Cobra / Harry Bauer Thriller Books

KICKED OUT OF THE SAS, HARRY BAUER IS SENT HOME AND TOLD TO BE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE...BUT HE'S NOT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE... USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series! What do you do when the only skill you ever learned was how to kill, when you’re among the best of the best, but they tell you you can’t do that anymore? What do you do when they send you home from Afghanistan and tell you to get a job, like everybody else? But you’re not like everybody else. After eight years as a trooper in the SAS, fighting the secret, untold wars in the deserts and the jungles of the world, Harry Bauer has been kicked out for attempting to assassinate Mohammed Ben Amini, the Butcher of Al-Landy. He’s been sent home, to New York, where he was raised an orphan ‘til he was old enough to split and join the special forces. Now he’s back, and unemployed; until Russian Mafia boss Peter Rusanov offers him a job wiping out the Albanian Mafia. It’s a job he figures could make him rich, until Colonel Jane Harris shows up, takes him for a ride to Pleasantville, and tells him about Cobra… Then all hell breaks loose.

SOMETIMES CONSPIRACY THEORIES ARE REAL... USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series! When your only training is as a first class killer, it can be hard to find a job on Main Street. Unless you work for Cobra, the secret agency that takes out the worst of the world’s trash. So when Harry Bauer left the Regiment, the toughest special ops outfit on the planet, Cobra offered him a job, taking out the trash. Bauer had grown up fighting for survival on the streets of the Bronx. He knew everything there was to know about hard reality, and he didn’t buy into fantasies or conspiracy theories. Until, that is, one came knocking on his door... There was nothing unreal about the job: a simple hit at Manhattan’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel, on two of China’s highest ranking biochemists, and two of the world’s most evil men. But when Cobra High Command asks Bauer to find out why Zhao Li and Yang Dizhou are in New York in the first place, things turn dark. In a mission that will take him from New York to Casablanca, Algeria and Bangkok, Bauer will realize the hard way that sometimes conspiracy theories are real…

ONE. LAST. JOB. USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series! One thing Harry Bauer knew for certain: He was not a man who could ever fall in love and make a home. Until it happened. And then he knew something else. He had to give up his job as an assassin for Cobra. He could not lie to that woman, he could not bring danger into her life. But then a hit squad came after him, and Cobra made him an offer he could not refuse. One last job, the Einstaat Brief, and they would keep her safe. One last job: A job that would take him to Andorra, high in the Pyrenees, to a secret conference of 130 of the world’s most powerful men and women, cloistered in a luxury hotel to discuss the future of the world. Among them, Stephen Plant, Andrew Ashkenazi and William Hughes; IT billionaires, believers in ‘strong Ai’. Each one of them must die. Because their plans for humanity cannot be allowed to succeed. There was just one problem. It had to be done then, right then, with no planning and no intel. And only Harry Bauer could do that…

IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SIMPLE ESCORT... USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series! Harry Bauer is a professional assassin. He is employed by Cobra, a shadow agency that provides certain, select Western governments with total deniability, while taking out the trash. Bauer is very good at what he does. In fact, he’s the best. So when the brigadier, his overall boss, tells Bauer to go to Canada, pick up a woman and escort her to DC, he is understandably pissed: He eliminates bad guys, he’s not a nursemaid. But when a few hours into the job the CIA send a highly professional hit squad to take out his charge, Diana, Harry begins to realize there is more to the job than babysitting. And when every attempt to get information about her is stonewalled, both by Diana and Cobra, he knows he has been put in the middle of something big, and dark. It was supposed to be a simple escort, Calgary to DC, but it ends up taking Bauer and Diana across the Atlantic to the Azores, to Cadiz and beyond, before he discovers the terrifying truth, and does what he has to do, what he does best…Take out the trash.

