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David Hagberg''s New York Times bestselling Kirk McGarvey series continues in Flash Points, the action-packed thriller about a plot to lead a president towards impeachmentRetired CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey is taking a much needed break. Then a bomb in his car explodes just as he''s leaving the vehicle. He barely escapes with his life.The men who went after McGarvey are also after the President of the United States. A controversial candidate, he has just won a heated, heavily contested presidential election. Now his enemies are determined to push him out of office. These men hire a contractor to set up three terrorist assaults in the US as well as other attacks around the globe in hopes of driving him from office. These strikes are at flash points so critical they could incite all-out nuclear war.But the president’s enemies have not reckoned on Kirk McGarvey. He has survived their attempt on his life, and he is determined to hunt them down and stop them at all costs.They made a mistake in going after the CIA’s #1 assassin.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

New York Times bestselling author David Hagberg''s acclaimed Kirk McGarvey series continues with another compelling and timely thriller in Face Off. Kirk McGarvey is lunching in the Eiffel Tower when terrorists attempt to bring the Paris icon down. He springs into action to stop the attack, only to find there’s a much larger plot at stake. One that aims to force the incompetent US President out by pitting him against Russia. But Putin himself is eager to avoid World War III. When a Russian nuclear weapon goes missing and is found heading to the US, Putin enlists McGarvey’s help in stopping it.The stakes couldn''t be higher, and the outcome couldn''t be more in doubt. Only McGarvey stands a chance of intervening before it’s too late, in a race against time across Paris, Istanbul, Moscow, and Washington, D.C.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Kirk McGarvey engages in a global revenge quest in this novella from New York Times bestselling author David HagbergFormer director of the CIA Kirk McGarvey is no stranger to dangerous encounters. Early in his career, he came up against the Soviet Union''s deadliest agent three times, finally killing the man in a flooded tunnel beneath the ruins of a castle in Portugal.Years have passed. The Russian''s brother, Kurshin, a Spetsnaz operator twenty-five years younger than McGarvey, vows revenge. He and McGarvey are both shadowmen--living between the real world, and the world of the deep cover spy and assassin. To get McGarvey''s attention, Kurshin desecrates the grave of the American''s wife. McGarvey pits himself against the Russian--the man of vast experience versus the bold young man who believes he is invincible. The mano a mano begins at Arlington Cemetery and moves across Europe, from the baccarat tables of Monte Carlo to the same the Portuguese castle where the Russian''s brother was killed so many years ago. Only one shadowman will be left standing.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Only Kirk McGarvey can save the President''s daughter from execution at the hands of terrorists in David Hagberg''s breathless thriller novella, 24 Hours. Featuring a special sneak peak at the new McGarvey novel, End Game!The seventeen-year-old daughter of the widowed President of the United States is kidnapped from Georgetown University outside Washington, DC.A ransom note mysteriously appears on the president''s desk in his private study off the Oval Office. The demand is as simple as it is impossible: The US must immediately begin a ground war in Syria. If the President doesn''t comply within 24 hours, his only daughter will be publicly executed.The terrorists believe that pitting the U.S. against Russian troops in a ground war will allow ISIS to decisively create its Caliphate, from which it would be free to wage war against the entire world. The Middle East would sink into a new and barbarous century.Former CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey gets the call in the middle of the night for an emergency meeting with the President of the United States. His mission: find the President’s daughter and return her safely to the White House. The problem: He has only twenty-four hours to do it.