Relates the true story of a Green Beret colonel who came out of retirement to lead a secret raid to get two Americans out of an Iranian jail and home to America.
British officer William Vandam teams up with a beautiful young Jewish woman in an effort to stop master spy Alex Wolff who is on a mission to steal British military plans in World War II Cairo.
Twenty-one-year old coal miner Mack McAsh leaves his indentured servitude in Scotland on a slave ship bound for a Virginia plantation in 1766, with his only friend, beautiful, high-born Lizzie Hallim.
As D-Day approaches, Faber, an aristocratic German spy known as "The Needle, " is aware of the the Allies' top-secret intended place of attack, but is distracted by the affections of Lucy Rose, a lonely, strong-willed Englishwoman.
The ambitious prior of Kingsbridge, England, dreams of building the greatest Gothic cathedral in the world, and the struggle to construct it leads to a battle between good and evil in twelfth-century England.
Continues the stories of five interrelated families who struggle with social, political, and economic turmoil in the mid-twentieth century, during which they witness the rise of Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War, and the horrors of World War II.
As a Christmas Eve blizzard blows through Scotland, several people from a medical research firm converge on a remote family house, where they learn that a canister containing a deadly virus has disappeared from the lab, and that someone among them will risk anything to keep the crime a secret.
When a research scientist begins studying the genetic components of aggression she discovers a chilling conspiracy involving the government, a biotech company, and her own university, all devoted to reshaping society through genetic manipulation.
Set in Victorian England, the story portrays a family splintered by lust yet bound inexorably by a shared legacy; and brings us men and women swept toward a perilous climax where greed, fed by the shocking truth of a boy's death, must be stopped--or not just one man's dreams, but those of a nation, will die.
In Kingsbridge during the year 1327, four children witness two men being killed in the forest; and years later, even though they have grown apart, they are connected by what they saw.
