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When a tech rep in charge of an avionics retrofit at a United States Air Base in Germany comes up missing, Jake Adams, a former Air Force intelligence and CIA officer, is hired to find him. Was the man selling vital technology for the new Joint Strike Fighter? Back in a changed Europe, Adams struggles to survive in a world where profits are more important than past ideologies. Conspiracy, murder, espionage and mystery lead Jake Adams from an aircraft carrier off the coast of Italy, to the chilly banks of the Rhine. Can Adams keep the technology away from ruthless German and Hungarian agents?

Karl Adams is a new CIA officer undercover and immersed in Murmansk, Russia, as a Spanish graduate student at the local university. On a cold February night, while flying a drone, he takes video of a missile on a transporter erector launcher being loaded aboard a merchant ship. This could be a violation of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed by Reagan and Gorbachev.

CIA Officer Karl Adams is undercover in Moscow, Russia, tracking a professor of international relations and geostrategic studies. A series of brutal events forces Karl to escape on the Trans-Siberian Railway toward the Russian Far East, where he must encounter a new threat. Soon, the murder of a passenger puts Karl in the cross-hairs of a brusque old Russian police officer. Karl must now prove his innocence while maintaining his legend as a college grad student.

Max Kane continues to wander around the country, solving crimes and helping people. When his twin sister Robin invites him to drive out east on a personal journey of discovery, he drops everything to help her out. After a DNA test turns up relatives that neither of the twins knew existed, both of them are skeptical, uncertain, but hopeful for what they might find in rural Vermont. How could they have living relatives, since their parents had always said they were the last of the Kane clan?

Jake Adams is back with his fourth thrilling adventure. When an old Cold Warrior from Russia asks Jake to observe the launch of their newest ICBM, Jake finds himself in the taiga of the Russian Far East. But something goes terribly wrong with the missile, and the Russians discover an American plane has shot down the missile with their new Airborne Laser system. This event sets into motion a chain of events that span from the United States capitol, California, the Pacific Northwest, a remote Aleutian Island, and across the Pacific to China and South Korea.

When a series of events bring Chad Hunter and hot Agency super spy Sirena back together again, the action gets ramped up immediately. Chad has been hired by the Defense Department to develop a new weapon system based on the Hypershot rail gun system, with a scheduled test looming from a remote site on a volcano in Ecuador. While attending a United Nations World Conference on International Telecommunications in Brazil, Chad runs into Sirena.

In this third Keenan Fitzpatrick Mystery, Fitz is called in to investigate a double homicide in the sleepy outback of Nevada. The county commission has illegally suspended the duly-elected sheriff and installed a young deputy with no tangible investigative experience. When Fitz gets to this former stagecoach stop by the old Pony Express, he immediately clashes with the locals. Soon, Fitz is butting heads with the federal government and established families that want this case to just go away.

Murder, suspense, and intrigue propel this third Jake Adams mystery thriller from the Dolomite mountains of northern Italy, to the winding back streets of Innsbruck, Austria, and across the Atlantic to Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay area. Two scientists have discovered the DNA link to heart disease in a remote Italian mountain village, and a way to synthesize it and begin selling it to the general public. They're up for the Nobel Prize and set to make millions after teaming up with an Austrian biotechnology company.

Four years after Chad Hunter and Frank Baldwin secured the most successful small arms weapon system in American history, the Hypershot, they are thrust back into a new adventure that propels them from Southeast Asia to Scandinavia and back to the wilderness.

During Burning Man, the annual event of debauchery and independent self-reliance, a woman is found dead in a high-end RV, suspected to have overdosed on drugs. Former sheriff Keenan Fitzpatrick is hired by the woman's boyfriend to discover the true nature of her death. But there are complicating factors. First of all, the boyfriend is an actor who is starring in a detective series filming in the Reno, Nevada, area. Second, the actor is a conspiracy enthusiast who sees a government plot in everything from Bigfoot to Area 51.

