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The Missing Sixth

The Missing Sixth

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Michael Meade, attempts to resurrect his fallen career and finds himself investigating the theft of a priceless painting by Dutch master Jan Vermeer. In the process, he discovers the real search is for a long lost document destined to change the course of South African history and making him the target of some of the world’s most powerful men.Read An Excerpt

Parents are Diamonds Children are Pearls

Parents are Diamonds
Children are Pearls

The illogical symmetry of parent and children relationships is explored in this unique and inspiring collection of Yin and Yang metaphors. Read An Excerpt

Spearhead Advance and Defend

Spearhead: Advance & Defend

Nothing can prepare a man for war, as Harold Harris is about to find out when he receives his draft notice in 1942. Three years of training lead him irrevocably to the frontlines in Normandy and 231 days of combat so arresting and so close to death, that survival is a minute-by-minute ordeal that leaves no man unchanged.

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The Fire Theft

The Fire Theft

The riches of the ancient Persian city of Karmin-Yar are the target of an ingenious plot set in motion by some of Europe’s most influential political leaders, but American archeologist Stephen Kaine discovers that the ultimate aim of this group is control of the region’s ultra-lucrative heroin trade. Read An Excerpt

Harbinger

The Harbinger

The murder of a high-ranking South African labor official leads Homicide Detective Nigel Mansell to an ingenious plot to infiltrate the extraordinarily rich South African diamond mining system and to instigate a long overdue revolution against that country’s tyrannical government.Read An Excerpt

Big & Ugly Enough

Big & Ugly Enough

This is the remarkable story of one woman’s ability to turn her father’s scathing epithet – You’re big and ugly enough, you can do it - into the driving force behind her personal and financial success. Linda is the 19th of 20 children raised in rural Long Island. Among other trials, she endures the death of her beloved son and founds a company at age 52 that eventually sells for an astounding $41 million.

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