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Heroes

Thu, 03 May 2012 13:20:40 +0300

First Kill--A Kirk McGarvey Novel

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:33:04 +0200

Renowned thriller writer David Hagberg continues his New York Times bestselling Kirk McGarvey series with this riveting origin story for the CIA assassinIt is the beginning of Kirk McGarvey's career as a CIA black ops officer. Fresh out of the Air Force OSI, he receives his first assignment: assassinate a Chilean general known as the Butcher of Valparaiso, a monster who has tortured and killed more than one thousand dissidents at a soccer stadium in Valparaiso.McGarvey manages to cross the border over the mountains from Argentina without being discovered, and even makes his way to the general's remote compound. But the odds are stacked against him. Chile's National Intelligence Agency, the ANI, has been warned of his approach and wants him to fail—and someone back home in Washington is working to make sure he does.For this newly-minted assassin, killing the butcher is only the beginning.At the Publisher's request, this title is...

Gambit

Mon, 28 Jun 2021 18:10:19 +0300

The latest Kirk McGarvey novel, Gambit, is an international thriller with non-stop action, perfect for fans of Jason Bourne.
"If you like thrillers full of international intrigue, Hagberg is a major find." —Dean Koontz, New York Times bestselling author
An American billionaire and a Russian oligarch want Kirk McGarvey dead. First they send a South African assassin, and when Mac kills him, they commission a Canadian sniper for the kill. When Mac put him down, they hire a team of highly specialized Chinese killers called "Scorpions." When Mac dispatches them, they send a squad of Russian special ops armed to the teeth with high-tech firepower.
Mac's only chance of survival is to turn on the tables on the people behind this assassination conspiracy, that is, if he can find them.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Traitor: A Kirk McGarvey Novel

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 18:41:33 +0300

Traitor is the final, explosive adventure in the thrilling Kirk McGarvey series from New York Times bestselling author David Hagberg--perfect for fans of Jason Bourne!

When McGarvey’s best friend, Otto, is charged with treason, Mac and his wife, Petey, set out on a desperate odyssey to clear Otto’s name. Crossing oceans and continents, their journey will take them from Japan to the US to Pakistan to Russia. Caught in a Kremlin crossfire between two warring intel agencies, Mac and Petey must fight for their lives every step of the way.

And the stakes could not be higher.

Review

“If you like thrillers full of international intrigue, Hagberg is a major find.”
―Dean Koontz, New York Times bestselling author

“The grand master of the contemporary thriller.”
―Douglas Preston, New York Times bestselling author

“Hagberg writes the most realistic, prophetic thrillers I have ever read.”
―Stephen Coonts, New York Times bestselling author

“Hagberg edges out Tom Clancy for commander of our uniquely American, military based thrillers and espionage novels: high-concept plot, non-stop action, insider knowledge of how things work out there in our complicated, high-combat world.”
―James Grady, New York Times bestselling author

“Hagberg runs in the same fast, high-tech track as Clancy.”
―New York Daily News

About the Author

David Hagberg (1942-2019) was a New York Times bestselling author who published numerous novels of suspense, including his bestselling thrillers featuring former CIA director Kirk McGarvey, which include Abyss, The Cabal, The Expediter, and Allah’s Scorpion. He earned a nomination for the American Book Award, three nominations for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award and three Mystery Scene Best American Mystery awards. He spent more than thirty years researching and studying US-Soviet relations during the Cold War. Hagberg joined the Air Force out of high school, and during the height of the Cold War, he served as an Air Force cryptographer.

Crash

Mon, 18 May 2020 12:47:54 +0300

The second Great Depression is coming. The world's economies are groaning under too much debt. If one thing goes wrong, the entire rickety system collapses. Now, acclaimed awarding-winning New York Times bestselling novelist David Hagberg and renowned financial reporter Lawrence Light have combined forces to dramatize—hour by hour—how this all-too-real catastrophe could go down.

With debt-burdened governments and businesses worldwide about to go bust, a cabal of Wall Street big shots plot to destroy the globe's stock exchanges. To provide that one thing that goes wrong. In 24 hours, a powerful computer worm will smash the exchanges and spark an international panic, pushing a debt-laden world into the abyss. The Wall Street gang's investment bank will be the last one standing, able to make a killing amid the ruins.

But one person, who works for their bank as a computer expert, spots the worm embedded deep in its network. Cassy Levin invents...

McGarvey: The World's Most Dangerous Assassin

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:41:34 +0300

"The grand master of the contemporary thriller." —Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author

When Kirk McGarvey investigates the mysterious death of his parents so many years ago, he uncovers long-buried secrets that put him head to head and mano a mano with . . . Vladimir Putin.

After Mac calls Putin out, the Russian dictator decides he wants him dead. Battling Russian hit squads as well as enemies at home, McGarvey must fight like the devil to save the himself, his friends, and the US of A in this engrossing international thriller from David Hagberg.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Traitor

Sun, 04 Sep 2022 23:30:08 +0300

Traitor is the final, explosive adventure in the thrilling Kirk McGarvey series from New York Times bestselling author David Hagberg—perfect for fans of Jason Bourne!
When McGarvey's best friend, Otto, is charged with treason, Mac and his wife, Petey, set out on a desperate odyssey to clear Otto's name. Crossing oceans and continents, their journey will take them from Japan to the US to Pakistan to Russia. Caught in a Kremlin crossfire between two warring intel agencies, Mac and Petey must fight for their lives every step of the way.
And the stakes could not be higher.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Capsule

