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  Berlin Game - A Bernard Samson...

  Len Deighton

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  Berlin Game begins with a plea from “Brahms Four,” one of Britain’s most valuable agents stationed in East Germany: He wants to cross the Iron Curtain and come to the West. Bernard Samson, the former field agent now stationed in London, is tasked with the rescue. But before he even sets out on the mission, suspicions arise that there is a traitor in the MI6, likely one of his closest colleagues. 
   
  The first in Deighton’s acclaimed Game, Set, Match trilogy featuring the talented yet jaded intelligence officer Bernard Samson, Berlin Game is a riveting story of betrayal and suspicion in the Cold War.

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  Stinger Operation Cyclone

  Bill Fortin

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  Shortly after the election of Ronald Regan in 1979 the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. In 1982 POTUS set in motion Operation Cyclone. The Afghan people, Congressman Charlie Wilson, and the Stinger missile went to war and defeated the Russian Army.

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  The Nameless Graves

  Tony Urban, Drew Strickland

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  Carolina thought her past was buried until someone dug it up. 
   
  Just  when her life seems to be on the verge of normalcy, Private Investigator Carolina McKay receives a mysterious envelope in the mail. Inside is a photograph of a field with GPS coordinates. And one very cryptic message: “Wish you were here.” 
   
  Upon receiving  the clue, Carolina heads to Western Maryland and unearths a mass grave. Five members of a single family, all of whom went missing decades  
  earlier. 
   
  Their nightmare might have ended years ago, but hers is just beginning. Soon, more photos arrive and more graves are uncovered. 
   
  A madman with a penchant for killing families has eluded capture for  
  years. A madman who is now taunting Carolina and drawing her into the  
  investigation. A madman who has a new family in his sights. 
   
  When new victims vanish, Carolina teams up with FBI Agent Baden Mulrooney to solve the case. Can they stop the monster before more bodies are left  
  in his wake, or will it be Carolina who ends up in a nameless grave?

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  3 Detective Stories – About...

  Thomas W Hanshew

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  There is something about the number 3.  
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. 
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. 
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
  From their pens to your your ears.

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  The Lattice Protocol - In a...

  Aaron Raiffie

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  In a perfectly synchronized world, true freedom lies in the agony of remembering. 
  Desmond Everett is a ghost haunting the basement of his own creation. Decades ago, he designed The Lattice—a global neural network that regulates the emotions of eight billion human beings, eradicating extreme pain, rage, and despair. But when he discovers that the Lattice Corporation's ruthless CEO, Josephine Joy, is preparing to initiate The Protocol—a forced, universal software update that will permanently delete all traumatic human memories and strip humanity of its free will—Desmond knows he must act. 
  To dismantle the system, he must leave his subterranean sanctuary and find Lyra Lighthaven, a "rogue subject" whose mind violently rejected the network's synchronization. Lyra is the only person on Earth capable of navigating the digital streams without being assimilated. Together with an underground investigative journalist and a dangerous freelance mercenary, they must navigate the labyrinthine shadows of a dystopian undercity. 
  Hunted by elite corporate enforcers, Desmond and his fragile alliance have only hours to break into the most heavily fortified vault on the planet. The Lattice Protocol is a gripping, pulse-pounding cyberpunk thriller that questions the very nature of human identity, trauma, and the steep price of a manufactured utopia.

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  Murder in Constantinople

  A.E. Goldin

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  This entertaining historical mystery is the exciting debut novel from London-based musician and screenwriter A.E. Goldin. Thrillingly paced and with an enchanting historical setting, it launches an unforgettable  new hero in a series that provides the nostalgic pleasure of classic Sherlock Holmes. 
   
  London, 1854. Tweny-one-year-old Ben Canaan attracts trouble wherever he goes. His father wants him to be a good Jewish son, working for the family business on Whitechapel Road, but Ben and his friends, the 'Good-for-Nothings', just want adventure.Then the chance discovery of an enigmatic letter and a photograph of a beautiful woman bring Ben an adventure more dangerous than anything he'd imagined. Suddenly he is thrown into the heart of a mystery that takes him away from everything he has known and all the way to Constantinople, the jewel of an empire and the center of a world on the brink of war.Ben's only clue is three words: 'The White Death.' Now he must find what links a string of grisly murders, following a trail through kingmaking and conspiracy, poison and high politics, bloodshed and betrayal. In a city of deadly secrets, no one is safe—and one wrong step could cost Ben his life.

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