Alex Mason Books
WHEN AN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER GOES MISSING ALONG WITH HIS ENCRYPTED LAPTOP, ELITE AGENT ALEX MASON MUST RACE TO STOP A TERRIFYING GLOBAL THREAT... Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 5-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series! Nobody has ever heard of ODIN... ODIN is about as secret as a government agency can get... Because within ODIN there is General Operations, which speaks for itself; ODIN 5i, which deals with intelligence gathering, and then there is ODIN 1i which deals in operations so sensitive not even the CIA can touch them. All three are run with an iron first by The Chief, a giant with a gigantic IQ. His top agent is Alex Mason, hard and cool – he's a law unto himself. But when an ODIN 5i agent based at the US Embassy in Manila, goes missing, and his encrypted laptop disappears with him, the whole ODIN structure is put in peril. Then the agents he was managing start to disappear one by one, and things start to look ugly. So Alex Mason is sent to Manila, and what he finds there is the growing shadow of Chinese imperialism threatening not only America’s presence in the Pacific, but the security of the whole Western World… This is a job for ODIN 1i. And for Alex Mason.
A DEAD SCIENTIST, A MISSING LOVER, AND A CONSPIRACY IN THE ICE… Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 6-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series! Why was Dr. Robert Magnusson murdered? More to the point, why was he murdered five hundred miles from anywhere, in the frozen wilderness of Greenland? And then there is the question of what he was doing seventy miles north of the UCLA base camp, where he should have been - and what were the instruments he had secretly set up and housed in the shack out there? And then again, there is the question of who killed him. Thor Olafson, his colleague and friend, blames the United States’ Presidential Commission on Sustainable Energy, because his findings defied the Commission’s wishes. Dr. Bernard Monet, another team member, blames the Green Tomorrows Corporation, who partly funded the report. What his girlfriend Silvia thinks nobody knows, because she has disappeared with all his papers and research. When Alex Mason is sent to Greenland to find answers to these questions, what he finds is something far more harrowing and far reaching than anyone could have expected. The investigation will take him, and Mossad Agent Aila Gallin, from DC to Nuuk, to London and the Bahamas – and to the very edge of perdition…
ONE MAN’S QUEST FOR VENGEANCE UNRAVELS A GLOBAL CONSPIRACY TO IGNITE NUCLEAR WAR... Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 6-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series! To most people the threat of a nuclear holocaust was something that belonged to the years of the Cold War, something they associated with the United States and the Soviet Union, something that was laid to rest by Gorbachev and Reagan, back in the ‘80s, when the Berlin Wall came down. So, when Alia Gallin’s murder was reported to ODIN agent Alex Mason, the last thing he thought of was that this could be part of the build up to a nuclear war. All Mason could think of was his rage, finding the killers and punishing them. Only his boss, the man they called Nero, had ordered him not to touch it: It was the Mossad’s investigation and the Mossad’s jurisdiction, not ODIN’s. But wherever he looked and whomever he turned to, all he could find were lies and betrayal. That was when Mason decided he was going to do things his own way. Little did he realize that his way would take him to London, Tel Aviv, Tehran and the very brink of Nuclear Armageddon. And perhaps beyond…
A MURDER IN PARIS SPARKS A DEADLY HUNT FOR A TREATOR INSIDE ODIN… Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 6-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series! ODIN is an organization which is above top secret. It coordinates intelligence from the so-called Five Eyes: The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – and it acts on that intelligence. For that reason, it’s level of security is the highest on the planet. Or so they thought, until top ODIN agent Mira Finn was murdered in Paris, her tortured body dragged from the Seine. A handful of people knew she was in France, fewer than that knew what her mission was. Two of them were Alex Mason and Nero, the chief of Odin itself, the other two were General Patrick O’Connor, chief security advisor to the President, and the President himself. One of those four men was the traitor who had leaked Mira’s mission. Of the remaining three, only two were innocent. The other was the scapegoat. Alex Mason knew that was him. He was officially on the run, and he had thirty-six hours to find the truth, clear his name and avert a global catastrophe of unprecedented proportions.
A DEADLY GAME OF NUCLEAR DECEPTION… Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 6-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series! The Russians have a special way of gambling. They take a revolver and they place one round the chambers and spin it. Then they take it in turns to put the gun to their heads and pull the trigger. It’s called Russian Roulette. Now they have a new, deadlier way of playing it. Six Tactical Nuclear Devices at six different locations – locations known to just one man. It might be a rucksack on a picnic trail, a suitcase at a bus station, a car parked in the heart of New York. But only one is real. Maximum stress and disruption for minimum cost. The game is played by informing the media that five dummies and one dirty nuclear bomb have been planted around the USA. Clues to their whereabouts have been sent to the Pentagon. But here’s the rub: concealed in the clues is the trigger that will detonate the real device. Open the wrong trunk, pick up the wrong suitcase, and the fall out could be devastating – literally. The CIA say it’s the Feds’ case. The Feds say it belongs to the CIA. The President says it’s ODIN’s, and it’s a job for Alex Mason.
