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When, after years of tough negotiations, North Korea's Kim Jong Il suddenly agrees to surrender all of his nuclear weapons, a suspicious U.S. government sends the First Team in to stop a mysterious conspiracy plotting a full-scale nuclear attack.

Even as terrorists plan the most horrific domestic attack in U.S. history, Navy SEAL turned counterterrorism operative Scott Harvath learns he's been framed for treason and named on a secret, deadly government hit list. Now he must figure out who's targeting him--and prevent a catastrophe--before he meets an untimely demise.

The Fargos are used to hunting for treasure, not people. But then a Texas oil baron contacts them with a personal plea: an investigator friend of the Fargos' was on a mission to find the oil baron's missing father-and now the investigator is missing, too.

When a NUMA research ship in the Indian Ocean is destroyed by a mysterious swarm of black particles, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala, members of NUMA's Special Assignments division, are dispatched to examine the wreck. There they uncover a sinister plot to change the Earth's weather patterns--which could kill millions.

A man is left for dead when Columbian pirates raid his yacht and murder his wife and daughter. But soon after, he receives a phone call which reveals that his daughter is still alive.

Annith has watched her gifted sisters at the convent come and go, carrying out their dark dealings in the name of St. Mortain, patiently awaiting her own turn to serve Death. But her worst fears are realized when she discovers she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever sequestered in the rock and stone womb of the convent. Feeling sorely betrayed, Annith decides to strike out on her own. She has spent her whole life training to be an assassin. Just because the convent has changed its mind, doesn't mean she has.

Elite Taskforce operative Pike Logan and his partner Jennifer Cahill are trailing two terrorist organizations from Asia to Egypt when a deadly threat arrives in the U.S.

When a Japanese cargo ship bursts into flames, a gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster--and then the pirates' boat explodes. Kurt Austin and the rest of the NUMA team rush in to investigate, only to find themselves at the center of an audacious plan to extort the world's major nations.

A collection of top operatives, the Taskforce was commissioned by the highest levels of government, kept secret from the media and even Congress. The best of the Taskforce bunch, Pike Logan knows the greatest threat to American security is one or two idealogues. Unfortunately for them, they've just crossed Pike's path.

Witnessing a torpedo attack on a Vietnamese merchant ship by a Chinese nuclear sub, USS North Dakota captain Jerry Mitchell helps to forge a tenuous new alliance with Western Pacific nations in a covert submarine campaign aimed at crippling China's economy and preventing a full-scale war.