Oscar Ortiz

NAME: Patrick CoonanCODENAME: DeltaOPERATION: RiversideANNOTATIONS: Patrick Coonan is sent to Barranquilla, Colombia, on the trail of a missing U.S. Navy submarine that his chief has promised Admiral Peter S. Seltzer will be located and brought back. But the Colonel is heavily relying on his man Delta to do the job... A gripping tale in which Pat is deprived of the company of his female partner Jessica, to be paired instead with a fiery freelance operative of Mexican ancestry whose temper is as explosive as the bombs she prepares. A SOBERING, FAST-PACED THRILLER IN THE STYLE OF IAN FLEMING'S 007 AND DONALD HAMILTON'S MATT HELM.

NAME: Patrick CoonanCODENAME: DeltaOPERATION: ParasolANNOTATIONS: Agent Delta and his partner Phi are sent to the island of Aruba for some major "house-cleaning". Rumors have it that the Ostrovsky Clan have invested millions on the sandy beaches of the Caribbean, precisely on Eagle Beach, where they have established a money-laundering network to filter the profits of their illegal operations from around the Globe ─ and those from the Latin-American drug cartels in the area and the Islamic terrorist groups A SOBERING, FAST-PACED THRILLER IN THE STYLE OF IAN FLEMING'S 007 AND DONALD HAMILTON'S MATT HELM.

NAME: Patrick CoonanCODENAME: DeltaOPERATION: Scorpion TailANNOTATIONS: Paired with the dazzling redhead Jessica Fitts, a.k.a. Agent Phi, Delta is sent to Colombia on a joint mission with a loose cannon from the OCF's Moscow Bureau. Apparently, Coonan's orders are to eliminate a "ghost from the past" and neutralize the threat said "ghost" poses by opening a Weapons of Mass Destruction bazaar in the jungles of South America, with an eye to supplying Communist guerrillas in Colombia and a certain Muslim terror group preparing to launch its own brand of Jihad against Uncle Sam. But in a murky world, where nothing is what it seems, Agent Delta soon will learn that sometimes one must pact with the devil to avoid a greater evil.A SOBERING, FAST-PACED THRILLER IN THE STYLE OF IAN FLEMING'S 007 AND DONALD HAMILTON'S MATT HELM.

NAME: Patrick CoonanCODENAME: DeltaOPERATION: High KeysANNOTATIONS: A few years have elapsed since the fall of the Berlin Wall and, with the collapse of the Iron Curtain, Washington decides to disband the Quadrille. But there are rumors that a former Russian operative of the Soviet GRU is back in action working with the Russian Mafia, and someone in Capitol Hill gives orders to Col. Berkowitz to infiltrate America's East Coast underworld with one of his former trouble-shooters from the Cold War era, with his eyes and ears wide open. The problem is that the right man for the job is no longer around. His name is Patrick Coonan; his codename: Delta.A SOBERING, FAST-PACED THRILLER IN THE STYLE OF IAN FLEMING'S 007 AND DONALD HAMILTON'S MATT HELM.

NAME: Patrick CoonanCODENAME: DeltaOPERATION: Red MushroomANNOTATIONS: A breakdown in the strategic balance during the last decade of the Cold War prompts the Kremlin into launching an elaborate plan to insert a "dirty bomb" in the island of Manhattan, and blow it off the face of the Earth in in the event of nuclear war. Marlon Berkowitz, a retired special forces colonel, is selected by the U.S. State Department of Defense to shape and lead The Quadrille, a shadow-network of expendable undercover operatives tasked with the elimination of all Soviet nuclear saboteurs operating on U.S. soil. The colonel's first recruit is a man he is most familiar with; Sgt Major Patrick Coonan, a young U.S. Ranger sniper who no many kill missions he is given, always comes back for more.A SOBERING FAST-PACED THRILLER IN THE STYLE OF IAN FLEMING'S 007, AND DONALD HAMILTON'S MATT HELM.

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Life sciences; Agriculture; Nutrition; Plant breeding; Food-Biotechnology; Agricultural economics This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

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