political fiction

"A group of American patriots, all former military, are looking for a way to get their number one choice, Senator Ben Corn, elected president. Corn is a telegenic, perfect candidate--yet harbors secrets that threaten him. The group's goal is to implement their own foreign policy and fundamentally restructure American society. . . . To achieve their goals, they form dangerous alliances. One is with a woman who manages the largest, and most corrupt, private pool of capital that has ever existed. And another with the brilliant, ruthless founder of Russia's most successful private military company: a mercenary's mercenary, who has ties to Vladimir Putin"--Provided by publisher.

"It's November 1944. Willi Graf, a German rocket engineer, is launching Nazi Germany's V2 rockets at London from Occupied Holland. Kay Connolly, once an actress, now a young English Intelligence officer, ships out for Belgium to locate the launch sites and neutralize the threat. But when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf becomes a suspect. Unknown to each other, Graf and Connolly find themselves on opposite sides in the hunt for the saboteur. Their twin stories play out against the background of the German missile campaign, one of the most epic and modern but least explored episodes of the Second World War. Their destinies are on a collision course"--OCLC.

A book burning official in a future fascist state finds out that books are a vital part of a culture he never knew, and he decides to pursue reading, until he is betrayed.

A young Lithuanian immigrant arrives in America filled with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity, but soon learns the truth of the workingman's lot at the turn of the century.

The story of American slavery and Uncle Tom, an African-American man who never lost his dignity under the most inhumane circumstances.

A republication of the 1880 novel in which society widow Mrs. Lightfoot Lee meets Senate member Silas Ratcliffe, and together the two discover how corrupt the government is in Washington during the 1870s.

In a small South American state, a silver mine owner, Charles Gould, puts a consignment of silver in the charge of a foreman. The foreman buries the silver and pretends that the boat in which he shipped it sank.

Financial whiz Andrew Falcon agrees to handle the hostile takeover of a chemical company in anticipation of a fat fee, but he belatedly learns that he is the pawn of a secret group of power-brokers, The Sevens, who are more than ready to kill him for the knowledge he now holds.