Wed, 14 Sep 1977 08:35:54 +0300

An investigative reporter, a beautiful young journalist, and United States and Soviet intelligence forces must race to find a dangerous secret weapon—a mysterious capsule with the power to change the course of world history.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Castro's Daughter

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:13:07 +0200

Cuban Intelligence Service Colonel Maria Leon is called to the bedside of the dying Fidel Castro. She is his illegitimate daughter but has never been acknowledged by her father until now. Castro makes her promise to contact the legendary former Director of the CIA Kirk McGarvey to help her on a mysterious quest to find Cibola, the fabled seven cities of Gold.
As the Cuban government unravels, Leon has to use every means at her disposal just to find the elusive McGarvey, all the while fending off men in her own Operations Division who want her job or her death. In desperation, Leon kidnaps McGarvey’s closest friend, Otto Rencke, to force McGarvey's hand.
Mac's meeting with Leon launches the most bizarre mission of his entire career that takes him from Cuba to Mexico City, to Spain and finally to an ancient site in New Mexico that the Spanish conquistadors called the Jornada del muerto—the Journey of Death. On the run from Cuban intelligence agents and blood thirsty Mexican drug cartel soldiers who will stop at nothing for a piece of the fabulous treasure, McGarvey struggles to decipher the truth buried in Leon's deception. This latest installment in David Hagberg's New York Times bestselling Kirk McGarvey series takes the former CIA director on another deadly international adventure in Castro's Daughter.

Review

“David Hagberg writes the most realistic, prophetic thrillers I have ever read. His books should be required reading in Washington.”
—Stephen Coonts, New York Times bestselling author of The Disciple“David Hagberg runs in the same fast, high-tech track as Clancy and his gung ho colleagues, with lots of war games, fancy weapons, and much male bonding.”
—*The New York Daily News
“A terrific page-turning experience, and McGarvey’s personal mission brings a powerful urgency to the proceedings. It all adds up to Hagberg’s best book in years. Conspire to grab this one right away.”
—Booklist on The Cabal*

About the Author

DAVID HAGBERG is a former Air Force cryptographer who has traveled extensively in Europe, the Arctic, and the Caribbean and has spoken at CIA functions. He has published more than twenty novels of suspense, including the bestselling Allah’s Scorpion, Dance With the Dragon, and The Expediter. He makes his home in Sarasota, Florida.

Tower Down--A Kirk McGarvey Novel

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:13:08 +0200

New York Times bestselling author, David Hagberg, continues his successful Kirk McGarvey series in this searing thriller about terrorist attacks on NYC's pencil towers, Tower Down.A freelance killer, code-named Al-Nassar, "the Eagle," blows the supports on a pencil tower in Manhattan and sends it crashing down. Hundreds of people are killed, both the multi-billionaires inside and the innocent bystanders on the street more than one thousand feet below. It's like 9/11 all over again, only this time, no airplanes are involved.Retired CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey believes that someone in the Saudi Arabian government, feeling the internal pinch of sharply declining oil revenues and the escalating costs in money and manpower of defending its borders against ISIS, is behind the attack. The Saudis hope to awaken America's will and military might against ISIS.But no one in the White House or even in the CIA wants to believe that more Americans are going...

End Game

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:13:06 +0200

Retired CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey faces the most formidable adversary of his long and storied career in End Game by David Hagberg. Langley is experiencing a series of gruesome murders. The CIA's own headquarters should be the safest spot on the planet, but a highly professional, violently psychopathic assassin, who hideously disfigures his victims, strikes without mercy.The murders spread from Langley to a prison outside of Athens, where the first clue to what will become the End Game surfaces. A code carved into four copper panels of the legendary statue in a courtyard at CIA headquarters, known as Kryptos, predicts the means and the terrible necessity for the serial killings.Before the first Iraq war, something horrifying was buried in the foothills above the oil city of Kirkuk. It will not remain buried forever. Only Kirk McGarvey, Pete Boylan, and the CIA's odd-duck genius, Otto Rencke, can find the truth still buried in Iraq. A truth so...

Terminator - T3 01 - Rise of the Machines

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:22:44 +0200

Eden's Gate

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:13:08 +0200

A wall has gone up and come down since the end of the Second World War, and Germany is once again united. As Berlin rebuilds, the German authorities ask the U.S. for help. Ex-Stasi Captain Helmut Speyer is wanted in his homeland for crimes committed in East Germany under the communist regime. And now Speyer and his group of commandos are up to something in their Montana compound-something that has Germany looking over its shoulder in fear.

Former National Security agent Bill Lane and his wife mount an operation to stop Speyer and his commandos. Racing him to the infamous bunker Reichsamt 17, the site of some of the Nazi's most horrific experiments, Speyer is after one of the deadliest weapons ever made. A race for time with Washington D.C. the hostage.

Joshuas Hammer km-8

Fri, 17 Nov 2000 07:26:58 +0200

When a one-kiloton Russian nuclear demolition bomb the size of a suitcase ends up in the hands of multimillionaire Osama bin Laden, the entire world sits up and takes notice. And when the United States launches an attack on the terrorist's base of operation in Afghanistan, killing his daughter, retaliation against America is inevitable. Now, Kirk McGarvey is in for the race of his life, and a race against time. McGarvey has to find out how the bomb will get to the United States, where it will be detonated, and when this, the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, will take place. But not only must McGarvey stop the bomb, he must protect his own daughter and the daughter of the president of the United States for a savage act of retaliation by a man gone mad.