Political / legal thriller Books

Approved by the CIA Publication Review Board.“Mark A. Hewitt has established himself as a great author.” –James J. Seals, Jr. on No Need to KnowA major security breach finds the CIA's closest secrets divulged and dozens of their...

A saga following three generations of CIA officers from an author who has “considerable skill with espionage fiction” (Publishers Weekly).   John Dancer, idealistic founding father of the CIA, was the inside man for the Allies during the...

Based on the experience of the author, a federal judge who in 2000 presided over the first capital case in Massachusetts in more than fifty years, this extraordinary debut thriller offers an unprecedented inside view of a federal death penalty trialWhen...

In Castlebay, North Wales, Dick Merrill is on trial, accused of murdering his wife by administering a lethal dose of arsenic. Merrill, good-looking and attractive, is fatally in love with Margot Stone, who's herself already married. Philip Vane, a lawyer...

Two new short novels featuring attorney Gail Brevard. In THE PURPLE GLOVE MURDERS, Gail and her companion and law partner, Conrad "Connie" Osterlitz, are relaxing at their Southern California mountain hideaway when Gail hears of a nearby tragedy. Retired...

Based on a true story, A REVERSAL OF FORTUNE depicts the struggle of a successful, level-headed lawyer and his new free-spirited, unpredictable wife in adjusting to their recent marriage, coping with their law firm, facing the economic hardships of the...

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A gripping thriller set in apartheid-era South Africa. When a young black woman is murdered in Johannesburg, a group of activists must navigate a dangerous web of political corruption and racial tension to uncover the truth and bring her killers to...

The Barrister is a gripping legal thriller, following the story of a young attorney fighting for justice in a corrupt system. With twists and turns at every corner, this book will keep readers on the edge of their seat until the very end.This work has...

A Russian crime ring scores entry to the USA by forging an alliance with a criminal gang that uses a West Texas private prison as their base. Felons are secretly released from that prison and sent out across the...

A larger-than-life father with underworld ties. An obedient son. Law school may test the limits of his loyalty…Delton Lowe never wanted to step foot inside a courtroom, much less try a case. But none of that mattered after his kingpin father...

Meet Jade Harrington.Don’t Speak: Ambitious, twenty-something FBI Special Agent Jade Harrington cuts her vacation short to investigate the murder of a conservative radio personality only to discover that he may be the victim of a serial killer.Rule...

https://youtu.be/TinLQOI2PZA  (Book Trailer)Kerry Branson, ex-homicide detective turned private investigator, inadvertently rescues a six-year-old boy on a fog-laden backroad in the Piney Woods of East Texas.When she discovers Tristan is the...

The president's body lay next to her bed. She had been described as the most popular president since Kennedy, and her romance with her Australian boyfriend-and their marriage-had captured the imagination of an America tired of partisan politics and...

Everyone steals something . Murder, revenge and blackmail combine into a captivating suspense. With her life in shambles, a woman is driven to tempt a killer. Taunted by threats then attacked in a dark alley, she vows to destroy the perpetrator, a...

Cal Torncek is the lawyer appointed to represent Victoria Frankel, a young woman accused of using a "lethal cocktail" of birth control pills-a chemical assault-to kill her viable fetus.Torncek has the support of a loving wife and their five children,...

Jimmy DiAnno is a thirty-four-year-old, hard-charging prosecutor in the homicide unit of the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office. A talented trial attorney, he takes great pride in his ethical responsibility to see that justice is served.Jerry T...

Ein neuer Bezirksinspektor ermittelt in WienBezirksinspektor Thomas J. Kratochwil, entspricht ziemlich genau dem alten Klischee des Wiener Kriminalbeamten. Er trinkt zu viel Alkohol, ist Kettenraucher, er flucht und hat eine Affäre mit seiner Kollegin...

Nicht zuletzt durch die Enthüllungen des mutigen Whistleblowers Edward Snowden wurde öffentlich, dass der amerikanische Geheimdienst NSA den weltweiten Internet-Verkehr abhört und auswertet. Darüber hinaus greift er aktiv über Hintertüren und...

A foreign land grab in the Dakotas, a strangulation, an interrupted Central American cruise, a lecherous artist, a psychotic stalker, a living room shooting, drama in the Supreme Court, a Ponzi scheme, illicit lovers, an unauthorized portrait, a feigned...

"Secrets are the fuel that keeps this city burning. I thought I could play the game better than anyone...but I was wrong." When Representative Madison Gladstone's first term in Congress is interrupted by the shocking suicide of her longtime mentor, she...

