Bøger af M Albert Collins

Kelly Castellano, a disgruntled former CIA agent and now chief of police for a small coastal Texas town, finds the body of his friend, CIA agent Jose Carrillo. Kelley is reluctantly recruited to find Carrillo's murderer. Posing as a not-to-honest representative of an American oil services company, Kelley's search soon leads him to Venezuela to investigate the Colombian Metillo drug cartel and its attempts to smuggle drugs into the U.S. by surreptitiously taking control of the Venezuelan national oil company. But not only does Kelley discover an insidious plan of corruption of Venezuelan and US politicians, but also uncovers the Venezuelan subsidiary of China's national oil company attempt to acquire a contentious oil lease site in the jungles of eastern Venezuela. Kelley soon finds that both the Metillo cartel and the Chinese are trying to kill him before he discovers too much.

When a federal inspector is pushed from a bridge onto the patrol car of Brazoria County Texas Sheriff Josh McCall, McCall is plunged into a tangled web of murders, international drug smuggling, and backstreet Washington politics. As McCall's investigations focus on a suspicious chemical plant in his county, more murders occur as the Metillo drug cartel tries to prevent discovery of the chemical plant's secret. But when the murdered inspector is found to be not only the brother of university professor Jamie Villanueva but also an undercover CIA agent, who only days before his murder had been in Venezuela investigating the Metillo cartel, McCall meets with CIA agent Kelley Castellano. Kelley and Jamie retrace the dead CIA agent's steps in Venezuela to uncover the cartel's plan for smuggling cocaine-laden chocolate into the US, a plan that includes attempts to induce the US government at its highest level to unwittingly agree to a trade agreement that will assure cocaine-laden chocolate shipments into the US without discovery. In Venezuela, Kelley and Jamie are captured as they learn details of the cartel's operations and face torture and death. In Texas, attempts to prevent the discovery of the murderers of the CIA agent draws Pasadena Police Chief Floyd Daigle into the investigation. As McCall and Daigle work together to unravel the connection between murders in their separate jurisdictions, an attempt is made to kill McCall before he can unmask the ringleaders of the drug smuggling operation.

This historical novel presents the little-known story of the attempted development of an atomic bomb by Imperial Japan, its attempt to use it in the final days of the Pacific War, and the US efforts to prevent the explosion of the bomb on American soil. By detonating an atom bomb on American shores, Japan believes the US will sue for peace on Japan's terms. Based on radio intercepts, a US naval intelligence officer is sent into Manchuria to prevent Japan's completion of its atomic bomb. As his search for the bomb expands into occupied Korea, the officer finds out that time is running out to prevent Japan from using the bomb. Only a last minute, desperate attempt is left to stop the Japanese from using their final weapon of destruction.

A young man from a small Texas town becomes a WWII hero and then a United States Senator. But as he looks to possibly becoming the next vice president, his past is uncovered by some of his political enemies. As he seeks to deflect his past sins, he comes to a tragic decision point as the Korean War unfolds.

After the conclusion of the "Great War," the United States looked with growing apprehension at Japan's escalating territorial expansion amid the worldwide political turmoil engendered by the "Great Depression." To obtain secret information on the plans and objectives of a potential Pacific adversary, U.S. Navy intelligence sends Francis Marian, a young sailor with a near-perfect photographic memory and unusual Chinese and Japanese language skills, to the Philippines. Francis is soon drawn into a conflicting, complex world of clandestine negotiations and secret and dangerous missions in China, Japan, and Indo-China. But the United States is not the only world power seeking information on Japan's plans for supremacy in the Pacific. Hitler's Germany, in its embryonic pursuit of world domination, sends Willy Rosin, posing as the international businessman Werner Breidstein, to the Philippines to determine if Japan can be a viable ally or will become only an impediment to German hegemony in the Pacific. Breidstein's mission transforms into a distorted quest for personal power and revenge of his mother's suspicious death when Willy was a young boy in the Philippines. Breidstein leaves a trail of ruthless murder as he and Marian trust and parry across the lands of the Orient, from China to Japan, to Indo-China, to the islands of Micronesia, and to the Philippines, as Japan is inexorably drawn closer and closer to war with the United States. Shinako Fujimori, a young, innocent Japanese woman, is betrayed by an ambitious Japanese naval officer she expected to marry, but finds solace with Breidstein after her father is assassinated. But she will be betrayed by some. Seeking revenge for her father's murder, she unwittingly becomes instrumental in both Francis and Breidstein separately learning that Japan will attack Pearl Harbor within only hours. As the two men clash in the ensuing hours, startling secrets will be revealed.