A PRESIDENT IN THE MAKING… A HIT LIST IN THE SHADOWS… Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 6-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series! Helen Troy is in the race to become the first Female President of the United States. She is pretty, feminine, assertive and a guy’s guy kind of girl, who smokes cigars and drinks whisky with the best of’em. Everybody loves her; but nobody has heard of her till now and she has an uphill fight against some experienced heavy hitters. But that’s not her biggest problem. Her biggest problem is a list; a list that includes members of the executive as well as senators, bankers and businessmen, Israeli officials, and her. And one by one everyone on that list is dying. Mason and Gallin are assigned to protect her and find the authors of the list. At first it seems a simple enough task, until, after a particularly gruesome killing, Mason finds the other half of the list; the half no one knew existed, the half he is on. Then things get heavy…
THE ROOT OF ALL POWER IS VIOLENCE... Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 6-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series! Saul Epstein was used to trouble. When you’re the world’s most successful investigative journalist, and you devote your life to exposing the crimes of the great and the powerful, you learn to expect trouble. That’s why Saul was a recluse, that’s why he had no intimate circle, no close friends… So, one question facing Alex Mason and Captain Aila Gallin was, who was it who entered Saul’s apartment like an old friend and shot him in the face at point blank range without flinching – just like a pro? The other, the one ODIN needed answered yesterday, was where was the documentary he was making about the weaponizing of nanotechnology and genetic engineering? The one he claimed would overturn the constitution and destroy the military-industrial complex forever - the one that was about to trigger a coup d’état in Washington DC, and another in London. Their search will take Mason and Gallin from DC to London, New York, remotest Cornwall and the wilds of the Yorkshire moors – and to the terrifying truth that in our fragile democracies, the root of all power is still violence…
LIES, POWER, AND CORRUPTION... Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 6-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series! It seems to be kiss and tell season, with black ops whistleblowers and journalists willing to come out and tell their stories, lured by the promise of fortunes to be made from book sales and media celebrity. But this time, it’s a little different. Because Colonel Ian Cameron, late of the Central Intelligence Agency, launching his tell all book, SEX DRUGS AND ROCK’N’ROLL AT THE WHITE HOUSE, at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, has been abducted in plain view on the corner of West 59th and 5th Avenue. The only problem is, despite his revelations, and the heads that will roll because of them, it is in nobody’s interest to have Colonel Ian Cameron hurt. So what Nero, the head of ultra-secret intelligence organization ODIN wants Mason to find out is… Who the hell has the colonel? The search for the answer will take Mason first to New York, then to Sinaloa in Mexico and ultimately to the shocking truth in the Middle East, where he will face an impossible choice, to kill or to die.
HELL HATH NO FURY... Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 6-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series! In the wake of the Vietnam debacle, when the mighty USA was humiliated by Soviet-backed Vietcong, the CIA plotted to drag the USSR into a ‘Russian Vietnam’ in Afghanistan. The plan was such a success it led ultimately to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now, forty years on, as Russia limps, scarred and crippled from the battlefields of Kherson, Donetsk and Kharkiv, Colonel Alexandrina Vitsin swears to drag the USA into an American Ukraine. From her small dark office on Mokhovaya Street, in Moscow, she plots the unthinkable - war in western Europe. She will tear apart the European Union, inject Islam and Sharia law into that secular, democratic haven, and force the USA into an unwinnable conflict that will cripple NATO forever. And in the process, she will exact her personal revenge on the man she has been hunting for over ten years, since he foiled her on Victoria Island, in the Bay of Bengal; a man who works in the shadows from an agency that does not exist. But now she has his scent, and she will hunt him down and she will kill him, the man called Nero.
