Showing posts with label Felix Riley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Felix Riley. Show all posts

Wednesday, 2 May 2012

Forthcoming books to look forward to from Penguin and Michael Joseph


Bloodline is the latest novel by Felix Francis and is due to be published in September.  When Mark Shilling ford commentates on a race in which his twin sister Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in third, he can't help but be suspicious.  As a professional race-caller, he knows she should have won.  Did she lose on purpose?  Was the race fixed?  Why on earth would she do something so out of character?  That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, but she storms off after an explosive argument.  It's the last time Mark sees her alive.  Hours later, Clare jumps to her death from the balcony of a London hotel ...or so it seems.  Devastated by her death, and almost overcome with guilt, Mark goes in search of answers.  What led Clare to take her own life?  Or was it not suicide at all?

Psychotherapist Frieda Klein is consulted on a grisly and seemingly unsolvable crime.  Sometimes the mind is a dangerous place to hide.  The rotting, naked corpse of a man is found amidst swarms of flies in the living room of a confused woman.  Who is he?  Why is Michelle Doyce trying to serve him afternoon tea?  And how did the dead body find its way into her flat?  DCI Karlsson needs an expert to delve inside Michelle's mind for answers and turns to former colleague, psychiatrist Frieda Klein.  Eventually Michelle's ramblings lead to a vital clue that in turn leads to a possible identity.  Robert Poole.  Jack of all trades and master conman.  The deeper Frieda and Karlsson dig, the more of Poole's victims they encounter ...and the more motives they uncover for his murder.  But is anyone telling them the truth except for poor, confused Michelle?  And when the past returns to haunt Frieda's present, she finds herself in danger.  Whoever set out to destroy Poole also seems determined to destroy Frieda Klein.  A gritty heroine, a gruesome crime and a terrifying hunt for a psychotic killer. Tuesday’s Gone is by Nicci French and is due to be published in July.

The Collini Case is by Ferdinand Von Schirach and is due to be published in September 2012.  From one of Europe's bestselling writers comes a spellbinding and utterly compelling court room drama, which will stay with you for a long time.  Ferdinand von Schirach's "The Collini Case" has been at the top of the German charts since publication.  A murder.  A murderer.  No motive.  For thirty-four years Fabrizio Collini has worked diligently for Mercedes Benz.  He is a quiet and respectable person until the day he visits one of Berlin's most luxurious hotels and kills an innocent man.  Young attorney Caspar Leinen takes the case.  Getting Collini a not-guilty verdict would make his name.  But too late he discovers that Collini's victim - an industrialist of some renown - is known to him.  Now Leinen is caught in a professional and personal dilemma.  Collini admits the murder but won't say why he did it, forcing Leinen to defend a man who won't put up a defence.  And worse, a close friend and relation of the victim insists that he give up the case.  His reputation, his career and this friendship are all at risk.  Then he makes a discovery that goes way beyond his own petty concerns and exposes a terrible and deadly truth at the heart of German justice.....

The year is 1539 and the Portuguese Inquisition ushers in an era of torture and murder.  When the Royal Falconer is imprisoned on false charges to remove him from the inner circle of the boy King, the Inquisitors strike an impossible deal with his daughter, Isabela.  Bring back two rare white falcons from Iceland within the year or her father dies.  Meanwhile in Iceland, a menacing stranger appears to have possessed the soul of a woman chained up in a volcanic cave and is threatening to destroy the community.  The woman's twin sister, Eydis, is desperate to intervene but vivid dreams suggest the twins' only salvation lies with a young girl from afar, travelling in search of white feathers ...Isabela's quest might hold a more crucial purpose then she could ever imagine and there are those among her travel companions who have an interest in doing her harm.  But in order to fulfil her destiny, first she must reach Iceland's shores alive!  The Falcons of Fire and Ice is by Karen Maitland and is due to be published in August 2012.

12-21 is by Dustin Thomason co-author of The Rule of Four and is due to be published in September 2012.  An ancient prophecy foretells that the world will end on 21 December 2012...In Central America, a treasure hunter discovers a Maya relic - a mysterious and ornate codex - but when he smuggles it into the US, he brings with him an old and deadly secret...Early in December 2012, the codex comes to Chel Manu, a Maya world authority.  She is torn between the chance to translate the codex herself and her duty to alert the authorities.  Meanwhile, in an LA hospital, an unknown man is dying of a rare, contagious disease.  When Dr Gabriel Stanton is called in, he realises that this is no ordinary infection - and it will spread uncontrollably.  Stanton and Chel must race to decipher the codex's secrets and prevent the prophesised apocalypse.