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In this gripping origin story, CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey faces his most formidable foe yet: Vladimir Putin himself.When McGarvey investigates the mysterious death of his parents years ago, he uncovers long-buried secrets that put him head to head and mano a mano with the Russian dictator. After Mac calls Putin out, the ruthless leader decides he wants him dead.Battling Russian hit squads as well as enemies at home, McGarvey must fight like the devil to save himself, his friends, and the USA in this engrossing international thriller from David Hagberg, the "grand master of the contemporary thriller" (Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author).Packed with suspense, globe-trotting action, and pulse-pounding twists, McGarvey is an edge-of-your-seat ride into the world of black ops, political intrigue, and military dictatorship. Hagberg, a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author, delivers a powerful prequel that reveals the CIA assassin''s thrilling origin story.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The next Kirk McGarvey novel, Gambit, is an international thriller with non-stop action, perfect for fans of Jason Bourne.“If you like thrillers full of international intrigue, Hagberg is a major find.” —Dean Koontz, New York Times bestselling author An American billionaire and a Russian oligarch want Kirk McGarvey dead. First they send a South African assassin, and when Mac kills him, they commission a Canadian sniper for the kill. When Mac put him down, they hire a team of highly specialized Chinese killers called “Scorpions.” When Mac dispatches them, they send a squad of Russian special ops armed to the teeth with high-tech firepower. Mac''s only chance of survival is to turn on the tables on the people behind this assassination conspiracy, that is, if he can find them.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The second Great Depression is coming. The world’s economies are groaning under too much debt. If one thing goes wrong, the entire rickety system collapses. Now, acclaimed award-winning New York Times bestselling novelist David Hagberg and renowned financial reporter Lawrence Light have combined forces to dramatize—hour by hour—how this all-too-real catastrophe could go down in Crash.With debt-burdened governments and businesses worldwide about to go bust, a cabal of Wall Street big shots plot to destroy the globe’s stock exchanges. To provide that one thing that goes wrong. In 24 hours, a powerful computer worm will smash the exchanges and spark an international panic, pushing a debt-laden world into the abyss. The Wall Street gang’s investment bank will be the last one standing, able to make a killing amid the ruins.But one person, who works for their bank as a computer expert, spots the worm embedded deep in its network. Cassy Levin invents a program to destroy the cyber-intruder. Angered by Cassy’s discovery, her bosses order her kidnapping.Her boyfriend, a former Navy SEAL, is alarmed at Cassy’s disappearance and unravels the plot. Ben Whalen only has until the next morning to save the woman he loves and prevent the economic apocalypse.This story is based on the genuine threat posed by towering debt, which will make the 2008 financial crisis look puny.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Traitor is the final, explosive adventure in the thrilling Kirk McGarvey series from New York Times bestselling author David Hagberg--perfect for fans of Jason Bourne!When McGarvey’s best friend, Otto, is charged with treason, Mac and his wife, Petey, set out on a desperate odyssey to clear Otto’s name. Crossing oceans and continents, their journey will take them from Japan to the US to Pakistan to Russia. Caught in a Kremlin crossfire between two warring intel agencies, Mac and Petey must fight for their lives every step of the way.And the stakes could not be higher.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

