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Carrier 3: Armageddon Mode
by Keith DouglassIndia has declared war on Pakistan. Pakistan, far out- numbered, has responded by detonating a small nuclear device in the desert, a clear warning to stay away. The U.S.S. Thomas Jefferson, along with the rest of Carrier Battle Group 14, is in the waters off the india/pakistan border. Their mission is to stop the war before both countries resort to a nuclear exchange. But the Indian government has far different plans for the U.S. task force and a Soviet squadron that has been sent into the area to help. Violence. 3rd novel in the "Carrier" series, 1992.
Carrier 4: Flame-out
by Keith DouglassThe Soviet Union, under new, communist leadership, has invaded Norway. Carrier Battle group 14, sailing in the north Atlantic, is the closest American Naval asset and is ordered into the Norwegian sea to intervene. But the Americans are far outnumbered and soon find themselves, along with the Norwegians, in a desperate fight for survival. Violence. 4th novel in the "Carrier" series, 1992.
Carrier 5: Maelstrom
by Keith DouglassAs the war in Norway rages on, The U.S.S. Thomas Jefferson and the rest of carrier battle group 14 continues to be the only American military asset in the area. While the politicians in Washington argue over what to do about the Soviet aggression, the men of CBG-14 fight for survival against overwhelming odds. American technology and tactics are severely tested as the fighting escalates to an explosive climax. Violence. 5th novel in the "Carrier" series, 1993.
Carrier 6: Countdown
by Keith DouglassThe Communist hard-liners are attempting to regain power in the former Soviet Union which has sparked a violent civil war. The United States does not want to get involved, but when it is discovered that the rebels are planning a submarine-launched nuclear strike, the U.S. decides to intervene. Carrier Battle Group 14, along with two other carrier battle groups, form a carrier battle force tasked with keeping the Russian ballistic missile submarines in port where they cannot launch their nuclear weapons. A massive air, sea and land battle ensues. Violence. 6th novel in the "Carrier" series, 1994.
Carrier 7: Afterburn
by Keith DouglassFor the first time in U.S. naval history, an American carrier battle group--CBG-14--is cruising in the Black Sea. Its mission, although vague, is to help keep the peace in the Crimean as the Russian civil war rages on. But the admiral of the Black Sea fleet is not at all pleased that an American naval force is in the Black sea--his own backyard--and makes plans to destroy it. Meanwhile, the General in charge of the Crimean Military District decides to turn the whole area over to the UN in an attempt to keep the peace and, before long, fighting breaks out between various factions of the Soviet military and CBG-14 is trapped in the middle of it. 7th novel in the "Carrier" series, 1996.
Carrier 8: Alpha Strike
by Keith DouglassCarrier Battle Group 14 is in the South China Sea on routine patrol when a Chinese tank and the tiny island where it is stationed are destroyed. The Chinese government points its finger at the U.S. forces, but the Americans are as baffled by the explosion as the Chinese appear to be. As CBG-14 continues Freedom of Navigation operations in the area, unexplained attacks continue and America is on the brink of war again. It is up to CBG-14 to defuse the situation or, at least, protect its assets from an all- out Chinese attack. 8th novel in the "Carrier" series, 1997.
Carrier 9: Arctic Fire
by Keith DouglassThe Cold War may be over, but in the Bering Sea, its far from quiet on America's Western front. A Russian splinter group has captured the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska. Rear Admiral "Tombstone" Magruder and Carrier Battle Group Fourteen are sent to the Aleutians on the mission they prayed would never come: repel invaders from American soil. 9th novel in the "Carrier" series, 1997.
Carrier 10: Arsenal
by Keith DouglassBook 10 in the Carrier series. This time, tombstone and the crew are stuck in the middle of a rapidly worsening situation. Caught between micromanaging unscrupulous politicians back home and a Cuban faction which is sick and tired of being pushed around by the U.S. and thinks it can turn things around with a blow that will break the United States' will, can tombstone and the crew of Jefferson pull off another miracle?
Carrier 11: Nuke Zone
by Keith DouglassThe Ukraine tricks the U.S. into thinking that Turkey--their own ally--had launched the nuclear attack against the U.S. Sixth Fleet. After all, the U.S. needed to be reminded who owned the waters they had entered. Now "Tombstone" Magruder and the new Sixth Fleet are out to stop the war before it starts. But with treacherous allies and stealth technology, the rules of battle have changed. And Magruder must face the most threatening question of his life: In an age of computer warfare, how do you tell your friends from your enemies? Violence. 11th novel in the "Carrier" series, 1998
Carriers
by Patrick LynchIn the heart of the rain forest, something deadly is stirring Older than life itself, it feeds on the living, silently, mercilessly, with a speed and fatality matched only by the terror these paleovirus' gruesome symptoms provoke. Patrick Lynch's Carriers captures this fear, and presents a world where the war between mankind and nature makes any victory for science temporary at best. When a plague-like outbreak strikes Indonesia, and a team of American biological warfare experts are brought in to discover its source, they find only corpses and riddles without answers -- until Holly Becker arrives. She's come to the jungle to find her two young daughters, likely victims of the terrible plague, and in her quest may lie the secret to the terror which threatens to engulf them all.
Character Witness
by R. A. ForsterWhen Elizabeth Cotter's uncle, legendary criminal attorney Gerry O'Doul, invites her to join his Beverly Hills practice, it's the opportunity of a lifetime. But O'Doul's firm turns out to be more flash than substance--until a new client walks through the door. Now, as a family's carefully guarded secret explodes in scandal and murder, Elizabeth must uncover the one thing even more dangerous than the killer--the truth.
