by Jeff Critser (2013)
After learning of his friend's murder in Florida, investment banker Kip Mitchelson suddenly finds himself hunted like common prey. Kip's friend, Philip Kurchow, IT manager for a company in Munich, possessed a secret: the details of a lucrative smuggling enterprise in Eastern Europe involving lethal virus technology. However, the CIA has launched its own campaign to intercept the technology. As he digs deeper into the treachery, Kip finds a more sinister stalker in the hunt, the sadistic operative known only as RAFTER. Risking his life - and that of his family - Kip races to expose the betrayers and fight their depraved assault.--adapted from back cover.
Victor Canning
This is the second of four thrillers involving the private investigator Rex Carver. He is engaged to trace the heir to a small legacy, but discovers that the missing man is involved with a diamond robbery and drug smuggling.
Mark F. Davis
Disguised as a foreign exchange student from a well-to-do family, Sara Morgan presents herself as a young hopeful interested in her university studies, all the while keeping her true purpose secret. Set primarily in Washington State, Tigress tells the story of a woman's life in the world of espionage.
Robert Ludlum
Michael Havelock's world died on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava. He watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karats, double agent, was efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There was nothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Until, in one frantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock saw his Jenna alive. From then on, he was marked for death by both U.S. and Russian assassins, racing around the globe after his beautiful betrayer, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by a top-level mole with the world in his fist--Parsifal.
Robert Ludlum
After his own wife dies as a result of his lethal spy games, naval intelligence officer Tyrell Hawthorne carves out a new life for himself, but he is drawn back into the "business."