Richard Aellen Books In Order

Novels

No Sanctuary (1986)
Red Eye (1988)
Crux (1989)
Flash Point (1991)
The Cain Conversion (1993)

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Richard Aellen Books Overview

Crux

His name was carved in the black marble of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. He’d been reported lost in a helicopter shot down by the Vietcong. Only he hadn’t been in that helicopter when it crashed. And he wasn’t dead. Instead he’d spent 20 years in a Vietcong prison after being betrayed by three men one of them his best friend. During 20 years of almost total darkness in a rat infested cell, Keith Johnson has had time to plan. So, like a ghost, he has returned to even the score. He has no intention of killing his betrayers; he wants to ruin their lives like they ruined his. Johnson’s elaborate plan is meant to cause the three to self destruct, and given their characters, it ought to be easy. But his scheme goes haywire with consequences he neither foresees nor wants. Crux is a story of revenge gone too far, an audiobook full of hair raising excitement.

Flash Point

Katherine Cahill’s life is shattered forever when her three young children are killed on an airplane that is blown to pieces by a terrorist bomb in the skies over Italy. Determined to make the terrorists pay for this savagery, Katherine circumvents the frustrating bureaucracy of the State Department and heads for Syria in search of their leader, Tayib. She joins forces with Donna Winn, whose husband has been taken hostage, and with Sam Gaddis, a photo journalist familiar with the country and its people. This unlikely group infiltrates the terrorist’s mountain fortress and becomes entangled in power struggles within the Islamic Jihad and a secret U.S. plan to capture Tayib alive and bring him to justice.

The Cain Conversion

The Manchurian Candidate meets the New World Order in this stunning thriller by the bestselling author of Crux and Flashpoint. Secret Service agent Bill Sullivan has a wife, two children, and a secret unknown even to himself: he is a multiple personality programmed and planted by the KGB during the Cold War. The Russians no longer need an assassin in the White House, but someone has stolen the activation signal and is attempting to release the killing response called Cain. Bill Sullivan fights to make sense of a world gone suddenly mad. Desperate to understand the meaning of his actions and of his increasingly frequent blackouts he races against time to solve the puzzle that is himself. The answers he finds could mean the salvation, or destruction, of his country, his family, his very life.