David Hagberg, Author Tor Books $21.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-85496-6
The topical premise of this fast-paced but ultimately flat thriller is that Saddam Hussein has cut a deal with Germany to train Iraqis in nuclear technology. Recognizing the problematic nature of the project, the German government will do anything...
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David Hagberg. Forge, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8491-1
Edgar-finalist Hagberg’s action-packed 23rd Kirk McGarvey thriller (after Flash Points) finds McGarvey, a former CIA director and now a “special circumstances troubleshooter” for the agency, and his fiancée, Pete Boylan, a super tough CIA agent in...
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David Hagberg. Forge, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8488-1
Early in Edgar-finalist Hagberg’s well-plotted, lightning-quick 22nd novel featuring superspy Kirk McGarvey (after 2017’s Tower Down), McGarvey, who’s been teaching philosophy at a “semi-private ultra-liberal and prestigious small college” in...
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David Hagberg. Forge, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7871-2
Edgar-finalist Hagberg’s violent, fast-moving 21st Kirk McGarvey thriller (after 2016’s End Game) pits the superspy extraordinaire and his core team, badass agent Pete Boylan (his girlfriend) and CIA computer wizard Otto Rencke, against ruthless...
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David Hagberg. Forge, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3462-6
At the start of Edgar-finalist Hagberg's gripping 20th Kirk McGarvey novel (after The Fourth Horseman), Walt Wager, a mid-level operational planner, is working alone late one night at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., when he's attacked by a...
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David Hagberg. Forge, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3463-3
In Hagberg’s implausible 18th thriller featuring former CIA director Kirk McGarvey (after 2015’s Retribution), David Haaris, the hate-filled head of the CIA’s Pakistan desk, who was mocked as a schoolboy in England as a “rag head,” plans “to strike...
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David Hagberg. Forge, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2022-3
Hagberg's fast-paced 17th Kirk McGarvey thriller (after 2012's Castro's Daughter) finds McGarvey, a former CIA director and longtime field operative, trying to find normalcy in his new, quieter life as a philosophy professor at the University of...
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David Hagberg. Forge, $24.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2410-8
In 2010's The Cabal, former CIA director Kirk McGarvey suffered the loss of his immediate family. His CIA agent son-in-law, Todd, was murdered, then McGarvey's wife and daughter were killed by an IED that exploded at Todd's Arlington Cemetery...
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David Hagberg, Author Forge $25.95 (405p) ISBN 978-0-312-86128-5
Continuing the popular thriller series featuring Kirk McGarvey, CIA deputy director of operations, Hagberg (White House) revisits the threat of international nuclear terrorism. Allen Trumble, CIA chief of station in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has a brief,
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David Hagberg, Author Forge $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-85028-9
Hagberg continues to give fans of old-fashioned melodramatic adventure good value in his sixth book about CIA renegade Kirk McGarvey (following High Flight). Despite occasional bursts of ridiculous dialogue ("" `You magnificent fool,' Jacqueline...
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David Hagberg, Author Forge $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86682-2
A nuclear showdown in the Far East becomes the backdrop for Hagberg's latest installment in the Kirk McGarvey series, which begins when the CIA operative is nearly wiped out by a terrorist bomb while dining in a Georgetown restaurant. The bomb does...
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David Hagberg, Author Forge $24.95 (639p) ISBN 978-0-312-85092-0
Through 22 novels, Hagberg (Desert Fire) has become known as a suspense writer who delivers. This massive near-future thriller will only enhance his reputation. It is 1997, and a carefully designed plot by a cabal of Japanese business and political...
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David Hagberg, Author . Forge $24.95 (301p) ISBN 978-0-312-86129-2
This latest thriller by David Hagberg (aka Sean Flannery) is the fourth in the Bill Lane series. This time, intrepid secret agent man William Lane (just think "Rocky the Flying Squirrel") and his ever lovely wife and partner, Frances Shipley
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David Hagberg, Author Tor Books $19.95 (375p) ISBN 978-0-312-85255-9
The author of Crossfire sets his fast-paced new thriller in motion with an exciting scenario: an embittered Hiroshima survivor's attempt to explode nuclear devices in San Francisco and Los Angeles on the anniversaries of the two atomic bomb attacks...
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David Hagberg, Author Tor Books $21.95 (409p) ISBN 978-0-312-85162-0
The Paris CIA station is bombed just as the U.S. returns long-frozen bank assets to Iran--in the form of 125 tons of gold. A coincidence? Not when the evidence points to ex-CIA agent Kirk McGarvey. Not when a KGB starved for funds under Gorbachev...
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David Hagberg, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (474p) ISBN 978-0-312-93212-1
In this follow-up to Without Honor, Hagberg reintroduces CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey to unravel a complex puzzle that begins with Soviet agents infiltrating a nuclear center in Israel and hijacking a Pershing missile in Germany. KGB chief Valentin...
