New Releases by Jim DeFelice

An attempt on the president''s life sends an ex-Marine to face an old enemy in Vietnam in the New York Times–bestselling author''s technothriller. A Secret Service agent is dead, an apparent suicide. A presidential candidate narrowly escapes an assassin''s bullet. And Desk Three, a convert branch of the NSA, is searching for a chilling connection deep inside The Republic of Vietnam. Once, Charlie Dean was a Marine sniper in Quang Nam Province. Today he''s a Deep Black operator, returning to Vietnam to find the source of some threatening e-mails. Instead, he comes face to face with a man he had once hunted down . . . and thought he had killed. Back in the US, Deep Black agent Lia DeFrancesca has uncovered the trail of a killer in Dean''s path. Now, with every asset, weapon, bug and high-tech magic wand Desk Three can wave, the agents enter a terrifying global race against time. Because ghosts of the past have risen to life . . . to strike a death blow into the heart of the USA.

A Secret Service agent is dead, an apparent suicide. A presidential candidate narrowly escapes an assassin''s bullet. And Desk Three, a convert branch of the NSA, is searching for a chilling connection deep inside The Republic of Vietnam. Once, Charlie Dean was a Marine sniper in Quang Nam Province. Today he''s a Deep Black operator, returning to Vietnam to find the source of some threatening e-mails. Instead, he comes face to face with a man he had once hunted down...and thought he had killed. Back in the U.S., Deep Black agent Lia DeFrancesca has uncovered the trail of a killer in Dean''s path. Now, with every asset, weapon, bug and high-tech magic wand Desk Three can wave, the agents enter a terrifying global race against time. Because ghosts of the past have risen to life...to strike a death blow into the heart of the U.S.A.

The team is sent to Italy to apprehend a wanted assassin who hasn''t been seen in over a decade.

After years of exhaustive negotiations, North Korea''s Kim Jong Il abruptly agrees to surrender all of his nuclear weapons. This sudden change in policy has the U.S. suspicious, and the Team is dispatched to uncover the truth.

In 1994, a thirteen-year-old honor student convinced her boyfriend to strangle her grandmother to prove his undying love, and then proceeded to hold her little sister hostage in this true story of murder and depravity.

A journey into the hell that is the War on Terror—a Heart of Darkness for the new century. Former Army Special Forces soldier Jack Pilgrim has it all – big bucks, a successful security business with plush government contracts, a beautiful wife. Then Pilgrim''s partner, Merc Conrad, goes missing in Afghanistan with a chunk of government cash and most of the company''s assets. The CIA threatens to throw Pilgrim in jail if he doesn''t find Merc and return the money. Pilgrim knows his business--and his extravagant lifestyle--are on the line, but Merc saved Jack''s life three times while they served together in the Army in Afghanistan. So Jack owes him. Big. Determined to find Conrad, Pilgrim returns to Afghanistan. The country in chaos as the US prepares to pull out. Pilgrim follows Merc''s trail to the border area of Pakistan; with every step he seems to descend deeper into a Dantesque hell. Rumor has it that Conrad has fielded a guerilla army and is hot on the trail of Osama bin Laden. The further into the uncharted border zone Jack Pilgrim goes, the larger the legend of Merc Conrad becomes. Warding off insurgent attacks and pockets of terror cells, Pilgrim''s odyssey into the Afghan badlands has him questioning his own reality, and the closer he seems to get to Conrad, the more peril he faces. If Jack Pilgrim wants to get out of Afghanistan alive, he may need Merc Conrad now more than ever.

Revealing a terrorist plot during a NATO conference in Rome, former SEAL commander Demo Dick is directed to investigate an attempted theft of nuclear bombs from a U.S. base, a situation that is complicated by a trap set for him in the Thailand jungle.

