Toward Night's End

Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, U.S. Navy SEALs finally brought a fitting end to Osama bin Laden's reign of terror.

Now, in retaliation for Bin Laden's death, sleeper cells are going live and attacking American citizens on their own soil. With more attacks likely, one has to ask, how did the terrorists get here? And how can they operate so effortlessly behind the scenes?

The answer is simple. They teamed up with a powerful Mexican drug cartel that smuggled them over the border - after they had been educated in the Mexican culture and learned to speak fluent Spanish - making it easier for them to blend in with the more than 37 million Latinos in America.

After ascertaining that the leader of these terrorist cells is based in Mexico, M.H. Sargent's MP-5 CIA team races to cut off the head of these terrorist cells before they can attack the U.S. again.

But this posting will challenge them like no other, as they find themselves caught in the crosshairs between two rival and vicious Mexican cartels.

This is the fifth novel in M.H. Sargent's popular MP-5 CIA series.

A very wealthy Yemen businessman is in a bind: his adult son has been arrested in Saudi Arabia for drug trafficking - an offense that could lead to a life sentence.

A Yemeni terrorist has a bold plan that will make 9/11 look like child's play, killing thousands of Americans tourists in one fell swoop. But he has a problem. The plan costs money. A lot of money. And his financier has just been arrested.

M.H. Sargent's MP-5 CIA team wants to know what that plan is, and stop it. So, they have a simple solution: blackmail the businessman. If he poses as a jihadist sympathizer willing to fund the terrorist, thereby giving the CIA team details of the terror plot, his son receives a get-out-of-jail free card.

Of course, you know what happens with the best laid plans...

This is the fourth novel in M.H. Sargent's popular MP-5 CIA series.
 

“Matching up a terrorist with a shoulder-fired missile, that’s our worst nightmare,” stated Senator Barbara Boxer, D-California, in September, 2011.

A member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Boxer made the comment to ABC News after the network disclosed that “an estimated 20,000 man-portable surface-to-air missiles” were missing from Libyan Army weapon warehouses.

Fact: Thousands of surface-to-air missiles are still missing today.

Fact: According to the FAA, an estimated 5,000 airplanes are in the skies over the United States at any given moment. 

M.H. Sargent has combined these facts into a taut, new thriller. The story unfolds at breakneck speed as terrorists take down a commercial flight from Vancouver, B.C. to Phoenix four days before Christmas, killing all on board. While the public is told that the plane crash was due to mechanical error, an elite CIA team working covertly inside the United States knows the truth: it was a missile. And worse, the terrorists have more.

But where are they? And what planes are next on their list? Seemingly powerless to stop the Islamic fanatics, the CIA comes up with a daring plan to have two of their own people infiltrate the terror cell. But when the pair vanishes into thin air, so does any hope of stopping the madmen in their quest to take out more planes.

An attractive female American doctor working at the Kandahar Air Base field hospital takes a special interest in a local teenage boy, wounded when he tried to set off a bomb. What no one at the hospital knows is that she is also a CIA agent, part of an elite 4-man team based at the Kandahar Air Base in Afghanistan. And she thinks the boy just may be able to help her team.

Meanwhile, the CIA agents get a tip that if NATO soldiers eat at a Kandahar City teahouse on a specific date, they will be contacted about impending Taliban movements. With accurate intelligence on the Taliban hard to come by, two agents have lunch at the appointed time.

Unbeknownst to them, this one act will set in motion a chain of events that will forever change the lives of one Afghan family and pit two countries with nuclear weapons capability - Pakistan and India - on a devastating collision course.

This is the third novel in M.H. Sargent's popular MP-5 CIA series.

The body of Marine Corporal Jason Briggs, missing for eight days, has been found in a Baghdad, Iraq field. Investigating the death is an elite 4-man CIA team first seen in M.H. Sargent's thriller, Seven Days From Sunday. Even though the team, including an attractive female doctor, has seen their fair share of bodies before, this one is different - they discover a computer flash drive embedded in the body.

Meanwhile, a photographer with The Iraq National Journal newspaper has been kidnapped. He unwittingly took a picture of someone in a compromising situation and the kidnappers want the digital memory card.

The owner of the newspaper and the man's family, all of whom had worked with the CIA team some months before to stop a major terrorist attack, appeal to operatives to help find him. Analyzing data on the flash drive, the team learns that Corporal Briggs death and the missing photographer are tied to the same insurgent group - a Palestinian terrorist cell that is desperate to recover the photographer's memory card.

But what is on the memory card? And does it have anything to do with the sudden collapse of Iraq's major banks?

This is the second novel in M.H. Sargent's popular MP-5 CIA series.

The first three suspense thrillers in M.H. Sargent's MP-5 CIA series are now available in a box set. In each novel, the mission of Sargent's elite CIA team, which includes a rich cast of characters, requires them to engage with--and become responsible for the safety of--locals, giving readers an authentic glimpse into the lives of the Iraqis and Afghans.

Box set includes:

SEVEN DAYS FROM SUNDAY: An elite CIA team tangles with an Iraqi family while trying to stop Iraq's most wanted terrorist from carrying out a devastating attack.

THE SHOT TO DIE FOR: A kidnapping, a murder, an elite assassin team and a computer flash drive all point to one thing - Iraq is on the precipice of a complete financial meltdown.

OPERATION SPIDER WEB: When a 20-year-old Afghan woman passes along critical information to the CIA team, she sets in motion a chain of events that soon spirals out of control. At risk--her life as well as the lives of her family members. At stake--the lives of hundreds of passengers on Air India jets. In jeopardy--the stability of the entire Middle East.

In this new short story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child, available exclusively as an eBook, a young Jack Reacher knows how to finish a fight so it stays finished. He knows how to get the job done so it stays done. And, in one of his earliest challenges, he knows that his analytical brain is just as important as his impressive brawn.
 
Okinawa, 1974. Even at thirteen, Jack Reacher knows how to outwit and overpower anyone who stands in his way. And as the new kid in town, that’s pretty much everyone. His family has come to the Pacific with his father, who’s preparing for a top-secret Marine Corps operation. After receiving a rude welcome from the local military brats, Reacher and his older brother, Joe, intend to teach them a lesson they won’t forget. But it’s soon clear that there’s more at stake than pride. When his family’s future appears to come crumbling down, it’s the youngest Reacher who rises to the occasion with all the decisive cunning and bravura that will one day be his deadly trademark.
 
Second Son also includes a thrilling excerpt from Lee Child’s forthcoming novel, The Affair.