Introduction
Thank you for your interest in my spy books. I've listed them below with a brief description of each action story. I thought it would be nice to give you an author's perspective on the content of the books rather than the traditional--back cover synopsis. These are in chronological order. You can click on the book cover and make a purchase. I hope you enjoy them. ~Thom
Intercept - Reimagined 2023
This one is awesome because it actually came true. Sort of. This action packed spy thriller is about three different groups wanting to get possession of Iran's nuclear guru, Mohsen Fallali. Two want him dead and Blake needs to "intercept' them so he can keep him alive for intel. I wrote this book in late 2013 and in late 2020 Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the REAL Iranian Nuclear guru was assassinated. I wonder if there was a real-life Blake trying to intercept that?
This takes place in Vienna, Austria. Mohsen is on his way back to Iran to head up Iran’s new nuclear weapons program after being off the grid for several years. Mossad, the Israeli intelligence arm, has to act fast and sends Solomon Zinn, an elite sniper, to take him out. However, the Ansar al-Sharia militant group wants Fallahi for their own purposes. A badly botched kidnapping attempt by Ansar al-Sharia disrupts Solomon's assassination attempt and gives the CIA a heads up. They send Blake over to find him and bring him to the U.S. The nice kicker I put in here is that Solomon, the Mossad sniper, is a former lover of Blake's. She's been ordered by her father, an Israeli intelligence head, to take him out if he gets in her way. Blake finds out and he must devise the ultimate deception to complete his mission. When the three competing forces descend on Vienna, all hell breaks out!
This one's got some pretty cool tech in it too. I introduce "Alice" to the series. He's "Blake's 'Q'" if you will. He is a young, super-smart guy on loan from DARPA. He supplies Blake with some pretty cool gadgets. I think of all my e-books, this is my favorite. If you subscribe to my email list, you'll learn how I came up with this gem.
The Auroral Contingency - OUT NOW!!!
You may wonder what happened to Red Storm if you're familiar with all of my books. Well, look no further because this is it. However, I've rewritten it and added more than twice the content, taking it from a novella to a full-blown spy thriller novel. Below is the action story, in my words.
Nikoli Petrovich is a Russian billionaire who built the world's largest High-Altitude Auroral Array Research Project (HAARP) in the middle of Siberia. He's discovered a way to alter the weather and create natural disasters. He's also figured out how to make hundreds of millions of dollars off each disaster he creates.
A young and inexperienced CIA Agent assigned to investigate has disappeared. Sofia Kuzma, a young woman working for Petrovich on his projects, discovered her boss's true intentions and stole files proving his guilt. Petrovich sends his goons to find her and eliminate the threat of her exposing him.
Blake travels to Moscow to meet Sofia, get her proof and protect her from the people tasked to kill her. His secondary mission is to find the missing agent and extract information about Petrovich from a device implanted under his skin.
Looking at the data, he discovers Petrovich has a master plan and his next attack could have devastating effects and destroy the U.S. economy. Together, with the help of Sofia, they infiltrate Petrovich's compound in Siberia. It's a race against the clock as they battle his henchmen and Blake faces the man himself. I don't want to give away any spoilers, but there are a few surprises in here as well. The timeline of this book is it happens after Intercept and before Spear Garden.
Spear Garden - Reimagined 2024
This is where it all began. My first spy thriller. No less than a thrill ride a minute, you travel with Blake from Cuba to Belarus and many places in between. It's about terrorism, communism, and defeating evil of all sorts. So here is Spear Garden in a nutshell.
A Cuban general turned arms dealer has put a bullseye on his back by selling weapons to a group responsible for the deaths of several U.S. Border Patrol. Blake has been sent to take him out, but to get close to the heavily guarded target, Blake has to charm the General's beautiful daughter, Adriana. Of course, things don't go smoothly and he barely makes it out of there with his life, but in the meantime, he uncovers a much deeper problem.
An Al Qaeda arms dealer from Afghanistan is moving an extremely deadly, super-weapon from Cuba to somewhere. After a disastrous raid on an Al Qaeda safe-house, Blake uncovers a deeper plot involving the Al Qaeda weapons dealer, a corrupt European prime minister, and a traitor inside his organization.
The #2 guy in Belarus, Oleg Shorets, is sick of their dictator, Vladimir Solonovich, and wants to bring the country back to its glory days. He devises a plan to make it look as if Solonovich is collateral damage in a terrorist attack. Unfortunately, making it seem believable will require a lot of other collateral damage. Meaning thousands will die.
To get the intel he needs, Blake has to go back to Cuba and ask for the help of the General's daughter. The woman he deceived and whose father he recently killed. This one has it all; endless action, sex, victories, and horrible losses. It has some unexpected outcomes and a nice twist at the end. I hope all that read it, enjoy it as much as I do.
Fun Fact: I know that several Hollywood directors have read this book.
THE BOOKS
Czechmate, Meltdown & The 4th Strike - Coming Back Soon
All of my novellas, except for Intercept are no longer available for purchase. However....fear not. I am merging the first three; Czechmate, Meltdown, and The 4th Strike into a new novel, Who is Blake MacKay. It tells the story of who Blake is, where he came from, how he was recruited, and these first three missions that made him who he is today.