Jacques Evans: 13 books

In 1918 a sergeant saves the life of a pilot who crashes in no-man's-land. After the war the two ex-soldiers construct a bootlegging empire. To account for their illegal income, they finance two engineers who claim to have discovered diamonds in British Guiana. Certain the venture will fail, they...

In 1942, two OSS officers are tasked with kidnapping a German officer from an internment camp in a neutral country. Their assignment is to kidnap the physicist—they are authorized to execute him if the kidnapping attempt fails. The officer is one of Germany`s leading physicists who Army Intelligence...

In 1944, over a farmer's field an RAF single-engine Lysander waits for the prearranged signal to land. A flashlight beams the signal skyward and the pilot lands on a mission to support an OSS team in occupied France. Fifteen minutes after landing the pilot, Flight Lieutenant Fraser, is dead. Reported...

In the last days of World War II, an American bomber sinks a German submarine in the West Indies. The crew manages to board life rafts but a squall approaches and the weather turns deadly. Weeks later, off the Florida coast, a fishing boat recovers a life raft with two dead men aboard. One of the...

In 1942 the Blue Goose, a B-24 bomber, disappeared during a routine test flight from an airbase in Florida. After an intensive search, no trace of the plane or crew was ever found. Thirty years later, the copilot's remains were discovered on a remote beach in northern Brazil. Through happenstance...

In 1974 at a Nebraska post office, Sam Gibbons and Roscoe Barnes are removing the old post office boxes and replacing them with new ones. Both men are WW2 veterans who teamed up as general contractors. When the old post office boxes are removed, a letter hidden between warped boards falls to the floor. The...

There was no name on the C-46 but the ground and flight crews who flew the Hump called her the Betty G. The airplane was identified by a painting of a scantily clad female on the left side of the nose that resembled Betty Grable. In 1944, the Betty G encountered severe turbulence and crashed...

During the first Gulf War an Iraqi army professional soldier, Captain Ahmed Al-Zawiri, incurs a lifetime hatred for the United States. In possession of a stolen, silencer equipped pistol, issued to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (SOCOM), he leaves Iraq and begins a career as a hit man for...

Two Americans, Jimmy Carson and Joe Lyons, meet while flying for the Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War. After the Loyalist surrender, they fly freight for a Canadian company based in Gibraltar. In 1939, Carson and Lyons offer their services to the Finnish government and fly French built fighters...

In 1949 after returning to the States, a Berlin Airlift crew crashes in an unexplored area of South America. Only two of the five-man crew survive. The information is closely held—only President Truman and a select few know the cause of the crash. On national security grounds, the information is...

A former air force pilot, a retired marine and a disabled ex-army doctor team up to uncover a scam artist—the current occupant of the White House. When the miscreant behind the greatest Ponzi scheme in history was exposed, Bernie Madoff's name was plastered on the front page of every newspaper in...

A Russian paratroop commander, Colonel Yuri Vitrenko, attempts to terrorize the United States into withdrawing its troops from Europe so Russia can have a free hand in bringing the break-away republics back into the fold. Vitrenko is part of a clique that includes Colonel General Alexi Kuchma. The...

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...