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Captain Alexander de Milja understands that his life, as he knows it, is over. But even in this bleakest of circumstances, all need not be lost. At a decimated cavalry stable under the droning German bombers, Alexander is offered a choice: die in a last stand, or accept a new appointment--and discover a way to keep on fighting even in the face of defeat. His first mission: lead the final refugee train south from doomed Warsaw.

Bulgaria, 1934. The local fascists have just murdered the brother of Khristo Stoianev. Now Khristo is recruited into the NKVD--the Soviet secret police--for special service in the Spanish civil war.

A teenaged boy encounters one comedic calamity after another when his train strands him in the middle of nowhere, and everything comes down to luck.

When Vance Calder, Hollywood's hottest actor and husband of Stone Barrington's ex-girlfriend calls Stone for help, the New York lawyer-turned-investigator knows something isn't kosher.

Vinnie Callabrese, a runner for the mob, uses his ill-gotten gains to produce a full-length feature for the silver screen. His first effort a success, he goes to Hollywood. His mob connections make him one of the most powerful men in the film industry. But friends like his exact a high price for their friendship--a price that Vinnie may not be willing to pay.

Three federal agents have attempted this risky mission already. None of them have survived. Now the Justice Department wants to bring back Jesse Warden, an ex-DEA agent serving time for a crime he didn't commit, to take on a lethal assignment that no one else wants. To earn his freedom, the battered ex-cop must destroy the Aryan Universe, a deadly, reclusive cult living deep in the Idaho mountains. But are his greatest enemies the cultists--or the heads of the federal agency that sent him?

Amanda Dart is the queen of the glitzy, trashy gossip world until rivals publish an underground scandal sheet called Dirt. When Dart's and her associates' peccadilloes are faxed to news desks across the nation, the motive becomes clear: blackmail. In desperation, Dart and her publisher call Barrington for help.

The one-man stalker squad of the Beverly Hills Police Department begins his hunt for the stalker of a young Hollywood actress.

Chuck Chandler, one-time international tennis star, is a racquet club instructor when he meets Clare Carras, the stunning young wife of a mysterious millionaire. She shows up at the club for a tennis lesson--and ends up in Chuck's bedroom. When Clare's husband disappears in a suspicious diving accident, Chuck becomes the prime suspect in a murderous plot that stretches from California's seedy mob headquarters to Florida's luxurious manors.

His efforts to avenge his father's unjust imprisonment force thirteen-year-old Tom Tin into the streets of nineteenth-century London, but after he is convicted of murder, Tom is eventually sent to Australia where he has a surprise reunion.