Stephen Mertz

Sara Durell is missing. As the best friend of Carol, Jack Cody’s late wife, Cody shares a deep platonic bond with her, whose compassion and counsel have contributed to his emotional recovery in the wake of that loss...and Sara has gone missing on a deep-cover mission in Afghanistan....

Facing off against a deadly axis of evil—American Nazis, Islamic terrorists, and stolen Russian nukes—Cody tracks a bullet-splattered trail of deception in a race to stop the destruction of Houston, Texas, under a mushroom cloud....

Camp David ranks with the White House and Air Force One as the most secure military site in America. When the Israeli prime minister visits Camp David for a summit meeting with POTUS, the stakes are high enough for a highly trained team of terrorist assassins to perform the impossible....

Cody’s mission: locate and extract a defecting physicist, Dr. Kwan, creator of the ghastly mega-weapon, Dragonfire. But the mission goes south almost immediately when a US Navy reconnaissance plane disappears over the South China Sea after observing Chinese nuclear submarine activity....

A tiny US town on the Mexican border. Remote. A big day for this minuscule rural community. The President and First Lady are in town with their entourage to honor a deceased grand old man of the Party. A quick in-and-out visit to pay their respects and they’ll be home in DC before dark....

Saigon, 1970. Meet Cord McGavin, lone wolf investigator assigned to a special operations unit of the US Army’s Criminal Investigation Division. McGavin’s beat: The mean streets of this sprawling, violent metropolis ravaged by war....

Archeologists Adam Chase and Lara Newton head an archeological dig in the mountainous, arid no-man's-land on the border of Turkey and Syria, sponsored by an eccentric billionaire recluse....

Missing: Lee Daniels, American journalist stationed in Moscow. There's only one way to get Daniels out of Russia: brute force. And ex-Green Beret Mark Stone is just the man for the job....

The Castro Directive is an energetic thriller that will appeal to readers of Ken Follett and Jack Higgins....

At first Devil Creek seems like an idyllic small town, but it's not long until things begin to go horribly wrong....

After escaping a CIA team sent to capture him in Bangkok, Stone finds himself on a brand new mission....

Kate Daniels is a co-pilot aboard the space shuttle, Liberty. Liberty is to deploy a space defense system satellite with the latest American technology....