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ISBN-13: 978-1456336936
ISBN-10: 1456336932
BISAC: Fiction / Historical
Set in New York’s notoriously corrupt Tammany Hall era after the Civil War, The Printer's Devil follows Ambrose Kelly, a type-setter for The Tribune. Ambrose has come far in life since his impoverished youth, when he supported his mother and siblings as a bare knuckles fighter. In 1870, Ambrose's dreams are shattered when his wife Maeve and son Edward are run down by a beer wagon. Suspecting murder, Ambrose is intent on tracking down the killers. He arranges for his disabled niece Addie to move in and care for his three year old daughter Nola. Ambrose believes his wife and son were killed because of his side trade in acquiring old books for wealthy patrons. But there may be a different cause - strong-arm work he did for Tammany Hall as a young man. Boss Tweed faces investigation and Ambrose knows that Tammany wouldn't hesitate to silence potential witnesses.
Ambrose receives unexpected help from Maisie Rourke, his little sisters' childhood friend. The 19th century equivalent of a call girl, Maisie knows everyone from Samuel Clemens to Jay Gould to George Vandermeer, the shipping magnate who originally commissioned the search for St. Mathew's gospel. After three attempts on Ambrose's life, his former boss Horace Greeley sends him to the Ottoman Empire as a correspondent, enabling Ambrose to track Vandermeer. After discovering Maisie's skill at art, Greeley hires her as Ambrose's illustrator. Together, they follow Vandermeer from Constantinople to a Georgian monastery to the Caspian to Cairo and Luxor and Abyssinia in a deadly race to find the gospel first.
Meanwhile, Nola is kidnapped and Addie, though deaf and mute, must search New York alone. While Ambrose wards off his enemies and protects his family, he also must settle his confused feelings between grief for Maeve and Edward, a budding romance with Maisie, and attraction to his niece (by marriage) Addie, who reminds him so much of Maeve. |
ISBN-13: 978-1456342593
ISBN-10: 1456342592
BISAC: Fiction / Historical
A PAGAN IN BYZANTIUM spans the Sixth Century A.D. from the death gasps of the Roman Empire through the rise of Byzantine power to the onset of the Dark Ages. Flavus Agricola is a military engineer who helps to build the Hagia Sophia, the most impressive construction project the world had ever seen. He witnesses imperial intrigue, revolution, war, conquest, and a devastating plague. He's befriended by the great general Belisarius and his fidelity-challenged wife Antonina. Through them, he comes to know the driven Emperor Justinian, and the brilliant Empress Theodora. |
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THE MAIDEN'S ODYSSEY is historical fiction, set in the 8th Century BCE. A young captive named Nerissa survives her slave ship's passage from Asia Minor to the Greek island of Ithaca. Purchased by an aristocratic family, she first encounters Homer when he recites The Iliad at a banquet where she’s serving. Once her master Theoton discovers Nerissa’s keen intelligence, he involves her in his plan to introduce democracy. When Theoton's fortunes turn, Nerissa’s sold off to a man of a much different stripe.
Brutalized by her second master Tragus, Nerissa escapes, only to be recaptured and punished harshly. She seeks blind Homer's protection, but he insists on returning her. While leading Homer errantly, Nerissa recounts the ordeal of her family that led to her enslavement. As he struggles with the opening for his new poem The Odyssey, Homer becomes intrigued by Nerissa's tale. He corrects her at each juncture, insisting on turning real events into heroic exploits manipulated by the Gods. But he refuses to buy her, deeply scornful of a woman's ability to be a scribe. Actually, he's heavily in debt, and can't afford the few drachma it would cost for a damaged slave. Their encounter sets off a chain of tragedy and triumph winding through the next ten years.
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| Loyalty Test sweeps from a disastrous school bombing in Islamabad, to a murderous Russian gang smuggling plutonium, to war-torn South Sudan, to the brothels and drug labs of a perilously corrupt Myanmar, to the rescue of girls forced into prostitution in Ankara, to lethal encounters in Azerbaidzhan, Russia, and Kazakhstan, to the fundamentalist dominated alleys of Karachi, to the U.S. where terrorist strikes devastate Wall Street and Atlanta's CDC.
Throughout, each major character is gripped by divided loyalties. A terrorist faces the conflict of loyalty toward the country of his birth v. the country of his heritage. Genna Bowen must decide between passion for the man of her dreams v. her need to prevent this man from doing a terrible thing. President Yates balances his duty to protect the United States v. his desire to protect a long held secret. Zack Bowen has little trouble choosing between love for his only child v. duty to the government he's long served. The same govenment that's made him a scapegoat for the disaster in Islamabad. And the same president who was once a close friend. A close friend to his wife Julianna and daughter Genna, too.
As the story builds to a thunderous conclusion, Zack Bowen manages to rescue his pregnant daughter Genna. Reunited, they face a nearly hopeless race to stave off a strike on U.S. soil far more massive than the Wall Street and Atlanta blasts. Zack has unearthed compelling indications that the plot originated inside Russia, but Brad Yates, running for re-election and involved in sensitive negotiations with the Russians, is equally convinced that the homegrown terrorist group al-Shahab must be the source. Disgraced by the earlier scandal in Pakistan, Zack's expertise is continually rejected as he tracks down the terrorists. Finally cornering the bomber in Washington, Zack and Genna face a terrible choice.
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Enemy of Freedom is a thriller that reads like the worst case headlines for America's
near term future:
Terrorists Detonate Refinery. Hundreds Dead at Tunnel Blast. V.P.
Assassinated in Nerve Gas Strike. President Lewis Announces Run for 3rd Term.
In a seamless progression from today's alarming
landscape, this sensational young author's created the America we’ve all feared
might emerge. Repeated assaults on U.S. soil. An
increasingly authoritarian administration. Domestic intelligence agents
stepping far beyond the limits of legality.
When she discovers gross improprieties in the arrest of Imad Khalif,
Assistant U.S. Attorney Kyrie Langford contacts investigative journalist
Davis Brandt. Kyrie is a conservative young woman with a strong record of
convicting terrorists. Brandt is a firebrand reporter for the Washington
Post, a divorced man single-minded about exposing administration abuses.
Together, they uncover clandestine government activities of totalitarian
proportions. Along with his small children, Brandt's nearly killed by agents
of Homeland Security's new spy agency. Kyrie's longstanding relationship
falls apart. They're charged with espionage and terrorism, pursued in a
massive manhunt. Before they're caught and executed, they must find hard
proof that President Lewis has manipulated the terrorism crisis to extend
his grip on power.
Because the manhunt draws away FBI agents hunting the real terrorists,
Khalif's cell is able to organize a chemical warfare assault on Washington.
In real life, would the President's crimes result in disgrace or
would the country support his iron hand? Would the core of honorable
government agents be able to stop further carnage amid the highly charged
political crisis? Enemy of Freedom takes the worst events of the last seven
years as a starting point and ratchets up the tension to an extraordinary degree. |
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