STEPHEN COONTS

"[A] Swashbuckling Thriller...Coonts takes us on a heck of a good ride."--"Kirkus Reviews""" In "Pirate Alley," a luxurious vacation cruise to the exotic locales of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden turns into a nightmare for passengers and crew when their ship is suddenly attacked and captured by a band of bloodthirsty Somali pirates. An initial rescue mission ends in failure--and the decks are covered in blood. Unless they are paid a ransom of $200 million within seven days, the pirates threaten to execute all their hostages. But information gleaned from a captured Al Qaeda operative indicates that there is a far more dangerous conspiracy afoot. "Coonts details this ship hijacking and take-down as if he has firsthand experience "with" the SEAL Teams."--Howard Wasdin, author of "Seal Team Six" Once the ransom is paid, Islamic militants intend to swoop in and slaughter the passengers in an orgy of terror, hoping to provoke a massive American military response that will set the Muslim world aflame. Jake Grafton is assigned to negotiate with the brutal pirate chief while his right-hand man, Tommy Carmellini, and a team of CIA and Navy SEAL operatives mount an undercover operation not only to save the hostages, but to keep the United States from being maneuvered into a murderous war... "A stomach-clenching nail-biter that will leave readers exhausted and satisfied."--"Publishers Weekly"

High stakes on the high seas- Jake Grafton and Tommy Carmellini combat Somali pirates in the deadly Gulf of Aden. Stephen Coonts is the author of sixteen New York Times bestsellers that have been tr

En el Ártico, dos agentes de inteligencia norteamericanos son secuestrados mientras investigan la presencia secreta de submarinos nucleares rusos, ocultos bajo las capas de hielo. En Washington, el ex marine Charlie Dean y su equipo rastrean a la mafia rusa como implicada en el secuestro, que fija su objetivo en las enormes reservas de petroleo que se encuentran en el fondo del Artico. Mientras Dean es enviado al Artico para rescatar a los rehenes, la hermosa Francesca Lia se introduce en una dacha fuertemente custodiada a orillas del Mar Negro. Alli descubre la verdad sobre los planes rusos y su petroleo del Artico... que podria conducir a las superpotencias del mundo al borde de la guerra.

Abu Qasim, el despiadado y astuto líder de Al Qaeda que casi consiguió volar una reunión del G-8 en París, se ha fugado y está tramando su siguiente paso. Un pequeño grupo de hombres poderosos, dirigentes de alto nivel de la industria y la politica en Occidente, ha decidido acabar con el terrorista y su circulo antes de que pueda golpear de nuevo. Cuando un eminente disidente ruso es envenenado en Londres, sin embargo, esta claro que hay una fuga muy peligrosa dentro de las filas occidentales, y ahora es Abu Qasim el que persigue, y su objetivo es matar. El almirante Jake Grafton envia al agente especial Tommy Carmellini para infiltrarse en la trama. Se realiza un seguimiento de la preciosa y seductora Marisa Petrou, una francesa que puede ser la hija de Qasim y que tiene sus propias razones para desear atraparlo vivo o muerto. Qasim, mientras tanto, tiene un as en la manga, planificado durante años

Stephen Coonts first introduced ex-burglar, now CIA agent Tommy Carmellini in the bestselling Jake Grafton novel, CUBA. Now Tommy takes center stage.The KGBs chief archivist defects, escaping Russia with seven suitcases full of notes. There is a massacre at a government safe house. Carmellini is on the trail of a dark conspiracy, and he soon realizes that someone in the United States government is behind it all. Which begs the question, who can Carmellini trust?

Abu Qasim, el despiadado y astuto líder de Al Qaeda que casi consiguió volar una reunión del G-8 en París, se ha fugado y está tramando su siguiente paso. Un pequeño grupo de hombres poderosos, dirigentes de alto nivel de la industria y la política en Occidente, ha decidido acabar con el terrorista y su círculo antes de que pueda golpear de nuevo. Cuando un eminente disidente ruso es envenenado en Londres, sin embargo, está claro que hay una fuga muy peligrosa dentro de las filas occidentales, y ahora es Abu Qasim el que persigue, y su objetivo es matar. El almirante Jake Grafton envía al agente especial Tommy Carmellini para infiltrarse en la trama. Se realiza un seguimiento de la preciosa y seductora Marisa Petrou, una francesa que puede ser la hija de Qasim y que tiene sus propias razones para desear atraparlo vivo o muerto. Qasim, mientras tanto, tiene un as en la manga, planificado durante años. Sobre el Autor Stephen Coonts es autor de catorce bestsellers aparecidos en las listas del New York Times, obras que han sido traducidas y publicadas en todo el mundo.

