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In a covert operation, the U.S. Navy must intercept and destroy Russian submarines being sold to China. The submarines are of an advanced design and would enable China to attack Taiwan.

A cop. An ex-FBI agent turned private eye. His contact within the Bureau. An anti-capitalist activist. A shady financier and his right-hand man. A biker gang. The brother of a murdered woman, seeking vengeance. A software program that can capture subjects' entire lives on video. What do they have in common? Big Deal Enterprises, America's largest retailer. When the manager of a Big Deal store is murdered, her brother knows the fault lies with BDE.

From debut author Peter Stone comes a heart-stopping, pulse-pounding political thriller that's perfect for fans of Ally Carter and House of Cards. When recent high school graduate Cameron Carter lands an internship with Congressman Billy Beck in Washington, DC, he thinks it is his ticket out of small town captivity. What he lacks in connections and Beltway polish he makes up in smarts, and he soon finds a friend and mentor in fellow staffer Ariel Lancaster. That is, until she winds up dead.

When Joe DeMarco is framed for the murder of the House Majority Whip in the US Capitol, he calls on his enigmatic friend Emma, an ex-DIA agent, to search for the true killer.

In 1940, Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator, is elected president. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates an "understanding" with Adolf Hitler. For one boy growing up in Newark, the election is the first in a series of ruptures that threaten to destroy his small, safe corner of America.

Arriving in Paris on the eve of the Munich Appeasement in 1938, Hollywood star Frederic Stahl is unwittingly entangled in the region's shifting political currents when he discovers that his latest film is linked to the destinies of fascists, German Nazis, and Hollywood publicists.

The Israeli intelligence chief recalls two former agents to eliminate a top Palestinian terrorist. The former agents were once lovers and their pasts and their enemies come back to haunt them as the terrorist begins his campaign of murder.

A long-forgotten scrapbook stirs Billy Bryan's memories of a distant past and beckons him and his grown daughter on a reluctant journey to relive his role in history. In 1947 Billy Bryan was playing winter ball in Cuba, his future as uncertain as the island country. Then one fateful night Bryan witnessed a young student radical named Fidel unleash an amazing curveball.

Bujumbura, Burundi is one of the last places you would expect to find Thomas Brossard. Once a powerful cabinet minister in Brian Mulroney’s Conservative government, Thomas never had a particular interest in the continent of Africa and the concerns it represented. That was his wife Louise’s domain. But, after an embarrassing election loss, Thomas will do just about anything to regain political power and improve his wife’s estimation of him.

Ingersoll Lockwood invented the fictional character Baron Trump in 1890 for a two-part sci-fi/fantasy series about a privileged boy who undertakes a sequence of fantastic voyages. The style of the Baron Trump series-a mix of fantasy and young-reader-oriented science fiction-anticipated and may have influenced L. Frank Baum's Oz series. The second in that series, Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey, describes Baron's trip to the earth's interior via an opening in the Russian Arctic.