Silver Finalist 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award. Mystery/SuspenseFinalist - 2008 Book of the Year Award by ForeWord MagazineFinalist 2008 USA Best Book Award Japan] An intelligence analyst is murdered on temple grounds. Manila] Two embassy guards go missing and a bizarre execution video is discovered by a special-forces team. New York] Martial arts expert Connor Burke is hired as a consultant for an elite US Army training program. Mindanao Philippines] A young Japanese ethnographer from Harvard University is kidnapped by a terrorist cell of Abu Sayeff. A renegade martial arts Sensei known as...

Bronze Winner - 2012 eLit AwardsFinalist - 2012 USA Best Books Award In the seemingly trackless waste of the desert outside Tucson, Arizona, a coyote cross border smuggler is found dead, another victim of the escalating violence on the southwest border.At the same time, a mysterious best-selling writer's death deepens the controversy surrounding his works.Rumors surround the late Elliot Westmann, with dark hints of mystic vendettas and a confrontation with an assassin sent to punish Westmann for violating a code of secrecy in his books.Westmann's daughter hires Connor Burke to assist in...