"You do not have a future if you do not stay alive now."It is the early 90s and Frank Cardova, his wife Maryann and his daughter Theresa, have become targets of an associate of the vory, Russian thieves under the code working for a foreign intelligence operative. They turn for help to Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by western governments for black operations conducted without fingerprints.The team, or rather its leader's wife Alex h...

He enjoyed the running, but not the fear.There is nothing fluffy about Fluffy. He is a smooth coated rat terrier with three legs and a no nonsense attitude toward his two goals: protecting Christine Barton, his Abenaki keeper of the supper dish, and food—not always in that order. He was named ironically but is a strait forward as any ten-pound apex predator can be. Fluffy has no sense of irony.A retired cop turned private eye, Christine is moving to Bangor,...

"I’ve never known Mack to make a threat he was not prepared to carry out,” I said carefully. “He doesn’t bluff."Frank Cardova provides logistic support for a highly effective team of deadly operatives known as Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by Western governments for black operations conducted without fingerprints. Mack, the team’s knife-wielding leader, and his son Charlie arrive on Frank’s doorstep bringing chaos, terror, and violence wit...

"I’ve never known Mack to make a threat he was not prepared to carry out,” I said carefully. “He doesn’t bluff."Frank Cardova provides logistic support for a highly effective team of deadly operatives known as Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by Western governments for black operations conducted without fingerprints. Mack, the team’s knife-wielding leader, and his son Charlie arrive on Frank’s doorstep bringing chaos, terror, and violence with them.Th...

After investigation came retribution, vindictive and indiscriminate.It’s the early 1980s and the height of the Cold War when Steve Donovan, despite a checkered past, troubled marriage, and no prospects, lands a job at the very bottom of the intelligence world. He finds a kind of happiness being involved with shady people in unsavory activities until he is suddenly promoted over the heads of fifty-nine colleagues by his Section chief, who is himself being promoted.Steve’s boss...

I wondered what crime a professional killer could commit that his closest friends would find unforgivable.It is the mid-1980s and Barbara Kemp shatters another glass ceiling as she becomes the US babysitter for Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by Western governments for black operations conducted without fingerprints. She arrives in-country for her first assignment in support of an allied government.An American officer is being used as bait to lure a ...