Warrant Officer Tom Crocker and his men of Seal Team 6 are in South Yemen waiting to dispose of a high ranking Al Qaeda terrorist when word comes that they are to abort the mission. Working on information that leading terrorists will be meeting a member of the Al Qaeda organization, the Team is in place ready for elimination, awaiting word from Washington, so they are puzzled when they are told they will be airlifted to a carrier off the coast of Somalia instead. A small ship has been overtaken by pirates and Seal Team 6’s mission is to recover the dangerous cargo, yellowcake, a material used to make high-grade nuclear weapons. After the Seals overcome the pirates it is discovered that the pirate part was a facade. A terrorist group based in Libya is behind the hijacking, and Crocker and his men are sent to Libya to try to locate more nuclear material before it can be
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After a harrowing, premature and unconventional delivery Lindsay Boxer is now a mother, but the intrepid detective is unsure of her ability to carry out her new role with the same degree of success she enjoys as a crime fighter. She doesn’t have long to ponder the situation though when her maternity leave is cut very short by a series of murders. One of the murders, that of the girlfriend of a star 49ers players presents problems for Lindsay’s best friend, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Claire Washburn when the girl’s body disappears from the morgue. Not only must Lindsay try to find out who murdered the girl, she must find the body and vindicate her friend who is being charged with negligence. Lindsay’s partner, Rich Conklin has had his hands full
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Hallie Leland, a microbiologist at CDC and an experienced diver, spelunker and mountain climber is the obvious choice to replace a laboratory colleague who dies while doing important research at the South Pole. From the moment she steps off the transport plane onto the forbidding frozen continent Hallie realizes that survival is going to be a day to day battle. Since she’d arrived a day early there is no one to meet her, and she almost dies as she sets off across the ice toward distant lights. Luckily she is spotted and safely brought to the research facility, but her reception is no warmer than the sub-zero temperatures outside. The Polies, or the scientists and workers at the remote station, exhibit distant, trance-like behavior and many chose drugs and alcohol to combat the isolation and physical discomfort of their frozen prison. Within days of Hallie’s arrival, three woman die
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Private, the elite private security firm, owned by Jack Morgan has tentacles that reach around the globe. When a Hollywood business man needs to discreetly and safely relocate his traumatized young daughter, Jack, assigns the head of his London office of Private, former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter, to escort the girl from Los Angeles to London and to enroll her in school. Hannah Shapiro and her mother were the victims of kidnappers who raped and murdered the mother and were about to do the same to the girl when Jack Morgan burst into the room and saved the girl, but the psychological scars remain. It is almost a decade later and Hannah has been kidnapped again. This time her father will stop at
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Lottie just knows that Richard is about to propose when he asks her to meet him at a restaurant because he has something important to discuss. In fact, she is so sure she’s about to finally become engaged that she buys Richard an engagement ring. Imagine her surprise when Richard merely wants to discuss vacation plans, not honeymoon plans, just vacation plans. An argument ensues and Lottie is suddenly without a boyfriend much less a fiancé. That status doesn’t last very long ago, though, when old boyfriend, Ben, her teenage love from a summer spent on a Greek island appears and reminds her that they pledged to marry each other if neither had married by the time they were 30. The chemistry is still there and the two former teenage lovers decide to marry
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Anti-terrorist task force agent John Corey is in pursuit of another big cat, The Panther. Having killed the terrorist known as The Lion, he and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, are assigned the job of tracking down and eliminating the terrorist known as the Panther. Surprised when they are given this assignment, they soon realize that the government intends to use them as bait, since The Panther has sworn to find and kill them in retaliation for John’s killing The Lion. John had already been to Yemen investigating the U.S.S. Cole bombings so his return to The Panther’s home country appears reasonable. When John and Kate are required to undergo cultural sensitivity training before their departure for Yemen their teacher is Buckminster Harris or Buck, who is later revealed to be a senior operative with many years of experience in covert operations. Mystery and secrecy surround the mission from the moment they arrive in Yemen,
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Sometimes loyalty, diligence and hard work are not enough. Libby Morgan wants so desperately to become partner in her law firm that she has ignored everything else in her life in her quest to accomplish her goal. Her inability to leave her work at the office and her refusal to have children have cost Libby her marriage, but she just knows her sacrifice is about to pay off when she’s called into her boss’s office. Sadly, although she’s a hard worker, she is not a rainmaker and since she doesn’t bring new business to the firm, instead of making her a partner they decide to let her
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