US covert agents must stop a nuclear war threat on the Korean DMZ in this military thriller from the New York Times –bestselling authors. "The Team" lead by top CIA officer Bob Ferguson, and supported by Special Forces commando Stephen Rankin and Marine Jack Young, is authorized to take immediate action, beyond the bureaucratic restraints of US intelligence or the military establishment, in the ever-surprising War on Terror. After years of exhaustive negotiations, North Korea''s Kim Jong Il abruptly agrees to surrender all of his nuclear weapons. This sudden change in policy has the US suspicious, and the Team is dispatched to uncover the truth. Newest Team operative, the young and beautiful Thera Majed, goes undercover during the preliminary inspections of the entire Korean peninsula, on a mission so sensitive that she will be disavowed if discovered. But when she discovers hidden weapons in South Korea, a firestorm of debate is set off in Washington. A public announcement of their suspicions could derail the North Korean agreement, and the South Korean government may not even be aware of the weapons'' existence. Ferg and the rest of the Team jump in to investigate, and the closer they get to the truth, the harder mysterious forces work to keep them away. Someone is planning for a full-scale nuclear attack that would throw the civilized world into political and economic upheaval, and Ferg and the Team are the only ones in the position to stop them.

The First Team joins forces with the FBI and the Israeli Mossad to investigate a radical cult of fanatics, linked to the Iraqi resistance and a Syrian arms dealer, out to create a new world with a catastrophic religious war with Jerusalem at its center.

FBI Special Agent Andy Fisher races to stop a group of terrorists who possess a dangerous secret weapon capable of rendering useless any electronic system and a cache of deadly sarin gas.

The mission seems routine: go to London, meet someone in a park, obtain a list of computers that are being used secretly by terrorists to pass messages. But just as Deep Black operatives Charlie Dean and Tommy Karr are about to meet their contact, a sniper guns the stranger down. DeFrancesca, a sexy ass-kicking woman and Dean''s only weakness, gets called in to help. The investigation kicks into high gear when the murder is found to be connected to the disappearance of a French atomic warhead built in the 1960s. Soon it becomes apparent that what was thought to be an elaborate plan by terrorists to blow up the Eiffel Tower is only a diversionary plan for the real target: the Channel Tunnel. A nuclear warhead going off in the tunnel will create an earthquake, triggering a tsunami powerful enough to wipe out the coasts of France and England, killing hundreds of thousands. This is Deep Black''s most dangerous mission yet. It will require all their talents and all their teamwork to make sure that things go right and that justice is served.

The brilliant new NSA Deep Black novel

EYE IN THE SKY Cyclops One: America''s most advanced airborne laser system. Capable of taking out a dozen missiles and warplanes from three hundred miles away, it will change the face of combat forever -- perhaps rendering war itself obsolete. Until the plane carrying it vanishes in a storm over the Canadian Rockies. With the specter of sabotage -- or something worse -- looming over the entire operation, America''s top investigators are called onto the case. The best is Special Agent Andy Fisher, whose irreverent manner and unorthodox techniques have gained him the reputation as both a genius and a wild card within the FBI. As Fisher''s investigation deepens, more questions emerge about the laser, the hyper-secretive private agency that developed it, and the true motives of those involved in the Cyclops One project -- a conspiracy that may end with the beginning of World War III....

Castro is dead--but his legacy lives on. In the vacuum left by Fidel''s death, would-be heirs--including his own daughter--battle for power. But as guerrilla rebels threaten to topple the teetering government, there''s more at stake than just the island nation. The U.S. military uses all the high-tech resources at its disposal to try to restore stability, only to find that Castro had kept one last card up his sleeve.

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Nothing can stop America''s superplane--except its Japanese twin. When Lt. Col. Tom Wright, piloting a new reconnaissance plane that officially does not exist, makes an emergency landing in Italy, he is recruited to flight-test a second, ultra-secret plane so advanced it is thought to have no natural enemies. But then he crosses paths with an unidentifiable foreign aircraft of terrifying capabilities. . . . Martin''s.