Bøger af Steve Dimodica

Isabel Finley, a beautiful college student, is taking a trip to South America. The vacation is a reward for achieving honor roll. But Izzy has also decided to use the trip to research her senior thesis. Her subject is the Dirty War, a tempestuous and difficult time in the history of South American politics. Unknown to Isabel, a network of former military men still covet power. Now however, they have different secrets and a lucrative business to protect. Izzy and her roommate stumble into a criminal conspiracy with huge international implications. The girls become expendable. Enter Calixto Lozen, Izzy's half brother. He is a Special Forces trained soldier with unique tracking skills. Cal embarks on a mission to locate and save his sister. The circuitous path winds a trail from Santiago, to Buenos Aires, to Washington DC as each twist in the journey exposes another buried secret -- evil mysteries that are unwelcome to the light of day.

Albert Einstein died of natural causes in 1955. A final manuscript, long believed to be his incomplete deliberations on the most vexing issue in physics, is left in his office. It is a decoy. The brilliant scientist has smuggled the true mathematical solution overseas, and trusted it to a cadre of Jewish academics. It stays hidden for six decades. The year shifts to 2013. A family gathers around the table for a Seder feast at the beginning of Passover in the old Jewish quarter of Istanbul. A stranger invited to the dinner tortures and murders the host family. Alarm bells sound. The competing governments of Russia, Iran, Israel, and the United States dispatch operatives to the ancient walled city. Control of the manuscript is crucial, it holds the key to understanding the universe. Melissa Hastings, an American physicist, is teamed with CIA Case Officer Terry Solak to lead the U.S. efforts to recover the document. At every turn they are confronted by ambiguities and hostile intent. The search for Einstein's lost manuscript is both a layered exercise in espionage and a test of personal survival. Worst among the antagonists is a mystical Turk named Yilmaz. He belongs to a secretive sect descended from Sephardi Jews known as Donmeh. From Istanbul to Casablanca, to Paris, to New York, we follow Melissa and Terry as they strive to secure the document. The final shocking revelations force Melissa to confront moral choices in a world of deceit.

It's 1999. The United States, a long time benefactor to Panama, is scheduled to return the canal to the republic at the end of the year, so stability in the Central American country is paramount. But a wealthy Swiss financier and an Israeli Mossad officer have compelling reasons to destabilize the tiny isthmus nation. In an intricate plot, they enlist the help of a Bosnian war criminal, who leads a series of attacks against defenseless jungle villages to help create fear and uncertainty. Simultaneously, there are massive transfers of money and international currency that pique the interest of Interpol investigators and sound alarm bells in Washington. A covert team of operatives is assembled. Under CIA Case Officer Jessica Flekk, the teams' mission is to determine the purpose of the sudden insurrection in Panama and to ferret out the perpetrators. It quickly becomes apparent to Jessica that she is a bit player in a very large geopolitical game. Her team is expendable, and the tiny Republic of Panama is merely a conduit for major espionage activities between Washington, Tel Aviv, and Beijing. The final, shocking revelations force Flekk and her team to confront difficult decisions in a world of ambiguity.

Spring 2017 – Europe is at a political crossroads and the German People are about to go to the polls. As the UK suffers through the Brexit breakup and Italy embraces the Five Star Movement, there is growing dissent within the governments of other EU stalwarts, due mostly to the immigration program known as Schengen. It has become THE political issue in the German Republic and now threatens to undermine the EU itself and by extension, NATO – the military umbrella that has protected most of Europe for seventy years.When several EU delegates are murdered in German cities, the finger of blame points to a Middle Eastern nation, yet rumors also circulate about the rise of a domestic neo-nazi organization known as das Netzwerk – and one individual within its ranks in particular. At the request of German intelligence, the U.S. provides an experienced deep cover agent to determine if the claims are true. Is the neo-nazi known as Gerhardt Fuchs, a direct descendant of Adolf Hitler? The Hitler Progeny is a cautionary tale of the highest order at the intersection of current events, global politics, and modern espionage.