Retired school teacher Martina Jung Osipov is asked by the CIA to lead her husband and three former colleagues as they are all experimentally developed into an assassination team. Her task is to keep the volatile team members unified and focused. But how to do this at nearly 70 years of age, especially after the group is joined by such dangerous characters as former IRA member Kelly Connors, the notorious killer Leonard Packard, and the young Southern hothead Bobbie Lee Henry? This Book Two in the noir series should appeal to those looking for an existential story of philosophy, violence, and...

Artist, photographer, and editor Stanly Le Haley faces the onslaught of multiple sclerosis and subsequent legal blindness. He has been image oriented all his life, but now realizes he will never again see anyone or anything clearly. As the disease progresses he lives in expectation of complete vision loss. But the three women he encounters-his neurologist, a professional colleague, and a public school teacher-discover that his scars run deeper than the optic nerves. Each in turn attempts to woo him from his lifelong guilt over simply being part of the human race. This is a large print edition...

In this sequel to Dragons More Decent Than Men the CIA team are in action from the outset. Deployed in undercover service against criminals considered to be beyond the reach of civil law enforcement, the non-formally trained team put their creativity to work in eliminating their assigned targets. Their weapons range from surplus Cold War-era to modern American small arms. But against the backdrop of intrigue and bold, bloody assassination, the team members still manage to pursue their love interests, making for a story replete with sexual politics.