well, I guess that too.”
“Chernobyl Murders is a page-turner of the highest order: from the compelling characterization to the vividly described landscape of a devastated Ukraine to the stunning cover art, Beres has penned himself a winner.”
—Paul Goat Allen,
Chicago Tribune
(September 13, 2008)
MICHAEL BERES CHERNOBYL MURDERS
1985, a year before the Chernobyl disaster. Hidden away in a wine cellar in the western Ukraine, Chernobyl engineer Mihaly Horvath, brother of a Kiev Militia detective Lazlo Horvath, reveals details of unnecessary risks being taken at the Chernobyl plant. Concerned for his brother and family, Lazlo investigates—irritating superiors, drawing the attention of a CIA operative, raising the hackles of an old school KGB major, and discovering his brother’s secret affair with Juli Popovics, a Chernobyl technician.
When the Chernobyl plant explodes scores of lives are changed forever. As Lazlo questions his brother’s death in the blast, Juli arrives in Kiev to tell the detective she carries his brother’s child. If their lives aren’t complicated enough, KGB major Grigor Komarov enters the fray, reawakening a hard-line past to manipulate deadly resources.
Now the Ukraine is not only blanketed with deadly radiation, but becomes a killing ground involving pre-perestroika factions in disarray, a Soviet government on its last legs, and madmen hungry for power as they eye Gorbachev’s changes.
With a poisoned environment at their backs and a killer snapping at their heels, Lazlo and Juli flee for their lives—and their love—toward the Western frontier.
ISBN# 9781933836294
Hardcover/International Thriller
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a Matt Berkeley novel by
WILLIAM KERR
From Florida’s northeast coast and the unnerving underwater exploration of a sunken corpse-filled WW-II German U-boat to the ancient city of Koblenz, Germany, former Navy Special Warfare officer Matt Berkeley searches for identification of the submarine, its mission and a long-hidden document locked within its hull.
Berkeley’s pursuit of the truth leads him not only to the vaults of the German National Archives and a nightmare of gunfire and murder, but also to an elderly widow and her horrifying memories of the Auschwitz death camp. Ultimately, the search takes him to the submarine’s most guarded secret, a revelation that could forever disgrace the Catholic Church in the eyes of the world. Each mind-shattering event plunges Berkeley down a path littered with lies, betrayal, death, and the discovery of a single gold ingot bearing … the
Mark of the Devil.
ISBN# 9781934755532
Trade Paperback / Thriller
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Chastised for not cooperating with the oil company giant New World Petroleum, zoologist Cassidy Lowell is reassigned from the jungles of the Niger Delta to Yellowstone National Park, where wolves are disappearing. Jake Anderson, Special Forces operative, is working within the shadows of Cassidy’s organization, Zoological Environmental Bio Research Agency. His mission? To determine the threatening connection between ZEBRA and NWP.
An alarming genetic mutation of the parvovirus is discovered: CPV-19: human parvovirus merged with canine. And the virus is loose in Yellowstone. Murder, execution, and deadly helicopter rides lead Jake and Cassidy down a road rife with double-crossing and an underlying plot that forces them back to the Niger Delta and into the heart of NWP.
This is the twenty-first-century gold rush—welcome to the dark side!
ISBN# 9781934755556
Hardcover/Fiction
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KILL ZONE
Psychologist Morgan Cabot commands a special military support team that provides a unique service. While they are highly trained for military combat, their special abilities don’t require training—they are gifts. Dr. Cabot and her teammates, Taylor Lee and Jazie Craig, are “highly intuitive”: they hear, feel, and see things that others can’t. They are the Special Abilities Team, and they function outside of normal protocol—and the American public can never know of their existence.
The Secretary of Defense of the United States has called upon Cabot’s team to stop Thomas Kunz, a sadistic terrorist who specializes in black market arms sales and intelligence brokering.
Kunz’s brand of terrorism threatens the United States on multiple levels—his funding is infinite and his reach is global. His modus operandi, using doubles to infiltrate and gather classified information, puts him in a unique position to make the fears of every American citizen a reality.
Colonel Jackson Stern and his brother, Bruce, a biological warfare expert, have become Kunz’s lastest targets. When Bruce’s wife is found stabbed to death, Jackson dedicates himself to a quest for the truth.
Will Morgan’s team help Jackson uncover Kunz’s secret plans before it is too late? Or will the most secretive terrorist organization in the world transform America into a terrifying and deadly Kill Zone?
ISBN# 9781934755617
Mass Market/Suspense
US $7.95/CDN $8.95
JULY 2009
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