Kirjahaku

A 1967 protest march opposing the Vietnam War succeeds in penetrating the Pentagon. Student radicals are raising hell on college campuses across the country. At the University of Michigan, a young CIA agent assigned to infiltrate student protest organizations meets an anti-war activist. Inexplicably--and complicating everything they stand for--they fall in love.From the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the accompanying riots, to the Weathermen's "Days of Rage," the police killing of a Black Panther leader, and an explosion in a bomb factory in Greenwich Village, Rebellion, Love, Betrayal chronicles the explosive story of political dissidents and those opposed to them as they decide how much violence they are willing to use...or how much is politically wise. The dissidents soon realize that they are no longer talking about simply marching, carrying placards, making speeches, and staging strikes. They see themselves as prepared to inflict pain for their cause.

It's 1964, and a body with a bullet hole in the forehead is found floating in the Raquette River, miles from the nearest town. Upstream, hidden at a titanium mine, a clandestine lab works on the design for a new fighter plane -- a plane Moscow-based CIA assets soon discover the Soviets have intel on. Was the killing connected to the stolen data? Is there a spy in the Adirondacks?That's what Air Force officer turned undercover CIA agent Joe Boudreau is sent to investigate, alongside his girlfriend, a local teacher. Then a professional assassin appears on the scene. He's English, was trained by the British for "special operations" during WWII, and is now working for the Soviets. The assassin, it turns out, does his work with a light touch and a taste for irony. Why is he there? Who was the man found in the river? Who killed him?

Ev Hastings might be a retired British Army officer. Or he might be a KGB agent. Or maybe neither. In any case, he's a professional assassin. Note the "professional." He's in Saranac Lake because someone in the U.S. government has, apparently, hired him to deal with problems at an Army base near the Canadian border. A secret contingency plan for the defense of missile installations in Alaska has gone to Moscow. There's a murder at the base, then another, then a car goes off a pier with a body in it. All the victims were training for cold-weather combat. The KGB sends agents to Saranac. Are all these things connected?

Suspicion Hardens is two stories from the mind of Jack Heinz.Missing in St. LouisMan Ray was seventy-five years old when he was persuaded to leave Paris to be honored at the White House for his avant garde photography, sculpture, and paintings, most of which he had made in the 1920s and 1930s.After the White House, he goes to St. Louis to present lectures and make an appearance at an art gallery. The owner of the gallery, however, is missing. Also missing are money, an emerald ring that might or might not have gone with the gallery owner, and a young Black man. St. Louis seems to specialize in disappearance.A skilled, well-tailored detective, Alfonso Garavelli, investigates.He wonders why these disappearances coincide with Man Ray's arrival. Has a crime been committed? Is Ray involved? Garavelli questions him. Though initially skeptical of one another, the two men develop something like mutual respect. But racial, political, and cultural imperatives of the time and place intervene and complicate matters. Ray looks for answers while dealing with the difficulty of maintaining a career in the arts, aging, and the role of fate. The story ends in London four years later, in a small restaurant, and then in Paris, in another restaurant.The Benevolence of Old MenWhat do old spies do when they retire? There is, of course, no lack of things for them to poke their noses into, but then what do they do with the secrets they discover?A retired CIA spymaster and a retired general who worked in Army intelligence get more than they bargained for. They investigate the death of the general's son-in-law, a death the medical examiner attributed to an accidental fall down a short flight of stairs. The retired spies think he was murdered. The son-in-law is already dead when the story starts, but it turns out that he had been engaged in some espionage of his own.