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War and the End Game is the twelfth and final book of the Sybil series: it has been a fun ride, and the author hopes you will enjoy the exciting finish. President Sybil Norcroft Daniels has one more test of her philosophy as an unaligned political figure: dealing with repression and discrimination against LGBTQQIAAP members of the navy, perhaps one crusade too many. The hostilities between the US and the DPRK escalate out of control with armed...

Book Nine of the MacGee series shines a spotlight on Ivory White, MacGee's partner and the firm's man of action. When MacGee Associates, the CIA, and FBI, team up with one of the few truly honest senior Mexican police commanders to interdict a cruel and violent human trafficking criminal organization, Ivory White is arrested and thrown in the worst of the worst Mexican prisons to send a message to US President Willets from the corrupt presiden...

McGee on Trial for First Degree Murder is the eleventh book in the McGee & Associates Private Eyes series. The light and dark of the justice system enshroud McGee when he is accused of multiple first-degree murders with almost unassailable evidence against him. Federal courts, police and private investigators, biased cops, prosecutors, judges, drug lords, the Mafia, and his old friends, including the president, get involved. Finally, Joseph Pa...

The Great White Hunter-Southern Africa is the third and final book of the Dutch Century Trilogy. It covers the last two-thirds of the 1600s, during which the Dutch exercised considerable control of all sub-Saharan Africa. Among the Dutch who spent significant portions of their lives in the region were farmers, traders, builders, mariners, and slavers. And, most interesting, some intrepid long-distance hunters. They sought fortunes as rewards f...

President Sybil Norton Daniels's presidency is tumultuous, to put it mildly. In this, the eleventh book of the series, there are rumors of war and some serious skirmishes, a legal battle over secession moving seriously through the courts, and beaucoup troubles for the harried president--the first woman to hold the office. There is a scandal popularly known as the "New Teapot Dome Scandal, ' a National Enquirer contrived and photoshopped lurid ...

Caitlin O'Brian is a most effective detective in the McGee Agency, but she does not always play by the rules... or the laws. She is angered at the core by a spate of kidnapping and trafficking of little girls. In her mind, the law is inept, and its enforcers are emasculated. There is no more time to follow that correct route, and she needs a new way. She knows all too well about a pair of influential twins who ignore the law and escape detecti...

The Dutch Century: Domination of the Spice Trade at Any Cost is the second of three books about the remarkable 17th century, primarily owned by the Netherlands. It reveals--as historical fiction-the adventures, trials, risks, accomplishments, conflicts, atrocities, and crimes, of the Dutch and specifically of the Seagoing Van Brakel family.

Sybil Norcroft, The Struggle, Book Ten in the Sybil Norcroft Series has a little something for the whole family: sinister backroom meetings, threats of impeachment, spies, lies, traitors, corrupt deals, bad blood, betrayals, DEFCON, carrier squadrons, struggles, stand-offs, ultimatums and intransigence, dirty tricks, missiles, torpedoes, snipers, assassination attempts, black-ops, the ugly visage of secession, premeditated murder, retribution,...

The Twinning Factor: Perfect Murders, McGee Faces a Conundrum, Book Seven in the Joseph McGee: Private Investigator series, sees McGee assist DCIA Sybil Norcroft in the latter stages famous Beelzebub, the Magnificent dragnet, followed by his greatest conundrum ever. The story unravels the mysteries of trafficked girls, mass murders, perfect alibis, the problematical riddle posed by identical twins with one name. New Yorker, McGee ends up in a ...

The Rise and Fall of the Fifteenth Caliphate is as much about the involvement of American forces in regime change as it is about the Islamic State terrorists, because the two are so intertwined. This is historical fiction that has several prologues to highlight the CIA and US military covert wars in the Banana Republics, Afghanistan, Syria, Viet Nam, and Iraq and spans the period between 1903 to the present. The narrative-in-chief concerns the...

Six famous (or infamous, if you prefer) World War Two generals have been murdered in six different countries leading to separate quiet but intense investigations. INTERPOL is finally involved because the police in each country come to realize that there has to be a connection, but no one knows what that connection is. Once links seem plausible, the Mossad joins the international police investigation and search, and the greatest manhunt in hist...

Gog and Magog, Yawm al-Qiyamah, Yawm al-Din, The Day of Judgment opens with a meeting of highly secretive Islamic jihadists who have a well-organized and ingenious plan to cripple the United States and Europe. The leader cautions his followers--true believers all--to be patient. On the other side of the world, a former federal prosecutor named Elizabeth Rowan is beginning the first of many steps in a meteoric rise up the federal ladder which w...

The Boss's Daughters is the fifth novella of Carl Douglass's McGee series. Cinnamon and Paprika Paxton, daughters of a Harlem crime lord, and their security guards are kidnapped. The parents are forbidden by the kidnappers to involve the police, so, McGee & Associates are called in to help. The ransom demand is $25 Million, a sum covered by kidnap insurance. There are harrowing escape attempts, reprisals against the crime lord's competitors, a...

Death on a Pale Horse iis the fourth novella of Carl Douglass' McGee series. Painted Desert High school principal Bertha Yazzie is murdered, and Lt. Naalnish Begay--head of the field office of the NDCI for the Painted Desert District in Blue Mesa, Arizona suspects her husband. It is soon evident that the case is not so simple. Her computer yields angry interchanges with her husband and passionate vitriol from angry parents, disgruntled employe...

McGee Fights to Save Orphanage Girls Taken by Traffickers--Wednesday's Child is the third novella of Carl Douglass's McGee series. It is a tale of "Wednesday's child is full of woe." Brigid O'Hanlon--age thirteen--is one of the "Wednesday's Children"--a foundling left on the doorstep of St. Anne's Orphanage in Red Hook, New York. One of the few days she and her girl-friends can count is the grand and city-wide heralded celebration of their thi...

The Oath introduces Sybil Norcroft into the welter of problems, extreme decisions, personal and public confrontations and an entirely new set of issues to deal with. The new president learns from an old Washington hand that "if you want to have a friend in Washington... get a dog.

The 17th century belonged to the Dutch and was an exciting era of commerce, discovery, and conflict-above all else, adventure. This first book of the Dutchman Trilogy is about adventure, triumph, conquest, failure, fighting-pirates, rioters, Christians, and Muslims. The Dutch Century is also about young love that became timeless, bonds of friendship that persisted lifetimes, and a raw exposition of what 17th century life and times were really ...

The Mysterious Alexandra Tarasova-Yusupov is historical fiction about the glory years and the end of Tzarist Russia, and the time when Australia came into its own. It is a tale of swashbuckling heroes, ferocious pirates, and ruthless business tai-pans. The book chronicles the life of a woman who could outcompete them all, but could not conquer her own demons. Alexandra was at once lovable, beguiling, reasonable, and admirable, but also despica...

To Be Or Not To Be is the eighth book in the Sybil series and may prove to be one of the most upsetting. She is a reasonable government official trying to cope with an unreasonable world ruled by narcissistic sociopathic populists. The worst of the bunch is the Prime Minister of the UK--Brexit Style. She becomes embroiled in spy v. spy, navy v. navy, and ally v. ally in the most touchy, confusing , and changeable adventure of her action-packed...

Sybil Norcroft Meets the Devil is the seventh in the Sybil Norcroft series. The potential of high office is dangled by the president to the woman who has earned a BS degree in medical biology, an M.D. degree magna cum laude, is a FACS [Fellow of the American College of Surgeons] and a FAANS [Fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons], and has earned a PhD in neurological studies. She has been a world-famous television medical...