Steve Urszenyi – författare

In this action-packed thriller, Special Agent Alex Martel's fight becomes personal when her father is kidnapped by a terrorist organization.CIA Special Agent Alexandra Martel is on safari in Tanzania with her father, a retired US Army general, when they encounter a group of wildlife rangers under attack. After a gunfight, Alex and her father return to their camp, where they discover the unexpected arrival of Alex’s boss, CIA Branch Chief Caleb Copeland. The following day, Alex’s father is kidnapped. Feeling guilty for not anticipating the danger, Alex assembles a crack team of mercenaries to track down her father. With the help of Caleb's elite unit and another CIA paramilitary officer, they embark on a dangerous mission to rescue the general from a terrorist network that has plans to sell him to a major African-based terrorist organization in exchange for deadly technology. The situation becomes even more perilous when the team discovers that the terrorist group who kidnapped the general was supposed to kill him, not sell him. Furious at the betrayal, the leader who ordered the general’s death has vowed to hunt down and eliminate everyone involved—and finish the job by killing the general himself. Alex and her team race against the clock to rescue her father and prevent the deadly military technology from falling into the terrorists’ hands.

A former Army sniper must fall back on her Special Ops skills when a friend’s death uncovers a global nuclear threat, in Steve Urszenyi''s Perfect Shot, the first in an electrifying new series featuring Special Agent Alexandra Martel.Special Agent Alexandra Martel has put her days on the battlefield behind her. Charming and disarming, relentless and lethal, she earned a reputation as one of the most renowned and decorated Army snipers in the service before stepping away. But when Alex, now an FBI special agent on loan to Interpol, learns that an old friend, an MI5 officer, has been killed under mysterious circumstances, she’s pulled back into the dangerous world she left behind: a world where some people fear her, some want to recruit her, and everyone seems to want her dead.Following a trail of clues left behind by the dead woman, Alex pieces together a terrifying conspiracy that only escalates when a nuclear warhead goes missing. Dodging death at every turn, she reluctantly joins forces with a CIA officer, but he has plans of his own for her—and will stop at nothing to achieve them.Chasing the truth through the streets of London and bustling Turkish markets to the underbelly of Paris, Alex is unrelenting in her pursuit of justice. But as the clock ticks down and the world edges closer to doom, she must fall back on her Special Ops skills to stop the unthinkable. She thought her life as a sniper was over—but with stakes this high, she must use whatever means necessary to render the world safe.

Special Agent Alex Martel is thrown back into a deadly world of deception when a series of attacks threaten to incite World War III in this action-packed thriller.While sailing across the Mediterranean, the megayacht Aurora is rocked with explosions, taken under siege by unknown assailants. On board are some of Europe’s wealthiest and most powerful political players, including the secretary general of Interpol, a high-ranking Finnish diplomat, and Special Agent Alex Martel—whose lethal sniper skills kick in to bring them safely to shore.Someone is waging a ruthless campaign of attacks against Finland, one of NATO’s newest members, in an attempt to throw the Alliance into turmoil. Teaming back up with CIA agent Caleb, Alex is thrust into the middle of the fray, pursuing the villains from the waters off of Monaco to the Baltic Sea and home to American soil.As the US is pulled deeper into the conflict, a global catastrophe seems inevitable. But who is really responsible for these escalating attacks on Finland? The Russians, or someone much closer to home? As new allies surface and old enemies reappear, Alex has no way of knowing who to trust—and she might only have one last shot to keep the world from going to war.