When Jack investigates a series of suspicious wildfires, he is drawn into a global conspiracy to destroy Earth's climate. They control communications. They control the press. And now they are taking control of the weather! Not only that - they want Jack...

What lengths could you be pushed to in times of adversity and frustration? Could you kill, steal or blackmail? A time of disobedience is coming from a collection of decent individuals. People who have never met and yet their extreme actions are...

"A full-throttle thriller, bristling with political, social, and ethical intrigue." -Luke Swanson, author of The Other Hamlet Brother"Like William Munny in Unforgiven, Smith Driskill is tough and resilient." -Laya V Smith, author of The...

Allen Drury (Advise and Consent) is perhaps the greatest political novelist of the 20th century. A young and idealistic Drury was assigned as a reporter to the U.S. Senate for three of the most turbulent years in our history. He was an eyewitness to...

Dan Arrow is a private detective who’s catapulted into a world he never imagined when a guy named Billy Powers dies the night before their first meeting. In the mail the next morning, Dan receives Powers’s notebook, which is full of...

A remote, government-run facility in Saskatchewan called The Farm, offers terminally ill patients an opportunity to die on their own terms, and the sky is the limit. Some choose a quiet, peaceful passing, while others choose more elaborate,...

This witty and engaging novel tells the story of two women - one a successful businesswoman, the other a skilled lawyer - who form an unlikely alliance to take on the male-dominated world of commerce and law. With its clever plotting and finely-drawn...

F*ck You, Your Honor is a satirical literary novel about a low-end attorney and real estate broker who is ordered by a judge to write a book to save his law license.Attorney Darwyn “Wyn” VanWye is down on his luck. He squats in a...

False Reckoning is an 86,000 word fictional, political thriller set in early 21st century Canberra.The crises are set in some present-day political realities of politicians swayed by the reactionary right, and of government abandoning responsibility for...

The Candy Kiss leapt for joy, its niggly-wiggly waving vigorously in the air. From the smoldering ashes of a stunned airline and a torn-apart relationship rose a young woman destined to carry on her father's legacy, a task based on "Honor, Love, and...

في يوم حار من شهر يوليو عام 1977، يدخل شابٌّ مبنى مجلس الوزراء، ويسلِّم مكتب رئيس الوزراء ظرفًا أصفر، وحين يفض المسؤول الظرف تبتلعه الدهشة.في الوقت نفسه، شابٌّ آخر يغادر مبنى البرلمان بعد أن سلَّم ذات البيان إلى مكتب رئيس مجلس الشعب:لقد بدأنا شوطنا،...

In the heart of the English countryside, a discovery is made that threatens to overturn centuries of Church history. When Father Michael Dominic uncovers a cryptic diary leading to a lost 1st century Gospel, he is thrust into a labyrinth of deceit,...

Kate and Jackson live on a cozy farm in Louisiana with their son, Alec. Their quiet routing of chores, games, laundry, and tending to vegetables is turned upside-down when Alec finds the Llorianos, an immigrant family of three hiding in the garden.Kate...

In a future dominated by omnipresent surveillance, why are so many powerful people determined to wipe a poignant gig by a faded rock star from the annals of history? What are they so afraid of? When Rhian is hired to write the memoirs of Elodie...

"A solid series starter that never flags in its sprint to a sinister climax." - Kirkus Reviews"OUR VERDICT: GET IT" "An insurance investigator is the only thing standing between a high-powered law firm and its billion-dollar payday in Hemming's thriller...

Fifty years in the future, an electronic fog known as the polar shroud covers the Arctic ice cap to curb climate change. The shroud has been geoengineered by maverick scientist Charlton Shalom, but now Shalom has disappeared off the grid, and the...

When his godson suffers a catastrophic injury in a high school football game, lawyer Jake Lassiter sues to abolish the sport and becomes the most hated man in Miami. At the same time, the former NFL linebacker battles CTE, the fatal brain disease caused...

Sam Straight wants to be a good lawyer. Instead he finds himself disillusioned in 1990s LA, daydreaming in court of the gentle savior he wants to be, and drinking away his frustrations at night in his office. But he is violently shaken from the...

As the world continues to reel from the shooting, Kate must race to save humanity from more horrific violence.After escaping an angry, dangerous mob, Kate Stellute and her neighbor Sinclair set out on a journey to stop Rex--and his kind-from unleashing...