The Inside Job is the second book in the series by Felix Riley to feature Secret Service Agent Mike Byrne.  Secret Service Agent Mike Byrne is too late….. Too late to save the one man who knew the truth – the star witness who was about to blow the whistle on the biggest bank scandal in history.  Too late to stop an innocent man from dying, and so plunging the world of high finance into a death spiral of violence and murder.  Because payback for bankers who gambled with other people’s money is being handed out in bullets and bombs.  And now the only person who can keep the bankers alive is Agent Byrne, who finds himself having to protect the very people he swore to take down.  Before long Byrne is locked into a deadly fight with an unseen enemy – an enemy that will stop at nothing to get what they want….. The Inside Job is due to be published in August 2012.

Dark Revelations is the concluding book in the Level 26 trilogy.  In Dark Revelations, Steve Dark faces the most intricate, intense, and explosive case of his career.  The killer calls himself Labyrinth, and the riddles, puzzles, and wordplay with which he announces his new targets have caused worldwide media sensation.  The case has already claimed a number of high profile individuals as victims – not to mention several government agencies, which have tried and failed to stop a growing global panic.  But what point is Labyrinth trying to make?  Who will be his next victim?  It’s up to Dark to assemble a team from among the smoking rubble of the international crime solving community, find Labyrinth wherever he may be, and put a stop to the mayhem once and for all.  Can Steve Dark solve the biggest riddle of them all?  Only time will tell.  Dark Revelations is by Anthony E Zuiker and Duane Swierczynski and is due to be published in December 2012.


The Montsegur Medallion points the way to the most coveted relic, the Holy Grail.  In the wrong hands it could destroy civilisation.  Finn McGuire finds himself framed for a string of murders moments after he uncovers the legendary Medallion in an ancient Syrian chapel.  The culprits are a group of Nazi SS descendants known as The Seven who will stop at nothing to possess the pendant...and the Holy Grail.  Their wish?  To resurrect the Third Reich. Over seven centuries later, Templar expert and former MI5 operative Caedmon Aisquith is stunned to learn that his daughter has been kidnapped.  Receiving an ominous ransom demand - Find the Evangelium Gaspar or she dies – Caedmon is hurled into a dangerous labyrinth of Templar intrigues.  Racing against time, he must solve a series of clues involving esoteric symbols and artfully encoded riddles.  All the while being pursued by the bloodthirsty members of the satanic brotherhood Santa Muerte.  Caedmon Aisquith is an expert in the Knights Templar and the Grail; he knows the Seven can only desire it for evil and when Finn approaches him, the two join forces in a quest to find the deadly relic and halt the bloodshed.  Their race takes them from the Louvre to a medieval citadel in the Pyrenees.  But the stakes are high for the fate of mankind hangs in the balance if they fail.  In an epic quest to save his daughter, Caedmon crosses the globe, the clues leading him from the Malabar Coast of India to the Camino de Santiago in Spain, and finally to a Merovingian church in the heart of Paris.  There he discovers the most explosive secret of all – a two-thousand-year-old cover up of such magnitude that if it’s ever disclosed, it would forever change the course of history.  The Templar’s Secret is by C M Palov and is due to be published in November 2012.

"The Killing House" is the amazing first novel in a stunning new series by Chris Mooney.  It introduces fallen angel and former profiler Malcolm Fletcher who is forced to take the law into his own hands in order to uncover the truth in his terrifying first case.  Rule number1: Don't Scream - Four years ago, Theresa Herrera's ten-year-old son Rico was abducted.  The police found little evidence and the case went cold.  Theresa's husband has told her to move on, but she won't give up hope.  Rule number 2: Don't call the police - Today a mysterious woman invaded Theresa's home and told her that Rico is alive.  Theresa talks on the phone to a young man who is, without question, her son.  Rule number 3: Don't run.  Don't fight - The woman promises to reunite Theresa with Rico only if she will follow the rules.  But it is the last rule that fills Theresa with horror...Rule number 4: Kill your husband and your son will live...Malcolm Fletcher - a former FBI profiler and now the nation's Most Wanted fugitive - arrives in Colorado to help Theresa and her husband find their son.  But his arrival coincides with a dangerous and shocking twist in the case.  Barely surviving his first encounter with a suspect, Fletcher embarks on his own secret investigation, with the police just behind him every step of the way.  Behind every door in "The Killing House", death awaits you...  The Killing House is due to be published in August 2012.

