Stories by @bloodshot05
280 stories

Inferno
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented, with no recollection of the past 36 hours. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he & his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee. Embarking on a harrowing journey, they must unravel a series of codes, which are the work of a brilliant scientist whose obsession with the end of the world is matched only by his passion for Dante Alighieri's The Inferno.

The Lost Symbol
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver a lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, the night takes a bizarre turn. When Langdon's beloved mentor, Peter Solomon is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this invitation & follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is brought into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations, all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth.

The Da Vinci Code
While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives a phone call. The curator of the Louvre has been murdered. As Langdon & French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they discover clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci. Even more startling, the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion a secret society & he guarded a breathtaking historical secret. Unless Langdon & Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle while avoiding the faceless adversary who shadows their every move the explosive, ancient truth will be lost forever.

Angels & Demons
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by the Illuminati. In a desperate race to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt for the long-forgotten Illuminati lair.

Deception Point
When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable: a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. Fleeing for their lives across a desolate & lethal landscape, their only hope for survival is to discover who is behind this masterful plot.

Digital Fortress
When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage, not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence.

Final Option
When the CIA realizes the identities of 3 American spies in Brazil have been compromised, they turn to Juan Cabrillo & the crew of the Oregon to rescue the agents. What seems a routine operation turns out to be a trap designed by a man driven by hate to seek the ultimate revenge. At the heart of the plot is a state-of-the-art ship that is identical to the Oregon: same weaponry, same technology, same ability to evade capture. The only thing it doesn’t have is Cabrillo & his talented crew. But will they be enough to go up against the one ship that rivals their own?

Journey of the Pharaohs
The NUMA squad join the agents of the British MI5 to take on a wide-reaching international conspiracy. Their common enemy is the Bloodstone Group, a conglomerate of arms dealers and thieves attempting to steal ancient relics on both sides of the Atlantic. Kurt and his team soon find themselves wrapped up in a treacherous treasure hunt as they race to find lost Egyptian riches before they fall into the wrong hands.

The Titanic Secret
In 1911 Colorado, Isaac Bell is asked to look into an unexplained tragedy at Little Angel Mine, a disaster in which nine people died. His dangerous quest to answer that riddle leads to a larger one centered on a rare element with extraordinary powers and of virtually incalculable value. As he discovers that there are people who will do anything to control the substance, Isaac Bell will find out how far he'll go to stop them.

The Current
When two young women leave their college campus in the dead of winter for a 700-mile drive north to Minnesota, they suddenly find themselves fighting for their lives in the icy waters of the Black Root River, just miles from home. One girl’s survival, and the other’s death—murder, actually—stun the citizens of a small Minnesota town, thawing memories of another young woman who lost her life in the same river ten years earlier, and whose killer may yet live among them.

Dark Highway
LA-based artist Laurie Simmonds disappeared two months ago, her camper abandoned on the isolated Twentynine Palms Highway. With the police investigation stalled, her parents hire private investigator Jessica Shaw to find out the truth of what happened. Jessica & her partner Matt Connor discover that two other women are missing, their disappearances connected to the same highway. When a link emerges between these women Jessica feels certain they're closing in on their target. But the more she pulls at the threads of the truth, the closer she comes to danger. Can she find out who's behind these crimes before they come for her?

Backlash
A hostile group kidnaps Scot Harvavth, & now he must go on the to survive long enough to take his revenge.

Shadow Tyrants
Cabrillo & crew must divide & conquer as they fight dual threats, which include a supercomputer at sea & satellites that can wipe out technology across the globe, including the high-tech weapons on board the Oregon.

Typhoon Fury
Hired to search for a collection of paintings worth half a billion dollars, Cabrillo & crew soon find themselves in deep waters. The vicious leader of a Filipino insurgency is not only using them to finance his attacks, he has stumbled upon one of the most lethal secrets of World War II.

The Emperor's Revenge
Cabrillo & crew face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation's accounts. To get the money back, Juan must track down a rogue hacker & a ruthless former Ukrainian naval officer.

Piranha
During a covert operation, Cabrillo & crew fake the sinking of the Oregon, but when an unknown adversary tracks them down despite their planning & attempts to assassinate them, Cabrillo & his team struggle to fight back against an enemy who seems to be able to anticipate their every move.

Mirage
There is talk of a new weapon soon to be auctioned, something very dangerous to America's interests, & rumors link it to the great inventor Nikola Tesla, who was working with the Navy when he died in 1943. Was he responsible for the experiment? Are his notes in the hands of enemies?

The Jungle
A devastating new weapon unleashed in 13th-century China. A daring rescue in the snowbound mountains along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. A woman gone missing in the jungles of northern Thailand & Myanmar. For Cabrillo & his crew, all of these events will lead to the greatest threat against U.S. security that the world has ever known.

The Silent Sea
Cabrillo, chasing the remnants of a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, makes a shocking discovery. His search to untangle the mystery leads him 1st to a small island & its secret, & then much further back, to an ancient Chinese expedition.

Corsair
When the U.S. secretary of state's plane crashes in Libya, the CIA, distrusting the Libyans, hire Juan Cabrillo to search for her, & their misgivings are well founded. The crew locates the plane, but the secretary of state has vanished.