<p>The first in the Pete Chandler series---mysteries and suspense set in exotic locations. Myanmar (Burma), ruled by a corrupt military junta since 1962, and embroiled in one of the longest-running civil wars in history, finally opens its borders for limited business and tourism in 2011. The US Export/Import Bank, anxious to leverage trade agreements into democratic reforms, tasks an American finance expert to open doors there. She vanishes without a trace. Investigator, Pete Chandler, dispatched by her panicked congressman father, is on a mission to find her and bring her home. Chandler travels up the Irrawaddy River and charges into the heart of darkness of corrupt government, dictatorial generals, criminal networks---and the fight of his life.</p>

Up Like Thunder: Pete Chandler Travels the World

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Nelson, Colin T.

Thrillers & Suspense

Rumpole Press

Ted Rohrbacher takes on the questionable defense of an old friend charged with murdering his wife and Ted thinks he has a shot at winning---because the body has disappeared. During his investigation, Ted discovers his client suffers from a rare and uncontrollable mental condition called the Amygdala Hijack that can cause people to act violently. Ted has a sinking feeling his friend and client may have really killed his wife---but couldn’t control himself. Can he use the Amygdala Hijack as a defense? Ted struggles to solve the mystery; fights the prosecutor, and even his client to win. The suspense builds as the trial gets closer while the story ends with a shocking surprise the reader never sees coming!

The Amygdala Hijack (Ted Rohrbacher)

Mystery

When Pete Chandler, an investigator for the US Export/Import Bank, receives a call for help from an old friend and colleague at the bank who works in South America, Pete drops everything to go. Before he can get there, his friend dies in a freak accident---he falls out of a tourist ride into a deep river gorge. As Pete digs into the mystery of the death, he discovers his friend has been living a double life that has pulled-in South American law enforcement and Chinese gangsters. Pete becomes the target of forces that assume he was part of the friend's crimes. Now Pete must fight for his own survival in a race that leads to the heights of the Andes Mountains, Machu Picchu, and the secrets of the ancient Incas.

The Inca Code (Pete Chandler Travels the World)

Fallout (Zehra Henning)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

<p>Pete Chandler, an investigator for the U.S. Export/Import Bank, travels to South Africa with his daughter, Karen. They hope to heal their relationship. He's also on assignment for the bank to solve the murder of a bank contractor. Pete thinks the investigation will be finished quickly. Within a day of arriving in Cape Town, Karen is almost killed during a second murder. That danger throws Pete into a bigger mystery than he imagined. He teams up with a local investigator, Janette Koos, for help. They follow the case across the expanse of South Africa to a game reserve. Clues point to the reserve as the center of an international illegal ivory trafficking network. As they work together, Pete's attraction for Janette crosses over into a closer relationship---something that could compromise his job. His investigation traps them all between powerful forces that don't want them to succeed. When Pete refuses to give-up, all of them become targets of the criminals, who will do anything to stop the three. The story reveals the beauty of Cape Town, travels across the country to look at the local tribes and life in the shambas, and ends with Pete and Karen viewing the big game.</p>

Ivory Lust (Pete Chandler Travels the World)

Literature & Fiction

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