Ultimatum

Shot down over Iraq, Navy Lieutenant Kevin "Crackers" Dalton becomes involved with Khalela, a beautiful, mysterious Mossad agent who leads a band of Kurdish rebels, and together they attempt to destroy Saddam Hussein's nuclear arsenal. A first novel.

Literature & Fiction

Pineiro, R.J.

United States

Forge

In R. J. Pineiro's much-anticipated sequel to Ultimatum, Dalton, a hero as great as Stephen Coonts' Jake Grafton or Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, now works for the CIA. As Saddam prepares to strike at the heart of the United States, Dalton finds himself facing the ultimate horror: nuclear weapons on American soil. Acquired from the Russian Mafia through an infamous international arms dealer, three warheads of mass destruction are smuggled into the United States. They are Saddam's revenge for his defeats at the hands of America. Reunited with the beautiful Mossad agent Khalela, Dalton must untangle a web of conspiracy that leads from Jersey City mosques to the backwoods of Virginia, from Atlantic City casinos to the bayous of Louisiana. Only he and Khalela can prevent the weapons from reaching their separate targets: New York City, Washington, D.C., and the President's birthplace, a small town called Hope.

Retribution

Exposure

After discovering a bug in the new Perseus computer chip, Pamela Sasser finds herself the target of an assassin because she is the only one who can prove that the chip caused a nuclear meltdown that killed and injured millions of people.

Jake Thomas Fisher, founder and CEO of Fisher Technologies, Inc., and his team have engineered a computer chip capable of profoundly increasing PC memory and power, but after the murder of his team and the destruction of his company, Jake must fight alone against high-tech German espionage

Breakthrough

Hunted by the top companies in America, Michael Patrick Ryan was offered the world: high starting salaries, stock options, and signing bonuses. Ryan set his sites on SoftCorp, Inc., a company with only one client-the Internal Revenue Service. But Mike Ryan has also fallen into the sights of the FBI. Millions of dollars have been smuggled out of the country, and Karen Frost suspects it's someone in the IRS. The deal: federal protection and immunity for information. But Frost has already lost one informant. Someone who got too close to the truth. As Ryan closes in, he realizes that he is a puppet in a ring masterminded by one man. One man whose agenda is designed to bring America to its knees.

Conspiracy.Com: A Novel

Contemporary

Forge Books

The silicon chip, the soul of todays machines, governs every aspect of our modern society. Dominance in semiconductors equates dominance in the new millennium. But, something has gone wrong. A terrible railway accident in Florida, leaving dozens dead, and countless more injured is traced to faulty computer chips. One woman figures out that the faulty chips werent due to negligence, but to sabatoge. Erika Conklin was forced to work for the FBI due to her hacking abilities. Enlisting the seasoned abilities of FBI Agent Brent McClaine, they launch an investigation that spans two continents. From Silicon Valley to the ruthless Far East markets, Erika and Brent must combine their computer and field talents before the next shutdown.

Shutdown

As the new millennium approaches, a mysterious virus that shuts down the world's computers is traced to a Mayan city where only one woman stands between its indecipherable code and the apocalyptic end of the world. 75,000 first printing.

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Siege of Lightning

The Martian and Apollo 13 meet Tom Clancy in this gripping scientific thriller."A first-rate thriller delivered by a seasoned pro. Last year had Andy Weir's The Martian; this year's clear torch-bearer is Pineiro." --Open Letters Monthly on The Fall"Move over Tom Clancy, there's a new kid on the block."--Library Journal on Ultimatum Years before NASA planned to travel to Mars, and before the International Space Station ever reached orbit, the future of America's space program hung in the balance . . . In R.J. Pineiro's exciting first alternate-history novel, the technicians at NASA hoped to create a fail-safe shuttle in the wake of the CHALLENGER disaster. With the brand-new space shuttle LIGHTNING, all systems were go . . . Then lightning struck twice. SIEGE OF LIGHTNING America's greatest technological achievement has been sabotaged. First an engine malfunctions. Then, another. Now LIGHTNING is desperately trying to land, racing against time--and a powerful and unseen enemy will do anything to make the first flight of LIGHTNING its last . . . "A brilliant tale of industrial espionage and sabotage. An insider's look at the secretive world of space exploration. Truly a good read." --Nelson DeMille, Bestselling author of The Gold Coast and The Charm School "Chilling . . . a riveting climax." --Joe Weber, bestselling author of DEFCON One "Heart stopping . . . one of the best thrillers of the year." --Charles Ryan, author of The Capricorn Quadrant "Gripping, spine-tingling and explosively brilliant . . . Pineiro might just be the next Michael Crichton!" --Guy Durham, author of Stealth and Extreme Prejudice

Siege Of Lightning

BERKLEY

The final words that Mortimer Fox whispered to ex CIA agent Bruce Tucker. Cryptic words said in a code coveted the world over, a code that could wipe all the world’s powers off the map and trigger Armageddon. The words are understood by a few, but are especially desirable to Vlad Jarkko, Tucker’s nemesis from his CIA days. And when Jarkko snatches Monica Fox, Mortimer’s daughter, Tucker must resume the blood feud and find Monica before she capitulates to her abductor’s unspeakable tortures.

Firewall

Computers increase the flow of natural gas to the San Antonio, Texas, distribution center increasing the pressure, triggering multiple leaks which result in massive explosions. The death toll is in the thousands, ten times the number of injured and homeless. Tom Graham has spent twenty years as America's top counterterrorist operative. But this attack was something neither Graham nor America were prepared for. An attack via computer, and suddenly a new word enters the American mainstream, cyberterror. Enlisting the aid of the FBI's Karen Frost, a special agent who has never played by the rules, and Michael Patrick Ryan, Stanford computer whiz, Graham tracks one of the hackers to an address in Florida. The new government Agency, the Counter Cyberterrorism Team, kicks in the door, only to find the booby-trapped corpse of a computer science professor. The explosion takes out two CCT agents. Meanwhile, a mysterious terrorist, Kulzak, is on to his next target in America. But the apparently random strikes are just a cover to divert attention from his true mission. Suddenly, Graham, Frost, and Ryan find themselves at the center of a war for the survival of our nation. A war that will force them to draw on their combined experiences to fight and stop an enemy that is as formidable as he is ruthless, as deadly as he is brilliant-an enemy determined to unleash a wave of destruction on America.

Cyberterror

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