Most Popular Books by Mark Sullivan

Private Berlin has the extraordinary pace and international sophistication that has powered The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Patterson''s #1 bestseller The Postcard Killers. IN EUROPE''S MOST DANGEROUS CITY Chris Schneider is a superstar agent at Private Berlin, Germany headquarters for the world''s most powerful investigation firm. He keeps his methods secret as he tackles Private''s most high-profile cases-and when Chris suddenly disappears, he becomes Private Berlin''s most dangerous investigation yet. AN INVESTIGATOR IS SEARCHING Mattie Engel is another top agent at Private Berlin, gorgeous and ruthlessly determined-and she''s also Chris''s ex. Mattie throws herself headfirst into finding Chris, following leads to the three people Chris was investigating when he vanished: a billionaire suspected of cheating on his wife, a soccer star accused of throwing games, and a nightclub owner with ties to the Russian mob. Any one of them would surely want Chris gone-and one of them is evil enough to want him dead. AND SHE''S AFTER MORE THAN THE TRUTH Mattie''s chase takes her into Berlin''s most guarded, hidden, and treacherous places, revealing secrets from Chris''s past that she''d never dreamed of in the time they were lovers. On the brink of a terrifying discovery, Mattie holds on to her belief in Chris-in the face of a horror that could force all of Europe to the edge of destruction and chaos. James Patterson has taken the European thriller to a masterful new level with Private Berlin, an adrenaline-charged, spectacularly violent and sexy novel with unforgettable characters of dark and complex depths. Private Berlin proves why Patterson is truly the world''s #1 bestselling author.

Inspired by a true story, two teens kidnapped by an African warlord find salvation through love in a powerful and healing historical novel from the #1 bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley. Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori are coming of age in Uganda in the 1990s. Outstanding students, they believe in being good humans before they are kidnapped and forced into the fanatical Lord''s Resistance Army. In a legion of young recruits, no one gets closer than Anthony to powerful messianic warlord Joseph Kony and his darkest secrets. To stay sane as he spirals through chaos, Anthony clings to his childhood lessons about being a good human. Florence''s upbringing grounds her, too, helping her keep her dreams alive even as she''s pulled deeper into the insanity of Kony''s war. At the lowest points of their lives, certain they''ll never go home, Anthony and Florence meet by chance, fall in love, and begin to dream of surviving their captivity. They devote their lives to helping their fellow child soldiers escape bondage and return to their families and redemption by following the stars. By turns tender, shocking, moving, desperate, and ultimately triumphant, Florence and Anthony''s story is an epic drama of humanity, a life-affirming tale, and an experience readers will never forget. Featuring an afterword by Anthony and Florence Opoka.

From the author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a story that is "Diabolical! Filled with twists, turns, crosses and double-crosses...a harrowing international thriller" —Lisa Gardner Robin Monarch is a man with a complicated, secret past and a very grim future. Currently locked up in the USDB—the military supermax prison known as Leavenworth—the CIA offers Monarch one shot at freedom and a pardon. All he has to do is steal something from a highly secure position at ground zero of a war-zone and escape undetected. But this isn''t Monarch''s first time at this sort of dance—as an orphaned teen scraping for survival on the streets of Buenos Aires he was involved with the Fraternidad de Ladrones—the Brotherhood that schooled him the art of deception and survival. But his initiation rite is to take all the skills he has learned, and all the nerve he possesses and steal something of great value under impossible circumstances. In both cases, success will require everything he has—skill, wit, endurance, and intelligence—and means survival and freedom. And failure...failure is to lose all that he has. Introducing Robin Monarch ("a Jason Bourne for the new millenium" —James Rollins) in the first in a series of standalone short stories. Think Bourne. Think Bond. Think better.

On your mark Private, the world''s most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect more than 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries. Get set The opening ceremony is hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins, Peter Knight, is called to the scene of a ruthless murder. A high-ranking member of the games'' organizing committee has been killed. It''s clear to Peter that this wasn''t a crime of passion, but one of precise calculation and execution. Die Newspaper reporter Karen Pope receives a letter from a person who calls himself Cronus claiming responsibility for the murders. He promises to restore the Olympics to their ancient glory and to destroy all those who have corrupted the games with lies, corruption, and greed. Immediately, Karen hires Private to examine the letter, and she and Peter uncover a criminal genius who won''t stop until he''s completely destroyed the modern games. "America''s #1 storyteller" (Forbes) delivers an exhilarating, action-packed thriller that brings the splendor and emotion of the Olympics to a wildly powerful climax.

A Tomb is Discovered in the Heart of the Holy Land... with a message that strikes out at The Vatican and defies any power claiming spiritual authority. This book had for a source a U.S. intelligence agent with an Einsteinian IQ who once worked in Jerusalem, Mecca, and Gaza. The attention given by power centers to important religious relics is far greater than one could ever imagine on the outside. At the center of the story is a peculiar IDF soldier, a computer genius named Gad Kaplan, who finds the tomb. Because of the nature of the spiritual message, he decides to take any risk to disseminate it. He also believes he is learning how the mind of God works, and that for humanity to survive itself certain things must coincide and even detonate -- as with stars that explode to give birth to the elements that make us what we are. He must work to get all these elements into his hands and make sure, this time, that God''s message gets delivered, in spite of the intentions of the Vatican and others. This is a story about the politics of religion, a ''what if'' scenario meant to show how our all-too-human religious drama actually unfolds. "The human race is governed by imagination." -- Napoleon

"With Robin Monarch, Mark Sullivan has created a Jason Bourne for the new millennium" —James Rollins Mark Sullivan, the co-author of James Patterson''s Private Games, has, in Robin Monarch, created a compelling new hero. Monarch is a world-class thief and a highly skilled operative – a man with skills, a rigid code of honor, powerful friends and implacable enemies. In ‘The Art of Rendition,'' Monarch is an agent for the CIA, called upon to use his unique skills to kidnap and interrogate a Russian nuclear scientist suspected of selling technology to the Iranians. But that''s only part of the challenge – one that many trained agents could handle effectively. They''ve called upon Monarch because, after the interrogation, he must return the scientist without the Russians, the Iranians, or the scientist himself ever knowing he''s been grabbed. Meet Robin Monarch in "The Art of Rendition," a thrilling, compelling story which showcases the author and character, each at the top of their form. As a bonus, included is a special excerpt from Rogue, the first Robin Monarch novel, coming in Fall of 2012.

Gideon McCarthy is a man on the edge, a burnt-out journalist fighting for his career and his life. When a series of savage murders rips through Southern California, breaking the story could be his last chance. Now, McCarthy walks a dangerous ine between truth and journalism, as he goes after a story that will shake the city to its core and bring a killer after him.

Mark Sullivan has stood for years at the top of his profession. Hundreds of thousands of readers have followed his widely syndicated column with avid interest. His fame as a journalist has been, since the publication and enthusiastic reception of the successive volumes of Our Time, at least equaled by his reputation as a historian. And his fascinating book is, too, a kind of history. In it we see the last half century of this country through the eyes of a highly intelligent man, whose chief characteristic seems to have been an intense curiosity about everyone and everything. -- Front book flap.