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The Kim Regime is a threat, unstable and unpredictable, no sticks or carrots have stopped the development of a nuclear-tipped missile capable of striking the United States. The intelligence community assures President Larson that Pyongyang is many years away from crossing that red line. Larson knows their longest-range missile can now reach all the population centers on the West Coast. A lone intelligence analyst claims they have a warhead that will work on that missile.Larson calls on Michael Case to get to the bottom of the dispute. What if they have a nuclear-tipped missile on a launch pad? What if they launched that missile, is it a test or targeted at LA, Seattle, or San Francisco? President Larson would have less than thirty minutes to decide what to do, and the technology to shoot it down does not exist.A dangerous tipping point, that could lead to global nuclear war.

Eddie Gianelli is helping Joey Bishop's TV wife, Abby Dalton, get out from under a blackmailer, when the news comes through that JFK has been assassinated. Frank Sinatra was a close friend of JFK, and the Rat Pack-including Eddie-rally round Frank to give him moral support.His buddies are the only ones who can really offer Frank any real comfort and after a while they all drift back to making their new movie. Eddie returns to his case, but then he soon hears that Sinatra's son, Frank Jr, has been kidnapped.Eddie continues to search for the blackmailer while trying to help Frank get through his second-and intensely more personal-traumatic experience, all of which eventually leads to murder . . .PRAISE FOR RAT PACK MYSTERY NOVELS"If you remember the Rat Pack era fondly . . . then you won't stop smiling."-Booklist on I'm A Fool To Kill You"This breezy caper is unalloyed fun."-Booklist on I'm A Fool To Kill You"Randisi gives a lively sense of Vegas's glitz and the glittering, feckless people who flourished in the spotlight." -Publishers Weekly on I'm A Fool To Kill You

Any man would be thrilled to find out he has a long-lost son-or would he? What if that "son" turns out to be a merciless killer who guns down men for the fun of it?That's the dilemma facing Clint Adams when he learns that a young gunman named John Adams is claiming to be his son. The Gunsmith follows a trail of bodies as he sets out to confront the boy-and his own past. It's one showdown the Gunsmith can't afford to lose...

It's snowing corpses in Ten Pines, Utah, and the townsfolk are pointing accusing fingers at the stranger with the reputation as a "gunfighter." The stranger happens to be Clint Adams, who is stuck in Ten Pines because of a freak blizzard.Now the Gunsmith is a prime suspect in a series of mysterious murders and the only way to prove his innocence is to find the real killer-and uncover a long-buried secret which might well cost the Gunsmith his life!

El Paso has long been a battleground for the Anglos and the Mexicans, and now the war is heating up in the salt beds near Guadalupe Peak. When Clint Adams rides unsuspectingly into the crossfire, the last thing he wants is to get involved. But a pretty young miss wins Clint's affections-and lands the Gunsmith right in the middle of a fight for his life!

7205 A.D. After almost seven centuries of iron-fisted rule, the Fourth Galactic Empire is in the midst of catastrophic warfare following a rebel attack led by its sworn foe-that charismatic enigma, gifted strategist, and pilot named Hawk Hunter.After rebels unexpectedly defeat the Fourth Galactic Empire's Rapid Engagement Fleet, Hawk Hunter's "special help" is suspected. To destroy the rebels, the Empire's storm troopers are going to seize the source that generates all power in the galaxy-a move that will make them invincible and cost trillions of lives.To prevent that, Hawk must undertake his most hazardous mission ever: to seek out the one man who can stop the Empire-before it starts the worst Dark Age in history..."In Starhawk, Mack Maloney has created a Champion of Justice."-Midwest Book Review

The year is 7202 A.D. Evolving from genetic manipulation and virtually immortal, the Specials wielded their repressive power over a far-flung empire for nearly two thousand years. Until one man-a man of mystery, a gifted military strategist, a superb pilot, a charismatic leader-dared to raise the flag of rebellion. That man is Hawk Hunter.In the middle of a fierce battle with the Imperial forces, Hunter suddenly finds himself alone. His badly-damaged fleet has vanished-gone through a portal to another dimension. They can lay low, rest, make repairs, and gain strength for their next assault.But the enemy also finds the portal-and it leads them to a different dimension where they discover powerful and deadly new allies.Now Hunter must undertake his own Interdimensional search for support. Because when the portal reopens, the battle that follows could destroy not only the rebels and the Empire, but also the entire galaxy. "In Starhawk, Mack Maloney has created a Champion of Justice."-Midwest Book Review

