Young teenager Rab Burnside lives with Jesse his competitive brother and Buttons, their quixotic grandfather, on the windswept coast of Newfoundland during Queen Anne's War. One day, Buttons spots a mysterious ship sailing toward shore, doomed to crash into the shoals. Rab and Jesse scramble to save it and set in motion a series of events that take them on the trip of a lifetime. With their newfound ship and a family heirloom, a steel cutlass that can be used for maximum good or ill, the resourceful and determined Rab and Jesse, the youngest sailors of the Queen's Navy, and Buttons set off to...

Mick Pierce leads a peaceful existence posted as a CIA operative on the island of Taiwan. The last thing Washington policymakers suspect is a strike out of the blue.

But signs of looming political and natural disasters mount in a steady drumbeat, and Mick finds himself facing a perfect storm.

In a deadly super-typhoon, Mick is torn from his beautiful wife and separated from his erratic brother. He must fight his way across the island and contact the outside world.

Can he get word out in time to stop an international calamity in the making? Can he stir Washington to action? Is he truly...

Beside a mountain lake high above Taos, New Mexico, ex-CIA operative Mick Pierce comes face to face with his past. The brother he abandoned in the Bosnian War is still alive in Yugoslavia And the CIA needs someone to track him down, and kill him. It's the assignment every CIA operative dreads might come his way - to eliminate his own. But soon Mick realizes that he has no choice. Venturing back into Serbia, Mick encounters his brother all too soon. His brother is firing at him from a helicopter Heralded as "compelling" and "highly recommended" by Tales from a Small Planet, and lauded by...

Brad West is an anthropology student with in-depth knowledge of history, but little grasp of todays geopolitical realities.

Until he falls in love with a mysterious Chinese woman.

He realizes the enormous ramifications for his country, when he learns he is a pawn in a US government project to rescue China from a political coup.

When his girlfriend suddenly disappears from his college campus, Brad finds himself on a direct flight to Hong Kong. Not only must he hurdle linguistic and cultural barriers and evade Chinese security forces, he must find his girl, save her father, a dissident...

Brad West is happy with his anthropological pursuits in northern China when May, his seductive Chinese girlfriend, calls with disturbing news: She must leave him.

Is this a mere linguistic mix-up, or does she mean for good? To find out, Brad must fend off a brainwashed assassin, dodge oncoming trains and avoid a bloodthirsty mob in Beijing. But thats only the beginning.

It is an election year in America, a religious demagogue has captured the publics imagination, and rogue governors have barred all imports. The result is impending economic collapse and a battle for the American mind.

The...