Code Word

The future is in code. Shawn Muller is a prodigy and he knows it. He's a 28 year old kid and military generals don't wield the kind of power he has. It's 2055 and the ubiquitous AI system that he's designed simply dominates all aspects of American society, from military to business, social life to technology. He's even programmed ‘ethics' into the system. But when Shawn's algorithm suddenly determines that he has become a profound threat to society, he must go on the run, to avoid execution. Off the grid and forced to experience life without the aid of technology for the first time in his life, Shawn will find that for all who reject a world dominated by AI, especially an outlawed organization called the Organites led by their shadowy hero, Destiny & hellip; Shawn is the enemy. But Shawn and Destiny will find that their survival is inextricably linked, and the unlikely pair will set off on a journey to bring down the very system that Shawn helped put in place.

In a twenty-first century Pearl Harbor, nuclear terrorism takes its first city-Las Vegas-and stalks Baltimore. The terrorists have no return address-but the nuke they used does. A scientific trail scented by an ultra-secret U.S. program hidden for years behind the code word "Paternity" points toward the nation that made the bomb. But there's no smoking gun. Struggling to lead a divided, panicked America, wring support from uncertain allies, and blunt the opportunism of rivals, the president faces an ethical dilemma threatening his marriage, his presidency, and his very soul. As commander-in-chief, controlling nearly unfathomable power to retaliate, he can put the Armageddon genie back in the bottle-but at what cost and to whom? Ambition, conscience, and duty collide as heads of state, politicians, diplomats, and generals maneuver with the lives of millions at stake.

Third in the Code Word series, Code Word: Persepolis anticipates headlines as Iran's uneasy neighbors maneuver to resist a new era of Persian dominance while America and China carry their own rivalry to the region. It sweeps from fighter cockpits to the Situation Room to Capitol Hill, from Washington to Tel Aviv to Tehran, pulling readers into the lives and struggles of warriors and leaders. Readers pull Gs in the deadly swirl of aerial combat, sweat alongside the captain during a dangerous feint and parry between Iranian missile boats and an American destroyer, and experience a reckoning between two grizzled warriors facing both each other and the march of time.

In this fourth novel of the Code Word series, Navy strike fighter pilot Kaycee "Pecos" Jenkins and warship skipper Mort Greenhouse face new challenges. With three kills in Mideast combat, Kaycee feels her career accelerating like her jet on after-burner. But her life beyond the cockpit isn't locked on: her twin daughters are shutting out their often-absent mom while her husband struggles to cope with their changing needs and behaviors. And she has a secret she fears will damage her Topgun reputation. At the center of that secret are the president's national security advisor and a woman dying of cancer. Commanding a cruiser in the Indian Ocean, Mort Greenhouse struggles to complete a mission so secret he hasn't been told its true objective. Looming over all of them-and an American admiral with the soul of a pirate-are simultaneous threats of war in Europe and Asia.