 He Is Their Judge...In death, they are purified.  Holding his victims under water, he washes away their sins as they struggle for their last breath.  Then he stakes their bodies to the ground, exposing them for what they really are.  Witches, sent to tempt and to corrupt... Jury ...No one knows about defence attorney Charlotte Wellington's murdered sister, or about her childhood spent with the carnival that's just arrived in town.  For Charlotte, what's past is past.  But others don't agree.  And as a madman's body count rises, she and Detective Daniel Rokov are drawn into a mission that's become terrifyingly personal...  And Executioner.  At last, she is within his reach.  All his victims deserve their fate, but her guilt is greatest.  And with every scream, he will make her see what it means to suffer and repent.... Before She Dies is by Mary Burton and is due to be published in August 2012.

"Vanished" is the brilliant new missing person’s case in the "David Raker" series.  No life is perfect.  Everyone has secrets.  For millions of Londoners, the morning of 17 December is just like any other.  But not for Sam Wren.  An hour after leaving home, he gets onto a tube train - and never gets off again.  No eyewitnesses.  No trace of him on security cameras.  Six months later, he's still missing.  Out of options and desperate for answers, Sam's wife Julia hires David Raker to track him down.  Raker has made a career out of finding the lost.  He knows how they think.  And, in missing person cases, the only certainty is that everyone has something to hide.  But in this case the secrets go deeper than anyone imagined.  For, as Raker starts to suspect that even the police are lying to him, someone is watching.  Someone who knows what happened on the tube that day.  And, with Raker in his sights, he'll do anything to keep Sam's secrets to himself.  Vanished is by Tim Weaver and is due to be published in July 2012.

Once you're part of the pack, there's no getting out...Mild-mannered stay-at-home dad Simon Burns has undergone a life changing transformation - after being indoctrinated into the pack, he has become a werewolf. Fearing that the truth would end his marriage, Simon has told his wife Alison that he is suffering from a psychological condition called lycanthropic disorder, in which a person thinks he is a werewolf. For the moment, his secret remains safe. But NYPD homicide detective Geri Rodriguez has not forgotten about the mysterious wolf-like murders that remain unsolved,and when she hears that one of the witnesses, Diane Coles, was brutally murdered outside her parents' home in Michigan, she resumes her investigation. She's focused on a group of dads - Michael, Charlie, Ramon, and Simon - who had a connection to the unsolved murders. Simon had been trying to stay away from the pack, but he has been tipped off by Michael's father that there may be a cure hidden somewhere in the Brooklyn brewery where Michael lives. He wants to find the cure, and to see that Geri doesn't become another mystery death - but his own life and the lives of his wife and son may be in jeopardy. The Craving by Jason Starr is a hair-raising thriller with a supernatural twist.  It is the sequel to The Pack.  The Craving is due to be published in October 2012.


The Blood of Crows is the fourth book in her DI Anderson and DS Costello series by Caro Ramsay and is due to be published in September 2012.  For one Scottish cop the beat is about to get dark and very bloody ...DI Colin Anderson is having a bad week.  His conviction of paedophile Skelpie Fairbairn is declared unsafe - putting Fairbairn back on Glasgow's streets and leaving Anderson under investigation.  Add to this a gangster torched alive, a teenage boy tortured then dropped off a bridge and the suicide of a cop who worked an unsolved child kidnapping way back in 1996 and Anderson's got his hands full.  Then one night, a young girl is tied to the river bank and left for the tide.  Anderson gets there, but she dies in his arms.  Working round the clock his team discover these strange crimes are linked to an elusive criminal mastermind known as The Puppeteer.  But unable to find him, unable to stop the murders, Anderson is forced to follow the only lead he has - Skelpie Fairbairn ...But which is worse - the devil you don't know, or the one you do...?


