The U.S. is being subjected to a cyber attack. The country's infrastructure is crumbling. Air, rail, gas and electric services have ground to a halt. With banks unable to operate, ATMs out of money and store shelves bare of food, people are starting to loot and commit even more serious crimes. The U.S. is just days away from anarchy. A wealthy industrialist in China, Lee Han, has turned on hidden "logic bombs," which have broken all internet connections between and among the public and private sectors in the U.S. Han is planning to draw the Chinese Government into war by sinking his own fleet...

A few days before 9/11, a number of unidentified people invested heavily in the stocks of American and Untied Airlines and Transamerica Insurance. They bought "put options" in the belief that the stocks would drop in price. After the attack, those men made 22.7 million dollars. Fast forward to the present... A brilliant economist has been fired and disgraced by the EU. He is planning his revenge. He will buy "put options" on the Euro in anticipation of a fall in the currency, which he will guarantee by killing the three individuals most responsible for holding the EU together. The second half...

The briefcase, AKA the football, containing the go codes for the U.S. nuclear arsenal is carried by military aides who always accompany the President and Vice-President. In a strike on Washington, a terrorist group known as "Black Bear" gets away with the prize, killing many secret service agents and almost killing Captain Paul Decker: the officer charged with protecting the football. Black Bear breaks the encryption code, and opens a "trap door" into the nation's ICBM network...and is auctioning off targeted missile strikes. Many countries, both friend and foe, along with a dozen terrorist...

America has been placed on "trial" by the "Friends of the Planet" a powerful, but secret organization, and found guilty of waste and degradation of the planet's resources. They will use their orbiting satellites to send down a deadly EM frequency, which will go through the Wi-Fi towers, killing the consumers residing in "wired cities," leaving the farmers and ranchers to feed the rest of the planet. The Antagonist is a diabolical, brilliant Bavarian Prince for whom death of his enemies is not nearly enough. But is it all madness when the elimination of three hundred million people might save...

The drug wars have left 160,000 dead in the past six years. But the war is no closer to an end. . Each time the Mexican police make some headway, the cartels gain more sophisticated arms and tactics. While the federales vastly outnumber them, the cartels seem to anticipate their every move. Into that maelstrom walks Paul Decker and his new family. Paul has retired from the CIA and desires no more than to raise his family, regain his peace of mind, and fulfill the promises he has made to Lydia and the children...promises he failed to complete with his first family. But all that comes to a...

A new American President has been elected on a wave of fear: fear of war with an emerging China and re-emerging Russia, and the old wars on terror and drugs. The government's greatest concern is not al Qaeda, ISIS, Iran, China or Russia; rather, it is deemed to be American citizens who might rise up and attempt to overthrow an increasingly totalitarian government. There are those who know the wars are trumped up and an excuse for spying on U.S. citizens who are trying to expose the extent of the program. But whistleblowers and witnesses are being killed faster than they can be brought in to...

The newest scientific field of study is synthetic biology: the implanting of the DNA of one organism into another life form. Already this has led to miraculous cures. However, there is a dark side as well. A brilliant geneticist, Jonah Devlin, CEO of Evolution Industries has infused Neanderthal DNA into the Marburg virus. And, using his desalinated water and lab-grown meat as a conduit for the virus, he will infect the entire population. People will devolve to a previous state of nature, and that is Neanderthal. Kelly West, a beautiful woman scientist who works at Evolution Industries brings...

Edward "Jax" Jacks, twenty-four years old, is doing post doc work at the prestigious Isaac Newton University in northern California. He is engaged to a beautiful woman, Samantha "Sam" Yeager, who is enrolled in the Fine Arts program at the same school. Jax is focused on just three things in his life: his work, his ailing father, Moe, and Sam. He does not see or feel the ill-will that permeates the lab. His fellow workers: Carl Chambers and Norm Harper, are envious of him, a feeling that only grows with each success Jax has. They must act quickly to sabotage Jax before an upcoming awards...

The Muse d'Orsay; Paris, France. Among those partaking of the exhibit, an artist, an art collector and art critic, stroll through the museum, embracing the paintings that provide their inspiration, recognition, and position in French society. In a moment of creativity and levity, one of the men sees a way to rob the museum. However, with so much to lose, the idea is dismissed as ludicrous. They leave and separate. But when their lives fall apart due to character flaws inherit in their positions, they realize they must go through with the theft. They get away with the crime, yet that is not...