Blaine McCracken Series - John Land

Written by John Land
Read by Lance Axt
Format: M4B
Unabridged

#1. The Omega Command
A space shuttle is destroyed during flight, and the CIA recalls disgraced agent Blaine McCracken to uncover the people responsible.

A space shuttle disappears during a routine repair mission, 180 miles above Earths surface.

An intelligence operative with a dark secret is murdered, his car set ablaze, while he is in the middle of fulfilling a depraved fantasy.

And a reporter receives a message from a dying man that suggests the organization responsible may be one of the worlds most prestigious corporations.

The government knows just one man who can untangle this mystery: a throwaway on the deactivated list.

Exiled to a desk job in Paris for stepping on the wrong toes, Blaine McCracken is a killer—a ruthless pursuer of truth who will let no one, friend or enemy, stand in his way when civilian lives are in danger.

McCracken gets results, and his country needs him now more than ever.

#2. The Alpha Deception
A space-borne super-weapon rains death down on an American small town, and Blaine McCracken races to learn who pulled the trigger before the fearsome beam turns on Washington.

In the last years of the Cold War, policy and trust for the Russians have led to disarmament treaties and hope for a new beginning. But peace is not yet within grasp.

An entire American town has been wiped off the map: not by nuclear strike, but rather a space-borne particle cannon capable of reducing the entire nation to dust in hours.

But who pulled the trigger? Was it the Russians, making a final bid for world domination? Or was it a third power - some aspiring conqueror hoping to pit the superpowers against each other?

It’s up to Blaine McCracken to find out. An old flame has contacted the rogue cop, begging for help protecting her father, a jeweler who has just been robbed of five rare stones - five rubies that could mean life or death for the United States.

#3. The Gamma Option
When his estranged son is kidnapped, Blaine McCracken goes to work for a group of Arab militants to recover the child he never knew Since he first went behind enemy lines in Vietnam, Blaine McCracken has faced death on every continent.

In the line of fire he is an iron man, but now he faces a different challenge: fatherhood.

His son, Matt, is 13 - the unknown product of a long ago tryst. When the boy’s mother dies, McCracken goes to England to meet him. He finds a son cut in his father’s mold: a young athlete determined to put his body at risk to serve his country.

But before Blaine can explain their relationship, Matt is snatched away, kidnapped by a band of Arab nationals intent on using McCracken’s strength to serve their own cause.

The target? An Israeli weapon that they claim threatens the entire Arab world. To recover his son, McCracken must bring the Middle East back from the brink of war.

#4. The Omicron Legion
A mysterious league of elite assassins targets 96 of the most powerful people in America, and Blaine McCracken must stop them before the murderers bring the country to its knees.

There are 96 names on the list. They are those of businessmen, judges, and senators - the nation’s wealthiest and most powerful.

And they are all going to die. A man named Takahashi has hired the world’s finest assassins to eliminate these men in secrecy and style, crossing names off the list without raising any suspicion.

And they are killing ahead of schedule.

But someone has noticed the pattern of these seemingly unrelated deaths, and she knows enough to call Blaine McCracken.

Takahashi didn’t consider the rogue American agent, and that was a grave mistake. His carefully orchestrated vendetta is just the sort of thing that McCracken lives to upset.

He has made a career teaching lessons to those who underestimate him, and Takahashi’s league of assassins is next.

#5. The Vengeance of the Tau
In Egypt, Blaine McCracken tracks down a secret society whose ancient weapon threatens the entire world
Far beneath the sands of Alexandria, an archaeological team digs deeper than anyone has before, seeking an ancient power older than the pyramids.

What they unearth is an evil that threatens the whole world. First it targets the worst of humanity: Ex-Nazis, Central American warlords, and the pushers who peddle drugs to children are found massacred, ripped limb from limb without having fired a shot in their own defense.

But the next to die will be ordinary people.
An insidious secret organization, the Tau, attempts to harness the vicious force as part of a plan for world domination.

But Blaine McCracken is on their trail. The rogue American op has fought the worst men in the world, and he now faces something the likes of which he has never imagined.

#6. Day of the Delphi
They tried once before. Seven Days in May told the story of the far-right’s first attempt to take over the U.S. government.

Now Jon Land, author of 10 Gold Medal lead titles, tells the story of their second try. With devastating credibility, Land creates the chilling scenario of the White House under siege.

#7. Kingdom of the Seven
Dr. Karen Raymond has made the medical breakthrough of the century, a vaccine that could halt the spread of our most devastating modern plague, AIDS.

But when her laboratory is destroyed and her colleagues murdered, she realized she’s in danger: a conspiracy of proportions she never dreamed possible is out to crush her work.

In another part of the country the population of an entire town has disappeared into thin air, leaving behind only half-finished meals, empty offices and schools.

Who is responsible? A cabal of power-seeking corporations? Rogue victims of Army medical experiments gone horribly wrong? Who is behind the traitorous plot that threatens to sacrifice our country to the Kingdom of the Seven?

#8. The Fires of Midnight
Who killed 2,000 innocent people, and how? More importantly, can they be stopped from striking again?Infectious disease expert Dr. Susan Lyle teams up with Blaine McCracken, ex-CIA operative, in the search for answers. Hideously deformed cadavers and a missing teenage genius are their only leads.

The chase takes them all the way down the eastern seaboard and across the country, and they soon realize that at the heart of the puzzle lies a whole new generation of biological weapons.

Should the wrong people get their hands on them, no one will be able to prevent the horrifying effect of…The Fires of Midnight.

#9. Dead Simple
April 1998: A tanker hauling a deadly new explosive vanishes without a trace in a raging storm….
That explosive falls into the hands of Jack “Terror” Tyrell.

Now, he’s more determined than ever to realize his deadly vision: to lead a radical underground group that spreads its message via bombs and blood.

Enter Blaine McCracken. McCracken seeks out his mentor, Sergeant Major Buck Torrey, to get his edge back after being wounded in a terrorist attack. But Torrey has disappeared.

McCracken reconnoiters with beautiful Liz Halprin, Torrey’s daughter, and their hunt takes them on a perilous journey where secrets can be as deadly as bullets.

McCracken and Halprin are hot on Jackie Terror’s tail, which brings them to Manhattan, where Terror’s going to hold seven million people hostage.