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CIA researcher Ronald Malcolm returns from lunch to discover his colleagues have been murdered. When seeking help from the agency triggers another attempt on his life, he must flee and uncover the conspiracy behind the massacre.

Published under an alternative title, this novel follows CIA book analyst Ronald Malcolm after gunmen kill his coworkers while he is away. His escape becomes a hunt for answers as the agency he trusts proves dangerously compromised.

In this sequel to Six Days of the Condor, Malcolm's continuing intelligence career brings him into conflict with a Soviet sleeper cell and Chinese assassins. The once inexperienced analyst faces new dangers within the competing worlds of espionage.

Montana rancher Curt Ross organizes neighboring landowners against a coal company's plans to strip-mine their valley. As the corporation buys influence among local officials, the ranchers struggle to protect their livelihoods, community, and threatened landscape.

Private detective John Rankin investigates the murder of Janet Armstrong, a college student who became a sex worker. His search carries him through Washington's criminal underworld toward the protected circles of wealth and political privilege.

A mysterious woman hires Washington private detective John Rankin to investigate the unsolved murder of Parris Waderi. Pursuing the old case draws him into a tangled search for a killer, complicated by an unexpected romantic involvement.

When a serial killer's ominous newspaper advertisement appears in Baltimore, detective Devlin Rourke must act before another victim dies. Pressure from police leadership and a grieving mobster collides with his dangerous involvement in a separate drug investigation.

Baltimore detective Devlin Rourke investigates four killings linked to an elusive hit man. Determining the intended target becomes urgent as his witness threatens to flee and Rourke himself attracts the attention of someone prepared to kill.

A powerful businessman hires Jackson Cain to break the grip of corrupt leaders controlling a declining Rust Belt city. Cain's return to Steeltown turns the assignment into a confrontation with both entrenched power and his own history.

FBI agents Dalton Cole and Sallie Pickett join detective Nick Sherman to prevent the assassination of influential activist Faron Sears. A covert investigation takes them inside Sears's organization while a determined killer travels toward Washington.

Former CIA operative Jud recognizes that an assassin has found him, forcing him back into a world he tried to leave. With journalist Nick Kelley, he confronts agency corruption while struggling to survive his former employers' pursuit.

CIA officer John Lang questions the supposedly accidental shooting that killed his partner after a devastating New York bombing. Investigating against orders draws him into a conspiracy linking intelligence operations, political power, and increasingly dangerous divided loyalties.

In Watergate-era Washington, police officer John Quinn, Marine Nathan Holloway, and Senate aide Vaughn Conner confront murder, war, and presidential misconduct. Their separate struggles converge amid the hidden violence and compromised ideals of the Nixon years.

Five former CIA operatives escape a secret psychiatric facility after their doctor is murdered and they are framed. Traumatized but highly trained, they pursue the real killer through the eastern United States while struggling with unreliable perceptions.

A CIA analyst discovers troubling information about an operation in Afghanistan and reports it to his superiors. After a gunman kills his coworkers, Condor flees, trying to understand the conspiracy that has turned him into its surviving target.

Childhood friends Jake, Steve, and Thel grow up together in Shelby, Montana, until a flight inspires Jake to join the Air Force. Distance changes their lives, but their friendship endures through the freedoms and losses that follow.

Disgraced former cop Perry Christo, now a private investigator, is hired to find the wealthy daughter of an Upper East Side socialite. The search moves through wintry New York and the Hamptons in a serial noir novel written chapter by chapter by twenty mystery authors.

Pursuing the truth makes the aging agent Condor a target of America's national security apparatus. As he runs through Washington, friends, lovers, and former colleagues are drawn into danger, leaving him uncertain who might rescue or betray him.

Released from psychiatric care, intelligence agent Condor is assigned to sorting unwanted books at the Library of Congress. Encountering a woman who fears she is being followed draws him back toward espionage despite uncertainty about his perceptions.

Released from a secret CIA psychiatric facility in Maine, the silver-haired Condor enters a changed and dangerous America. This short prequel follows the costs of his return to espionage before the events of Last Days of the Condor.

CIA operative Condor navigates conspiracies, institutional confinement, and hidden dangers beneath the Library of Congress in six stories. A new novella confronts Russian interference in American politics, bringing the veteran intelligence analyst into a changing landscape of threats.

A cross-country train carries secretive passengers, valuable cargo, and a gathering threat of murder. Over forty-seven hours, a coder, a curious poet, and other travelers become entangled in conspiracies, revenge, and dangers moving with them through America's heartland.

A fatal car accident overturns ten-year-old Lucas’s life in a small Montana town in 1959. As his family confronts its consequences, he encounters crime, vengeance, and questions of justice amid a country undergoing profound social change.

Teenager Luc grows up in Montana as the Vietnam War, civil-rights struggles, and cultural upheaval reach his community. Everyday high-school concerns give way to wider conflicts, culminating in a crime that threatens to tear his world apart.

Edited by Maxim Jakubowski, this anthology assembles twenty-four original crime and suspense stories inspired by Alfred Hitchcock. Established and emerging writers reinterpret the moods, twists, and memorable premises associated with films such as Psycho, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and The Birds.

James Traven returns to Montana to care for his injured mother and becomes entangled with endangered Lana LaBuff. With a mysterious former Marine as their only ally, they must confront her violent husband and a web of threatening secrets.