Book Preview I would like to thank Tony Gleason for his insights into military law, Reid Boates for his editorial suggestions and Nick Ellison for his consistent support. And many thanks to Kathleen Haley for her dedicated assistance. Thanks also to Sergeant First Class Susan Rueger at Fort Hamilton and Dr. Russell Gilmore, Director of … Read more
Book Preview Author’s Note When fact and fiction are combined in novels, it’s not always clear to the reader which is which. Early readers of the manuscript for Wild Fire have asked me what is real and what is a figment of my imagination, so I thought I’d address that here. First, the Anti-Terrorist Task … Read more
Book Preview CHAPTER ONE Bad things come in threes. The first bad thing was a voice mail from Cynthia Sunhill, my former partner in the army’s Criminal Investigation Division. Cynthia is still with the CID, and she is also my significant other, though we were having some difficulties with that job description. The message said, … Read more
Book Preview Talbot Odyssey Nelson DeMille For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret: the Russians have a mole—code-named Talbot—inside the CIA. At first Talbot is suspected of killing European agents. Then a street–smart ex-cop uncovers a storm of espionage and murder on the streets of New York, while in a … Read more
Book Preview Author’s Note Regarding the spelling of Arabic words in this novel, I’ve used a variety of sources in transliterating. There is no standard transliteration of Arabic script into American English, and in some cases I simply used phonetic spelling to make it easy for the reader. I mention this up front with the … Read more
Book Preview It’s often easier to write an introduction to a book that’s been around a while; the introduction becomes, in a sense, more of a thoughtful retrospective on the book, written with the advantages of hindsight and history. The Lion’s Game was written in 1999 and published in January 2000. I make this point … Read more
Book Preview The Anti-Terrorist Task Force (ATTF) represented in this novel is based on the actual Joint Terrorism Task Force, though I have taken some literary license where necessary. The Joint Terrorism Task Force is an organization of dedicated, professional, and hardworking men and women who are in the front line in the war on … Read more
Book Preview Acknowledgments I wish to thank Daniel and Ellen Barbiero for sharing with me their invaluable insights into Gold Coast life, and also Audrey Randall Whiting for sharing with me her knowledge of Gold Coast history. I would also like to acknowledge my gratitude to Harry Mariani for his generous hospitality and support. I … Read more
Book Preview This book, on its most basic level, is a murder mystery that happens to be set on an Army post. But on another level, it is a story about the unique subculture of the military, about military law, and about women in the military, and how all of these elements come together on … Read more
Book Preview How beauteous is this garden; where the flowers of the earth vie with the stars of heaven. What can compare with the vase of yon alabaster fountain filled with crystal water? Nothing but the moon in her fulness, shining in the midst of an unclouded sky! — Inscription on a wall of Alhambra … Read more
Book Preview ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to thank my half-blooded and full-blooded Russian friends, Nicholas Ellison, Nanscy Neiman-Legette, Nicholai Popoff, and Svetlana, my spiritual guides through the labyrinth of the Russian soul. And thanks, too, to Bob Whiting, who taught me to swear in Russian. And special gratitude to Ginny Witte for her devotion to this … Read more
Book Preview Otis Parker was dead. Killed by a falling bookcase whose shelves were crammed with very heavy reading. Total weight about a thousand pounds, which flattened Mr. Parker’s slight, 160-pound body. A tragic accident. Or so it seemed. To back up a bit, I’m Detective John Corey, working out of the First Precinct Detective … Read more
Book Preview I’d like to thank three fellow authors for sharing with me their expertise: Pete Earley, Washington insider; Tom Block, airline captain and novelist; John Westermann, law enforcement officer and novelist. Also, my thanks to my Ohio in-laws, Al and Carol Schad, and Mike and Melinda Myers for their help with research for this … Read more
Book Preview As I learned in high school biology, the female of the species is often more dangerous than the male. Maybe that was true in the animal kingdom, I remember thinking, but with human beings, the male was more dangerous. I changed my mind about this when I crossed paths with a very deadly … Read more
Book Preview I am grateful to the following individuals for sharing their special knowledge with me. Any errors or omissions in the story are mine and mine alone. Also, I have taken a small measure of literary license here and there, but for the most part, I have tried to stay true to the information … Read more
Book Preview Author’s Note This is a work of fiction, based on fact: the crash of TWA Flight 800 that occurred off Long Island, New York, on July 17, 1996. The characters in this novel are fictional, though there are passing references to actual persons. The events of July 17, 1996, that I describe in … Read more
Book Preview Silhouetted against the deep blue horizon of the stratosphere, Trans-United Flight 52 cruised westbound toward Japan. Below, Captain Alan Stuart could see pieces of the sunlit Pacific between the breaks in the cloud cover. Above was subspace—an airless void without sun or life. The continuous shock wave generated by the giant craft’s supersonic … Read more
Book Preview On a pleasant Friday afternoon in June, best-selling author Jack Henry sat in the study of his Upper East Side townhouse. He had put his creative writing aside and was now focused on his finances—bills, income projections, royalty statements, and pending deals. After a few hours, he was coming to the realization that … Read more