Henry Carter Hull

In 1857, Jaffy Brown, an eight-year-old street urchin in London's East End, is saved from a tiger attack by Mr. Jamrach, the tiger's owner, who takes Jaffy under his wing and puts him to work caring for the animals in his exotic menagerie, and as the years progress, Jaffy's friendship with the other handler, Tim, leads to a grand adventure that will change both their lives forever.

"At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshipers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now, Henry joins forces with a Saudi...

America's top spy, Scot Harvath, with democracy itself hanging in the balance, is thrust into a completely unfamiliar culture where he can trust no one as he fights to take down the country's most powerful enemy--and for his life. An unprecedented threat has materialized on the world stage. Fearful of the global consequences of engaging this enemy, administration after administration has passed the buck. The clock, however, has run out and doing...