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David Hagberg, Forge, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2020-9
Hagberg's hard-hitting 14th Kirk McGarvey thriller picks up several plot threads from The Expediter, the previous book featuring the former CIA director. When Kirk's son-in-law, CIA agent Todd Van Buren, meets his college friend and Washington Post...
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David Hagberg, Author . Forge $24.95 (333p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1795-7
Australian Yvonne Bornstein—who was abducted along with her husband by Chechen terrorists in Russia in 1992 and wrote a memoir of her experience, Eleven Days of Hell
—serves as the model for Patti Monroe, the heroine of this run-of-the-mi
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David Hagberg, Author . Forge $24.95 (351p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1111-5
When two people in North Korean police uniform gun down Gen. Ho Chang Li, an important Chinese intelligence official, in Pyongyang, the prospect of nuclear war between China and North Korea becomes all too real in this routine political thriller...
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David Hagberg, Author . Forge $24.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0834-4
In Hagberg’s solid 10th thriller to feature ex-CIA director Kirk McGarvey (after Allah’s Scorpion
), McGarvey leaves retirement to look into the shooting death of a CIA operative in Chihuahua, Mexico. At the center of the mystery is...
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David Hagberg, Author . Forge $24.95 (444p) ISBN 978-0-765-30623-4
At the vivid start of Hagberg's latest thriller to feature former CIA director Kirk McGarvey, al-Qaeda terrorists attack Camp Echo—the part of the U.S. base at Guantánamo where detainees deemed to be harmless are held while their...
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David Hagberg, Author . Forge $25.95 (412p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0622-7
After CIA director Kirk McGarvey and his wife, Katy, barely survive a spectacularly ruthless terrorist attack on an Alaskan cruise ship, McGarvey (last seen in last year's By Dawn's Early Light
) vows to track down and kill the terrorist...
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David Hagberg, Author . Forge $25.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0454-4
Hagberg takes a hiatus from the hair-raising adventures of CIA agent Kirk McGarvey (The Kill Zone; Joshua's Hammer; etc.) to offer this gripping, Clancyesque cat-and-mouse sea chase featuring a state-of-the-art U.S. nuclear submarine and an...
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David Hagberg, Author . Forge $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-87334-9
Hagberg (Eden's Gate) resumes his CIA thriller series featuring veteran agent Kirk McGarvey with this rousing entry. Happily reunited with his wife after a separation, 50-year-old McGarvey is ready for the slow lane after a quarter-century of...
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David Hagberg, Author, Boris Gindin, Author . Forge $25.95 (381p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1350-8
Prolific thriller writer Hagberg (Dance with the Dragon
) and former Soviet naval officer Gindin recount the 1975 mutiny aboard the FFG Storozhevoy
, a Russian antisubmarine warfare ship, which inspired Tom Clancy’s international bestseller....
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Byron L. Dorgan and David Hagberg. Forge, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2737-6
Former U.S. senator Dorgan (Take This Job and Ship It: How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America), assisted by bestseller Hagberg (Abyss), makes good use of his energy affairs expertise in this exciting eco thriller. A...
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Byron L. Dorgan and David Hagberg. Forge, $25.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-765-32738-3
The nation’s energy grid remains a terrorist target in Dorgan and Hagberg’s action-packed follow-up to 2012’s Blowout. Several computer probes aimed at our electrical power system indicate that a major strike is on the way. The Iranian and...
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David Hagberg. Forge, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3733-7
A prequel, Hagberg’s exciting 24th Kirk McGarvey thriller (after 2018’s Face Off) chronicles the CIA operative’s first sanctioned assassination “and how it deeply affected the rest of his life—and ultimately, the price just about everyone close to...
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David Hagberg. Forge, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9420-0
In Edgar finalist Hagberg’s uneven 25th Kirk McGarvey thriller (after 2019’s First Kill), CIA black ops officer McGarvey looks into the death of his parents in a car crash 28 years earlier. Flashbacks show his parents working at New Mexico’s Los...
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David Hagberg. Forge, $27.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9423-1
Edgar finalist Hagberg’s winning 26th Kirk McGarvey novel (after 2020’s McGarvey) pits the ex-CIA agent against billionaire Thomas Hammond, who lost a bitcoin deal to McGarvey in an earlier book. This adds an element of revenge to Hammond’s mission...
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David Hagberg. Forge, $26.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9426-2
In Edgar finalist Hagberg’s subpar 27th Kirk McGarvey thriller (after 2021’s Gambit), Kirk’s best friend, Otto Renke, the CIA’s chief of electronic surveillance, is arrested on charges of treason. Kirk, a former CIA director who now works as a...
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David Hagberg and Lawrence Light. Forge, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-24989-0
This financial thriller from bestseller Hagberg (the Kirk McGarvey series) and financial journalist Light, a sometimes uneasy mix of Wall Street business and hard core action, presents a frightening doomsday scenario. Cassy Levin works in...
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