Saturday, 22 January 2011

Books to look forward to from Penguin and Michael Joseph

Death Toll is by CWA Dagger in the Library winner Jim Kelly. Bodies are being exhumed at King's Lynn's cemetery, the bones moved to higher ground to avoid flooding. But when the coffin of murdered pub landlady Nora Tilden is hauled up into the light there's a grim discovery: the twisted corpse of a young black man, killed by a billhook blow to the head, and dumped in the grave on the night Nora was buried twenty-eight years earlier. The police are baffled by a bewildering and brutal murder. Who was this young man? Was he the victim of a racist crime? When DI Peter Shaw, DS George Valentine and their team are put on the case their investigation first leads them to The Flask, Nora's pub just along the riverbank, where her family hides more than one dark secret and it's soon clear no one can be trusted. Will Shaw and Valentine be able to get to the shocking truth behind the murder before it's too late and the ghosts from the past claim another victim? Death Toll is due to be published in January 2011.

The Papal Decree is by Luis Miguel Rocha and is due to be published in July 2011. The Catholic Church's best-kept secret. The ancient scrolls which threaten that secret. And a journalist prepared to discover the truth at any cost. 1947, the Qumran Valley. Ancient scrolls are discovered that the Vatican desperately tries to suppress. Only five men know of their existence. But now four of the men have been found dead . . . Priest and double agent, Rafael, is sent to investigate. The evidence he discovers may implicate journalist Sarah Monteiro, who already knows too many of the Church’s secrets. Finding themselves dangerously entangled in a life-threatening conspiracy that the church will go to any length to protect, Rafael and Sarah must uncover the truth before the killers do .

The Dead Tracks is the second David Raker novel. A serial killer more terrifying than you could ever imagine … Seventeen-year-old Megan Carver was an unlikely runaway. A straight-A student from a happy home, she studied hard and rarely got into trouble. Six months on, she's never been found. Missing persons investigator David Raker knows what it's like to grieve. He knows the shadowy world of the lost too. So, when he's hired by Megan's parents to find out what happened, he recognizes their pain - but knows that the darkest secrets can be buried deep. And Megan's secrets could cost him his life. Because as Raker investigates her disappearance, he realizes everything is a lie. People close to her are dead. Others are too terrified to talk. And soon the conspiracy of silence leads Raker towards a forest on the edge of the city. A place with a horrifying history - which was once the hunting ground for a brutal, twisted serial killer. A place known as the Dead Tracks. The Dead Tracks is by Tim Weaver and is due to be published in February 2011.

The Sword of the Templars is by Paul Christopher and is due to be published in March 2011. After a lifetime on the front lines, Army Ranger John Holliday has resigned himself to ending his career teaching at West Point Military Academy. But when his uncle passes away, Holliday discovers a medieval sword among his things - sinisterly wrapped in Adolf Hitler's personal battle standard. Then someone viciously burns down his uncle's house and Holliday's secret fears about the mysterious sword ring alarmingly true. Holliday must delve into the past and piece together the puzzle that was his uncle's life - his involvement with the enigmatic warriors known as the Knights Templar. But his search for answers soon becomes a race against a ruthless and cunning opponent, willing to die for their cause. Can Holliday live long enough to reveal the treacherous but critical truth?

Ruso and the River of Darkness by R S Downie is the fourth book in the series. Gaius Petreius Ruso and his newlywed wife Tilla have moved back to Britannia, where Ruso's old friend and colleague Valens has promised to help him find work. But it isn't the kind of work he'd had in mind - Ruso's tasked to hunt down a missing taxman named Julius Asper. Of course there's something else missing: money. And the Council of the town of Verulamium is bickering over what's become of it. Compelled to delve deeper by a threat from his old sparring-partner Metellus, Ruso discovers that the good townsfolk may not be as loyal to Rome as they like to appear. While Tilla tries to comfort Asper's wife, an anonymous well-wisher warns the couple to flee before they get hurt. But it doesn't take long until Ruso and Tilla find themselves trapped at the heart of an increasingly treacherous conspiracy. Ruso and the River of Darkness is due to be published in March 2011.

