Bøker av Patrick J O'Brian

After learning of a threat against his family, Boston cop Mike Brogan returns to his hometown of Chicago to work for a secretive agency promising to keep his wife and children safe. Using state-of-the-art technology, Brogan monitors activities between the local mafia, a biker gang from New Mexico, and the corrupt police family he left behind years earlier. A war is brewing between the factions, certain to end in bloodshed with no regard for collateral damage.Thrown into illicit activities with former military operatives, Brogan realizes he's out of his element. Unwilling to trust everything the agency's leadership tells him, the cop must remain hidden, and anonymous, to the outside world if he wants to see his family again. Until the threat is eliminated, Brogan cannot quit his new work, but with each new mission he risks being discovered, arrested, or killed.He soon realizes the group harbors bigger plans for him, and as the stakes grow, and good people are killed, Brogan is left with the impossible choice of returning to his family, or assuming a leadership role, to carry out worldwide good behind the scenes.

During his last day as a detective on the sheriff's department, Jeff Lancaster works the gruesome homicide of a town elder in Southern Indiana. Despite opening his own business, thanks to a lottery win, Lancaster agrees to consult with his former department to see the case through.It doesn't take long before another murder of a statesman occurs, and Lancaster's new theme park appears to have an eerie connection to the murders, and the town's past. Lancaster investigates the case through traditional means, learning that a murder transpired on his new property decades prior, providing valuable clues. With the help of a few allies he chips away at the past, beginning to realize he may not be dealing with a conventional killer.If he doesn't find a way to stop the murders, the people who shaped his town may all soon be lying six feet underground.

A serial killer remains free in Buffalo, New York after a task force comprised of state and local authorities fails to apprehend him and the wrong man is imprisoned. No one is more frustrated than Terry Levine, the state police investigator who headed up the team. Ordered to leave the case alone by his superiors, but unable to let a killer continue his murderous ways, Levine reaches out for some help to continue the investigation in a different kind of way.Meanwhile the man dubbed the Sin Killer by the media chooses to tackle new challenges, particularly when he crosses paths with a mafia henchman who has a murderous reputation of his own. The mafia man wants out of the business when his employers begin aligning themselves with the dangerous Russian mob that arrives with false promises. The hitman reluctantly agrees to carry out an important assignment that will forever link his association with the Russians one way or another. If he fails, he places his family at risk while his mafia family will feel the wrath of the Russians.While Levine begins gathering evidence through his sources that will take the Sin Killer off the streets for good, the serial killer draws closer to his new target, unaware of how many lives hang in the balance if he kills the hitman. Blood soon spills and Buffalo area police find themselves trying to conduct multiple homicide investigations, knowing they still have to arrest the true Sin Killer. Now running out of time, Levine knows he must stop the serial killer before the man's insatiable urge to kill adds to the death toll.

Paul Clouse believes his worries may finally be over. Though the past two years of his life have been horrific, he hopes things are going to change.His first wife was murdered, his son abducted, and his best friend killed by unknown assailants, but each time he has managed to survive.This Halloween the rules have changed, and the killer seems to stay one step ahead of everyone.Clouse finds himself losing more friends to the killer's grasp, and wonders exactly how he can stop a madman who seems to know more about the West Baden Springs Hotel and his life than anyone else around him.As the body count grows, the legend of Father Ernest returns to haunt Clouse one last time.His only hope is to sort through the past of the hotel and the people around him to discover the killer's identity before it's too late.A mysterious set of diaries left by the hotel's former occupants quickly become his only hope to save himself and everyone left around him.