Kirk McGarvey Novels
13 primary works • 16 total works
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Book 3
From bestselling author David Hagberg, an explosive global thriller featuring a terrifying assassin: Joseph Assad Sherif, Saddam Hussein's most accomplished killer and the world's foremost expert in the art of massacre. Now, Saddam is about to procure a 1200-megawatt neutron source reactor, which will guarantee Saddam unlimited bomb-grade plutonium. Those blocking the sale are to be eliminated by Sherif and his beautiful but murderous daughter, Leila. But when the West's finest criminal investigator corners Sherif in Germany's biggest nuclear power plant, which Sheriff plans to blow to pieces, the hunter will become the hunted - and Desert Fire will soar to its spectacular climax.
Book 4
Kirk McGarvey--one-time CIA assassin--dreams of a peaceful life and marital bliss. One man will change all that. In 1945, Isawa Nakaruma lost his mother and father at Hiroshima, his wife and child at Nagasaki, and has been planning years to wreak his revenge--and he holds Kirk McGarvey personably responsible. His plan begins with the murder of McGarvey's girlfriend and the kidnapping and torturing of McGarvey's ex-wife and daughter. But he won't stop there, not until McGarvey himself is six-feet under and nuclear bombs are detonated over Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Book 5
Intrigue and danger heighten as America faces its worst industrial challenge since the Great Depression. With the Cold War over, Japanese espionage may succeed tomorrow where, fifty years ago, their military might have failed. Expert saboteurs continue to strike, causing fourteen planes to fall out of the sky in one day. Ex-CIA field officer Kirk McGarvey is hired by the Guerin Airline to investigate, and restore the economic juggernaut's international reputation.
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A terrorist bomb explodes at a Georgetown restaurant, killing CIA operative Kirk McGarvey's French girlfriend and wounding his daughter. The bomb was meant for him, but the terrorists have made a fatal mistake -- attacking McGarvey's family -- and he goes after them with a vengeance.
At the same time, McGarvey must struggle with an escalating crisis in the Far East, where a mysterious underground nuclear explosion has destroyed a power station off the coast of North Korea. U.S. intelligence fears the worst. Because if Kim Jong II, its controversial strongman, has nuclear weapons, he may just be crazy enough to use them.
From the corridors of power in Washington to the Japanese space launch center at Tanegashima, Kirk McGarvey must track a terrorist operation with its sights on both his family and the White House itself.
Book 8
When a one-kiloton Russian nuclear demolition bomb the size of a suitcase goes missing from a military depot near the Afghanistan border, the West sits up and takes notice. The CIA discovers that the purchaser of the bomb was Saudi multi-millionaire Osama bin Laden, and his intentions are to use it in the ultimate attack against the United States. Deputy Director of Operations Kirk McGarvey now faces the most difficult and deadly challenge of his career. The White house, against McGarvey's advice, orders attacks on Laden's base of operations in Afghanistan. Instead of killing the terrorist, the missiles kill his nineteen-year-old daughter. The bomb, code-named Joshua's Hammer, is coming to the United States. McGarvey must discover how it will get there, where it will be detonated and when this, the worst terrorist attack in the history of the United States, will take place. McGarvey also discovers that he not only has to protect the United States, he has to protect the President's daughter from a savage act of retaliation by a man gone mad.
Book 9
Capping a twenty-five year career with the Central Intelligence Agency, Kirk McGarvey has been named the agency's interim director by the President of the United States. But what should be the culmination of McGarvey's career has activated a twenty-year old Russian plot. The Cold War is over, but McGarvey is still a target for assassination. Step by inexorable step the assassin is awakened from a sleeper state. Brainwashed by KGB doctors to pull the trigger, the killer has unknowingly awaited a signal that has finally arrived. It's becoming clear to McGarvey and his associates that the killer is someone within his inner circle. A personal friend. Someone very close. Whom can McGarvey trust? Can he even trust himself?
Book 10
"My dearest mother," the letter from the young Saudi Arabian suicide bomber begins. Suicide bombers are coming to America's heartland. Their targets: our most precious and vulnerable assets - our children. Following the most terrifying lead of his life, CIA Director Kirk McGarvey traces the threat to a terrorist known as Khalil. Upon further investigation, he is convinced that Khalil and the Saudi playboy prince Abdul Hasim ibn Salman are the same man. The White House wants nothing to do with McGarvey's assumptions; accusing a Saudi prince of such a heinous plan will strain the delicate political balance between the US and the Saudis. But McGarvey refuses to let politics stand in the way of stopping Khalil, even if it means that the President of the United States will call him a traitor, even if it means he must resign as Director of the CIA, and even if it means his meddling will lead to the kidnapping and brutal beating of his wife.
From the deadly, frigid Alaskan waters to the balmy breezes of the French Rivera, and finally to the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, DC, Mac has to unravel the latest threat from Osama bin Laden in order to save American schoolchildren from a cadre of suicide bombers willing to martyr themselves for the cause as Soldiers of God.
From the deadly, frigid Alaskan waters to the balmy breezes of the French Rivera, and finally to the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, DC, Mac has to unravel the latest threat from Osama bin Laden in order to save American schoolchildren from a cadre of suicide bombers willing to martyr themselves for the cause as Soldiers of God.