NO ONE WILL FIND YOU -
An aspiring artist. A high-school senior. A stripper. Three women who seemed to have nothing in common except their sudden disappearance. But one man knew them all. Wealthy, privileged Craig Thornton even claimed to love them. And for that, they paid the ultimate price. NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU- When Adrianna Barrington receives an anniversary card from her husband Craig, she assumes it's a sick joke. After all, Craig is dead. But then come the whispered phone calls and beautiful flowers, all reminding her how much Craig misses her. While Adrianna begins to doubt her sanity, grisly remains are found on the Thornton estate. Detective Gage Hudson is convinced the bodies are linked to Craig. But the biggest shocks are yet to come. NO ONE WILL HEAR YOU -
A psychopath has taken up his chilling work again, each death a prelude to the moment when Adrianna is under his control at last. And the only way for Gage and Adrianna to stop him is to uncover the truth about a family's dark past and a twisted love that someone will kill for again and 
again … Dying Scream is by Mary Burton and is due to be published in May 2011.

The Templar Cross is also by Paul Christopher. Retired Army Ranger Lt. Col. John Holliday has reluctantly settled into his teaching position at West Point when young Israeli archaeologist Rafi Wanounou comes to him with desperate news. Holliday's niece - and Rafi's fiancé - Peggy has been kidnapped. Holliday sets out with Rafi to find the only family he has left. But their search for Peggy will lead them to a trail of clues that spans across the globe, and into the heart of a conspiracy involving an ancient Egyptian legend and the darkest secrets of the Order of Templar Knights. Secrets that, once known, cannot be survived … The Templar Cross is due for publication in July 2011.

The Cutting i

s one of the scariest debuts of the year. And the first in a great new series by James Hayman. It is due to be published in January 2011. Someone is stealing the hearts of beautiful women … Portland, Maine. A missing high-school athlete's mutilated body is found in a scrap metal yard. Her heart has been surgically removed. The same day a young businesswoman is abducted … Former NYPD detective Michael McCabe believes both crimes are the work of one man. A k

iller with surgical expertise who is targeting young women. Now McCabe and his team face a race against time to rescue the missing woman and unmask this sadistic killer - before it is too late.

The Chill of the Night is also by James Hayman. Glamorous young Portland attorney Lainie Goff thought she had it all. Brains. Beauty. And a fast-track to a partnership in a top-ranked firm. But then one cold winter night she pushed things too far. And very soon her nude and frozen body is found in the sub-zero temperatures at the end of the Portland Fish Pier.

 The only witness to the crime? A mentally disturbed young woman named Abby Quinn who mysteriously goes missing the very same night. 

With the discovery of Lainie Goff's frozen body and the disappearance of Abby Quinn, Portland homicide detective Michael McCabe finds himself, once again, on the trail of a relentless and clever killer. A killer he must find before another life is lost. The Chill of the Night is by June 2011.

The Temple Mount Code is by Charles Brokaw. One of the world's holiest sites holds a secret that once discovered will set our life as we know it in complete turmoil … When Thomas Lourds, the world's foremost scholar of ancient languages, is contacted by his old friend Dr Lev Strauss about the findings of a long lost ancient scripture, Lourds rushes immediately to Jerusalem to meet with Strauss. The document holds the key to one of the world's biggest treasures, which is hidden under the legendary Temple Mount. But when Lourds arrives in Israel, his friend has been murdered and the book has vanished. Deeply infuriated by Strauss'

death he is determined to seek the truth behind the murder and track down the manuscript before others can decipher the code it contains. The hunt forone of the best-kept secrets begins but will Lourds make it in time before his dangerous opponents close in? The legends promise the code's owner the power to rule over mankind … The Temple Mount Code is due to be published in June 2011.

When everything has been taken from you … 
There's nothing left to lose. Martin Harris has been in a coma for three days … when he wakes up, otherwise unharmed, he is shocked to discover that no one knows who he is - he no longer exists. Worse still, another man is living Martin's life. His identity, his home, even his wife have been stolen. He has lost everything. Except his memory …will anyone believe that he is the real Martin Harris? If not, is he mad? Or is there a far darker explanation? Out of my Head is by Didier van Cauwelaert and due to be published in February 2011