Hank Frost, the one-eyed mercenary captain, goes on a vicious blood-hunt into the jungles of war-torn Central Africa, carrying his vendetta against the kill-crazy rogue commander who massacred Frost's outfit down to the very last man. The trail leads him into a three-sided ground war between Communist terrorist butchers, a bloody-handed puppet dictator, and the CIA's own revolutionary army. Through an endless web of torture slayings, a bank heist commando raid, and deception, Hank Frost never takes his eye off the ultimate goal: assassination.

THE SHATTERING TRUE STORY OF THE SPECIAL FORCES COMBAT MISSION INSIDE THE SUPERHIGHWAY OF THE HO CHI MINH TRAIL. THE PLEI TRAP VALLEY: NVA STRONGHOLD. POW BASE CAMP. NEXUS OF THE HO CHI MINH TRAIL. Guarded by Soviet-made tanks, riddled with deep fortifications, commanded by regiments of well-equipped elite enemy troops, the Plei Trap Valley was called the superhighway of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. So confident of its invulnerability to U.S. assault were the North Vietnamese that they housed a major POW camp beneath its jungle canopy. Acclaimed Special Forces chronicler Don Bendell tells his all-combat true story of the battle for Plei Trap in a blizzard of spent shell casings, with rockets screaming overhead and fog banks of enemy gas rolling in. Virtually unchecked even by B-52 carpet bombing, a swollen torrent of supplies and fresh troops poured out of the valley into the Communist war effort... until a strike force spearheaded by a Special Forces airborne assault team and their one hundred Montagnard strikers dropped deep behind NVA lines. Their mission: to keep retreating NVA from escaping into Cambodia and free American POWs from behind the barbed wire of the NVA camp... at any cost. They paid heavily for the right to call Plei Trap the... VALLEY OF TEARS.

John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority, is pursuing the trail of his wife and children from whom he was separated when World War III began. As he sets out from his retreat, he meets a beautiful woman scientist, who has learned that the nuclear bombing on the Night of the War has created an artificial fault line. Within days, perhaps hours, it will cause one of the most massive quakes in history-separating the Florida peninsula from the U.S. mainland.Rourke must postpone the search for his family in order to reach Army intelligence and begin the evacuation of Florida. He must also find young Paul Rubenstein who has gone there to learn if by some miracle his parents had survived The War.Communist Cuban troops, Soviet-Cuban rivalry, a traitor in the inner circle of U.S. II and natural disaster of blood-chilling magnitude block Rourke's way. But he must go on-he is The Survivalist.

Joanna Stark thought she had finally left her troubled past behind: After the death of her husband, she quit the San Francisco art security firm where she was a partner and retreated to the small California wine country town of Sonoma.But unexpectedly, in one rainy week before Thanksgiving, her carefully constructed world collapses. A Frans Hals painting, The Cavalier in White, is stolen from the M.H. de Young Museum, and the strange circumstances surrounding its disappearance prompt her former business partner to ask her to return to the city and investigate the theft. Joanna knows she must go back-as much for her own protection as for the sake of the museum.Her investigation takes her from the hushed corridors of the de Young to a seedy waterfront tavern; from a Seacliff mansion to a vandalized shack on the shores of the Bay; to galleries, museum openings-and the scene of a murder.By the time she confronts the killer, the careful order of her life is nearly destroyed and she finds that the past is not only inescapable, but also more complex and frightening than she had previously imagined.

The Russian monarchy is visiting the United States and the Imperial Crown is stolen. To avoid an international incident-and maybe a war-the government needs somebody they can trust to go and find it. Clint is recruited, and must ride with a Russian soldier charged by the King of Russia to find the crown. They fight together and get to know one another.

Belle Starr's daughter, Rosie Lee Reed, barely twenty, runs a large bordello in a town in Alabama. She is attacked on the street and Clint is there to protect her. After that she asks Clint if he will help her resist attempts to take over her business. If he won't help her, then she offers to pay him. Clint likes the young girl's courage and agrees.