The boardroom on the 48th floor was silent, a sterile glass box overlooking the frantic maze of Manhattan. Javier Mendoza, his face a…
It was a bright, cloudless morning at the San Diego Executive Air Terminal. The sterile quiet of the private hangar was broken only…
The 11:00 PM wind off Lake Michigan was brutal, slashing cold rain against the sidewalks of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. Arthur Vance paid the…
The meeting was formal, the air in the high-rise conference room thick with tension. At the head of the polished mahogany table, a…
Master Sergeant Thomas “Tom” Reed, U.S. Army, retired, hadn’t planned on coming home so soon. He’d been enjoying the quiet anonymity of his…
The Sunrise Diner, a typical roadside stop just off I-95, was humming with its usual Tuesday morning rhythm. The air was thick with…
Everyone in the restaurant feared the millionaire… until the new waitress put him in his place. It was 10:45 on a Friday morning,…
The supermarket aisles glowed with a warm, artificial light that glinted off shiny tins of cranberry sauce, cellophane-wrapped pumpkin pies, and the frosty…
The sun was just beginning to cut through the gray London morning, glinting off the spires of Buckingham Palace. Victor, known to his…
The sun beat down on the glass and steel mansion, its heat a heavy blanket over the sprawling patio. From behind a perfectly…