Stephen Coonts

"The Chinese dragon is flexing its muscles. As its military begins to prey on neighbors in the South China Sea, attacking fishing vessels and scheming to seize natural resources, the US goes on high alert. But a far more ominous danger lurks closer to home: a Chinese sleeper cell has planted a nuclear weapon in the harbor at Norfolk, Virginia, the biggest naval base on the planet. The target: a secret rendezvous of the Atlantic Fleet aircraft...

"Aliens are coming! A year after young engineering student Rip Cantrell discovered the first flying saucer buried deep in the sands of the Sahara, another saucer is brought up from the bottom of the Atlantic. The recovery is funded by a pharmaceutical executive who believes that the saucer holds the key to an anti-aging drug formula that space travelers would need to voyage between galaxies. But one of his technicians, Adam Solo, an alien marooned...

When the Soviet Union collapses, thousands of nuclear warheads go unaccounted for, and it'll take someone of Jake Grafton's talents to make sure they don't end up in the wrong hands. Promoted to deputy director of a new U.S. intelligence agency, the stakes of Jake Grafton's commission are higher than ever before. With the USSR on the brink of dissolution, a vast nuclear arsenal is suddenly ripe for the taking by mercenaries, rogue nations, and insane...

A techno-thriller in which Japan invades Russia for its oil. The American government sends a squadron of aircraft to help Russia and there are dog fights between American F-22s and Japanese Zero fighters.

Lieutenant Jake Grafton, the hero of Flight of the Intruder, turns teacher, training Marine aviators on the aircraft carrier, Columbia, and finding them a little too arrogant for his liking. The highlight of the novel comes when Grafton is shot down and captured by pirates.

A vacation cruise to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden turns into a nightmare when the ship is attacked and captured by a band of Somali pirates. A rescue mission ends in failure, and the decks are covered in blood. Unless the pirates are paid a $200 million mansion, they threaten to execute all their hostages. Al Qaeda information indicates a far more dangerous conspiracy is afoot. Grafton and Carmellini, along with CIA and Navy SEAL operatives, mount...

The death of a French intelligence agent on an Air France flight to Amman, Jordan, is the trigger that launches Tommy Carmellini's latest adventure. Within the European Union, the national espionage agencies are fiercely competing for supremacy against each other--and the CIA. When the Americans discover that the director of the French agency has secret investments in the Bank of Palestine, alarm bells go off. To investigate, the Americans bring Jake...

When the U.S.S. America, the latest and most intricate nuclear submarine, is stolen, Admiral Jake Grafton investigates and soon learns that whoever is masterminding this operation means business when missiles are launched.

Novel of suspense and drama.

A U.S. aircraft carrier launches a strike against Cuba after spies discover missiles with bacteriological warheads pointed at the U.S. The action comes amid a power struggle on the island in anticipation of Fidel Castro's imminent death.