Bøker av Kathryn Judson

When MI5 1/2 pushed Richard Hugh (aka Triple-O Five) into early retirement, he was expected to go from saving the world to merely living in it. He's finding that he really isn't prepared to do that. Besides, even in retirement a man can stumble across people who are in need of rescue, and surely in cases like that he should step up and help. If he can.

Eleven-year-old Shayna Miller lives in the Subterran world where people hide from the totalitarian government that rules topside. But her dad keeps moving their family from place to place, almost as if he's running from something in Subterra itself. But what? This book is set in the same time and region as The Birdwatcher, with which it shares a few characters. Other books in The Smolder series - but set in different locations with different characters - are The Smolder, The Hidden, and Notes From Hiding. This book was originally published in 2013. This is the 2015 slightly revised edition.

Tomas is living in a time of turmoil but, wrapped up in his government job, he doesn't know it - until war breaks out, and he suddenly finds himself caught between the totalitarian government he's loyally served his entire life, and some fascinating rebels he never dreamed existed. He doesn't trust either side, and it appears that people on both sides are all too happy to return the favor. Meanwhile, he's surrounded by too many available women, but in the Subterran world, the rule is 'hands off the women' except for a man with his wife. But it's harder than he could have imagined to find a wife. And then there's the little problem of having somehow landed among conscientious objectors. During wartime. So, does he stick with his new and unpopular friends, or escape to join the rebel fighters, or try to go back to the only world he knew before this whole mess started? And did we mention the problem of too many women who must be kept at arm's length for now? And how hard it is to find a wife? Other books in this series set in the future are The Smolder, The Birdwatcher, The Unexpecteds, The Hidden, and Notes From Hiding. (Notes From Hiding is also available as a series of Kindle Short Reads: Dear Invader, Dear Citizen, Dear Neighbor, To Whom It May Concern, and Isannah Here.)

Two girls adopt a stray dog, only to find out that it likes to travel through time, and take children along. It doesn't help matters that Kisa's parents and Morgan's mom don't get along, or that Morgan's mom hates dogs, or that neither girl knows much about history - at least not yet.

It wasn't supposed to happen. Retirement just wasn't supposed to happen. Richard Hugh, aka Triple-O Five, had more or less planned on dying in the line of duty. But bureaucrats and life intervened. Now Richard must face enemies without the help of the agency. Worse yet, now he must face his past. Are we having fun yet?Earlier books in this series are Not Exactly Dead, Not Exactly Innocent, and Not Exactly Allies. The next book in the series is Not Quite Home.

Verity, Pash, and Jeorj are among the inmates of a remote prison camp where misfits with promising genetic characteristics are held in reserve, away from a Society that the government doesn't want contaminated either with persons not meeting breed standards, or with unsanctioned thought - but on hand should scientists want to add some new blood to their human breeding programs. Until now, life has been one of general indignities and close scrutiny, but not quite close enough to keep them from secretly keeping several people hidden and alive despite government orders that they should be killed. But, thanks to some officials who want to try a radical new social experiment, everything is just about to change.

The MI5 1/2 adventures start here, in London, in the wee hours, in thickish fog, back in the days when mobile phones were becoming common enough, but a phone with a video display was still something that could draw more attention than a spy might want to have from the general public - not that either the leading man or the leading lady of this story much wanted a videophone, both of them being technophobes, not to mention not being fond of being monitored too closely by headquarters. Richard Hugh, aka Triple-O Five of the unsung British agency nicknamed MI5 1/2, is happily making life miserable for bad guys and, when he has time, cultivating a reputation as a lady's man. But then the Americans get the notion that he's been marked for death by a notorious spy killer who has been bumping off spies belonging to an odd mix of nations. This would almost be business as usual, except that the Americans send Emma Chapman over to keep an eye on Hugh, in the hopes of catching the assassin (preferably before he bumps off 0005). Chapman is short, plain, and respectable, and couldn't care less that Hugh is suave and handsome. This is not at all the sort of female he's used to working with. Before long, the Hugh-as-rat-bait hunt for Mighty Planetary Master involves the French, represented most notably by the fearless and philosophical Leandre Durand, who doesn't mind in the least keeping his own counsel. Meanwhile, gangster Frank Hoddel would like Triple-O Five either kidnapped or dead. Are we having fun yet? First book in a series. The next book is Not Exactly Innocent, followed by Not Exactly Allies, Decidedly Not Official, and Not Quite Home. This revised edition matches the ebook edition.

Triple-O Five and his bride are pulled back into action sooner than planned, when a mad Viking wannabe hires ethically-challenged bioweapons experts and a Russian missile scientist who has gone rogue, in a bid to take over as much of the world as possible. It doesn't make it easier when one of the scientists is Durand's beloved uncle. That the old man is more naive than evil is rather beside the point, since the men he's serving intend to use his genius for wicked gain, and don't much care how many corpses they leave strewn in their path. It also doesn't help that much of the investigation must take place in the USA, whether the feds like it or not. Which they don't.This is the 2014 revised edition. Other books in this series are Not Exactly Dead, Not Exactly Allies, Decidedly Not Official, and Not Quite Home.

Fifteen-year-old Isannah has lived her entire life inside an old prison camp out in the wilderness, with no contact with the outside world. On the upside, Genesee Settlement is a rather nice community, and large enough to have several young men her age as prospective husbands. Better yet, all but one of them seems like someone worth marrying. So, her life looks like it will be fairly smooth and as pleasant as a life of exile could hope to be.But then the ongoing war that sent her parents into isolation comes closer and closer, and Isannah is face to face with possibly losing all she holds dear. She begins a journal addressed to the outside world, in part to let them know what would be lost if in fact someone did wind up wiping out her community.Soon after, the outside world comes crashing into her peaceful life, for better and for worse. For the next three years, Isannah writes to whoever will listen, sharing her hopes, fears, and her zest for life in a world that is set on stamping out freedom and faith, neither of which she is prepared to give up. This book was previously published as a series of ebook shorts: Dear Invader, Dear Citizen, Dear Neighbor, To Whom It May Concern, and Isannah Here.

Once again, Triple-O Five and company are finding that the worst enemies a spy can have might be in his own government, even his own agency. His best help, on the other hand, might come from feral street boys in Paris, football players, and a doctor kicked out of medical practice for offending the PC police. Meanwhile, Durand must contend with the hazards of fatherhood, not least of which is a beautiful daughter who is drawing suitors left and right, including one of his young colleagues, who, alas, is a sniper. Not to mention not Catholic. Other than that, he seems to be a nice kid. For a daughter thief. This is the 2014 revised edition. Other books in this series are Not Exactly Dead, Not Exactly Innocent, Decidedly Not Official, and Not Quite Home.