Bøger af Ron McGraw

In the tradition of Michael Crichton, Ron McGraw presents WALKER'S ISLAND. Owned and designed by multi-billionaire Lloyd Walker to advance research at an accelerated pace, San Sebastian Island is a near Utopia for Genetic Engineering scientists employed at Walker's Medical Foundation. Isolated and independent of the California mainland, Walker's island caters to each and every resident's whim while providing the perfect environment for scientific research. Tremendous strides are taking place in the quest to end mankind's maladies, but someone on the island is selling the Foundation's discoveries to rival firms and Walker wants it to stop. Enter Craig Fleming, an ex-CIA agent with extraordinary ability to ferret moles out of any organization-for a price. Within months he's ready to name the conspirators when he uncovers the dark secrets behind the Foundation's successes, secrets that Walker and the Foundation will do anything to conceal.

After years of trying to help his progressively psychotic wife, Steve Manion is faced with divorce, knowing he'll have to fight for custody of Michael and Monica. He's soon caught in a maelstrom of legal nightmares while the children try to understand and cope with an illogical grown-up world.

After years as an undercover CIA agent in Europe and the Middle East, Scott Foster is recalled to Washington shortly before Christmas. Short-tempered and brilliant, he anticipates resigning. Despite that, Scott is sent on one last mission to Egypt where he learns of an imminent terrorist attack on Washington. Upon returning, he soon attracts the attention of the Directors of the CIA and the Office of National Intelligence. Lastly, lame-duck President Bishop decides to give Scott extraordinary powers and directs him to chase down the terrorists and expose the cabinet member responsible for numerous and serious leaks. Challenged, Scott begins working with the FBI and the NSA, but his efforts are soon hampered and then stymied by Congress and the elusive terrorists. Meanwhile, drawn into Bishop's White House, Scott is exposed to cabinet intrigues while employing the myriad levels of the government's intelligence services, legal and otherwise. Taunted by a married former girlfriend and deterred by the traitor on the cabinet, Scott pinpoints the looming date of lthe attack: Inauguration Day, the twentieth of January.

In this unforgettable literary novel, Ron McGraw has written this contemporary answer to Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. Comfortably established in a German village with a dozen comrades during the Cold War, Army Intelligence Specialist Greg Barnes believes he's got it made. With a room in the quaint Waldental Inn and relatively free of Army discipline, all he has to do is wait out his enlistment before returning to medical school. Fate, however, steps in during pre-Lenten Fasching celebrations in the form of a beautiful young woman from Berlin, Barbra von Kronstadt. Inescapably drawn to one another, their love eventually forces Greg to resent the Army and causes Barbra to oppose her aristocratic family and its obligations. Their story is the lacing that binds the novel and is just one among many memorable tales that evolve around the Waldental Inn.

Madison Kyle is a young, head-strong and attractive true-crime writer. While she is modestly successful, her agent prods a reluctant Madison into a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: Interview serial killer Brandon Seville in San Quentin's Death Row before he takes a short walk to the green room.

"Epic."Simply epic in scope, characters, story, plot and imagery. One of the best disaster stories I have ever read. Highly recommend." Jay Ward, October 21, 2018 (Goodreads) In the basement of the new USGS Data Center Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Dr. Greg Foreman notes some unusual results of minor earthquakes that occurred overnight. Unable to immediately discuss the abnormalities with his mentor, he puts his misgivings aside and begins his Tuesday morning.Miner Carl "Bear" Barinovich discovers a fabulous gold mine high in the Sierras and can't believe his luck while likewise, in Newport Beach, movie producer Ken Whitlock anticipates a visit by Magda Fabin, a Hungarian movie starlet. Ken has his housekeeper prepare hors d'oeuvres and chill champagne, knowing what it means if Magda arrives without her agent.Pete Madison and his daughter Darcy survive a killer wave on Lake Mead while Hoover Dam's manager, Harry Forbes, experiences an unprecedented earthquake that causes considerable damage to the canyon walls and the dam's approach roads. Minutes later and more than two-hundred miles south of the dam, a group of Mexican nationals loses one of its members while crossing the Rio Colorado due to another strong earthquake centered near Yuma, Arizona.Jeremy Woods, the editor of the Los Angeles Tribune, reads reports of the two major quakes: Yuma is devastated with thousands of fatalities and one ridiculous report states that the Colorado River is flowing upstream. He scoffs at that but nevertheless realizes it's going to be a long day.Atop his mine, "Bear" experiences his first strong quake, one that seemingly wants to knock him off his mountaintop perch. He laughs as he rides it out and then finds a nugget large enough to retire on.This is still early Tuesday; eight more days are required to complete the California Archipelago.

Four years after the great cataclysm, CA's principal characters are struggling to rebuild the Golden State while coping with their latent memories and other effects of the disaster. Ken Whitlock returns to kick-start the film industry and Greg Foreman believes he's on the cusp of being able to predict earthquakes while still others see opportunities for a new life. Washington is insisting on repopulating the state and everything looks promising until the quiescent earth begins moving again.

Alex Turner's not a criminal in the ordinary sense; he just can't pass up a challenge. So when he pulls of what he considers the perfect crime in Brooklyn, NY., he says his farewells and heads for California. Little does he know that fate awaits him in the form of a young woman in Gallup, NM., who invariably sets his plans awry.

Greg and Arlene foreman are easily lured away from an idyllic life in France by the USGS because they mutually miss their challenging lifestyles. Carl "Bear" Barinovich becomes aware that returning to California and his gold mine is his only solution to an unexpected tragedy while Marge Stimson sees an opportunity to form her own movie studio and gathers the old Whitlock team, including Perry Martin and his impatient wife Darcy who longs to be in front of cameras again. Enter an unstable and jealous Neil Fleming, an attractive young geologist and a pair of small-time murderers out for an easy haul, then include surprises and violent events that are beyond everyone's control and you have Return to The Archipelago.

Once again Ron McGraw weaves an intricate, hard-to-put-down tale of love, murder and catastrophe. Laced with new and returning characters from the previous two novels of this trilogy, it is filled with unexpected surprises and twists that culminate in the end of the Golden State.

After five years of geologic inactivity, California once again becomes an irresistible lure for many, both in and out of the government. The USGS recalls Dr. Greg Foreman to provide his expertise, "Bear" Barinovich recruits a team to return to his mine in the Sierras and Marge Stimson gathers Ken Whitlock's old movie crew to form her own studio in Simi Valley. Several others are drawn to the state for various reasons, both good and nefarious in this final, fascinating continuation of the archipelago series.