THIS VIRUS IS SATAN'S REVENGE... Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 6-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series! When a leading international financier is murdered in his Beverly Hills mansion, at first it looks like just another daemon at work in the City of Angels. But when the ritual nature of the killing emerges, the FBI take an interest. And then the international connections start to emerge: the European Commission, high ranking officials in Hong Kong…and Iran. That’s when the file gets passed to ODIN, and Alex Mason. When Mason starts to dig, he soon realizes that the murder of a single financier is just the tip of the iceberg. Because wherever he looks, whomever he talks to, one word keeps repeating itself, and that word is ‘virus’. In a case that will take him and Gallin halfway round the world to the Pyrenees in France, London and the Chilean Andes, they will both realize the terrifying truth that this is no ordinary virus. This is on the brink of madness. This virus is Satan’s Revenge…
WE ARE ON THE BRINK OF AN EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT... Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 6-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series! There is a time bomb ticking down toward a global extinction event. The bomb has a name, and everybody knows where it is. In fact, people pay to go and see it, and have picnics around it. It’s called the Yellowstone Caldera, and when it next blows it will probably take out mankind. There is another time bomb ticking, maybe on a much shorter fuse, and it is also leading up to an extinction event for humankind. This one will be an explosion of intelligence – artificial intelligence – that threatens to turn and look at its creator and find him wanting. When Alex Mason is sent by ODIN to investigate the death of anarchic genius Peter Justin at his cabin near the Yellowstone Caldera, what he finds is the ultimate nightmare. The two-time bombs have linked, and the countdown is on. The biggest IQs at the Rat Lab and Gordon Alistair Avionics, the giants of the military-industrial complex, are saying it’s too late. Global AI is now a fact and its plans at the Caldera can’t be stopped. Mason knows he must prove them wrong. Either that, or… Game over.
SOMETHING BEYOND OUR WILDEST FEARS... Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 6-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series! A leak at GCHQ – the UK’s version of the NSA – means that sensitive Allied and Israeli intelligence is being fed to Iran and Israel’s wider enemies. ODIN, the Five Eyes’ ultra-secret Special Operations Office, has teamed up their best operative, Alex Mason, with the Mossad’s Captain Aila Gallin to investigate and plug the leak. There’s just one problem… Their prime suspect has been assassinated. Was he killed by the very people he was selling information to? Or had he stumbled on the source of the leaks and was about to blow the whistle? In either case the method of the killing was bizarre, and the fact that his cell phone and his computer were wiped clean, even of their operating systems, within minutes of his death speaks to a level of sophistication well beyond the means of Hamas or Iran. Nero, the genius at the head of ODIN fears they are facing one of two things: a Chinese attempt to provoke a Third World War in the Middle East which would spell the end of Israel. Or then again, it might be something even more terrifying than that. Something beyond our wildest fears…
NEVER HAS SO MUCH BEEN AT STAKE, NEVER HAS THE PRIZE OF ABSOLUTE POWER BEEN MORE SEDUCTIVE... Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 6-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series! The world population is hurtling toward nine billion; some say more than the planet can support. Two titanic blocks rule that population – East and West – bound together in a global economy - and a secret, war to the death. Never has so much been at stake, never has the prize of absolute power been more seductive. And never have the leaders of these titanic blocks been quite so insane. Insane enough to invoke the Son of Hell, to bring the war out of the shadows and fire down from Heaven; and count the dead not in dozens but millions. But in a war where the warriors are not men but robots and drones, how can you know your enemy? When Mason and Gallin are sent into Ukraine to meet an undercover agent from Moscow, they cannot imagine the maze of deceit, terror and madness they have entered. In a mission that will take them from DC to Kiev, Brussels and ultimately Lithuania and Kaliningrad, Mason and Gallin will be fighting the ultimate war to save humanity from itself… From the Son of Hell. Fans of Bond, Rapp, Harvath, and The Gray Man will love Alex Mason. A man who is a law until himself. Who will stop at nothing to protect freedom and innocence. Archer and Banner are at their best in their debut co-authored series full of espionage, intrigue, politics, and death. If that sounds appealing, give Mason a try. You won't be disappointed.
THE DEVASTATION OF THE EARTH IS AT A FLASHPOINT... IT MAY ALREADY BE TOO LATE... Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 6-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series! Yasha Orlev has disappeared, and with him a flash drive. Only two men in the world know exactly what is on that flash drive, Orlev himself and the man called Nero, the director of the highly secretive ODIN, the organization that runs the Five Eyes. And they both know that the contents of that drive can cripple the USA and trigger World War III. Peter Blakelock, a senior ODIN agent, traces Orlev to a small Mediterranean island and promptly disappears. When he next shows up it is facedown, washed up on the beach with a broken neck and a chest full of lead. Alex Mason is dispatched with Aila Gallin, seconded from the Mossad, to find Yasha Orlev and recover the flash drive before it gets into the wrong hands. In a mission that will take them half way around the world and to the brink of annihilation, Mason and Gallin will find more than they bargained for: The human race has not been so close to extermination since the Great Flood at the end of the last ice age. But as Gallin observes, that time it was the anger of the Elohim that almost destroyed Man. This time it will be Man’s own towering arrogance that delivers him to the gaping maw of Evil.