Take What You Want and Pay For It
The hackers at Erebus steal oligarch financial secrets for the CIA, then begin stealing billions in cash for themselves. But they lose control of the events they’ve set in motion: Their money launderer double-crosses them, their CIA contact has his own agenda, the Russians are retaliating, and one of them is murdered.
Drake, a second generation spy, hungers to reignite his faltering undercover MI6 career as he pursues the missing money. When his affair with the daughter of the Russian framed for the thefts fizzles out, his consolation is finally locating Erebus. However, having injected himself into Erebus’ chaos, with fatal consequences for those around him, Drake finds that while dreams can come true, they don’t come free, and they can end.
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Confirmation Bias
What happens to the truth when the goals of institutions and the motives of those who run them diverge?
Twin passenger jet attacks in the Middle East have Washington pundits proclaiming a new era of airliner terrorism. West Point professor Anthony Rogers disagrees. He teaches about thinking biases, and believes terrorism proponents selectively pick evidence confirming their public conclusions.Joining a Pentagon investigation, Rogers learns the perpetrators seized control of autopilots to steer the planes into their targets, using an anti-terrorism technology developed and abandoned by the CIA–transforming his quest to vindicate a theory into a mission to discover America’s involvement.
Rogers’ findings, and those of parallel FBI counter-intelligence and financial probes, identify an international cabal including a mid-level CIA analyst and a politically connected industrialist, but Rogers is no match for Washington insiders who refuse to be convinced. He is on the verge of quitting when a new threat emerges and he realizes that for his own protection he must expose the hidden schemers who are protecting the attackers for reasons of their own.
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