Michael Kilian Books in Order

Michael Kilian, Connie Fletcher, and F. Richard Ciccone examine nineteen groups exercising power in Chicago. Their account considers politicians, society figures, organized crime, and street gangs to describe how influence operates across the city’s institutions.

Terminally ill journalist Jack Spencer travels to Iceland, where a Soviet laser weapon threatens the balance of the Cold War. As the KGB protects the secret installation, he must help stop it before time runs out.

This nonfiction examination of power in the American capital profiles influential people and the institutions through which they work. Government departments, regulatory agencies, and other centers of influence reveal how Washington’s decisions reach beyond the city.

American diplomat Dennis Showers arrives in Ottawa preoccupied with finding his childhood sweetheart. Her involvement with environmental terrorists draws him into a struggle involving the CIA and KGB, with Canada threatened by civil war.

Broadway actress Tatiana Chase carries the legacy of an ancestor murdered during the Russian Revolution. Offered a chance to enter the Soviet Union as a spy, she pursues vengeance in a country where her ancestry offers little protection.

Michael Kilian and cartoonist Dick Locher turn aviation terminology into an illustrated comic dictionary. Arranged alphabetically, their playful definitions reinterpret the language of flying, combining verbal jokes with drawings about aircraft, pilots, and life in the air.

President Henry Hampton is wounded at Gettysburg and taken to Camp David, while vague reports leave the nation uncertain. A California advertising man and the vice president pursue evidence that a conspiracy has compromised the government.

After witnessing violence in Paris, correspondent C. Jamieson Spencer boards a luxury liner carrying Prince Edward, Wallis Simpson, and Charles Lindbergh. Society gossip and political intrigue surround the voyage, which soon becomes a struggle for survival.

Society columnist A. C. James witnesses a model’s shooting outside New York’s Plaza Hotel. Discovering that another woman was the intended target, he tries to protect Camilla Santee from threats arising within her own family.

Virginia horseman David Showers hopes a valuable thoroughbred can revive his family’s fortunes. Doubts about the animal’s bloodline draw him into a conflict with a billionaire and powerful political connections, turning genteel racing circles dangerous.

Artist and former architect Matthias Curland returns to Chicago to find his family’s firm nearing bankruptcy. A murdered woman’s painting links the Curland name to a powerful billionaire, pulling Matthias into a conspiracy threatening the city.

Young sea captain Tick Morley becomes involved with George Washington and Benjamin Franklin as colonial rivalries intensify. This historical novel follows Washington’s early ambitions and military decisions amid the events leading toward the French and Indian War.

Harrison Raines escorts an actress to observe the first major Civil War battle, expecting a brief confrontation. When a brave Union officer is killed and branded a deserter, Raines investigates amid the confusion of retreat.

Union agent Harrison Raines receives orders to protect Colonel Edward Baker during fighting at Ball’s Bluff. When Baker is killed, suspicion falls on Raines, who must solve the death to avoid becoming a fugitive.

Former gossip columnist Bedford Green runs an indebted art gallery in Jazz Age Greenwich Village. When his assistant Sloane fears for her friend Polly, he follows a dangerous mystery through New York society and onward to Paris.

Union spy Harrison Raines returns to Richmond to gather intelligence about a Confederate ironclad warship. His mission becomes personal when his first love is murdered and his closest friend faces accusation, demanding an investigation behind enemy lines.

An invitation to the Vanderbilt estate brings gallery owner Bedford Green and his assistant Sloane to Newport. Hired to investigate a mysterious countess, Green instead encounters her murder amid wealthy guests determined to continue their festivities.

Harrison Raines travels west to investigate Confederate plans involving New Mexico. When two prominent landowners are reported murdered and his fellow agent is accused, the Union spy must pursue the killer amid divided frontier loyalties.

Bedford Green accompanies his assistant Sloane on a Kenyan safari, where her uncle’s new wife attracts suspicion. When the woman is murdered and her husband arrested, Green must investigate within a circle of wealthy travelers.

A woman seeking passage through Confederate lines is later found murdered beside her twin sister in a single coffin. General Grant turns to Union agent Harrison Raines, whose investigation carries him across the divided armies.

Exhausted Union spy Harrison Raines hopes to retire to a farm in western Virginia. A local parson’s killing disrupts his plans, and his murder investigation unfolds as opposing armies approach the bloody confrontation at Antietam.

After a failed terrorist attack on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Coast Guard agent Erik Westman hears about a nuclear bomb lost off Delaware decades earlier. He must locate the submerged weapon before terrorists can exploit it.

Former fashion photographer André Derain witnesses a stabbing below his New Orleans window and unsuccessfully pursues the attacker. His impulsive intervention draws him into a murder investigation exposing corruption that reaches beyond an ordinary French Quarter crime.

André Derain photographs the murdered son of a New Orleans gangster, then attracts dangerous attention by trying to sell the pictures. Seeking escape from the city’s underworld, he finds further threats awaiting him in the Cayman Islands.