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When a tech rep in charge of an avionics retrofit at a United States Air Base in Germany comes up missing, Jake Adams, a former Air Force intelligence and CIA officer, is hired to find him. Was the man selling vital technology for the new Joint Strike Fighter? Back in a changed Europe, Adams struggles to survive in a world where profits are more important than past ideologies. Conspiracy, murder, espionage and mystery lead Jake Adams from an aircraft carrier off the coast of Italy, to the chilly banks of the Rhine. Can Adams keep the technology away from ruthless German and Hungarian agents?

Jake Adams, former CIA officer and Air Force Intelligence captain, is back with a new thrilling adventure. This second installment pits Jake against some of the most idealistic terrorists ever to strap on a suicide bomb. Jake is hired by a Portland, Oregon company as a private security agent during an international agriculture conference in Odessa, Ukraine.

Murder, suspense, and intrigue propel this third Jake Adams mystery thriller from the Dolomite mountains of northern Italy, to the winding back streets of Innsbruck, Austria, and across the Atlantic to Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay area. Two scientists have discovered the DNA link to heart disease in a remote Italian mountain village, and a way to synthesize it and begin selling it to the general public. They're up for the Nobel Prize and set to make millions after teaming up with an Austrian biotechnology company. 

China has a plan for the next hundred years, and they're making moves around the world for complete domination politically and economically. When this situation suddenly becomes clear to Jake Adams in a very personal way, he and Sirena are forced to depart their sedate life on Pico Island in the Azores. Jake quickly discovers that his life could change forever, or suddenly end, if he allows the Chinese to seek total hegemony. He must gather his strength for a life or death battle to counter evil forces. But China will not go quietly without a fight.

Secret Agent X returns! Pulpdom’s premier spy returns via Airship 27 productions Secret Agent X Volume 6 in three new pulse-pounding adventures. "The Man of a Thousand Faces" is confronted with the most threatening challenges to America imaginable. Only his incredible talents as a super spy can overcome each, from destroying a spreading world plague launched from a giant airship to stymieing Nazi subterfuge at a mountain enclave and then having to fight dead men under spell of an evil mystic. All in a days work for the Agent X.

The world has increasingly become a volatile hotbed of terrorism. Europe is ground zero. And Italy is the next target. But Italy has also been the home of Jake Adams for the past few years. When Jake is asked by his billionaire Spanish benefactor to investigate a situation, he has no idea he will be joining forces with a Malavita captain from Calabria. With a new baby daughter, Jake is a bit hesitant to get back in the game. Yet, his girlfriend Alexandra urges him to act, as long as she can help.

Jake Adams finds himself on his isolated Montana ranch enjoying early summer, when he gets a call and finds out an old friend has died in a tragic accident. This death brings back old memories for Jake, but the circumstances of the death seem unbelievable. So, together with Sirena, he takes the...

Jake Adams gets a heads up from an old colleague that the Chinese Communist Party has put out a hit on him. This isn't a new concept for Jake to comprehend. Many have come for him in the past, killing those closest to him. But now Jake has too much to lose. He must retreat and regroup before...

When a scientist working for the Gomez Organization is found dead in a remote Antarctica station, Jake Adams is called back to work for the billionaire. The problem is Sirena is away visiting a friend in Europe, and he is tethered to his Utah ranch with his eighteen-year-old daughter, Emma. So...

Jake Adams is a man on the run. The former CIA officer has survived one assassination attempt already, but just barely. His girlfriend wasn't so lucky. And now someone else has tried. Jake has no choice but to go underground until he can discover who wants him dead and why. But Jake made many enemies during his career, and few friends. With a member of the Austrian Polizei and a German intelligence officer as his only allies, Jake sets out across Europe, fighting to stay one step ahead of the assassins who dog his every move.

Jake Adams, morose and distraught, has isolated himself on the frigid island of Iceland during the heart of the Aurora Borealis. Again, he considers retiring and drifting into an alcoholic coma. But then he is summoned back to work for Spanish billionaire and benefactor, Carlos Gomez. Jake doesn't hesitate to help. Young women are disappearing in South America, and Jake now understands how that would impact him if his daughter had been taken. With the help of his old friends, Jake heads to Argentina to take up the search.

Jake Adams is pulled back into the shadow game in central Europe, where a young Austrian Polizei woman has gone missing. Jake saved Anika Senka when she was a young girl, a refugee from the Balkan Wars of the 90s. Now, a murder in Innsbruck, Austria and the disappearance of his young friend, draws Jake into a case of international intrigue. He barely gets to Austria when the shooting begins, and Jake quickly realizes this is not a simple missing person case. The complex world of countries in the European Union clash with underworld organizations exploiting a void of normalcy.

Jake Adams is living on Pico Island in The Azores with his girlfriend Sirena, the former Israeli CIA officer. When he is called back to work with Spanish billionaire, Carlos Gomez, Jake is not completely on board with this mission. Something isn't adding up with his job to track down a hacker last known to be in the autonomous Basque Country of Spain. Jake and Sirena quickly discover that they are not alone in search of this hacker who has been on the run for more than a decade.

In the stories of Havana Noir, current and former residents of the city - some international sensations such as Leonardo Padura, others exciting new voices like Yohamna Despestre - uncover crimes of violence and loveless sex, of mental cruelty and greed, of self-preservation and collective hysteria.

When the former Deputy Director of the CIA, Bill Remington, takes off after charges of selling secrets to the Chinese, Jake Adams is hired off the books to find the rogue Agency officer. But with many friends in the Agency, and money siphoned to numerous off-shore accounts, this will not be an easy task. In fact, Remington has managed to hide for nearly a month without the Agency, Interpol, or any foreign agencies discovering his location. Jake finds himself in Taiwan, where he is attacked almost immediately and set up as a murderer.

Jake Adams has seemingly retired and gone fly fishing in Patagonia. But his quiet retreat is interrupted when the Agency sends a man to retrieve him to testify before a congressional committee. His testimony quickly becomes an internet sensation—not a good thing for an autonomous operative. Meanwhile, a college professor is murdered in Oregon and his colleague is nearly killed, sending him running for his life.

Follow Jake Adams on his fifth thrilling adventure in this international thriller series. Jake is back in Europe, trying his best to stay out of trouble. But that's never easy for him. What seems like a standard murder investigation turns into a complex conspiracy that will rock the institutions of Europe, and thrust Jake into an insidious plot that pits the old world of the Teutonic Order against new nanotechnology.

America's new master of the international thriller is back with his next riveting Jake Adams thriller. When Jake's girlfriend Anna, an Interpol officer, has the two of them vacationing in Oslo, Norway, he has no idea he will get called back into the Network by his old Air Force commander and former CIA officer. Jake is asked to travel to Spitsbergen Island in Norway's Arctic Svalbard Archipelago, to retrieve the remains of a former officer killed there almost twenty years ago. Together Jake and Anna team up with a Norwegian Intelligence officer, who is both beautiful and deadly.

Jake Adams is back with his fourth thrilling adventure. When an old Cold Warrior from Russia asks Jake to observe the launch of their newest ICBM, Jake finds himself in the taiga of the Russian Far East. But something goes terribly wrong with the missile, and the Russians discover an American plane has shot down the missile with their new Airborne Laser system. This event sets into motion a chain of events that span from the United States capitol, California, the Pacific Northwest, a remote Aleutian Island, and across the Pacific to China and South Korea.