Bøger af S M Barton

A gripping, suspenseful thriller that will have your head spinning....When CIA officers Renny Rossi and Cat Ballentine are sent to the idyllic island of Ambergris Caye in Belize, it hardly seems like a challenging spy assignment. But things are heating up in nearby Guatemala and Mexico as drug traffickers, human traffickers, and gangbangers seek out new turf. Suddenly, the normally peaceful nation of Belize is put in jeopardy by criminal organizations with far more resources and armed thugs.Out for a hike in the Crooked Tree Sanctuary with her two babies, Cat stumbles into the middle of a drug smuggling operation, only to discover a young Maya mother and her daughter fleeing from the vicious traffickers.She and Renny decide to help these refugees from Guatemala, setting in motion a chain of events that include the murder of an undercover Belizean police officer, the shooting of another, and the kidnapping of the 9-year-old Maya girl. Why are the Maya being targeted? What does it have to do with the new discoveries of Maya ruins in Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico?As the bodies begin to pile up, the secrets, betrayals, and intrigue lead Cat and Renny deep into the jungle on the hunt for a desperate young woman who can bring down a powerful Mexican cartel.

Navy SEAL Neil Cox would do just about anything to find his father's body. He wants to give the missing FBI undercover agent a proper burial.The Irish-American mobster suspected of committing the murder has never been caught, thanks to his co-opted sources in law enforcement. But when Paddy O'Hurley seeks Stinger missiles for the IRA, he becomes a serious national security threat. As the body count grows, the FBI Special Investigations team in Washington concocts an ambitious "double strike" plan on two continents with the help of the CIA. First order of business is to break Pádraig O'Hurley's connection to IRA terrorists, so that peace negotiations can begin in earnest in Northern Ireland.

Alpha Orionis Enterprises created a highly classified software program called the Bellatrix Project for the United States government. Unbeknownst to the company, Russian GRU officers in a cyber warfare unit called Betelgeuse penetrated the classified system.... But the dangerous cyber hacking begins to fall apart when two ex-lovers are thrown together in Grenada by someone who knows about their private trysts. They can't trust each other with the truth about the secret lives they live. But someone knows what those secret lives entail. That someone needs them to take the fall to cover up a Russian GRU-led espionage plot. As the body count goes up, Suzanne Handley and Brice Burns must work fast to unravel the lies and uncover the truth about a secret network of Russian "mirror" agents deployed to impersonate American intelligence personnel. It's an uneasy alliance that could get them killed, but if they do nothing, those Russian spies will get away with a deadly cyber hacking that will imperil every CIA officer and destroy CIA operations around the world. Once those spies are inside the highly classified Bellatrix communications system being developed, Moscow can launch the new Cold War from the safety of Red Square.

A gripping, suspenseful thriller that will keep you guessing till the end....When CIA officer Catherine Ballentine was taken captive in Afghanistan, she endured horrific treatment for months at the hands of an Islamic State terrorist, Walid, but she never gave up on the mission. When the Afghan women and children she was working with were massacred, Cat escaped and brought the answers back with her. There's only one problem. She doesn't realize just how dangerous those high-stakes secrets are!Navy SEAL Lorenzo Rossi is angry about what happened to his buddies who risked their lives that night to save her. That mission quickly went wrong when the SEAL team suffered heavy losses. Renny is determined to find answers about the events that unfolded in Jalalabad, especially when he realizes someone is trying to push Cat Ballentine into his life. But the untrusting female spy is tight-lipped and terrified.This wily pair of heroes is pushed to the edge as they follow the trail from Miami to Key West and from Key West to the Bahamas. By the time they get to the Virgin Islands, all hell has broken loose. It's a conspiracy conceived by a devil, fueled by an unspeakable evil that puts CIA personnel in grave danger. The electrifying climax will leave you breathless.