Philip Atlee

From the Edgar Award finalist: An operative tries to provide a shield between a target for murder and the madman who's left behind a trail of corpses... There have been multiple murder victims so far-and though the methods have varied, all the bodies were found with a small figure of a wolverine, carved from ivory, attached to their earlobes with baling wire. The true motive of the killer-or killers-may be a mystery, but freelance agent Joe Gall's...

Plutonium has gone missing-and one man must prevent an explosion-in this thriller by the Edgar Award—nominated author. Freelancer Joe Gall has a new contract that sends him to South Korea, where stolen nuclear material must be recovered. Posing as a missionary-and assisted by a fervent believer determined to save his soul-Gall is caught among pursuers from both sides of the 38th parallel, as well as a rogue group intent on setting off World War...

When a CIA agent needs rescuing in South America, it's Joe Gall who gets the call. Joe Gall is on assignment in Sao Paulo, Brazil, living in a home with a housekeeper named Julietta-who happens to be a conduit to the South American country's notorious October Eighth Movement. The group has abducted a legendary member of the CIA-and it's up to Gall to get him back...

In this international adventure by the Edgar Award—nominated author, freelance operative Joe Gall is on the hunt for a valuable cache of diamonds. But along the way he must break a man out of jail, cross a barren African desert, and fight his way through multiple double crosses ...

A moneymaking scheme in Burma proves more dangerous than the jungle itself in the first action novel featuring Joe Gall by the Edgar Award finalist. Down on his luck in Rangoon, Joe Gall agrees to partner up with an old acquaintance named Varley for a chance to make millions in the jungles of war-torn Burma. Gall expected the scheme to involve fists and guns-but when he discovers Varley's working both sides, it's every man for himself . . . Originally...

The dictator of Murundi has been deposed, and his only hope for getting out of the country safely is American operative Joe Gall. But it won't be easy since the general who just took him down has agents on their tail-and their little entourage must count on Gall to protect them as they desperately try to make it across the border . . .

Rebellion is brewing in New Grenada-and the government of Cuba is only too happy to help the cause along. Now, freelance agent Joe Gall has been tasked with heading there to gather intel on Mike Bonner, an international salesman of arms and explosives. And when Gall untangles the truth about Bonner's role in the simmering crisis, he must take all necessary action to prevent widespread bloodshed ...

Operative Joe Gall heads to Hong Kong to identify a bizarre new weapon and the mysterious forces behind it in this thriller from the Edgar Award nominee. What could've caused the sudden, multiple miscarriages among the ordinary, healthy women working at an innocuous Asian company? To solve the mystery, Joe Gall must head to Hong Kong-where he will tangle with a Taiwanese businessman and Soviet agents to uncover a complicated conspiracy . . . ...

They trained him to kill-but now he's gone rogue-in this action-adventure thriller by "the John D. MacDonald of espionage fiction" (Larry McMurtry, The New York Times). The CIA didn't mind when the army officer deserted his post in Vietnam and wound up killing a high-level Yemeni official. After all, that's what they'd paid him for. But now it looks like he and his fellow assassins are going after targets of their own choosing-and it's time for freelance...

Off the coast of Indonesia, the Japanese are harvesting an incredible amount of manganese, a mineral highly prized in the manufacturing community, from the ocean floor. The question is: how are they getting it-and how can the United States get a piece of it? The only man for the job is Joe Gall, but this seemingly simple assignment is about to go sideways...