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The Day the President Was Shot

The Secret Service, the FBI, a Would-be Killer, and the Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan
2016
A chronicle of the events leading up to the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. Includes a discussion of the aftermath and provides biographical information on the former president.

Beyond the red

2016
"When Kora and Eros are framed for the attempted assassination of her betrothed, they flee. Their only chance of survival is to turn themsevles in to the high court, where revealing Eros' secret could mean a swift public execution..."--Amazon.com.

Rosa

a novel
2005
Nikolai Hoffner, a veteran detective with the Berlin police in the waning days of World War I, struggles to learn the truth when his investigation of the murders of four women is complicated by the discovery of the body of Socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, whose corpse bears similar markings as those found on the earlier victims.

The wise man's fear

2013
Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero as he attempts to uncover the truth about the mysterious Amyr, the Chandrian, and the death of his parents. Along the way, Kvothe is put on trial by the legendary Adem mercenaries, forced to reclaim the honor of the Edema Ruh, and travels into the Fae realm where he meets Felurian, the faerie woman no man can resist.

The Berlin conspiracy

2006
Former CIA agent Jack Teller's hopes for a quiet retirement are destroyed when he is called to Germany where someone claiming to have key political information claims Jack is needed to stop an international disaster.

The second objective

2007
Military police investigator Earl Grannit, a New York cop in private life, holds the future of World War II on his shoulders when he is charged with finding two German assassins who have infiltrated the Allied troops.

The eagle's conquest

2004
When Centurion Macro arrives on British soil as one of Emperor Claudius's invasion force in AD 43, he is facing one of the toughest campaigns of his battle-scarred career. In a series of bloody skirmishes, Macro and his young subordinate, Optio Cato, and the desperately outnumbered Roman army must find and defeat the enemy before he grows strong enough to overwhelm the legions. But the Britons are not the only foe facing Macro and Cato. A sinister organisation opposed to the Emperor is secretly betraying the invaders. And when rumours of an assassination attempt coincide with the Emperor's arrival on British soil, the soldiers realise they are up against a force more ruthless than their acknowledged enemy..

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