Adorned with a host of tattoos both sacred and profane emblazoned upon her flesh at birth, Persa Arleigh follows an unlikely course through life. She irks many a Methodist official in her new role as a very young and outspoken ordained minister, and her determination, grit, brains and rare skill set put her at decided odds with most of the patriarchs of her denomination. She rubs the Catholics the wrong way because she can exorcise demons where their own priests have failed. She learns that her adventurous Mother, killed in the mysterious crash of a goliath prototype Zeppelin, led a risky...

Mike Charles and John Clark are just college kids on a special research-study class in Hawaii when they stumble upon a conspiracy decades in the making. Before their class is done they will tangle with none other than Zachary Breedlove, a well-known and mightily feared member of U.S. Army brass. Breedlove has spent four decades searching for a long-ago secret in the jungles of Oahu, and over time has concluded that if he cannot find and possess that secret, no one else will either. Hiroto Hits the Ground sets the stage for the eight-volume Echelon 6 Series, and puts Mike and John on a...

Blessed and cursed with near-eidetic memory, Catherine Wheel understands much more about the world than she wants to. Her unique ability and her vast intelligence have helped her build a successful Manhattan design firm, but they've also compromised her life's relationships. Upon the suspicious death of a man she loved years before, Catherine travels to Laos to discover the truth of what happened to him. She never imagines though that being framed, arrested, tortured and pursued by Communist forces in running gun battles against armored personnel carriers could possibly be on her itinerary.

Hemingway once said that being able to keep a secret was more valuable than the secret itself. And he should know, for by the end of his life he'd kept more than a few. Echelon 6 agents John Clark and Mike Charles have stumbled upon one of these, and its ramifications are profound. For Hemingway himself possessed a dark weapon still sought today by nations around the world; a creation whose father was the greatest scientific mind in human history.

In 2002, a young archaeology intern named Pouya Gol locates an airtight chamber beneath the raging sand-thick winds of Iran's Great Salt Desert. Gol descends into the space and emerges an hour later with two strange sealed cylinders, both of which refuse to open. He also emerges with enough absorbed radiation to kill a man a dozen times over, yet walks away unharmed. Echelon 6 Agent Mike Charles is appraised of the incident but despite his best efforts, fails to learn anything more about Pouya Gol and his two cylinders, which promptly vanish. Now, more than a dozen years later, Mike and his...

Summer in small-town South Carolina in 1972 leaves a lot to be desired, but Aiken Destry and his pals manage to find plenty to keep them busy. Riding bikes, swimming, and avoiding local thugs become full-time efforts. It's a season that sees them grow up fast. Even so, nothing can prepare them for the devastating curve balls their small world is about to hurl at them.