14 Ergebnisse.

You do not have a future if you do not stay alive now." It is the early 90s and Frank Cardova, his wife Maryann and his daughter Theresa, have become targets of an associate of the vory, Russian thieves under the code working for a foreign intelligence operative. They turn for help to Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by western governments for black operations conducted without fingerprints. The team, or rather its l...

Why don't you kill the guards and let us fight our way out? They grew up together and are distantly related. But can three such different personalities form an effective fighting team? When a car bomb leaves Misha orphaned at nineteen, his life changes its trajectory. The possibilities of a privileged youth fade to a dismal choice between a brutal death or a violent life. He will never know peace and safety again. Misha's distant cousins, ...

A woman should be able to ask for what she wants." It's 1993, and Air Force Captain Claire Nolan hopes to be one of the first women to fly a combat fighter aircraft. She has no intention of letting Steve Donovan's captivating brown eyes derail her ambitions, but his team could cost her more than her career. Steve is a member of Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by western governments for black operations conducted witho...

You must see your plan to shield her from us has failed." Jade Wilmerton runs a library for an intelligence outfit. It's 1997 and Skosh, a shadowy ops guy in her organization, takes her as his administrative assistant on a private flight to Lithuania. Jade hopes for a little adventure and maybe something more from this appealing man, but his irascible, profane and worried manner is strictly business. "They're dangerous, " he tells her, witho...

Mack might cut your throat but with faultless etiquette. Christine Barton, a Vermont state trooper, witnesses a murder while walking her dog in a Montreal park on a bright summer morning in 1999. She takes refuge from the killer in a safe house full of spies and deadly operatives who could be allies but seem more like enemies. She soon understands she is not free to leave. Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by Western ...

She was an expert shot and an expert fighter, and she was utterly helpless against the fury that held her. It is the early 90s and the Berlin Wall is down. At the insistence of her family, Mara Sobieski has a safe job in a quiet corner of the intelligence world, until Sergei Pavlenko asks for her help. As the USSR becomes the Russian Federation, Sergei finds himself in danger from his former colleagues in the KGB. The information he holds ...

I wondered what crime a professional killer could commit that his closest friends would find unforgivable. It is the mid 1980's and Barbara Kemp shatters another glass ceiling as she becomes the US babysitter for Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by western governments for black operations conducted without fingerprints. She arrives in-country for her first assignment in support of an allied government. An American of...

It was the moment of disaster, when silence gives the boundary between peace and violence. Alexandra Dolnikov is a twenty-year-old chemistry major at a Chicago university who might, if she works hard, graduate by 1974. She struggles to get along at home and thinks she has figured out how to manage work, school and a tiny apartment, all on her own, until her parish priest asks a favor. She cannot refuse, though she doubts that the missing ico...

I've never known Mack to make a threat he was not prepared to carry out, " I said carefully. "He doesn't bluff." Frank Cardova provides logistic support for a highly effective team of deadly operatives known as Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by western governments for black operations conducted without fingerprints. Mack, the team's knife-wielding leader, and his son Charlie arrive on Frank's doorstep bringing chaos,...

After investigation came retribution, vindictive and indiscriminate. It's the early 1980's and the height of the Cold War when Steve Donovan, despite a checkered past, troubled marriage and no prospects, lands a job at the very bottom of the intelligence world. He finds a kind of happiness being involved with shady people in unsavory activities until he is suddenly promoted over the heads of fifty-nine colleagues by his Section chief, who is...

It is the mid 1980's when Barbara Kemp shatters yet another glass ceiling as she takes responsibility for the premier freelance specialist team used by western governments for black operations without fingerprints. Her first assignment is in support of an allied government's operation against an IRA terrorist. An American officer is being used as bait to lure a deep cover explosives expert into the light where Barbara's new team will annihilat...

What makes a miracle? Alexandra Dolnikov discovers that living against the odds is more miracle than she can expect, and perhaps even want. As she struggles to finish college, Alex agrees to a simple request from her parish priest who is trying to find a valuable missing icon. Her task brings her unavoidably into the path of a team of killers who view her involvement with dangerous suspicion. Alex finds her most firmly held beliefs challenged ...

Mara Sobieski has a famous name. While aware that lineage does not determine destiny, she is determined to test her own skills against the reputations of her forebears. She promises to help an enemy, much to the disgust of her family and team members, leading them all on a perilous journey in search of information that threatens them directly. As they drive across the southwestern United sStates, tempers unravel, attacks proliferate, and the q...

How many meanings can we assign to the word 'dirty'? Steve Donovan is unexpectedly promoted into a world where the definition is as disparate as the people who use it. Of course his new boss is in peril, but is he any safer? In taking over responsibility for Charlemagne, a team of deadly specialists, Steve investigates his new team's motives in the killing of too many people lying in a Chicago morgue and discovers he has entered the game, wher...