When former Reno, Nevada, sheriff Keenan Fitzpatrick wins a free moose hunting trip to Newfoundland, Canada, he is happy to get away from his current job as a casino security officer. Shortly after arriving at the isolated hunting lodge forty miles from the nearest road, a man is shot to death. The other guests and guides immediately recruit Fitz to solve the murder. But without any technology to run background on all of the characters at the lodge, Fitz must rely only on his personal skills to uncover the killer.

Jake Adams, former CIA officer and Air Force Intelligence captain, is back with a new thrilling adventure. This second installment pits Jake against some of the most idealistic terrorists ever to strap on a suicide bomb. Jake is hired by a Portland, Oregon company as a private security agent during an international agriculture conference in Odessa, Ukraine.

Deep undercover CIA Officer Karl Adams finds himself on a mission with his GRU officer wife in the US Virgin Islands, where he and Olga must trade wits with American intelligence officers. Karl soon discovers that things are not as they seem in this serene Caribbean paradise. Meanwhile, the CIA is in transition during a change of administrations, and Karl is concerned that his status could change without warning. While the husband-and-wife team struggle with life together, Karl begins to question how he can keep his various personas alive.

The Kane twins take a case in California's Central Valley, investigating the death of a mother of two grown children, who had been treated at a holistic medicine retreat on the edge of Sequoia National Park. To the surprise of the children, their mother left them nothing from her recent sale of a family business that dated back to World War Two. Was this a case of undue influence? Or was the mother simply thankful to the retreat for the comfort she got from them in her final days? Max and Robin are united with Wyoming Sheriff Sage Raven to discover the truth in this complex case.

In a world where nothing is private, Clive Stark has found it difficult to comply to the new norms of society. Like so many others from America, Clive finds himself in a reeducation camp on a remote island in frigid waters. Here he awakes from a deep sleep and can’t remember anything from his past. When Ruby is assigned as his reintroduction Navigator, Clive starts to understand the reality of his new existence.

CIA Officer Karl Adams continues up the ranks in the Russian SVR as Nikolai "Niko" Ivanov. When the director of the SVR calls him into his office, Karl wonders if they have discovered his secret. Instead, the director tasks Niko to travel to Hong Kong to investigate the death of two SVR officers. Additionally, he must continue their mission to recruit a high-level engineer to defect with top-secret information. When Karl’s CIA contact discovers his Hong Kong mission, he demands loyalty to the agency, along with information America can use in the war in space.

When brother and sister team Max and Robin Kane are hired to find a missing girl from Eufaula, Alabama, they’re not sure what they might find in this Southern town across Lake Eufaula from Georgia. First impressions give them warm feelings of the antebellum past in this quaint little town. But they barely start the case, when they discover that evil could be lurking below the surface.

Brother and sister team Max and Robin Kane are hired by an old high school friend to look into the mysterious death of his brother in a Wyoming mining incident. Max must first break the barrier of small-town law enforcement and the powerful mining company to discover the truth. When Max invariably rubs folks the wrong way, he must not only search for a killer, but also keep himself alive. The old west comes to life again in a battle over rights of the individual and those of powerful forces determined to profit from the land.

Your hosts are Ben Slinger (father of a 2 year old boy and twin 9 month old girls) and Trevor Scott (father of a 3 year old boy). Together they discuss the vagaries of fatherhood in Australia, tell stories of joy and frustration, and go off on tangents that don't involve their children at all (because not everything is about being a Dad). Topics include the trouble with toilet training, the fun of sharing hobbies with your kids (and when not to), those funny little things that kids do, and plenty of discussion on video games and game development, technology, movies, TV and music. Ben and ...

A comedy game design podcast by two guys who know nothing about comedy nor game design. Join Trevor Scott and Ben Slinger as they take prompts from random word generators, movies, game titles and more and turn them into occasionally hilarious but always interesting game designs.