Drew Howell: 4 books

The video showed a man grinning into the camera, videochatting. Offscreen, there was a long boom and then the sound of gunfire. He paused, listening. The door slammed open and a bloodstained man staggered in. "What's happening?" the first man shouted. "They blew a hole in the courtyard wall."...

In Afghanistan, a diplomatic protection mission goes horribly wrong, catapulting an aspiring politician to the heights of power and leaving a skilled intelligence operative under federal indictment. Years later, veteran police officer Bobby Ryan stumbles across a strange list linking ten jobs...

As an ending, it's familiar: A man with no way out fakes his death and sails off into a sunset of palm trees and fuzzy drinks But what happens when that's your beginning? For a burned spy named Gault, a pile of money and a new face don't hide the fact that his second life is pretty empty....

When a crafty old spymaster suspects all is not well in his kingdom, he contacts an old friend. But this is no social call. Gault owes him, and the favor is come due. What starts as a routine job babysitting a minor bureaucrat at a Moscow conference quickly becomes much more, a complex scheme...