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Goodreads summary: " After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, John Corey has left the Anti-Terrorist Task Force and returned home to New York City, taking a job with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group. Although Corey's new assignment with the DSG - surveilling Russian diplomats working at the U.N. Mission - is thought to be "a quiet end," he is more than happy to be out from under the thumb of the FBI and free from the bureaucracy of office life. But Corey realizes something the U.S. government doesn't: The all-too-real threat of a newly resurgent Russia. When Vasily Petrov, a colonel in the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service posing as a diplomat with the Russian U.N. Mission, mysteriously disappears from a Russian oligarch's party in Southampton, it's up to Corey to track him down. What are the Russians up to and why? Is there a possible nuclear threat, a so-called radiant angel? Will Corey find Petrov and put a stop t...

Book Cover:  "A bittersweet story of recaptured youth and reclaimed love, with all the honed-steel suspense that signifies the trademark of this author. Keith Landry has lived long enough to have seen the end of the cold war; a war fought without uniforms or rules, a war that has claimed his career and his soul.  Now, he has come home to Spencerville, a town in the American heartland that is both familiar and strange, a town as tarnished as Landry himself. But for Landry, Spencerville has one attraction that time has not corrupted.  Her name is Annie Prentis, and she had been the one pure love of his youth.  Then came Vietnam, and a world gone crazy separated them.  Annie had long since married Cliff Baxter, the town's chief of police and its most powerful man, an unfaithful, net brutally possessive husband, a force more dangerous than any Landry has met on the fields of battle. Landry has vowed:  No more violence, No more killing.  But now he ha...