assassination attempts

Jack Ryan, having jumped at the offer to join the CIA as a freelance analyst in the early 1980s, quickly finds himself in over his head when he uncovers a KGB plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II.

John Shakespeare, Elizabethan England's most remarkable investigator and brother of William Shakespeare, follows a trail of illicit passions and family secrets, as he attempts to uncover a plot to assassinate Sir Francis Drake, England's most famous sea warrior.

The sorcerous felines who guard the Gates between worlds, aided by a human child named Arthur Conan Doyle, are called upon to stop Armageddon when they discover that the malfunction of an ancient Gate at Grand Central Station has been deliberately engineered by the evil Lone One who plans to unleash nuclear horror upon the universe.

A biography of Dietrick Bonhoeffer, a German minister, discussing his childhood and education, his position in the Nazi Germany's military intelligence agency working as double agent, his complicity in multiple assassination attempts, and his eventual imprisonment and execution.