Alan Melton: 4 books

It's April 15, 1986, and the US Air Force has departed Libyan airspace, leaving Moammar Gaddhafi very frightened and angry. He orders a sleeper team of agents in the U.S. to steal enough nuclear material to make a Libyan atomic bomb. FBI counter-terror expert Lincoln Rowe learns of the plot, but it's...

it's 1980 in el salvador, and cia officer peter ivorson is trying to penetrate both the communist insurgents and the right-wing death squads. both sides want him dead; his boss, the cia chief of station, wants to send him home, and his secretary wants him to forget his wife. ivorson is good, and he's lucky, but this time around, even ivorson may run out of luck.

cia officer peter ivorson is in deep trouble. transferred to Laos from South Vietnam after a barely-failed assassination attempt leaves his nerves in tatters, ivorson is looking forward to an uneventful tour of duty in sleepy, peaceful Vientiane. his new boss, however, needs a big win to further his...

Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize for best manuscript in American Literature With the publication of The Innocents Abroad (1869), Mark Twain embarked on a long and successful career as the 19th century's best-selling travel writer. Jeffrey Melton treats Twain's travel narratives in depth,...