Bøger af Michael Hannan

Hippolyte Arsenault, a very rich Energy CEO, wants to divorce his wife; but he doesn't want to split his fortune with her. Virgine, his wife, is on her way to a beautifully rugged part of Montana to fly fish for native species. Her guide, Dante, is a former special, Special Forces, with a Ph.D. in philosophy. Dante, the first of a new series by Michael Hannan, is the story of corporate machinations, greed, arrogance, and murder amid a stunning backdrop of westerner beauty that Dante describes as one that hasn't yet drawn narcissistic idolaters.

Beyond Good and Evil is the first novel in the series of the same name. It tells the story of the ingenious theft of six Picasso masterpieces along with two of fellow cubist Georges Braques' from a museum in Sweden, their journey across Europe, and their pursuit by Gandalf Dalin, the Wizard, Rikspolisstyrelsen (Swedish National Police), Interpol, Special Branch of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, the FBI, and Kelly O'Neill. Perhaps of more interest, however, it tells the story how Keagan and Kelly - two former IRA fundraisers; Niles - a former captain in 14 Int, Unit 22 of the SAS, who once tried to capture Keagan and Kelly; and Teal - a Cajun, on the lam from south Lu-zee-ana with his ten-year old daughter all came together at an inn in Lake Placid called Beyond Good and Evil.

Synopsis As Iraq is being invaded, Baghdadis brake into the National Museum and cart off whatever they can carry. In all, they loot more than 15,000 pieces of art and antiquity. Finding 103 Sumerian cylinder seals, the museum's most valuable collection is the team's next project. This time they really have their work cut out for them because three Special Forces units are also trying to find the seals. The villains want to sell them for $25 million; the Iranians want to score a political coup; and the Coalition Task Force wants to return them. The Iranians have already tried to kidnap Kelly, and the villains would like to see her dead as well. Add to the mix, the CIA (ours and Canada's), the Montreal Police, the Mounties, and a devious, smooth-talking PI, and you'll understand why Kelly calls this one a grand cockup.

A junior CIA analyst becomes curious about the complex structure of The Sythian Fund, an investment portfolio managed by Jaco Kazmi, a non-resident alien. He reports his misgivings to his superiors, who after some investigation suspect that Kazmi is an Iranian financier who manages 30 million dollars for ISIS. CIA brass Bradley Fenster calls in Wesley Seager, a free agent who occasionally does special jobs for the Company; he in turn, calls Dante, his best operative and charges him with stealing the 30 million. What Dante and his team soon discover, however, is that Kazmi is funding five simultaneous attacks on major American cities. What began as a paper chase soon becomes a race against time and carnage.

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Seager comes to Dante with another impossible mission. This time he needs to steal 100 million dollars from a Russian oligarch who is planning to fund an IS spinoff group fighting Assad in Syria. The first hurdle Dante has to clear is that he's not leading the project. Mick Keagan, a former art thief, is. The next hurdle is that the money is in a bank in Vanuatu, an island nation - known for its bank secrecy policies - located a thousand miles off the coast of Australia. Only it's not. The money is just on the books. Keagan, Kelly, Niles, and Teal join Dante, Lollard, and Nolan to plot how to turn letters of credit into real money, while two Russian teams, two Jabhat Fateh al-Sham operatives, the bank president, and the head of the board try to prevent them.

General Roystan has another special project for SAS Staff Sergeant Ian Lollard (Socko). The last time he had to find a kidnap victim that the Police Service of Northern Ireland couldn't. This time all he has to do is crush the six Loyalist terrorist groups in Northern Ireland. Lollard calls Niles; Niles talks to Keagan, and off they go to Belfast. Not Teal though: Keagan has a special project for him, which may be more dangerous than what Keagan and Niles are getting into.

Things are bleak: Cassie has gotten married and shows no signs of returning to Beyond Good and Evil; it's April and the weather is so bad that Keagan's bar regulars are either too bored or too warm at home to brave the sleet, rain and snow of mud season. Only Moon O'Brien stops in - rattled after a treacherous crossing of the Plains of Abraham. And then the call from Ireland comes; and Keagan's off without Niles and Teal. "It's too dangerous," he warns them. It's too dangerous for Keagan too because the IRA and its splinter groups consider him a traitor for quitting the Cause and immigrating to America; the loyalists who also have a whole raft of crazies under various alphabetic rubrics would like nothing better that to kill him. And even the Police Service of Northern Ireland retains more than a mild interest in him. Yet he has no choice, he has to go.