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What is the half-life of conscience in a world of continuous betrayals? Is there a point where the accumulated remorse reaches a tipping point or does it just calcify? Is one finally loyal to an institution or to one's own notions of right and wrong?Mahoney joined the Central Intelligence Agency because they promised to repay his student loans. Once in, he became part of a small team headed by Schmidt, an enigmatic CIA veteran who takes on cla...

The past will not stay in the past. Ancient murders have ripple effects through time. Places have auras. People have memories. The house on Russian Hill brought them and their secrets all together -- the billionaire ex-con, the preservationist, the homicide cop about to retire, the Chinese oligarch who honors his ancestors, and the monster in search of an identity. The California drought exposes a riverbank and a skeleton, setting off a chain ...

Alden Acres promised privacy and extreme comfort to a select group of very wealthy high-achievement retirees, among them a billionaire recluse, a man that weighs rather than counts his money, an assassin and a woman obsessed with coffins. For Graham Dodd, it also offered a possible cure for a dispirited marriage and a retirement that wasn't quite working out. But he becomes an unwilling discoverer of past crimes, dirty little secrets and feste...

Ten years after 2, 977 Americans died on September 11, 2001, the outrage has dissipated and Americans are looking for ways out of a Middle East slipping back into medieval chaos, no longer a proving ground for the American Way. Tribal warlords and religious fanatics flourish as Western powers lose their appetite for state building. Walter Morrison is an old-fashioned patriot with a plan to rekindle American commitment. He has considerable weal...

Brian Norquist is sixty, eminent and content. But when his grandson asks him, "Did you ever fight in a war, papa?" he decides that one's legacy should not be left to chance and sets out to write a memoir. After all, he's been a close observer and an occasional amateur spy in the war that didn't happen - the Cold War between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. He finds the past to be a dangerous place. Memories morph ...

Afghanistan is where empires go to be rebuked for their arrogance, a harsh land peopled with fiercely independent warriors for whom honor and revenge are one and the same, and family is sacred. NATO has downgraded to "a training mission", leaving the countryside as a lethal playground where militias, religious zealots and corrupt politicians ply their trade. A conflicted American military advisor Slater Crosby and Malik, a war-weary tribal lea...