It's easy to be depressed if you're McAdams, a homicide detective whose last two partners have been murdered and you think it's your fault, especially when random bodies keep piling up on the San Francisco waterfront while you're trying to work out the subtle differences between vengeance and justice. His personal and professional lives become even more muddled when Sofia shows up - a refugee from a Russian orphanage with a plan for a better life, despite being #1 on everybody's hit list. She makes him an offer he can't refuse: sanctuary in exchange for information. It gets complicated when...

Afghanistan is where empires go to be rebuked for their arrogance; a harsh land peopled with fiercely independent warriors for whom honor and revenge are one and the same, and family is sacred. NATO has downgraded to "a training mission," leaving the countryside as a lethal playground where militias, religious zealots and corrupt politicians ply their trade. A conflicted American military advisor Slater Crosby and Malik, a war-weary tribal leader, confront a simple but horrific choice and find their most terrifying foes to be their own memories and ambivalent loyalties. Other forces,...

Ten years after 2,977 Americans died on September 11, 2001, the outrage has dissipated and Americans are looking for ways out of a Middle East slipping back into medieval chaos, no longer a proving ground for the American Way. Tribal warlords and religious fanatics flourish as Western powers lose their appetite for state building. Walter Morrison is an old-fashioned patriot with a plan to rekindle American commitment. He has considerable wealth, access to power, a network of likeminded billionaires, and the capability for killing thousands of the world's most important people on four...