America is on the brink of crisis. Unless we can curb our dangerous appetite for foreign oil, petroleum-rich countries and speculators will bring our economy to its knees…long before CO2 emissions will devastate our ecosystem. The President has answered the call with the Dakota District Initiative, a top secret research team hidden deep in the Badlands of North Dakota. The Initiative is developing a way to produce clean energy from coal. But powerful enemies will stop at nothing to sabotage this revolutionary technology. A cadre of oil hedge fund managers hires a crew of mercenary fanatics to attack the Initiative''s experimental power station. Despite the bloody assault, the research continues as war-hero sheriff Nate Osborne and brash journalist Ashley Borden search for the attackers. The stakes couldn''t be higher: Unless the Initiative succeeds we could be faced with gasoline at twenty dollars per gallon or more, putting an impossible strain on an already fragile economy. If the project fails, we will continue to poison the very air we breathe. Either way, the Badlands will run red with blood.

David Hagberg''s New York Times bestselling Kirk McGarvey series continues in Flash Points, the action-packed thriller audiobook about a plot to lead a president towards impeachmentThe audiobook begins just after the US presidential election, when a man of Trump''s stripe wins. Determined to push him out of office, members of the president''s staff hire an assassin to set up three terrorist attacks in the US. Meanwhile, a Pentagon general contacts mid-level intelligence operatives in fifteen different countries, concocting a plot in which the president will be faced with supposed attacks along flash points, places where trouble could easily erupt into an all out nuclear war: Pakistan/India; China/Taiwan; North vs South Korea; Russia/Ukraine. The idea is to overwhelm the new president so that he could not possibly make the right decisions. Dangerous, but the effect would cause the public to demand that Congress impeach him. In order for their plots to succeed, both groups must first eliminate the one man who could possibly stop them: retired CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey.

From the USA Today bestselling author of Joshua''s HammerThe President of the United States has appointed Kirk McGarvey interim director of the CIA while his nomination winds its way through Congressional hearings. But what should have been the culmination of McGarvey''s career, has activated a twenty-year-old Russian plot sponsored by his former archenemy, General Baranov. Now, McGarvey is in the Kill Zone. He finds himself part of a plot that does know the Cold War is over, a plot that comes at McGarvey full throttle--from the grave of an enemy McGarvey had buried decades before.Step by inexorable step, the assassin—a sleeper agent for all these years—is awakened from a holding state of mind. Brainwashed by KGB doctors to pull the trigger, the killer has unknowingly waited for a signal that has finally arrived.And as the story races toward its breathtaking climax, it''s becoming clearer to McGarvey and his associates that the killer is someone within his inner circle.A colleague or a friend.Somebody very close.Is there anyone McGarvey can trust when trust itself can kill him?At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Chilling Terrorist Plot Threatens America''s Most Precious Assets in This Gripping Espionage Thriller"My dearest mother," the letter from the young Saudi Arabian suicide bomber begins, as have so many before it. "The day of joy will soon arrive. Send out presents and sweets; prepare my father and my brother for my wedding to come. My black-eyed wife waits for me in Paradise. Rejoice, o my mother, for we will meet in heaven."CIA Director Kirk McGarvey faces his most terrifying lead yet: suicide bombers are coming to America''s heartland, targeting our most vulnerable assets - our children. Tracing the threat to a terrorist known as Khalil, McGarvey becomes convinced that Khalil and Saudi playboy prince Abdul Hasim bin Salman are one and the same. But accusing a Saudi prince of such a heinous plan will surely strain US-Saudi relations.As McGarvey races to unravel the chilling plot, he finds himself at odds with the White House and forced to take matters into his own hands. From the frigid Alaskan waters to the balmy French Riviera and the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington, D.C., Mac must stop the Soldiers of God before it''s too late.In this gripping espionage thriller from New York Times bestselling author David Hagberg, Kirk McGarvey must risk everything to prevent a brutal terrorist attack on American soil.INCLUDES A SNEAK PEEK OF DAVID HAGBERG''S NEXT KIRK MCGARVEY THRILLER, THE ABYSS, AVAILABLE SOON!At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A heart-pounding thriller pitting CIA operative Kirk McGarvey against the world''s most notorious terrorist in a race against time.Under the cover of a moonless night, al-Quaida operatives infiltrate the infamous Camp Delta prison on the American base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a failed attempt to free five former Iranian Navy submarine crewmen. Their freedom was to be the first step in unleashing a deadly act of terrorism codenamed Allah''s Scorpion.The CIA and Kirk McGarvey are called in, but first McGarvey must stop the destruction of the Panama Canal by a Venezuelan oil tanker rigged to explode in one of the locks. What seems to be an unrelated attack turns up the same cryptic code name.The ultimate strike may be imminent - a grand finale to what began on 9/11. A pair of Russian nuclear warhead missiles have turned up on the radar, and they are in transit by sea to an undisclosed launch site in the Atlantic Ocean. McGarvey is the only man capable of stopping this devastating attack on America in Allah''s Scorpion, an explosive thriller from New York Times bestselling author David Hagberg.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Late one balmy summer evening in Pyongyang, an important Chinese intelligence general on his way to a secret meeting with Kim Jon-Il is assassinated in plain sight of a surveillance camera. The two shooters are wearing the uniforms of North Korean police officers. Kim Jong-Il denies any knowledge of the shooting, but the Chinese do not believe him. As they prepare to attack, Jong-Il promises to unleash his nuclear weapons on downtown Beijing, Seoul, and Tokyo, plunging the entire region into nuclear war. Kirk McGarvey, just off a difficult assignment that took him to Mexico City, has returned to his visiting professorship at the University of South Florida. A colonel in North Korea''s intelligence service shows up in person, asking McGarvey to prove that North Korea did not authorize the hit. It''s the most extraordinary request McGarvey has ever received. He enters a dangerous international shadow world where almost nothing is as it seems. The puzzles lead him to a mysterious Russian ex-KGB multimillionaire whose specialty is expediting assassins for hire, to Pyongyang where he finds the wedge to open up a far-reaching plot so monstrous the entire world could go up into flames, and finally back to the one nation that potentially has the most to gain by such a war.And the most to lose . . . At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

