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It was the
moment of disaster when silence gives the boundary between peace
and violence.
Alexandra
Dolnikov is a twenty-year-old chemistry major at a Chicago
university who might, if she works hard, graduate by 1974. She
struggles to get along at home and thinks she has figured out how
to manage...
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Cetus Wedge
After
investigation came retribution, vindictive and
indiscriminate.
It’s the early 1980s and the height
of the Cold War when Steve Donovan, despite a checkered past,
troubled marriage, and no prospects, lands a job at the very bottom
of the intelligence world. He finds a kind of happiness in...
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Brevet Wedge
“I’ve
never known Mack to make a threat he was not prepared to carry
out,” I said carefully. “He doesn’t bluff.”
Frank Cardova provides logistic support for a highly effective team
of deadly operatives known as Charlemagne, the premier freelance
specialist team used by Western...
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A Lighter Shade of Night
Why don't you
kill the guards and let us fight our way out?
They grew up together and are distantly related. But can three such
different personalities form an effective fighting team? When a car
bomb leaves Misha orphaned at nineteen, his life changes its
trajectory. The possibilities of a...
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Lion Tamer
I wondered what
crime a professional killer could commit that his closest friends
would find unforgivable.
It is the mid-1980s and Barbara Kemp shatters another glass ceiling
as she becomes the US babysitter for Charlemagne, the premier
freelance specialist team used by Western governments for...
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State of Nature
She was an expert shot and an expert fighter, and she was
utterly helpless against the fury that held her.
It is the early 90s and the Berlin
Wall is down. At the insistence of her family, Mara Sobieski has a
safe job in a quiet corner of the intelligence world, until Sergei
Pavlenko asks...
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Vory
You do not have
a future if you do not stay alive now.
It is the early
90s and Frank Cardova, his wife, Maryann, and his daughter,
Theresa, have become targets of an associate of the Vory, Russian
thieves under the code working for a foreign intelligence
operative. They turn for help to...
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Swallow
A woman should
be able to ask for what she wants.
It’s 1993, and
Air Force Captain Claire Nolan hopes to be one of the first women
to fly a combat fighter aircraft. She has no intention of letting
Steve Donovan’s captivating brown eyes derail her ambitions, but
his team could cost her more...
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Quiet Move
You must see
your plan to shield her from us has failed.
Jade Wilmerton runs a library for an intelligence outfit. It’s 1997
and Skosh, a shadowy ops guy in her organization, takes her as his
administrative assistant on a private flight to Lithuania. Jade
hopes for a little adventure and maybe...
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Goat Rope
Mack might cut your throat but with
faultless etiquette.
Christine Barton sees a
murder committed while walking her dog in a Montreal park on a
bright summer morning in 1999. She finds refuge from the
killer in a
safe house of spies but feels more like the
prisoner of a team of...
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Declare War
It was the
moment of disaster, when silence gives the boundary between peace
and violence.
The first four
books of the Charlemagne Files Collection examine a history of
atrocity, revenge, and heroism during the earliest years of the
original team as they hone their skills and harden...
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Pretend Peace
I give you
twelve hours life expectancy.
The Charlemagne
Files Collection, Volume 2, introduces new members of the team
during a time of change in the Cold War. The three books contained
in this volume, Lion Tamer (#5), State of Nature (#6), and
Vory (#7), span the years between the early 1980s...
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Resume Hostilities
Perhaps you harbor the illusion
that you are safe with us?
In this, the third volume of the
Charlemagne Files Collection, the Cold War resumes in three novels
spanning the 1990s: Swallow (#8), Quiet Move (#9), and Goat Rope
(#10). Old enemies re-enter the game with evil intent, vintage
deception...