Book 11
Under the cover of a moonless night, al-Qaida operatives made their way inside the infamous Camp Delta prison on the American base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Their goal was to free five prisoners, but they failed. The rescuers and prisoners, all former Iranian Navy submarine crewmen, were killed. Investigators discover that this mission was supposed to be the first step in unleashing a deadly act of terrorism - an operation code-named Allah's Scorpion. The CIA and Kirk McGarvey are called in, but first McGarvey must stop the destruction of the Panama Canal by a Venezuelan oil tanker rigged to explode in one of the locks. What seems at first to be an unrelated attack turns up the same cryptic code name. Allah's Scorpion may prove to be the ultimate strike against America, a grand finale to what began on 9/11. A pair of Russian nuclear missiles that were spirited into Libya just before the invasion of Iraq have turned up in transit to a undisclosed launch site in the Atlantic Ocean. Kirk McGarvey is the only man in position to stop them - the only man capable of knocking out Allah's Scorpion.
Book 13
Late one balmy summer evening in Pyongyang, an important Chinese intelligence general on his way to a secret meeting with Kim Jon-II is assassinated in plain sight of a surveillance camera. The two shooters are wearing the uniforms of North Korean police officers. Kim Jon-II denies any knowledge of the shooting, but the Chinese do not believe him. As they prepare to attack, Jong-II promises to unleash his nuclear weapons on downtown Beijing, Seoul, and Tokyo, plunging the entire region into nuclear war. Kirk McGarvey, just off a difficult assignment that took him to Mexico City, has returned to his visiting professorship at the University of South Florida. A colonel in North Korea's intelligence service shows up in person, asking McGarvey to prove that North Korea did not authorize the hit. It's the most extraordinary request McGarvey has ever received. He enters a dangerous international shadow world where almost nothing is as it seems.
The puzzles lead him to a mysterious Russian ex-KGB multimillionaire whose specialty is expediting assassins for hire, to Pyongyang where he finds the wedge to open up a far-reaching plot so monstrous the entire world could go up into flames, and finally back to the one nation that potentially has the most to gain by such a war. And the most to lose...
The puzzles lead him to a mysterious Russian ex-KGB multimillionaire whose specialty is expediting assassins for hire, to Pyongyang where he finds the wedge to open up a far-reaching plot so monstrous the entire world could go up into flames, and finally back to the one nation that potentially has the most to gain by such a war. And the most to lose...
"Cuban Intelligence Service Colonel Maria Leon is called to the bedside of the dying Fidel Castro. She is his illegitimate daughter but has never been acknowledged by her father until now. Castro makes her promise to contact the legendary former Director of the CIA Kirk McGarvey to help her on a mysterious quest to find Cibola, the fabled seven cities of Gold. As the Cuban government unravels, Leon has to use every means at her disposal just to find the elusive McGarvey, all the while fending off men in her own Operations Division who want her job or her death. In desperation, Leon kidnaps McGarvey's closest friend, Otto Rencke, to force McGarvey's hand. Mac's meeting with Leon launches the most bizarre mission of his entire career that takes him from Cuba to Mexico City, to Spain and finally to an ancient site in New Mexico that the Spanish conquistadors called the Jornada del muerto--the Journey of Death. On the run from Cuban intelligence agents and blood thirsty Mexican drug cartel soldiers who will stop at nothing for a piece of the fabulous treasure, McGarvey struggles to decipher the truth buried in Leon's deception. The latest installment in David Hagberg's New York Times bestselling Kirk McGarvey series takes the former CIA director on another deadly international adventure. "--
A large amount of the treasure stolen by conquistadors of the eighteenth century was buried in southern New Mexico, and Jacob Ambli, a Catholic priest, was sent on a Spanish mission to find seven caches left for the Church. He kept a diary of the locations, but was murdered and the journal was lost. Now, 150 years later, the diary has come to light, and the Spanish government, Cuban intelligence agency, and Catholic Church are racing to claim it. Kirk McGarvey is approached by the Voltaire Society-a group whose purpose is shrouded in the history of the United States-that wants to beat all of them. The chase takes Mac from Washington to Malta and finally to Seville, where he comes up against a fifth foe...who has made a blood pact with agents of the devil for the treasure.
It's a pleasant summer afternoon in the Gulf Stream, twenty-five miles off Hutchinson Island on Florida's east coast. NOAA scientist Dr. Eve Larsen is about to prove she has the answers to global warming, and the solution to stopping killer storms across the planet. She is a part of a multi-trillion dollar, multinational project to farm clean, endless energy from the oceans' currents-and alter the planet's weather for the better. At that moment, contract killer Brian DeCamp walks into the Hutchinson Isle and Nuclear Power Station, aiming to cause a meltdown so catastrophic it'll make Chernobyl seem like nothing. Security cam footage leads to an intervention by legendary former CIA director Kirk McGarvey, who manages to thwart the catastrophe...but the failed sabotage sets off a chain of events more terrifying than McGarvey could ever have imagined. With Big Oil ruthlessly hunting for profit after the BP disaster in the Gulf, the fate of the world hangs in the balance.