David Hagberg''s New York Times bestselling Kirk McGarvey series continues in Retribution, with a deadly mission to take down a monstrous serial killer. On May 1, 2011, a team of twenty-four members of US SEAL Team Six swooped down on the compound of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Their mission, code-named Neptune Spear, was to find and kill the terrorist leader. The mission was a success.Since that day, elements of the government of Pakistan have harbored a deep hatred for the SEALs who violated their sovereign territory. Now they''ve hired a team of German assassins to kill all twenty-four of the ST6 operators…and only one man stands a chance of stopping them: legendary former Director of the CIA Kirk McGarvey.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Cuban Intelligence Service Colonel Maria Leon is called to the bedside of the dying Fidel Castro. She is his illegitimate daughter but has never been acknowledged by her father until now. Castro makes her promise to contact the legendary former Director of the CIA Kirk McGarvey to help her on a mysterious quest to find Cibola, the fabled seven cities of Gold.As the Cuban government unravels, Leon has to use every means at her disposal just to find the elusive McGarvey, all the while fending off men in her own Operations Division who want her job or her death. In desperation, Leon kidnaps McGarvey''s closest friend, Otto Rencke, to force McGarvey''s hand.Mac''s meeting with Leon launches the most bizarre mission of his entire career that takes him from Cuba to Mexico City, to Spain and finally to an ancient site in New Mexico that the Spanish conquistadors called the Jornada del muerto—the Journey of Death.On the run from Cuban intelligence agents and blood thirsty Mexican drug cartel soldiers who will stop at nothing for a piece of the fabulous treasure, McGarvey struggles to decipher the truth buried in Leon''s deception.This latest installment in David Hagberg''s New York Times bestselling Kirk McGarvey series takes the former CIA director on another deadly international adventure in Castro''s Daughter.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

David Hagberg''s New York Times bestselling Kirk McGarvey series continues with a deadly mission to find a long-lost treasure map in Blood Pact. A large portion of the fabulous treasure originally stolen by conquistadors of the eighteenth century was buried in the desert of southern New Mexico by Spanish monks. Jacob Ambli, a Catholic priest, was sent as a spy on a Spanish military mission to find seven caches left for the Church. He kept a diary showing the locations, but was murdered trying to get back to Rome, and the journal was lost.Now, a century and a half later, the diary has come to light, and the Spanish government, Cuban intelligence agency, and the Catholic Church are racing to be the first to claim it. Kirk McGarvey is approached by a shadowy organization that wants to beat all of them to the book—the Voltaire Society, a mysterious group whose purpose is shrouded in the history of the United States.The chase takes Mac from Washington to Malta and finally to Seville, where he comes up against a fifth foe—one of the most ruthless assassins he has ever confronted—who has made a blood pact with the agents of the devil to find the lost treasure no matter what the cost.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The New York Times bestselling Kirk McGarvey series from David Hagberg contines with the espionage thriller The Cabal In Washington, CIA operative Todd Van Buren meets with a Washington Post investigative reporter who has uncovered strong evidence that a powerful lobbyist has formed a shadowy group called the Friday Club, a cabal whose members include high-ranking men inside the government: a White House adviser, a three star general at the Pentagon, deputy secretaries at the State Department, Homeland Security, the FBI and even the CIA. That afternoon Van Buren, son-in-law of the legendary spy Kirk McGarvey, is brutally gunned down because of what he''s been told. The same evening the reporter and his family are killed, all traces of the shadow group erased.A grief stricken McGarvey is drawn into the most far-reaching and bizarre investigation of his career, the stakes of which could destabilize the U.S. government, and shake the foundations of the world financial order.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

