Books with author Fredric

A yacht crew for John Minjae Park, Korean Mafia boss, attempted to deceive him, cheat him. He had them tortured, then killed. He seized a cocaine factory in Mexico. His profits soared. The trafficking of teenage girls added to his wealth. But his contributions to a pro-North Korean group in Seoul, South Korea, drew the attention of a North Korean, who was living in Seoul and was in charge of all those groups. Park was about to lose control of his entire empire.The DEA and FBI had been building a case against Park but they lacked definitive proof. Grant Stevens and his men are tasked with getting that proof, beginning with hijacking the multimillion dollar yacht owned by Park.For this mission the list of surprises and unknowns continued to grow from murder, human trafficking, drug trafficking, and betrayal, that led to more questions, more dangers, testing the men of A.T. to their max.

Russia was spiraling out of control. High- powered officials in Moscow want to keep it that way, at least until they've succeeded with the coup. CIA is closely monitoring the situation, knowing it could impact a proposed extraction of a defecting Russian from Vladivostok.Grant Stevens meets with CIA to discuss the seemingly straightforward mission. Once he accepts, he's blindsided by an unforeseen twist to the op: Vladivostok won't be the end of the mission. His mission in Angola years earlier will come into play, giving him the opportunity to enact revenge on a vicious killer now stationed in Moscow. He then learns that for nearly two years the U.S. had a U.S. Air Force pilot classified as MIA, when, in fact, he's been held captive in Moscow. The Politburo ordered the KGB to deny having any knowledge of his capture or whereabouts. The connection between the missions has just been made.Stevens final order: withhold details from everyone, including all his men. He'll be on his own in Moscow -- and totally off the grid. Through the mounting chaos of an impending coup, with danger at nearly every turn, Stevens takes on his two final objectives: Rescue the pilot, then find a way to the proposed extraction site. Leningrad.

2nd Edition When scribe's apprentice Samuel discovers he is a Mage in a Kingdom where just being one is punishable by death and gets conscripted into a new army due to attack other kingdoms in an upcoming invasion. Samuel is faced with the biggest challenge in his life so far, Can he keep his life-threatening secret and will he be able to survive the invasion?

Sometimes the queerly shaped Venusian trees seemed to talk to him, but their voices were soft. They were loyal people. There were four men in the lifeboat that came down from the space-cruiser. Three of them were still in the uniform of the Galactic Guards. The fourth sat in the prow of the small craft looking down at their goal, hunched and silent, bundled up in a greatcoat against the coolness of space—a greatcoat which he would never need again after this morning. The brim of his hat was pulled down far over his forehead, and he studied the nearing shore through dark-lensed glasses. Bandages, as though for a broken jaw, covered most of the lower part of his face. He realized suddenly that the dark glasses, now that they had left the cruiser, were unnecessary. He slipped them off. After the cinematographic grays his eyes had seen through these lenses for so long, the brilliance of the color below him was almost like a blow. He blinked, and looked again

Russia was spiraling out of control. High-powered officials in Moscow want to keep it that way, at least until they've succeeded with the coup. CIA is closely monitoring the situation, knowing it could impact a proposed extraction of a defecting Russian from Vladivostok.Grant Stevens meets with CIA to discuss the seemingly straightforward mission. Once he accepts, he's blindsided by an unforeseen twist to the op: Vladivostok won't be the end of the mission. His mission in Angola years earlier will come into play, giving him the opportunity to enact revenge on a vicious killer now stationed in Moscow. He then learns that for nearly two years the U.S. had a U.S. Air Force pilot classified as MIA, when, in fact, he's been held captive in Moscow. The Politburo ordered the KGB to deny having any knowledge of his capture or whereabouts. The connection between the missions has just been made.Stevens receives his final order: withhold details from everyone, including all his men. He'll be on his own in Moscow -- and totally off the grid. Through the mounting chaos of an impending coup, with danger at nearly every turn, Stevens takes on his two final objectives: Rescue the pilot, then find a way to the proposed extraction site. Leningrad.

A yacht crew for John Minjae Park, Korean Mafia boss, attempted to deceive him, cheat him. He had them tortured, then killed. He seized a cocaine factory in Mexico. His profits soared. The trafficking of teenage girls added to his wealth. But his contributions to a pro-North Korean group in Seoul, South Korea, drew the attention of a North Korean, who was living in Seoul and was in charge of all those groups. Park was about to lose control of his entire empire.The DEA and FBI had been building a case against Park but they lacked definitive proof. Grant Stevens and his men are tasked with getting that proof, beginning with hijacking Park's multimillion dollar yacht. The list of surprises and unknowns continued to grow: murder, human trafficking, drug trafficking, and betrayal. Everything led to more questions, more dangers, testing the men of A.T. to their max.