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And there you have it, sports fans. The game plan in a nutshell. Get The Mark, the very rich Shelby Coleman, to a poker game where, over time, they can take all his money. Get Shelby to the point where he begs them for credit to get even. And let him play a little longer, so he can wipe the smiles off the faces of those he thinks have milked him dry. And each time he begs them for more credit, he’ll be getting in deeper with them. And deeper still. That’s the plan. That’s what they’re getting so very close to pulling off.

When the head of the French DST, Philip Rostand, an old friend of Jordan Fletcher, comes to FSI and provides information that he and his counterpart at MI5 have credible intelligence that Group 45, due to past setbacks, is in financial difficulty and may be using their new nemesis, “The Broker”, to gain a treasure trove in the Caribbean, Jake and Mike are sent to investigate.

After China launches its attack on Taiwan, America will respond. But how far will the US go to keep Taiwan out of Beijing’s control? Russia wants to make money selling equipment, weapons, and fuel to the Chinese war machine. But, if China wins in Taiwan, will it stop there? Or will it begin to eye the over 4,000 kilometer long border it shares with Russia? If nuclear war does break out between the US and China, will Russia be able to stay on the sidelines? This time, even Russia’s most capable agents might not be able to save their country from disaster.

When a United States Treasury Agent detailed with investigating an arms deal between a Mexican cartel and a European far-right group goes missing in the swamps of Southern Louisiana, FSI is soon on the case. Jake and Mike are sent by Jordan Fletcher to investigate whether or not a mysterious new financier involved in the deal is a part of Group 45 and responsible for the Agent’s disappearance.

A defrocked priest comes to Jake Sullivan with a fantastic tale of ancient voyages, cryptic clues, and imminent dangers from present and medieval organizations in search of history's most sought after relic. Did a secret northern voyage, never recorded in history actually occur...and is it possible that it somehow connects to ruins on the Florida Coastal Waterway?

Jake Sullivan is back. After waking from his coma and rehabilitating his mind and body, he heads to Key West with Mike Lang to combat a new threat. But he is still plagued with severe headaches, lack of focus, and trouble remembering important details of the night he was shot. A late night assault at his office turns out to be the catalyst that allows him to concentrate and focus once again.

China’s President faces many problems. Some, like conflict at the Indian border and in the South China Sea he created for himself. Others, like pending disasters at the Three Gorges Dam and China’s oldest nuclear plant, just happened. But the biggest threat to Communist rule is revolutionaries with Internet access through American satellites. Access that lets them spread propaganda, organize free of government surveillance, and launch cyberattacks. Four deniable Russian agents will travel to America to stop that threat.

Mike Lang is on a mission...a mission of revenge. As his best friend, Jake Sullivan, remains in a coma, near death, Mike is on a hunt for his assailant, the leader of Group 45. Traveling to Cuba, he seeks out an old friend for help, only to find that it is his help that is needed. Trying to discover the plot behind a new biological weapon and watching his back, as he closes in on the Leader, Mike is forced to confront old ghosts and new dangers. Passions run hot as a final confrontation will only allow one survivor.

In Time All Truths Are Revealed begins on the day Roberta Feinstein, a small-time drug dealer who works out of her apartment on the Upper West Side in New York City, has decided to give up her business. She’ll see her last customers and then move on to a new life. From there the story moves ahead 15 years to Columbia, a small town in Westchester County where a much-loved, local young woman has been raped and murdered.

Learning that nuclear weapons have been smuggled into the United States, Jake and Mike are charged by President Fletcher with finding them and the terrorists involved. Joined by an over-the-road trucker who has innocently become ensnared in the terrorists’ web, who provides Jake and Mike with vital information to aid them in their search, they follow lead after lead, some true and some false, ultimately finding themselves in the Arizona desert.

“Everything’s changed.” So says Jake Sullivan as he recalls his recent past. Dealing with private and professional turmoil, Jake, and his best friend Mike Lang find themselves on the hunt in Key West, trying to unravel an assassination plot in this tropical paradise. Only here could a high school reunion, a vice president elect, and thousands of Parrotheads attending a Meeting of the Minds, all play a part in their attempts to take down an evil mastermind.

A society in decay is a more dangerous place than a society under attack. The earth was dying it's natural resources have been used up. Countries have fallen into ruin. Only City States populated by the elite remain.

Jake Sullivan has just returned from a life-and-death struggle in Mexico and still faces an ongoing battle with Group 45. He soon finds himself in a confrontation with a late-night assailant, the descendent of a minor historical figure of the 19th century, who provides Jake with an amazing tale and a strange drawing that may hold the key to solving a murder clouded by history and finding the long-lost City of Gold. Once again, Jake and Mike embark on an adventure, aided by a knowledgeable young intern from the Federal Institute of Native Studies.

Orbit is the story of the Star Streak Hypersonic airliner, which is the successor to the supersonic Concorde. During a routine flight, an unexplainable engine malfunction hurls Consolidated Flight 14 far too high and into a low-earth orbit. With only limited oxygen onboard, Captain Donald Collins is about to try a desperate and unproven maneuver to save the ship and its 100 passengers. On the ground, one of the designers of the aircraft has discovered evidence that the airliner might have been sabotaged.

Simon Branson is on the run, and Jake Sullivan and Mike Lang head to Paris to track down a killer. Charged by President Fletcher with verifying the incredible secrets found in the Group 45 documents, they are moving ever closer to finding the truth about the package. Surviving a murderous attack in the City of Light, they follow another clue to the Bavarian Alps, where the scattered remains of Group 45 are coalescing around a neofascist proclaiming himself the savior of Western civilization.

Having narrowly escaped a deadly attack in Bavaria, Jake and Mike return to Washington, D.C., and reveal what they believe to be the true identity of “The Package” and the role played by Group 45 in its disappearance. Still in need of the key to break Simon Branson’s code, and ordered by President Fletcher to verify the identity and whereabouts of “The Package”, Jake and Mike travel to South America and then Mexico in search of the truth.

Three Russian agents are searching Ukraine for a stolen thermonuclear warhead. America suspects the warhead isn’t really stolen, and its detonation just a pretext to let Russia seize Ukraine. Will the agents find the warhead before it is used, and starts WWIII? This will be the Russian agents’ greatest challenge yet.

In the early 1900s a courageous young woman challenges the prejudices of the times, becomes an attorney, and fights for the disenfranchised. She tangles with the powerful to free a Native American, to defend a man accused of killing an ex-governor, and free the son of her best friend who is accused of murder.

In 1884 chance brings a determined young woman and a Scottish immigrant couple together as she struggles against age-old prejudices and the couple struggles against the elements in one of the driest climates on the American Frontier then, together, they share in an extraordinary discovery.

A frantic late-night phone call from his estranged wife, Linda, brings Jake Sullivan back to his hometown in Western Pennsylvania. Jake's childhood friend and law school classmate Simon Branson is about to be appointed a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania when his wife is brutally murdered and he is charged with the crime. Turning to Jake for help, Branson pleads his innocence and claims to be the victim of a political plot to wreck his judicial appointment.