El Camino Del Rio
by Jim SandersonFrank Waters was one of the best writers ever to catch the complex essence of the American Southwest. His books--The Man Who Killed the Deer, People of the Valley, The Woman at Otowi Crossing--are still widely read, and the University of New Mexico sponsors an annual writing contest in his name. Jim Sanderson, who teaches English at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, won the 1997
The First Counsel
by Brad MeltzerIf ever a book was destined to head straight to the bestseller list, this is it. Brad Meltzer, whose previous books, The Tenth Justice and Dead Even , did extremely well, has fashioned a thriller that has everything: death and deceit in the corridors of power, with dirty deeds leading straight to the top of the White House inner circle. Michael Garrick is a young man with a dream job. As a lawyer in the White House, he rubs shoulders with the top men and women in the country. And that includes Shadow, the Secret Service code name for the First Daughter, Nora Hartson, who likes Michael a lot. It's difficult dating the First Daughter; Michael and Nora are never alone, and Nora has a rebellious streak about the constant surveillance she is under, so it is no surprise when she encourages Michael to lose the tail when they are out one evening. But when they see Edgar Simon, the President's chief adviser and Michael's boss, in a gay bar, they decide to follow him. What they see will put Michael's career--and his life--in danger. Back at the White House, Michael talks to one of his colleagues about the legal and ethical issues of the Edgar Simon situation. She says she will get back to him, but before she does she is murdered, and Michael is on the list of suspects. Nora could corroborate his alibi, but suddenly it's impossible to get hold of her. She doesn't answer his calls and, when Michael finally does speak to her, she doesn't want to be involved, leaving him baffled and vulnerable. This is a roller coaster of a thriller, one with a unique view of the day-to-day dealings in the most powerful house in the world.
1945
by Newt Gingrich William R. ForstchenThe year is 1945, In Europe, the Third Reich reigns triumphant. The Soviet Union is a fragment of its former self, and Britain has accepted a dictated armistice. In the Pacific, after a brief, sharp war with Japan, America is the only significant military presence. Now the world's two superpowers eye each other warily across the Atlantic Ocean that grows smaller daily. The Big Show is about to start... Who will win? The Americans with their formidable industrial base and superior logistical techniques-or the Germans with their science fiction super weapons that turn out not to be fictional after all? Only one thing is certain: if America is beaten, this alternate Reich will last a thousand years...
Coffin's Got the Dead Guy on the Inside
by Keith SnyderWhat Jason Keltner wanted to do, his favorite among incomplete fragments of music he'd created in the last several months. Then Norton Platt made him an offer he could refuse-if he weren't worried about things like rent. Because he was, Jason agreed to babysit Paul Reno. The deal, after all, included expenses. And mileage. But no information about whom he was really being employed by. His first order of business: Take Paul to a party for Huey Benton and see what happens. What happens is that Huey Benton drops dead. What happens next is that Jason and his roommates at the Manor, Robert and Martin, find themselves in the middle of a search for the "dangle." All they know about it is that it has something to do with computers and that far too many people are willing to kill to get their hands on it ... and that Paul, somehow, is in the middle of it all. From Pasadena to Silicon Valley, on and off the Interstates at speeds that would make a new CPU blush, Jason and his friends try to stay ahead of those who think they know something... and close to those who do know about the dongle-about why it's worth killing for and why they're now trying to kill them. In a caper worthy of Donald E. Westlake, Jason and his gang, who wouldn't even think of shooting straight, race through California subcultures looking for answers that will let them live to play another day, and when they find them they face a final problem: what to do with what they've learned when they no longer know whom to trust.
The Fifth Horseman
by Larry Collins Dominique La PierreMiddle east tensions flare. Libia has smuggled a nuclear weapon into New York city and they threaten to use it if Israel does not comply with their demands.
Assassin (Kirk McGarvey Series #6)
by David HagbergThe security services of several nations want to stop retired CIA hit man Kirk McGarvey before he can complete a lone-wolf mission to Moscow that could upset any number of geopolitical apple carts Russia's economic woes and foreign policy setbacks are making the country's electorate restive enough to give the presidency to Yevgenni Tarankov, a charismatic Stalinist who campaigns throughout the motherland in an armored train. Gravely concerned that the ultra nationalist could reverse the halting progress the troubled country has made toward creating an open, democratic society, Kremlin moderates recruit McGarvey to liquidate him. Now living in Paris with Jacqueline Belleau, an intelligence operative detailed to keep an eye on his movements, the hired gun reluctantly accepts the assignment. With valuable assistance from an expatriate computer whiz, he finds a way to slip in and out of Russia via the Baltic republics. Meanwhile, McGarvey's erstwhile masters learn what he's about and make a determined effort to stop him to preclude the disclosure that Tarankov earned a small fortune as a CIA informant during the 1970s. The CIA callously brings McGarvey's young daughter Liz into the game. A low-level translator at the agency, she jumps at the chance to do fieldwork and help locate her father. Liz soon tracks down Jacqueline (who has been outsmarted by her lover), and the two women head East. They remain several steps behind McGarvey (who's deduced that his target intends staging a May Day coup), and, on their way to Moscow, Liz is abducted by Tarankov's minions. In the nick, however, the quiet American foils the would-be usurper's plot and pulls Liz off the private rail car moments before government planes blast it to kingdom come. Another twisty thriller from the reliable Hagberg (High Flight, 1995, etc.)--and a welcome return for Cold War hard case McGarvey, who's still a cunning devil when it comes to organizing solo operations across forbidden frontiers.