JUDGE, JURY, AND EXECUTIONER... USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series! Harry Bauer’s job is to take out the trash. He works for Cobra, a secret agency that assassinates tyrants, cartel bosses - and other trash. Colonel Kostas Marcović was one of the butchers of the Vukovar Hospital massacre. He was a mark like any other. Except that Marcović was hiding on St George Island in the Caribbean, where the Colombian cartel Bloque Meta was trying to open up a new path to Florida. And Harry had a big problem with drug cartels, a problem that threatened to pull the whole mission of track. That wasn’t the only problem Harry faced on that sultry, tropical island. There was also Maria, the sultry, tropical owner of Old Joe’s - and the local drug lord’s girl. Then there was the mysterious Helen, Maria’s friend. She had a past, and an agenda, that Harry cannot fathom. Worst of all, when Harry finally tracks down Marcović, it turns out there are two of them. Both hate each other, both claim to be innocent, and Helen loves them both. Now Harry must decide, which one lives and which one dies…

WHEN THE HUNTER BECOMES THE PREY... USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series! Harry Bauer is on the run. Suddenly the hunter is the prey. He’d been returning from St George’s Island in the Caribbean. There he’d dealt with a Serbian war criminal, and, as a free bonus, a group of Colombian Bloque Meta drug dealers. It was all in a day’s work for Harry. But when he got to Trinidad, he found that the world and his mother were out hunting for him. From Sinaloa to Alqaeda, from Bloque Meta to the Russian Mafia by way of MI6 and the CIA: Everybody wanted Harry Bauer - and in particular they wanted to know who he worked for. But Harry was not telling. That can be a dangerous policy when the guys asking the questions are from a Colombian cartel, or the CIA. Then your options become really limited: talk or die. Or escape. But that option is not so easy when you’re surrounded by jungle on all sides, and your only ally is a beautiful, mysterious woman who has one hand unbuttoning your shirt, and the other holding a Sig Sauer P226 semiautomatic. A semiautomatic that happens to be yours.

SOMETIMES...THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS AS THEY SEEM... USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series! Billionaire philanthropist, Senator Charles Cavendish, is head of the renowned Cavendish Foundation, known for building schools and hospitals in Third World countries, and for sponsoring clean water, vaccination and sanitation projects to help vulnerable kids and communities the world over. He is one of the ‘good guys’. And Cobra has decided he must die, and Harry Bauer must kill him. He must die because he is evil. His foundation is a front for arms dealing and his support for terrorist groups, who pay him in oil. Bauer is skeptical, but when he learns that Cavendish supplied Mohammed Ben-Amini with the chemical weapons to wipe out the village of Belandhawa, in Helmand province, his skepticism turns to murderous anger. The problem is, Cavendish lives in an electronic fortress in Pacific Palisades; Bauer can’t get close to him, and when he tries to use Cavendish’s beautiful, naïve assistant, Sheila Newton, things start to unravel badly. Suddenly Bauer doesn’t know who is his enemy, and who is his ally. But one thing is clear, when Harry Bauer is out for blood, whoever his enemy is, they’re on the wrong side…

THEY ARE GOING TO PAY...IN BLOOD... USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series! Harry Bauer is a killer. That’s his job, and after eight years in the British SAS, he’s good at it. One of the best. He works for Cobra, a secret organization that takes out the world’s trash. They serve the so-called Five Eyes, but answer to nobody. Now, Cobra’s head of operations, Colonel Jane Harris, has been abducted, and Cobra Director, the brigadier, has told Harry to go find her. Harry doesn’t need telling. She’s more than his employer. How much more he doesn’t know, but he does know he’s going to find her and bring her home, and whoever took her is going to pay. In blood. His search takes him to Koufonisi, a small Greek Island in the Cyclades, to Charlotte’s House, a small boutique hotel on the beach, and to Russian billionaire Gabriel Yushbaev’s super yacht, anchored just off shore. What he finds there will be crueler than any knife wound he ever took. It will lead him on to Istanbul, and across the Black Sea to Divnomorskoye, to the heart of an evil empire that straddles the globe, and to the very gates of Hell…

IN COLD BLOOD... USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series! Cobra is an agency, established by the five principle English-speaking democracies, which operates on the fringes of legality to assassinate those who commit crimes against humanity, but are beyond the reach of the law. Harry Bauer is Cobra’s best operative. But when Colonel Jane Harris and Brigadier Alex ‘Buddy’ Byrd call him to do a job, that job is not on the fringes of legality, it’s downright murder, pure and simple. He is to find a civilian hiding out in remote, south-east New Mexico with a motorcycle gang, and he is to kill him. This is not a political dictator, a general guilty of genocide or a despotic tyrant. This is a private, American citizen. If he takes the job Cobra cannot support him, provide back up or hardware, nor can they extract him if the going gets rough. If he takes it, he takes it alone. But when Harry finds out what this man has done, and how the invisible tendrils of his evil have spread, Harry cannot decline. This is a job he must do, even though it will lead him to the very doors of death.

