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Lieutenant James Shelley and his squad of US Army soldiers were on a quest for justice when they carried out the unauthorized mission known as First Light. They returned home to America to face a court-martial, determined to expose the corruption in the chain of command that compelled their actions. But in a country still reeling from the nuclear terrorism of Coma Day, the courtroom is just one battlefield of many.

British special agent Jeremiah Black, an officer of the King’s Guard, lands on a lonely beach in the wee hours of the morning in late November 1780. The revolution is in full swing but has become deadlocked. Black is here to change all that. His mission, aided by Loyalists, is to kidnap George Washington and spirit him back to London aboard the HMS Peregrine, a British sloop of war that is waiting closely offshore. Once he lands, though, the “aid by Loyalists” proves problematic because some would prefer just to kill the general outright.

Arthur Beauchamp takes a break from the courtroom to write a memoir so he can set the record straight about a headline murder case he fought as a young lawyer in 1966. The trial would either mark him as a pathetic loser or thrust him into the top ranks of criminal counsel. The background: in 1966, a young housemaid was raped by her employer, a callous and vindictive millionaire. She shot him point blank, so it seemed an open-and-shut case of first-degree murder. Enter Arthur Beauchamp, a young lawyer haunted by having bungled his only previous murder case.

Following the worst terrorist attacks in American history on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush pledged to bring those responsible to justice, especially the mastermind, Osama bin Laden. After failing to capture Bin Laden in Afghanistan, George W. Bush shifted his attention and that of his country to Saddam Hussein and Iraq, neither of which had anything to do with the 9/11 attacks (as history has proven).

Parker Hall and Tim Chen never asked for this. Though separated by 12 time zones, they get thrust into global intrigue and suspense as they both attempt to decipher subtle clues which may reveal an ominous plot. Parker Jane Hall is an eager new analyst at the Department of Homeland Security and Timothy Chen, her best friend from college, is a bio-research scientist at an infectious disease lab in China. Desperate to unravel the truth, Parker turns to her neighbor, Elliott Myles, a former and disgraced NSA analyst.

Lee Harvey Oswald has been recorded by history as the reported assassin of President John F. Kennedy. On November 22, 1963 the United States was dramatically changed forever. Two days later while the nation prepared to bury their fallen leader, Jack Ruby shot and killed the accused assassin. Lee Oswald claimed he was a patsy. What if he were right?

When Tom Cummings is selected to be the foreman of a murder trial, little does he realize how it will alter his life forever. It costs him his business, his career, and nearly the love of his life. Based on true events, this is an edge of your seat murder mystery with deep political intrigue.

When Iran finally develops nuclear weapons it triggers the Last World War, and it will forever change the surface of the Earth. A president impeached. A vice president murdered. A relatively unknown Speaker of the House... A mere congressman elevated to the most powerful office in the nation, if not the world. With all of the political chaos in the United States, one of the world's power hungry regimes decides to play a card it has held close to their chest. Iran unloads five nuclear weapons.

Take your pick of death and drama: slow by radiation, intimate as a knife in the back from a camouflaged stalker, or sudden, with the crack of high-powered firearms. The killings play against the slow, grinding gears of federal laws and politics. Matt and Tanya Hunter again team with Webb to produce a gripping, suspenseful, and timely pause-resister.

During a dark period in the history of the United States, a few powerful government officials twisted the meaning of our laws and trivialized universal human rights principles. This novel peels back a deceitful veneer of legal gamesmanship to reveal flagrant violations of international law and the US Constitution. The narrative exposes the criminal actions of individuals who continue to make bold assertions that torture is not torture, that what they did was necessary, and that torturers are above the law.