Jack D Hunter
1) The Cure
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Suppose a cure for cancer was finally discovered, a cure that could save the lives of millions-and render much of today's medical and pharmaceutical industry obsolete? How far would the world's movers and shakers go to control this miraculous panacea-or destroy it?
Controversial oncologist Dr. Anson Lunt dies in a suspicious plane crash, just as one of his researchers develops what appears to be a "magic bullet" against all forms of cancer. Before...
2) Tailspin
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In 1945, just after the German surrender, a fleet of B-17s disappears without a trace. When Major Kaufmann tries to follow up, his contacts are murdered before he can reach them—and he knows he's next on the list.
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It's 1945, and Stalin's army stands poised to conquer all of Europe. The only way to stop him is for Truman to bluff him down. To make the bluff work, C.G. Brandt, America's ultra-professional but very human American spymaster, is forced to risk everything on Alex Lukas, an undertrained but bilingual secret agent.
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Captain Carl Kraft is a man dancing on a dangerous tight-rope. By day, he works as an Army Intelligence officer; by night, he secretly reports his department's strengths and weaknesses to a harsh and mysterious superior. Assigned the dirtiest job in his profession, he is ordered to set up a patsy—to frame a fellow officer as a traitor! “I've worked with spies for more than ten years. Or, to be absolutely accurate, against spies. So if there's...
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Roger Wagner, CIA sleuth with a gift for wry jokes, is given ten days to uncover an assassination plot against the President of the United States, who is scheduled to give a crucial speech in Munich. Wagner's frantic search leads him through the German underworld, neo-Nazi dens, glossy jet-set salons, and the highest levels of government.
7) Slingshot
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Matt Cooper, investigative reporter for a Florida daily, single-mindedly probes the murder of his father, a novelist with mysterious ties to World War II Nazi Germany. His obsessive search turns deadly when it leads him to the core of an international conspiracy to usurp the faltering U.S. government.
9) Spies, Inc
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Hootenville, PA: It looks like any conventional company town, but beneath its placid surface throbs a network of violence, blackmail, and murder. It takes an ex-Army spy to coolly fit together the puzzle and expose the game of terror, intrigue, and cunning known as Industrial Espionage. Someone at Hooten Plastics Corporation has been selling its manufacturing secrets. When his boss enlists him to help track down the spy, Paul Dexter can't resist dusting...
10) Sweeney's Run
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From the author of The Potsdam Bluff and Tailspin comes a new techno-thriller set in the near future and featuring man-of-action Tom Sweeney.
When the secret agent is laid off from his high-level intelligence job due to peace-time Department of Defense budget cuts, he takes the dismissal in stride, planning to enjoy a few months off as a swinging bachelor. But when an old CIA running mate is found murdered in the bathroom of Sweeney's house, leaving...
11) The Blue Max
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The most coveted combat decoration in all Germany, the Blue Max was a symbol of power, fame, and prestige beyond the reach of ordinary mortals. Bruno Stachel is a nobody, a newly recruited junior officer in a First World War combat squadron. But he is determined not to remain a nobody for long. He has his sights on the Blue Max, the most coveted of all German decorations, and he will do anything to get it. From the very moment he shoots down his first...
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CIA sleuth Roger Wagner has retired and moved to Florida with his smart, pretty wife. But his leisure is disrupted when the body of a fellow secret agent washes ashore near his beach-front house. The incident launches him on a frantic, hazardous race against time to neutralize a doomsday bomb hidden by a group of terrorists, who are holding his wife—and the entire state of Florida—hostage.
13) The Ace: A Novel
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Four Americans—a twenty-year-old social outcast, a breezily iconoclastic Army officer, a ruthless U.S. senator, and a guilt-ridden heiress—are inexorably drawn together in their struggles to deal with America's chaotic involvement in World War I. Their interwoven destinies lead from poverty-stricken slums through the opulence of 1917–1918 Washington, London, and Paris and, climactically, into the Western Front's vicious aerial combat, which...