THE GREATEST CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY... USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series! Harry Bauer is a paid assassin. After eight years with the SAS he’s good at it. He works for Cobra, and his job is to punish those who are beyond the law, who commit crimes against humanity. So when a US senator asks him to go to Peru, to a remote village in the sacred Valley of the Incas, to find out who killed a young archeologist, Harry is not happy. He is even less happy when the senator shows him a handwritten letter from a mysterious Carl Allen, that says the Supay , the daemons of Ukupacha , the Inca underworld, are rising up to eat the souls of humanity. Harry is a killer, not a gumshoe or a shrink. But when he arrives in San Julian, high in the Andes, and he meets Dr. Liz Calder, an archeologist obsessed with Inca sacrificial rituals, when he hears the whispers about the dead and the vanished, and the slaves, Harry begins to change his mind. Maybe, just maybe, the greatest crime against humanity is being perpetrated right there, in the shadow of Ukupacha…

SOMETIMES THINGS GET COMPLICATED... USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series! When Harry Bauer’s holiday is cut short by COBRA, it is not just to send him on a routine job like any other. A cargo, classified as above top secret, which was being transported in a container truck, from the Groom Lake testing grounds in Nevada to the Navy Shipyards in Norfolk Virginia, has been hijacked and stolen. There is no trace of the hijacking, nobody knows exactly where it took place, and nobody knows where the container has been taken. And that is not all, the container was being transported by a Delta Force team who were the best of the best and above suspicion. Harry Bauer is not a detective, he is an assassin, but his boss, the brigadier, is pretty sure he knows who is behind the hijacking, and he wants Harry to go to Marbella in Spain and taking him out. At first it looks pretty straightforward, until Harry decides that his shortest route to his target is through the beautiful and mysterious Rafaela Omeya… Then things get complicated.

HARRY BAUER IS NOT GOOD AT TURNING AROUND AND WALKING AWAY... USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series! If he had gone to Miami, or the Caribbean, this would not have happened. But he couldn’t have a vacation like anybody else, drinking mojitos on the beach. He had to go to Maine, to the tiny village of Balthazar, to reassess the meaning of his goddamned life. Maybe he should have seen the signs. Maybe when they told him there was an unseasonable snowstorm coming down from Canada, that should have alerted him. Or when the kids insisted on going on the March Mom March into the forest, up to Stony Lake; or when Suzy’s father, Ned, and then the sheriff, had ever-so politely told him to but out of village business. Any one of these might have alerted him that all was not well in Balthazar, and maybe he should have turned around and walked away. But Harry Bauer is not good at turning around and walking away, and when Suzy and Polly get lost in the forest in the snowstorm, near the saw mill, Harry knows he has to do something about it, and that means pretty soon, there will be blood on Balthazar…

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A SMIPLE KILL... USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series! It was a simple kill. It should have been a simple kill Jan van Hoek was a mercenary and a very bad man. He had organized the massacre of three villages in the Republic of Cabinda-Itumba, on the west coast of Africa, and had received a medal from President Cosmo Manuel for his bravery in participating personally in the massacres. Over three-thousand people had died, men, women, children. Now he was in New York. For Harry Bauer it was a simple kill. He had the intel. He was home, alone. Turn up, execute the job, go home leaving the world a slightly better place. But somebody hadn’t done their homework, and when Harry turned up, Jan was with a woman, a woman who picked up her purse and walked away, having seen Harry’s face; a woman who turned out to be Jan’s daughter, who turned out to work for Afro-American Petrochemicals in New York. A woman who was as beautiful as she was dangerous. Maybe Harry should have remembered from the start, there is no such thing as a simple kill…

