Stephen Coonts

The death of a French intelligence agent on an Air France flight to Amman, Jordan, is the trigger that launches Tommy Carmellini's latest adventure. Within the European Union, the national espionage agencies are fiercely competing for supremacy against each other--and the CIA. When the Americans discover that the director of the French agency has secret investments in the Bank of Palestine, alarm bells go off. To investigate, the Americans bring Jake...

In Saucer, after discovering the secrets of a 140,000-year-old spacecraft and delivering it to safety in the Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian right alongside Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, Rip Cantrell and beautiful test pilot Charley Pine think their days of high-flying extraterrestrial adventure are over. However, that will change in the sequel, Saucer: The Conquest, because someone is using top-secret information about saucer technology,...

Off the coast of Africa lie the beautiful Canary Islands, a resort destination of millionaires. But underneath this idyllic paradise is one of the most volatile fault lines in the world. There, an alliance between radical Islamic terrorists and a rogue element of the Chinese government is planning to unleash an act of unimaginable geological terrorism.

"The Russia Account pits CIA officer Tommy Carmellini against a murderous, international financial conspiracy that leaves a trail of death and corruption, extending from a small bank in Estonia, to the highest reaches of the Kremlin, to the halls of the Congress, and perhaps even to the CIA itself--putting Admiral Jake Grafton, the head of the CIA, in the crosshairs of an assassin."-- The daughter of an official at a minor bank in Estonia is kidnapped....

Rogue CIA agent Tommy Carmellini is called in by a desperate president to break up a deadly partnership between a renegade Mafia boss and ruthless al-Qaeda leader Abu Qasim, who is offering a fortune in exchange for a horrific terrorist attack on New York City.

The president of the United States stands on an outdoor stage, flanked by powerful members of his administration and party. Television crews are preparing for broadcast. High above the stage, on a nearby rooftop, a decorated sniper adjusts the scope on his rifle.Afterwards, America will never be the same.Jake Grafton and Tommy Carmellini suddenly find themselves on the wrong side of the law when a public act of violence throws the country into chaos...

A vacation cruise to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden turns into a nightmare when the ship is attacked and captured by a band of Somali pirates. A rescue mission ends in failure, and the decks are covered in blood. Unless the pirates are paid a $200 million mansion, they threaten to execute all their hostages. Al Qaeda information indicates a far more dangerous conspiracy is afoot. Grafton and Carmellini, along with CIA and Navy SEAL operatives, mount...

An anthology of three novellas includes "al-Jihad," in which a sniper and pilot team up in a quest for vengeance; "The 17th Day," in which a World War I aviator thwarts statistical predictions of his death; and the title story, in which a boat crew riskstheir lives confronting the Japanese Navy.

Jake Grafton is back, and is sent to Hong Kong to find out how deeply the U.S. consul-general, Tiger Cole, is embedded in a dangerous plan to overthrow the Chinese regime. Hong Kong is a powder keg ready to explode, with a political murder and the Chinese government's closure of a foreign bank as its fuse. Martin's Press

"The Chinese dragon is flexing its muscles. As its military begins to prey on neighbors in the South China Sea, attacking fishing vessels and scheming to seize natural resources, the US goes on high alert. But a far more ominous danger lurks closer to home: a Chinese sleeper cell has planted a nuclear weapon in the harbor at Norfolk, Virginia, the biggest naval base on the planet. The target: a secret rendezvous of the Atlantic Fleet aircraft...