Stories by @bloodshot05

Act of Treason

When presidential candidate Josh Alexander's motorcade is ambushed, the nation is thrown into turmoil. 2 weeks later, Alexander is carried to victory by a sympathy vote, but his assailants have not been found. On the surface it appears to be the work of al-Qaeda, but while the FBI & the rest of the government begin scouring the world for jihadists, CIA director Irene Kennedy & Special Agent Skip McMahon are presented with classified information so toxic that they consider destroying it altogether, as it contains intelligence pointing to some of the most powerful players in Washington.

Fair Warning

Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered, McEvoy investigates, against the warnings of the police & makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. McEvoy's findings point to a serial killer working under the radar of law enforcement for years, & using personal data shared by the victims themselves to select & hunt his targets.

False Witness

Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defence attorney, a daughter doing well in school, & even her divorce is relatively civilised. Then a case lands on her desk, defending a wealthy man accused of rape. It's the highest profile case she's ever been given. But when she meets the accused, she realises that it's no coincidence that he's chosen her as his attorney. She knows him. And he knows her. More to the point, he knows what happened 20 years ago, & why Leigh has spent two decades running. If she can't get him acquitted, she'll lose much more than the case. The only person who can help her is her younger, estranged sister Calli, the last person Leigh would ever want to ask for help.

Consent to Kill

For years, Mitch Rapp's actions have saved countless lives. However in the tangled world of espionage, there are those, even among America's allies, who want to see Mitch Rapp eliminated. Now, the powerful father of a dead terrorist demands vengeance in its simplest form & Rapp instantly becomes the target of a large bounty. This time, he must use all of his vigilance & determination to save himself before he can turn his fury on those who have dared to betray him.

Memorial Day

CIA intelligence has pointed to a major terrorist attack on the United States, just as the nation's capital prepares for a grand Memorial Day tribute to the veterans of World War II. Racing to Afghanistan, Mitch Rapp leads a commando raid on an al Queda stronghold in a remote border village & defuses plans for a nuclear strike on Washington DC. The crisis is averted, but Rapp knows, in the face of a new kind of enemy, nothing is as it seems

Near Dark

The world’s largest bounty has just been placed upon America’s top spy. But for Scot Harvath to accomplish his most dangerous mission ever, he’s going to need help, & a lot of it. Not knowing whom he can trust, Harvath finds an unlikely ally in Norwegian intelligence operative Sølvi Kolstad. Just as smart, just as deadly, & just as determined, she not only has the skills, but also the broken, troubled past to match Harvath’s own.

Wrath of Poseidon

In this prequel...Sam and Remi run afoul of a criminal drug-running operation, their hopes of finding the treasure are dashed. But with Sam's ingenuity and Remi's determination, they survive their confrontation with the drug runners, and manage to send one of the key players to prison. Though the cache of gold is never found, life goes on. Sam and Remi marry--and years later return to Greece to find the one treasure that got away.

The Sentinel

In broad daylight Reacher spots a hapless soul walking into an ambush. So Reacher intervenes, with his own trademark brand of conflict resolution. The man he saves is Rusty Rutherford, an unassuming IT manager, recently fired after a cyberattack locked up the town’s data, records, information & secrets. Rutherford wants to stay put, look innocent, & clear his name. Reacher wants to know why an unassuming guy in a coffee stained shirt is being targeted.

Blue Moon

Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, & all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. An elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, & now they owe big money to some very bad people. Now Reacher wants to make it right. But you know what they say about good deeds.

Past Tense

Reacher plans to follow the autumn sun on an epic road trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn't get far. On a country road deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born. He thinks, what's one extra day? He takes the detour.

The Midnight Line

Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town & sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005. A tough year to graduate: Iraq; Afghanistan. The ring is tiny, for a woman, & it has her initials engraved on the inside. Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years. He decides to find out. And return her ring. Why not?

Night School

1996: Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal; in the afternoon they send him back to school. Now he’s off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind. 2 other men are in the classroom, an FBI agent & a CIA analyst. Each is a first-rate operator, each is wondering what they are doing there. Then they find out: A Jihadist sleeper cell in Germany, has received an unexpected visitor, a Saudi courier, with a chilling message: “The American wants a hundred million dollars.”

Make Me

In a small town hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, & watchful people, & a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal.

Personal

You can leave the army, but the army doesn’t leave you. Not always. Not completely, notes Jack Reacher & sure enough, the retired military cop is soon pulled back into service. This time, for the State Department & the CIA.

Never Go Back

Reacher returns to the base of his old army unit to meet Major Susan Turner, who so far has only been a friendly voice on the phone. When he arrives, Major Turner isn't there, she's been arrested. And Reacher is accused of a 16 year old homicide.

A Wanted Man

All Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat, to both sides at once.

The Affair

March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing, Mississippi. The latest in a string of killings in the small town. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy; or is he a soldier? Reacher, still a major in the military police at this point, is sent in undercover. The county sheriff is a former US Marine & a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere. Is the Pentagon stonewalling her? Or is she involved?

Worth Dying For

There’s deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska & Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it’s the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades-old, that Reacher can’t let go.

61 Hours

A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm & lands Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she's going to live long enough to testify, she'll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.

Gone Tomorrow

New York City. The subway, two o'clock in the morning. Jack Reacher studies his fellow passengers. Four are OK. The fifth isn't. Reacher recognizes the signs of a suicide bomber in one of them, & must decide on how to intervene.