New York Times bestselling author David Hagberg pits The Expediter''s Kirk McGarvey against people who mean to destroy our future in AbyssIt''s a pleasant summer afternoon in the Gulf Stream, twenty-five miles off Hutchinson Island on Florida''s east coast. NOAA scientist Dr. Eve Larsen is about to prove she has the answers to global warming, and the solution to stopping killer storms across the planet. She is a part of a multi-trillion dollar, multinational project to farm clean, endless energy from the oceans'' currents--and alter the planet''s weather for the better.At that moment, contract killer Brian DeCamp walks into the Hutchinson Island Nuclear Power Station, aiming to cause a meltdown so catastrophic it''ll make Chernobyl seem like nothing. Security cam footage leads to an intervention by legendary former CIA director Kirk McGarvey, who manages to thwart the catastrophe... but the failed sabotage sets off a chain of events more terrifying than McGarvey could ever have imagined. With Big Oil ruthlessly hunting for profit after the BP disaster in the Gulf, the fate of the world hangs in the balance.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In a deadly game of revenge, Kirk McGarvey becomes the target of a grieving man determined to make him pay the ultimate price.Kirk McGarvey--one-time CIA assassin--dreams of a peaceful life and marital bliss. But one man will change all that. In 1945, Isawa Nakaruma lost his mother and father at Hiroshima, his wife and child at Nagasaki, and has been planning for years to wreak his revenge--and he holds Kirk McGarvey personally responsible.Nakaruma''s plan begins with the murder of McGarvey''s girlfriend and the kidnapping and torture of his ex-wife and daughter. But he won''t stop there, not until McGarvey himself is six feet under and nuclear bombs are detonated over Los Angeles and San Francisco.In this gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling author David Hagberg, Kirk McGarvey must race against time to stop a vengeful plot that threatens millions of lives. Critical Mass is a heart-pounding tale of espionage, suspense, and the lengths one man will go to exact his revenge.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

On American soil, a terrorist bomb explodes at a Georgetown restaurant, killing CIA operative Kirk MGarvey''s girlfriend and wounding his daughter. Now Mcgarvey seeks vengeance while at the same time struggling with the growing crisis in the Far East where a mysterious underground nuclear explosion has destroyed a power station off the coast of North Korea.From the corridors of power in Washington to the Japanese space launch center at Tanegashima, White House tells a gripping story of suspense about one man''s race to sabotage a cunning terrorist operation before it eliminates the White House-- and everyone he loves." … delivers a powerful payload of action, suspense and political intrigue ..." - Publishers WeeklyAt the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

David Hagberg''s High Flight is an espionage thriller featuring secret agents and high-stakes international political intrigue First electronics. Then automobiles. Now the Japanese are ready to strike at our largest industrial export--airplanes. Intrigue and danger heighten as America faces its worst industrial challenge since the Great Depression. With the Cold War over, Japanese industrial espionage may succeed tomorrow where, fifty years ago, their military might failed. Expert saboteurs continue to strike at our vital industries, while hundreds of thousands of American jobs and countless billions of dollars hang in the balance. Ex-CIA field officer Kirk McGarvey is hired by Guerin Airline Company to investigate a recent rash of accidents and restore the company''s, and America''s, international reputation.At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.