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For only the fourth time in two centuries, the French have allowed the Mona Lisa to leave the Louvre, this time at the request of the pope, who wants to exhibit it in the Vatican Museums. However, once on display, the Museums' former curator notices a nearly imperceptible discrepancy in the painting, leading to the discovery that it's a forgery. Faced with the crisis of losing the most valuable painting in the world, the pope turns to Mauro Br...

Gunter Wayan is again in over his head, accepting an assignment from the Indonesian Minister of Defense that sends him, Eka, and Persik to Russia to rescue a defecting scientist and his wife from the FSB. Before they leave, the Minister makes clear that if they're captured, the government will deny any involvement and say they acted alone rather than create a diplomatic incident. The defector, a Ukrainian scientist on the brink of achieving th...

The Cabal has secretly expanded its grip on world economies, governments, corporations, and other centers of influence for decades. Founded by a mysterious person known as the thin man, its goal is to create a new world order-an authoritarian and borderless world under one government. With its members in strategic positions within global technology and social media companies, senior government positions, and enormous investment funds, they've ...

Lieutenant Colonel Doug Cray, the leader of a presidential special ops team, hasn't been on vacation in years. Recovering from an assassin's bullet, he decides that taking a cruise down the Amazon River would fulfill his childhood dream of seeing the rainforest and provide a much-needed rest. However, the thin man, who hired the assassin, isn't going to give up on killing him. After learning that Cray is taking an Amazon cruise, he bribes a co...

Iran's leadership decides to resolve their conflict with Israel once and for all. Constructing a secret launch facility outside the country to plausibly deny the attack, they purchased five North Korean ICBMs, each carrying four MIRV nuclear warheads. The key to their strike is a chink in the Israeli air defense system, which will allow them to take down the country's missile shields, making Israel defenseless.The NSA and Mossad have pieced to...

An Italian shipbuilding magnate and a prostitute are found dead beside each other in the bedroom of a luxurious mansion at a famous resort in Bali. A hidden security camera shows the only other person to enter that room was the victim's ex-wife, the resort manager. When the police discover she volunteered to help room service at the last minute and delivered the food, which the autopsy confirmed contained the poison which killed them, she move...

Mauro Bruno receives a mysterious envelope containing a letter he wrote to his wife twenty-five years ago on the day she was murdered. The letter was stolen by the killer, who was never caught. The same day he receives the envelope, the desiccated body of a woman is discovered behind the wall in the president of Italy's office with his letter opener lying beside her. For over two decades, a Mafia chieftain has been grooming a government offici...

A military drone attacks a small boat off Bali and leaves a disgraced former police detective turned private investigator adrift in the Indian Ocean, an Indonesian attorney is tortured and killed delivering his client's documents, the head of North Korea's money-laundering clearinghouse is murdered when his car is forced off a mountain road, a Chinese army lieutenant colonel appears to die of a heart attack while on a flight to Beijing, and a ...

A young girl escapes her kidnappers, the US embassy compound in Athens comes under a devastating missile attack, a US Navy amphibious carrier, returning from a goodwill tour, engages hostile aircraft over the Adriatic Sea, and an abandoned Soviet submarine base in Bulgaria is secretly refurbished. These are the seemingly unrelated pieces of a puzzle that Matt Moretti and Han Li encountered while on vacation. It started innocently enough when t...

A reporter is killed before he can publish a story on arms smuggling, a geologist is murdered when he tries to hand over photographs that will reveal the person behind a secret terrorist network, a dirty bomb sits in a hotel room just blocks from the White House, and a wealthy industrialist wants to harm the west in a way that will be remembered throughout history. These might have remained unconnected except for the discovery of an artifact -...

In this latest Matt Moretti-Han Li thriller the clandestine unit known as Nemesis, a joint Chinese-American off-the-books organization, is faced with its first challenge just minutes after it's activated by the presidents of the United States and China. Their first assignment is to find and retrieve two aging Soviet nuclear weapons that were smuggled into China to destroy its major cities and are on a countdown to detonation. They soon learn t...

Detectives Mauro Bruno and Elia Donati, surviving numerous attempts on their lives while bringing Duke Rodolfo Rizzo to justice, decide to take a vacation in Paris to celebrate and relax. However, not long after they arrive Donati is cleverly framed for a murder he didn't commit, but which he finds impossible to refute since the killing was captured on the hotel's camera security system. With Donati in jail, Bruno tries to discover why he's be...

Milan's chief prosecutor is killed when his car is pushed off a narrow mountain road, the city's mayor is shot by an assassin on the steps of his office building, and an abbot and his librarian are killed in a monastery. This occurs days before Chief Inspector Mauro Bruno, whose father is one of the victims, comes to Milan to arrange for the funeral. Suspicious by nature and generally acknowledged within the Polizia di Stato as being the best ...

Following a gala, the presidents of the United States and China disappear after retiring for the night within their heavily guarded palaces inside the Forbidden City. After an intense investigation ensues, no one can determine how the dignitaries were abducted while under constant surveillance.When an internet video is released that shows the heads of state kneeling before the flag of the Protectors of Islam, the question of who abducted them ...

General Lin Bogang, Chinas highest-ranking military officer, has a plan that will force the government into naming him his countrys leader. And theres a strong likelihood hell succeed, thanks to secret documents written by Mao Zedong. The general has two problems. He only has copies, which could be discounted as forgeries, and he doesnt know the exact location of the originals. Soon he discovers that the key to finding them lies with Matt More...

General Lin Bogang, Chinas highest-ranking military officer, has a plan that will force the government into naming him his countrys leader. And theres a strong likelihood hell succeed, thanks to secret documents written by Mao Zedong. The general has two problems. He only has copies, which could be discounted as forgeries, and he doesnt know the exact location of the originals. Soon he discovers that the key to finding them lies with Matt More...

Following a gala, the presidents of the United States and China disappear after retiring for the night within their heavily guarded palaces inside the Forbidden City. After an intense investigation ensues, no one can determine how the dignitaries were abducted while under constant surveillance.When an internet video is released that shows the heads of state kneeling before the flag of the Protectors of Islam, the question of who abducted them ...

Winning in China requires time, commitment, and knowledge. Conducting business as usual is not how to accomplish objectives.Authors Alan Refkin and Scott D. Cray enjoy success conducting business in China because they know that the rules there are different. Now, they open up their playbooks so you can succeed where others fail.This guidebook can help you under-stand Chinese businesspeople, gain acceptance among Chinese with influence, cultiva...

Winning in China requires time, commitment, and knowledge. Conducting business as usual is not how to accomplish objectives.Authors Alan Refkin and Scott D. Cray enjoy success conducting business in China because they know that the rules there are different. Now, they open up their playbooks so you can succeed where others fail.This guidebook can help you under-stand Chinese businesspeople, gain acceptance among Chinese with influence, cultiva...

Anyone who wants to do business in China must understand its customs, people, and culture. Just because its economy is exploding doesn't mean that anyone can go there and make a fortune. In fact, business practices are still deeply rooted in ancient cultural traditions. A Western businessperson who wants to succeed must understand all the rules-even the ones that aren't written down. Join Alan Refkin, an American financier, as he takes a Chine...