When Captain Niko Constantine (able seaman and womanizer of note) is selected to command the largest cruise ship in the world, he looks forward to enjoying the most challenging, exciting journey of his life. But what he doesn't know is that a group of jihadist terrorists is plotting to turn the luxury liner's maiden voyage into a trip to hell. Once again Aiden de Vries has written a riveting story about Ivan Welland, the hero of "Council of Caliphs," who is suddenly called upon to save the carefree passengers from certain death. This time, right out of the blue, he and his team of Navy Seals...

When the State Department sends Harvard PhD student Ivan Welland to Chechnya, he sees it as a perfect chance to gather material for his dissertation. Little does he know that he will soon become involved with an imam in a local mosque who turns out to be one of the most dangerous Islamist jihadist terrorists in the Muslim world. Thus begins an exciting and challenging mission in the life of this bookish academic. He discovers the headquarters of a council of caliphs that directs terrorist attacks worldwide, and he uses his academic training to come up with a startling plan for mounting a...

Dr. Ivan Welland's effort to restore democracy, amend the Constitution, and force the corrupt and treasonous President to return to the principles of the founding fathers becomes a deadly adventure into the realm of murderous power mongers, FBI investigations, and federal prosecutions by the U.S. Attorney.

After a meteoric rise in the Government, Ivan Welland is appointed Secretary of Defense by the newly-elected President. Realizing that defense is not possible until peace is secured, he evolves a plan whereby, with the help of his faithful team and some remarkable supporters, he is able to thwart the many enemies of global harmony and offer the President a brilliant new program to make peace and true defense a welcome reality for all.

When Ivan Welland discovers that the freedom of the press provision of the Bill of Rights is about to be exploited by an international media conglomerate, he is forced to come to terms with what may be some basic flaws in the American democratic system.

Leading his non-profit Foundation for Democracy Research into a study of the alphabet soup of regulatory agencies responsible for the U.S. economy, Dr. Ivan Welland discovers a plot to defraud the U.S. Treasury of TARP funds intended to save a bank from insolvency.

THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA have elected as their first president the principal proponent of the merger between Canada and the U.S.A. The unification of the two nations has created an economic expansion of immense proportions. Ivan Welland, an early supporter of the President, has been chosen by the incoming administration to revamp the civil service and head up a new approach to immigration. His program of targeted recruitment of immigrants and merit-based government employment policies brings out a host of international and domestic detractors. Welland's battles with...