WHEN HARRY GETS MAD, HE GOES HUNTING... USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series! Harry Bauer is the best assassin in Cobra. So when the brigadier gets a call from his old FBI friend, Ash Cooper, telling him he believes a Gulf Cartel drugs baron known only as Otropoco, is extending his operation to Pinedale, Wyoming, pushing drugs to school kids and out on the reservation, the brigadier doesn’t hesitate. He sends Harry to pick up the scent, find Otropoco and kill him. But when Harry gets to Pinedale Ash Cooper has disappeared, and so has Sonia, his sixteen year-old daughter. The only people who seem to know anything are Sonia’s pals, and among them Slick, the town punk and drugs pusher, but he’s not talking. Then Sonia’s body is found in Lake Freemont, with her father’s body clinging to her. And that’s when Harry gets mad. He picks up Otropoco’s scent, and he goes for the kill… In a hunt that takes him from the Wind River Mountains to Vegas and San Diego, Harry is doing what he does best – taking out the trash.

SOME PEOPLE ARE EVIL. THEY MASSACRE. THEY RAPE. THEY TORTURE. ACCORDING TO HARRY BAUER, THOSE PEOPLE FORFEIT THEIR RIGHT TO LIVE. USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series! He works for COBRA, an organization that exists in the shadows, whose purpose is to take down those who commit crimes against humanity, who are beyond the reach of the law. So where the law can’t reach, Harry goes and takes out the trash. But when he is sent to take out the Chechen war criminal, Abbas Magomadov, a colonel in the infamous Kadrovitsy , the 141st Special Motorized Division, he finds that somebody got there before him and, literally, took Magomadov apart. Was it Magomadov’s personal assistant, Salambek Bazurkaev, who has now gone missing? Or the amiable, courteous but inscrutable Bohdan Fedorko, a Ukranian refugee, secretary to the cult of Nergal, in which Magomadov had become involved? Or was it the mysterious and beautiful Anna Molyboha, who had been seen visiting Magomadov on several occasions before his death? What, if anything, had these people to do with Colonel Magomadov’s bloody past? And if Harry’s job had been done for him, what should he do now, walk away…?

ASSASSINS OF HARRY BAUER'S CALIBER NEVER RESIGN. THEY JUST DIE. USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series! Harry is at peace. He has found his little bit of heaven. He has closed up his house in Manhattan and moved to Pinedale with Dr. Claire Erickson. They are making a new life together… But Dr. Erickson is about to discover just how new life can get when you hook up with Cobra’s most deadly assassin. Only, Harry no longer works for Cobra. He has hung up his Sig Sauer P226 and his Fairbairn and Sykes fighting knife. Now he breeds horses on his ranch, goes shopping with his woman and even participates in the annual July Rendezvous on the first weekend in July. Or that’s what he thought. But Harry should have known, assassins of his caliber never resign. They just die. And that’s what Harry must do now if he is to save the only good thing he ever had in his life. He must die, but first he must kill and he must destroy. He must destroy what he most passionately believes in. Freedom.

THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN PEOPLE WHO HARM CHILDREN... USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series! Harry Bauer is an assassin. He’s the best. But he’s choosy about who he takes out. Because what Harry takes out is the trash. Harry works for Cobra. They eliminate the monsters who commit crimes against humanity, but are beyond the reach of the Law. And for Harry, one type of trash stands out from the rest - a type that haunts his nightmares, his memories of Afghanistan; a type that has a putrid stench which makes his blood boil. And that’s the trash that victimizes children. So when Harry hears that there’s a lithium mine in the Argentine Andes where children are being used as slaves, he volunteers for the mission: find who’s responsible and take them out. But finding who’s responsible turns out to be not so easy. Is it Lady Angela Liu, the exotic, Anglo-Chinese aristocrat? Is it Senator Kit O’Hanlon? Or does it go far beyond either of these? And what exactly is the role of the beautiful, mysterious Rosario Fuentes…? One thing is clear though, when Harry gets his answers, there will be bloody retribution.