Abu Qasim, the ruthless and cunning Al Qaeda leader who nearly succeeded in blowing up a meeting of the G-8 in Paris, has escaped from the grasp of the Americans and is plotting his next move. A small band of powerful men, highly placed leaders of industry and politics in the West, have decided they need to target and destroy the terrorist and his inner circle before he can strike again. When a prominent Russian dissident is poisoned in London, however, it¿s clear that there¿s a very dangerous leak within the ranks of the Westerners, and that Abu Qasim has turned the tables on his rivals---it is now he who is pursuing, and his aim is to kill. Admiral Jake Grafton dispatches special agent Tommy Carmellini to infiltrate the plot. He tracks the gorgeous and seductive Marisa Petrou, a Frenchwoman who may be Qasim¿s daughter and who has her own reasons for wanting him alive---or wishing him dead. Qasim, meanwhile, has a trick up his sleeve---one that he¿s been planning for years. Who is behind the methodical assassinations of the wealthy and powerful Western vigilante team? Will Abu Qasim slip the noose once again? In this pulse-pounding thriller, Tommy Carmellini must put a stop to a master of terror before he unleashes even more death.

The mission seems routine: go to London, meet someone in a park, obtain a list of computers that are being used secretly by terrorists to pass messages. But just as Deep Black operatives Charlie Dean and Tommy Karr are about to meet their contact, a sniper guns the stranger down. A Deep Black investigation begins. Former Delta Force trooper Lia DeFrancesca gets called in to help and the three operatives start cracking some leads. But the investigation doesn''t kick in to high gear until the murder is found to be connected to a devastating terrorist plot to set off a nuclear warhead in the Chunnel. The explosion will create an earthquake and thus a tsunami that will wipe out the coasts of France and England, killing hundreds of thousands . . .

On a quiet park bench in Manhattan---just miles from the ruins of the World Trade Center---spymaster Jake Janos Illin delivers a chilling secret message to Jake Grafton: A rogue Russian general has sold four nuclear warheads to a radical Islamic terrorist group, the Sword of Islam. The group intends to detonate them in America in the ultimate terror strike, the apocalypse that will trigger a holy war between Western civilization and the Muslim world. After passing Illin's message to his superiors, Grafton is charged by the president with the task of assembling a secret team to find the warheads before America's population centers are consumed by a nuclear holocaust.As he hunts for the terrorists, Grafton soon finds himself up to his neck in power politics, techno-billionaires, money-grubbing traitors, anarchists, and spies. He also discovers that the terrorists don't all come from the Middle East. They come from places close to home. They masquerade as patriots. Some may even have the president's ear.With the survival of Western civilization at stake, Grafton pulls out all the stops. Calling on the assistance of the indomitable Toad Tarkington, and CIA burglar Tommy Carmellini, he raids the prisons to assemble his team while the clock ticks toward Armageddon.Peopled with the rich, vivid characters that have made Stephen Coonts famous worldwide, Liberty is all action and suspense from the very first page. And it poses the unanswerable question: How far should civilization go to defend itself from its mortal enemies?

A smash bestseller that spent over six months on the New York Times bestseller list, FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER became an instant classic. No one before or since ever captured the world of Navy carrier pilots with the gripping realism of Vietnam veteran Stephen Coonts, who lived the life he wrote about. More than a flying story, FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER is also one of the best novels ever written about the Vietnam experience. It's all here—the flying, the dying, the blood and bombs and bullets, and the sheer joy—and terror—of life at full throttle.

The theft of nuclear artillery shells spells disaster for Charlie Dean. He leads the National Security Agency's crack undercover team, Deep Black: Desk Three, whose job it is to neutralise the threat. The terrorist plot is headed by an Islamic terrorist codenamed 'the Jackal'. He aims to destroy the West by detonating the shells deep inside the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma, Gran Canaria. This would send a tsunami across the Atlantic Ocean, straight to the East Coast of America. Charlie and his team have only days to prevent the devastation of the Western World.

