It was the moment of disaster, when silence gives the boundary between peace and violence. Alexandra Dolnikov is a twenty-year-old chemistry major at a Chicago university who might, if she works hard,...

After investigation came retribution, vindictive and indiscriminate. It's the early 1980's and the height of the Cold War when Steve Donovan, despite a checkered past, troubled marriage, and no prospects,...

I wondered what crime a professional killer could commit that his closest friends would find unforgivable. It is the mid 1980's and Barbara Kemp shatters another glass ceiling as she becomes the US babysitter...

She was an expert shot and an expert fighter, and she was utterly helpless against the fury that held her. It is the early 90s and the Berlin Wall is down. At the insistence of her family, Mara Sobieski...

"I've never known Mack to make a threat he was not prepared to carry out," I said carefully. "He doesn't bluff." Frank Cardova provides logistic support for a highly effective team of deadly operatives...

"You do not have a future if you do not stay alive now." It is the early 90s and Frank Cardova, his wife Maryann and his daughter Theresa, have become targets of an associate of the vory, Russian thieves...

"You must see your plan to shield her from us has failed." Jade Wilmerton runs a library for an intelligence outfit. It's 1997 and Skosh, a shadowy ops guy in her organization, takes her as his administrative...

"A woman should be able to ask for what she wants." It's 1993, and Air Force Captain Claire Nolan hopes to be one of the first women to fly a combat fighter aircraft. She has no intention of letting Steve...

Why don't you kill the guards and let us fight our way out? They grew up together and are distantly related. But can three such different personalities form an effective fighting team? When a car bomb...

Mack might cut your throat but with faultless etiquette. Christine Barton, a Vermont state trooper, witnesses a murder while walking her dog in a Montreal park on a bright summer morning in 1999. She...