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An agent poses as a rich playboy-and winds up with a target on his back-in this thriller by the Edgar Award–nominated author. Oil baron Mike Donoghue is on a top-secret assignment for the US government. To protect the mission, someone needs to pose as a decoy-and that's where freelance agent Joe Gall comes in. Now, Gall must trade places with a man known for his wealthy, high-flying lifestyle and his love of drink and beautiful women....

Freelance operative Joe Gall has been asked to infiltrate the Republic of New Africa, a black militant group-not an easy assignment for a white guy. Using pills to change his skin tone, he goes undercover and joins the organization- with some unexpected results...

Secret agent Joe Gall has a puzzle to put together that stretches from the streets of Laredo, Texas, to the steamy island of Trinidad-and along the way, he must deal with a New Orleans nun with some surprising fighting skills as well as civil unrest in a small southern town... As he battles bad guys using all the smarts and survival tactics he learned from the CIA, there are two beautiful women who may hold the answers-but Gall has to start asking...

A moneymaking scheme in Burma proves more dangerous than the jungle itself in the first action novel featuring Joe Gall by the Edgar Award finalist. Down on his luck in Rangoon, Joe Gall agrees to partner up with an old acquaintance named Varley for a chance to make millions in the jungles of war-torn Burma. Gall expected the scheme to involve fists and guns-but when he discovers Varley's working both sides, it's every man for himself . . . Originally...

As the Troubles rage in Northern Ireland, a mysterious killer has been putting bullets in victims' heads one by one-with no apparent pattern or logic. Now Joe Gall has been tasked with quietly looking into the matter by a high-ranking American cabinet official who fears his son may be involved. Gall sets out to find the boy and bring him home alive-if possible. But the story behind the murders may be more complicated than it seems . . .

In this international adventure by the Edgar Award—nominated author, freelance operative Joe Gall is on the hunt for a valuable cache of diamonds. But along the way he must break a man out of jail, cross a barren African desert, and fight his way through multiple double crosses ...

One man must stop separatists targeting a tourist destination on the US border in this thriller by "the John D. MacDonald of espionage fiction" (Larry McMurtry, The New York Times). A movement is afoot in Canada's majority French—speaking province, Quebec, to separate from the rest of the country, and the FLQ is the organization leading the way. But some supporters of the cause are impatient-and want to take the fight to another level. Now ex—CIA...