Danger #8

A spy's months-long operation unravels when a hijacked transport carrying an ambassador crashes in the Italian Alps—far from where Duke Douglas expected it to land. Racing to the crash site, Douglas discovers that Comrade Ruloff and his operatives survived, and they're holding him at gunpoint with a sinister plan: he must fly them to safety across the Brenner Pass, or face execution. With Italian patrols closing in and the fate of stolen intelligence hanging in the balance, Douglas must outthink his captors in a high-stakes game where one wrong move means death.

Army intelligence officer Paul Paxton arrives in Paris to investigate pickpocketing reports from Rue Pigalle, but his routine stakeout spirals into something far deadlier when he stumbles onto an espionage operation run by Russian agents. Caught between enemy operatives, Allied soldiers with hidden motives, and a mysterious woman who's not quite what she seems, Paxton has to navigate a dangerous cellar confrontation and uncover who's really pulling the strings in this shadowy corner of Paris.

A spy infiltrates the Kremlin by assuming multiple identities, each requiring him to eliminate the person whose papers he steals—all to reach the trial of Greta Borg and extract her from Soviet custody. With each deadly step through Moscow's corridors, he poses as Wilhelm Von Eckler, then Ivan Motnovich, then Joseph Soboloff, racing against discovery to complete a mission that hinges on nerve, forged documents, and a willingness to do whatever it takes. Can he get them both out alive, or will the machinery of the state close in first?

Two whaling captains—Jan Jansen and Nils Thornberg—have been friendly rivals for years in the Pacific, until Nan Flanders arrives and turns their competition deadly. When Nan sets them a contest to prove who deserves her hand by bringing in the most whale tonnage in a month, the former war buddies descend into a bitter, savage struggle at sea that leaves them broken and burned. By the time they realize what they've thrown away, it's far too late.