Richard Murphy: 210 books

The new director of the CIA decides it's out with the old and begins a housecleaning rampage, slashing all programs and needless spending he deems fit. Much to his chagrin, a deadman's switch has been tripped, unleashing a long-dormant network of government-sanctioned assassins on the capitols of...

Chiun is on a sabbatical but helping deliver the new Bunji Lama to Tibet for a tribute of gold. A movie blockbuster may be in the making, but the not so subtle excursion is causing international chaos and Remo is sent to stop further damage. Reincarnation is great in the long run, but good old Sinanju skills are the best for present danger.

The villainous Dr. Quake is threatening to unleash devastation on California unless he's payed a king's ransom. He has the technology, and California certainly has the fault lines. But while Quake and his lovely assistants may have plate tectonics under their thumbs, Remo and Chiun are two forces...

Men and women in key government positions are being influenced. Controlled. Made to act in ways completely contrary to their nature, and to the interests of the nation. And they do so happily, humming a merry tune, all the way to their deaths. But if anyone in the corridors of power can be made to...

Solly Martin is as ambitious as he is unsuccessful. Out of ideas, he hires two goons to torch his bankrupt business for the insurance money, but a young punk beats them to the barbecue—and fries the felons in the process. Flames just seem to come to him naturally. Martin, feeling the heat of his...

The city of Norfolk, North Carolina, is invaded in a highly coordinated attack and fourteen men have been kidnapped. The victims are young, unemployed—and most ominously—African American. The reports coming into CURE all point to the same terrifying conclusion, and the enemy may be a little too...

The copaiba is a biotech holy grail: a tree whose sap does double-duty as Diesel fuel. Tap a tropical forest, fill the tanks of a nation! That’s fine if you’re a country close to the equator, but American energy giant Tulsa Torrent has an even better idea: genetically modify the pulpy profit centers...

Wesley Pruiss has made a career of catering to the nation's basest animal instincts ("If you like your magazine dirty, you'll love it when it's Gross!”). His empire encompasses print, nightclubs, and soon film. So why has be bought-up a bankrupt county in rural Indiana? Pruiss would have the...

Barney Daniels was one of the best agents the CIA ever had. There was no problem too large, no mystery too complex, no interrogation subject too taciturn. Daniels cracked them all. But years in the Company take a toll on a man. He cracked too, and in the middle of a tiny Central American village,...

Elmo Wimpler, weak in body but strong in mind, has finally invented something worthwhile. It’s not dry cereal that tastes like ham and eggs, it’s far better than he could’ve dreamed. A black paint, when applied liberally to any object, completely disappears in the dark. The implications are...

Two hundred and forty-two men are all that stand between American democracy and plutocratic dictatorship, and they don’t even know it. Two hundred and forty-two unremarkable men who occupy key positions, a few steps removed from the levers of power. Two hundred and forty-two men who Miles Quantril,...

Father Malcolm McConnell heard the call of both God and country—his career in the cloth has been as a chaplain in the US Army. Father McConnell is devoted to the men, the mission and the military, but his congregation is decidedly diminished of late. There’s a single sergeant still in the fold—they’ve...

Bay City, New Jersey has seen better days. Once a center of coastal commerce, its docks sit empty, its factories idle, its business district a ghost town. It’s the kind of blighted backwater that attracts criminals like a body draws blowflies. Bay City’s newly-appointed mayor, the sharp-suited,...

Bobby-Jack Billings is a beer-guzzling, gut-bulging slipshod. He’s a drunk, a racist, and a buffoon. He’s also the President's brother-in-law. And he’s missing. Having him out of the headlines is a welcome relief, but could it be too welcome? Are the Libyans behind it? The Israel lobby? Was...