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The wheels on the Syndicate's deadliest racket–taking over unions to leverage the old protection racket on whole industries–have begun to steam-roll over the shipping business in the quiet California town of Pacific Port. They send an S.O.S. for the one-man army–P.I. and ex-spy Morocco Jones.

A group of Israeli engineers are trapped in central Iran when the world about them explodes in chaos. Imagine their plight when they discover the Shah has been deposed and Ayatollah Khomeini has returned from exile. How can they escape with their lives? What should they do? Can our hero Guy Hart rescue the attractive Emma Levine and his colleagues from capture by the Revolutionary Guards? The result is an intense action-packed thriller full of danger, death, and fear with some romance, as well as surprising twists and turns.

Morocco Jones challenges the Mafia in a-kill-or-be-killed novel of murder, molls, and mayhem. The Syndicate made a big mistake when they murdered Chris Shane because Shane was the man who had saved Morocco from torture and death at the hand of a despot's most savage secret agent back in Eastern Europe during the war - his best friend and the man to whom he owed his life. No bunch of gun-happy gorillas could scare a guy like Morocco.

McHugh's back, drunk, and locked deep in a Mexican jail while the clock ticks down to doomsday! Someone is planning an international incident that would set off a revolution in one of the US's closest South of the border allies, plus provoke a shooting war between the US and Mexico - and it's up to McHugh, the two-fisted secret agent who always travels with a briefcase containing a fifth of Scotch and a .45, to stop it.

After learning her husband is dead, Sandra Marshall visits his remote family estate to claim her inheritance. There, Sandra faces a cold reception from her husband's uncle, research scientist Mark Caldwell, who is also the administrator of his rather large inheritance. For some reason her husband had never told his uncle about their wedding and he accuses Sandra of lying about the marriage, but allows her to stay until he can verify her story.

In the first audiobook in this classic series, a former CIA spy behind the German lines in WW2 and secret agent fighting the Russian KGB in Europe during the Cold War, returns to the states to find himself up against the dirtiest plot ever against the U.S. Russia's top secret agent has infiltrated the country, making an unholy deal with the Mafia, for an unlimited supply of heroin, the Mafia agrees to back all Reds' activities in the United States. The streets will be flooded with smack...and the back alleys with Russian agents working to bring down America.

He can out shoot, out think, out fight, and out love any other secret agent on the planet - get out of the way James Bond before your tux gets rumpled! McHugh lands a Caribbean island assignment: Stir up a revolution, topple the world's most brutal dictator, smash the secret police whose methods start with torture and get a lot worse from there, help the revolutionaries, and stop the revolution before it goes too far in the other direction. It's just another days' work for McHugh.

McHugh, the world's toughest spy, is on an assignment that spells triple trouble! Trouble #1 begins at the bar he owns to cover his espionage activities, called The Door. And it’s the door to death for the stranger he finds dying just outside with a shiv in his guts. McHugh doesn't like corpses on his doorstep, so he starts to back-track on the stranger, which leads him to a round, ripe, terrified girl, wearing narrow chino pants. There is puzzlement in her eyes, then recognition, then panic. Then the whole house falls in on McHugh!

The 1960s' toughest, brainiest, sexiest, and most compassionate spy, is back in print! Meet McHugh America's#1 Secret Agent a combination of Mickey Spillaine's Mike Hammer and Ian Flemming's James Bond. In this first book in the series, McHugh takes a leave of absence from his spy work to help out his lover's sister who has found a dead Mafioso in her apartment, her boyfriend missing, and half San Francisco's mobsters after her.

Volume six of six marks the thrilling conclusion of the Dominium series. Danger looms over Dr. Strangewayes's Plantation when tension between the English and French becomes a reality. Plantation residents, including Atia Crisp and Capitaine la Roche, must prepare to find a new home before the battle for Jamaica begins.

Volume five of six begins as La Lune's crew is incarcerated in Port Royal, strumpet Violante Hayze narrowly escapes the gallows, and bribes are made. The refugees at Strangewayes' plantation, including Atia Crisp and Capitaine la Roche, make the arduous trek through the Blue Mountains. Atia's reunion with her family is joyous, yet short-lived as an old enemy tracks her down.

Volume four of six begins as Port Royal suffers the aftermath of a destructive fire and a series of deaths. Intrigue unfolds with the public stabbing of a strumpet, new alliances and more betrayals. Atia Crisp, Capitaine la Roche and other refugees reach Dr. Strangewayes' plantation for some much needed respite, while the political stage heats up with the legalization of privateering and piracy.

Volume two of six begins with the Whigs invading Port Royal. They are escorted by Captain Longstaff "Big Dick", who soon encounters the very seductive Violante Hayze. Atia and Capitaine la Roche remain at Cherry Red's brothel. Plans are made to poison enemies and soon a strange outbreak of "scarlet fever" occurs, stalling the local fayre that drives the city's money flow.

Volume three of six begins at the local fayre where enemies meet a shocking end and Capitaine la Roche follows a lead to find Livia, Atia's sister. Betrayals lurk at every turn and a disastrous fire erupts leading to a punishing chase through the city. Will Atia and Capitaine la Roche make the escape from Port Royal to Dr. Strangewayes' plantation?