THAT SUITS HARRY JUST FINE...A ROGUE KILLER IS EXACTLY WHAT HE IS... USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series! Harry Bauer was a professional killer. After eight years in the SAS he was the best in the business. That business was Cobra, a shadow agency that took out the trash that was beyond the reach of the law, those guilty of crimes against humanity. Now Harry has resigned. He purpose is to find peace. But when his former head of operation, Colonel Jane Harris, is gunned down and left fighting for her life under heavy guard at the hospital, Harry know he has one more shipment on trash to take out. His former boss, Brigadier ‘Buddy’ Byrd tells him to stay out of it – he also tells him their mark had been Russian Mafia selling next generation chemical weapons through Russian contacts at the United Nations. The Brigadier can’t protect him, Cobra cannot protect him. If Harry goes after them he will do so as a rogue killer. That suits Harry just fine. A rogue killer is exactly what he is.

THEY SAY REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED COLD.... FOR HARRY BAUER IT’S A DISH BEST SERVED HOT, FROM THE BARREL OF A SIG SAUER P226... USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series! When Sheriff Seth Levi of Sublette County, Wyoming calls to tell him a man has been found by Lake Freemont with his neck cut open and Harry’s name scrawled on a piece of paper in his pocket, Harry knows he must go back to Pinedale, where he had promised Doc Claire Erickson he would never return. And when he gets there and sees his old friend Ernie Skinner, fellow Blade from the SAS, lying dead and waxy gray on the slab, he knows immediately why Ernie was killed, and he knows who had killed him. He died because he was a fearless messenger of retribution - and those who had killed him were the secretive Alqatala, a sect of psychopathic assassins who had sworn vengeance against Ernie years ago. So now they had found him, they would go after the other names on their list: Dave, Bradley the Kiwi, and Harry Bauer, the Yank. The time had come, then, for vengeance to be satiated: the time to finish the job he and Ernie had started all those years ago in Al-Landy, in Afghanistan – the job of revenge, blood for blood.

IF YOU GO AFTER KIDS, YOU’RE ON HARRY’S LIST... AND HARRY’S LIST IS A BAD PLACE TO BE... Harry Bauer takes out the trash. He’s a killer. It’s what he does. He’s the best and that’s why Cobra employed him. Because their job is to bring justice to those who commit crimes against humanity, but are beyond the reach of the law. Hussein-i Sabbah should have been on Cobra’s list of trash to be taken out, but somehow he had managed to stay in the shadows, keeping to the dark places where evil festers and commits atrocities that never make the headlines. So when fifteen year-old Beverly Cook, daughter of controversial billionaire tech giant Jeff Cook, disappears, and her father receives a videoed message from Sabbah, telling him Beverly is in a cell underground, and she will die there if Sabbah’s terms are not met, Jeff Cook turns to Cobra. But Cobra can’t help him, because Sabbah is not on their list. So the head of Cobra, Brigadier ‘Buddy’ Byrd, arranges a private meeting with Harry. He knows that if you go after the weak and the vulnerable, if you go after kids, you’re on Harry’s list. And Harry’s list is a bad place to be. Like Mitch Rapp, James Reece, or Jack Reacher? You'll love Harry Bauer! Perfect for fans of revenge thrillers and badass hero's who don't play by the rules!

In a web of lies and shifting allegiances, who can be trusted—and who will pay the price? Bogdan Novac organized and executed the systematic abduction, torture and murder of over two hundred Serbian women and children, triggering a mass exodus of Serbs from the city. What was left behind by them, in their panic, Bogdan appropriated and made himself rich. But Novac never was brought to justice. In the aftermath of a war where the Serbians were found guilty of mass atrocities, there was little stomach to go after Croations for crimes against Serbs. Instead, Bogdan was rewarded with the rank of colonel in the police and the army and from there he invested his stolen wealth in arms which he sold into the Middle East. Now, at sixty-five, Novac has retired to a luxurious home in Norway, where he plans to live out the rest of his life as a consultant on the board of several international security firms. Except that Cobra have tracked him down and sent Harry Bauer to deliver justice where the ICJ had failed. But what Harry finds is a Croat hero who asserts his innocence, a beautiful CIA officer who backs up his claim, the shadowy Joseph Smith who want Novac dead and the exquisite compulsive liar, Tatiana Rusova with a hundred stories of her own. Who is Harry to believe...? Like Mitch Rapp, James Reece, or Jack Reacher? You'll love Harry Bauer! Perfect for fans of revenge thrillers and badass hero's who don't play by the rules!