In this steamy, high-stakes land grab for the Amazon, war has broken out between the tribes and the miners. The Amazon, the Earth's only equatorial cooling pump, has become sick. She is coughing ooze, fluids, waste, sewage, run-offs, and continuously rapacious behaviors from assorted greedmongers. While Jaguar Jungle unwinds, nothing can stop the pillage of the river's highways as Big Energy devours rubber, timber, gold, and rare Earth minerals. Wait,...

"Thirty years have passed since a shattered Nilufar Hartman, pregnant and betrayed, fled Iran. She barely got out alive, carrying her deepest secrets of love and tragedy. Nilufar had arrived in Tehran in November 1979 to take a job as a junior American diplomat at the U.S. Embassy. She had instead spent nine years as an American spy, reporting from deep inside the new Islamic Republic as it collapsed into extremism, civil strife, and war. After her...

Austin Scola, a seasoned homicide detective who experiences periods of psychotic blackouts, is assigned the high-profiled case of the murder of the daughter of a powerful businessman. During the course of his investigation, Austin discovers that he is actually the killer. Austin must cover his own tracks for a murder he doesn't even remember committing." --

"Nick Willard may be three years her junior but he has pined for Annie Kurtz since they were both prep school students. After 9/11, however, Annie joins the Marines, eventually making a split-second decision her superiors never wanted her to make and leaving her to wrestle with whether she should have followed orders or her conscience. After her return from a combat deployment to Afghanistan, Nick, now a successful journalist, must grapple with his...