Ruthless al Qaeda leader Abu Qasim has escaped from the grasp of the Americans and is plotting his next move. International commanders aim to destroy Qasim and his inner circle before he can strike again. But after the mysterious death of a high-ranking official, it soon becomes clear that there's a leak within the ranks of the Westerners…and that Qasim has turned the tables on his rivals. Now he's the one targeting them—and his aim is to kill. Admiral Jake Grafton dispatches special agent Tommy Carmellini to infiltrate the terrorist plot. He tracks the gorgeous and seductive Marisa Petrou, a Frenchwoman who may be Qasim's daughter and who may or may not wish him dead. Who is behind the assassinations of the wealthy and powerful Western vigilante team? Will Qasim slip the noose once again? As the stakes grow higher, and top brass face greater risk than ever before, it's up to Carmellini to put a stop to a master of terror—before he unleashes even more death across the globe.

Dr. James Keegan, a world-renowned scientist specialising in germ warfare, has vanished from his upstate New York home. But this is no ordinary missing-persons case. Keegan has left behind an unidentified dead man with a .22 caliber hole in his skull - and a contact trail that leads to an alleged terrorist cell.Unraveling the mystery is a job for Kegans best friend, NSA operative Charlie Dean. His mission is to infiltrate the scientists circle of associates and decipher Kegans confidential research. Dispatched to cover Charlie is Delta Force trooper Lia DeFrancesca. The trail leads them to the core of a wide-spread killer fever thats been dormant for centuries - and its link to a virus thats quickly spreading victim by victim. With time running out Charlie and Lia must find Keegan, uncover his secrets, cut a terrorist threat to the quick, and stop the unimaginable outbreak of a new biological nightmare.

Airplanes, adventures, life and death in the skies: The Sea Witch brings together three dramatic tales - from three periods of history - of men and women at war: The Sea Witch: A rookie WW2 seaplane pilot is thrown in at the deep end on a mission to locate a missing colleague during the Battle of Guadalcanal. The 17th Day: Seventeen days is the average life expectancy of a British aviator during WW1. Today is Paul Hydes seventeenth day. Will he live to see the next? Al-Jihad: 2001 - an ex-US Marine becomes caught up in a rogue plot to avenge the terrorists who killed his former commander. This collection, born of Coontss lifelong passion for military aviation, shows his trademark storytelling at its most scintillating, passionate and powerful.

USS AMERICA, the most technologically advanced nuclear-powered submarine ever built, is hijacked in front of hundreds of people gathered to watch its departure on its first operational cruise. As the sub disappears into the North Atlantic, the joint chiefs realise that AMERICA carries the United States newest weapon: cruise missiles with electromagnetic pulse warheads designed to fry every electronic device within a ten-mile radius. Within hours, missiles from the sub rain down on Washington, D.C., starting a massive fire in the White House, bringing down jet-liners and destroying nearly all the electronic devices in the nations capital. Called upon to find the rogue sub, Jake Grafton must determine who is behind the carnage, what they want and, most importantly, how to stop them.

Jake Grafton is back! After flying A-6 Intruders in Vietnam and, seventeen years later, commanding an air wing aboard a super carrier in the Mediterranean, Jake - now grounded - is assigned to the Pentagon where he is in charge of developing the navys new top secret stealth attack plane, the A-l2.Faced with political and technical problems at every turn, Jake soon finds himself drawn into the hunt for the Minotaur, a mole hidden in the Pentagon who is giving Americas most precious defense secrets to the Russians. The FBIs chief spy-catcher is hot on the Minotaurs trail, or is he? Just who are the traitors in this Byzantine world of technocrats, politicians, and multi-billion dollar defense programs? Four people are dead and a test pilot is near death before Grafton hones in on the shocking identity of the Minotaur - and his even more chilling motive.Combining authentic details of weapons strategies and stealth technology with an all-to-real story of the international trade in military secrets - and featuring the classic flying scenes that are Coonts trademark - THE MINOTAUR confirms that Stephen Coonts is a modern master of suspense.

"Stephen Coonts delivers another high-powered, politically-charged thriller that is not to be missed." The Real Book Spy"[A] headline-inspired thriller with a conservative slant."Publishers Weekly After one of the most contentious and divisive elections in American history, the new president is finally settling into the West Wing. But when his chief of staff discovers evidence that voting machines in key counties in swing states were tampered with, the whole administration is in danger of unraveling. Did someone steal the election? Are Americas enemies involved? Were the tampered-with machines actually rigged to swing the election the other wayand if so and the plot failed, what is the conspirators backup plan? Jake Grafton and Tommy Carmellini race to solve the mystery of a potentially rigged election before Americans full faith and credit in our democracy, sovereignty, and rule of law become completely undone.