The Set Up is the debut novel by Felix Riley. In three days time it will all be too late … New York City - present day. Mike Byrne wants to know who framed him for murder. The New York Police Department 
Want Byrne locked up. The United States Secret Service 
Want Byrne dead. Detective Jenni Martinez 
Wants her gun and her badge back. Thing is, you don't always get what you want. 
So begins a life or death race against time to prevent an attack on the heart of the United States of America. Only one man can stop it - and he's just been set up. The Set Up is due to be

published in April 2011

Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen is due to be published in May 2011. On a beautiful winter's day the young, ambitious politician Merete Lynggaard

disappears without a trace. The media are all over the story with their headlines suggesting everything from murder and suicide to a planned voluntary disappearance. The police immediately commence a large-scale investigation - alas with no result. Merete Lynggaard has vanished from the face of the earth. Years later, Deputy Detective Superintendent Carl Mørck, who is known for his unconventional work practices, is put in charge of the new Department Q, which deals with 'cases of special focus'. Soon Carl and his assistant Assad stumble over new evidence in Merete's case and end up tracing a reckless criminal who, driven by hate, has set up an insane scheme.

It is 1210 and a black force is sweeping England. For a vengeful King John has seized control other Church, leaving corpses to lie in unconsecrated ground, babies unbaptized in their cradles

and th
e people terrified of dying in sin. And in the village of Gastmere, the consequences grow darker still when Elena, a servant girl, is dragged into a conspiracy to absolve the sins of the lord of the manor. As the terrors that soon begin to plague Elena's sleep grow darker, in desperation she visits the

cunning woman, who has been waiting for just such an opportunity to

fulf

il an ancient curse co

njured at the gallows. Elena, haunted by this curse and threatened with death for a crime she didn't commit, flees the village … only to find her nightmare has barely begun. For treachery lurks in every shadow as King John's brutal reign makes enemies of brothers, murderers of virgins and sinners of us all.The Gallows Curse is by Karen Maitland and is due to be published in March 2011.

Blue Monday by Nicci French is the first in a new series featuring Freida Klein. Psychotherapist Frieda Klein is facing a moral dilemma. One of her patients has revealed disturbing dreams in which he abducts a child, whose appearance he can describe in minute detail. And when Matthew, a five-year-old boy who matches that description, goes missing Frieda experiences a shudder of unease and contacts the police.

Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson doesn't take her seriously, but when a link emerges to an abduction going back twenty years, he brings Frieda in to interview the victim's sister. And so she becomes ensnared in a desperate hunt to find Matthew's kidnapper … but Frieda's chase isn't physical: she must race through the dark paths of a psychopath's mind to unearth the answers that lie within. Your darkest thoughts. Your secret desires. Your murderous impulses. Frieda Klein can see them all. Blue Monday is due to be published in June 2011.

Lost Empire by Clive Cussler (with Grant Blackwood) is the second book in the Fargo series. While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo come upon a relic belonging to a long-lost Confederate ship. An anomaly about the relic sets them off chasing a mystery - but unknown to them, a much more powerful force is engaged in the same chase. Mexico's ruling party, the ultranationalist Mexica Tenochca, is intent on finding that artefact as well, because it contains a secret that could destroy the party utterly. 

Through Tanzania and Zanzibar, into the rainforests of Madagascar, and across the Indian Ocean to Indonesia and the legendary site of the 1883 Krakatoa explosion, the Fargos and their ruthless opponents pursue the hunt - but only one can win. Lost Empire is due to be published in January 2011.

The Kingdom is another installment in the Fargo Series by Clive Cussler (with Grant Blackwood) The husband-and-wife team of Sam and Remi Fargo are used to hunting for treasure, but they aren't used to hunting for people — until an investigator friend of theirs goes missing, and they promise to search for him. What they find, however, will be beyond anything they could have imagined. 

On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Venice, and Siberia, the Fargos will find themselves embroiled with black market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, stone-age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years…and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its head. The Kingdom is due to be published in June 2011.

Clive Cussler (with Jack Du Brul) also return with another novel in The Oregon Files. A devastating new weapon unleashed in thirteenth-century China; a daring rescue mission in the snowbound mountains along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border; a woman gone missing in the jungles of northern Thailand and Myanmar. For Juan Cabrillo, intrepid captain of state-of-the-art fighting ship Oregon, all of the above will come together and lead to the discovery of the greatest threat against US security that the world has ever known. and all that stands between this threat and terrible destruction are Cabrillo and The Oregon. The Jungle is due to be published in March 2011.