David Morton

"In our deserts the makers of deadly perfume have worked hard to provide us with the weapons to defend ourselves and destroy the Zionists should they ever attack us, or their allies, should they, too, dare to attack us." -Saddam Hussein. In the aftermath of the 1990–1991 Gulf War, Mossad agent David Morton has carte blanche to stop terrorist Khalil Raza from releasing a form of anthrax capable of wiping out millions in minutes. A megalomaniac terrorist holds the world hostage, threatening to poison every major city with a deadly virus. He has the means-a lethal poison-and demonstrates its potency by adding a small vial of it to the drinking water in a small South African town, killing all of the inhabitants. With only seven days to meet his demands, the world's leaders call on David Morton, a brilliant and ruthless Mossad agent. The result is a tense global chase, leading from China to Athens, London, Libya, South Africa, Tel Aviv, and New York, drawing good and evil closer and closer in a battle to the death. Deadly Perfume penetrates the real world of intelligence-gathering to reveal its secret subculture, with its hidden loyalties and agendas. In David Morton, Gordon Thomas has imagined a world so terrifyingly real that it poses the question, Is it imagined at all?

In a world ripped from tomorrow's headlines, we once again meet David Morton, the intelligence agent who emerged as the James Bond of the 1990s in Deadly Perfume. After the collapse of the Soviet Empire, a military troika is in power. Suspicious of the West and fearful of the Muslim fanatics in the East, the troika plans to ensure that the Republic of Russia emerges as a military superpower. In Rome, a very different plan preoccupies Pope Nicholas VI: to unite all the faiths and bring to the world a peace and stability it has never known. But Nicholas is dying from a brain tumor. It is to Julius Enkomo, South Africa's first black cardinal, that Pope Nicholas turns, entrusting him with a crucial, secret mission. In California, the pastor of the Church of True Belief, the reverend Edward Kingdom, uses his satellite to spread global hatred. But the threat of Wong Lee is the most sinister of all. Head of the world's largest conglomerate, he is powerful beyond belief. Using a mosaic of shard-like details, each meticulously exact, this extraordinary novel explores the dark, turbulent forces that Morton must overcome if he is to destroy the cynical alliance around him. Already compared to Ian Fleming and John le Carré, in Godless Icon, Gordon Thomas confirms his reputation as a novelist of stature.

Intelligence agent David Morton must avert a world crisis and destroy a Russian-made weapon capable of controlling the US president's mind. David Morton and his new Hammer Force - an intelligence agency created by the United Nations after the carnage in Bosnia - have a formidable task. To avert a world crisis, they must win a deadly, invisible battle for control of the mind of the president of the United States. The weapon they must destroy is born of the technology that brought victory in the Gulf War and supremacy in space for an America that is no longer master of all it surveys. Created by the former Soviet Union's most brilliant scientist, Professor Igor Tamasara, the weapon is designed to trigger responses in the president's mind - responses that will bring the United States and Japan into conflict... and will lead to World War III. From that conflict, Tamasara's new paymaster - China - will emerge as the superpower of the twenty-first century. Set against the background of Washington, Beijing, and Hong Kong, this highly original and totally credible futuristic thriller builds to a climax of nail-biting suspense. Once more showing an astonishing command of the inner workings of international politics and the world of secret intelligence, Gordon Thomas has created a first-rate work of fiction featuring unforgettable characters. At center stage is David Morton, and in Voices in the Silence, Morton's role as the "James Bond of the 1990s" is firmly established, as is Gordon Thomas's reputation as a thriller writer of quality.

On a remote island in Central America, David Morton must foil Dr. Gustav Romer, who performs transplants for the elite of the crime world with organs harvested from those killed by a sinister organization.

Operative David Morton accompanies the US president on an antipollution campaign in an effort to infiltrate and foil an international conspiracy.