New Releases by Stephen Coonts

NSA operative Charlie Dean must find a missing nuclear warhead before a terrorist group detonates it on the ocean floor in a plot to shift the earth''s surface and cause world-wide disaster. The terrorists call it "God''s revenge."

"Move over Clancy, readers know they can count on Coonts." -Midwest Book Review A spy plane gathering data on a new Russian weapon is blown out of the sky by a mysterious MiG. Is it an accident or the start of the next world war? One U.S. agency has what it takes to find out-the National Security Agency and its covert operations team: DEEP BLACK. Working for the NSA, ex-Marine sniper Charlie Dean is dispatched to Russia, hooking up with former Delta Force trooper Lia DeFrancesca to find out what happened to the plane. The Deep Black team stumbles across an even more alarming secret-a plot to assassinate the Russian president and overthrow the democratic government by force. The coup could have dire consequences for Russia and the world. With no clearance from the government it''s called on to protect, the National Security Agency goes to war. But before Lia and Dean can unravel the conspiracy, they learn that one of the spy plane''s passengers-an NSA techie-survived the crash. Critical information could fall into enemy hands. And that enemy is playing to the death. "Coonts knows how to write and build suspense." --The New York Times Book Review

Presents twenty-six real-life accounts of aerial warfare, including "The Hero''s Life" by Captain Eddie V. Rickenbacker and "The Flight of Enola Gay" by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts.

Polly Cameron is happy being thirty-five and celibate. She’s juggling her job, her part in the “Save Our High Street” campaign, getting her pottery career started and dodging her friends’ matchmaking efforts. A relationship would only complicate things.

When an experimental nuclear submarine is hijacked in broad daylight, only Admiral Jake Grafton stands between the deadly cargo and its intended target: Washington D.C.

Stephen Coonts has earned an extraordinary worldwide reputation with his military thrillers featuring Jake Grafton, one of the most popular and recognizable characters in contemporary suspense fiction. In this exhilarating departure, Coonts takes readers on an imaginative journey into space that is as suspenseful as any of his other stories . . . When Rip Cantrell, a seismic survey worker in the Sahara, spots a glint of reflected light in the distance, he investigates-and finds a piece of metal apparently entombed in the sandstone. Before long, Rip and his colleagues uncover a flying saucer that has been resting there for 140,000 years. Their discovery doesn''t remain a secret for long. The U.S. airforce sends a UFO investigation team, which arrives just minutes before a team sent by an Australian billionaire to steal the saucer''s secrets. Before either side can outwit the other, the Libyan military arrives. Meanwhile, Rip has been checking out the saucer. With the help of a beautiful ex-Air Force test pilot Charley Pine, Rip flies the saucer away, embarking on a fantastic journey into space and around the world, keeping just ahead of those who want the saucer for themselves. Saucer is a dazzling flying story and an action-filled look at what might have been...and what might be.

Sams County 08-31-2001 $25.95.

Bestselling author Coonts has collected some of the finest fiction about flying in one volume. "On Glorious Wings" contains stories and excerpts from world-renowned authors.

A beautiful woman is being blackmailed, an illegal break-in occurs, and a massacre at a government safe house puts CIA agent Tommy Carmellini on the trail of a dark conspiracy.

Three men from the United States, Russia and Japan, must avert a nuclear war.

1973. The Vietnam war.

Description An epic of bravery, honor, and tragedy, War in the Air is Stephen Coonts'' personal compilation of history''s most incredible aviation stories, told through retrospective real-life accounts of the pilots, bombardiers, and flight crews who flew the most dangerous missions through the aerial battlefields of the world''s most fiercely fought wars.

Captain Jake Grafton faces the duel threats of a determined assassin and a vicious drug lord, both intent on plunging the U.S. into chaos.