Madison McGuire Series by Amanda Kyle Williams

At last. The gripping espionage novel you've waited for. Brimming with authentic detail and far-flung locales and non-stop action...The year is 1978. Madison McGuire, deep-cover agent for the National Operations Intelligence Service and a legend amid the intelligence community, has been called in from the field. Her lover is dead, gunned down on a London street, and Madison, paralyzed with grief, understands too well that she was the intended target... moreAt last. The gripping espionage novel you've waited for. Brimming with authentic detail and far-flung locales and non-stop action...The year is 1978. Madison McGuire, deep-cover agent for the National Operations Intelligence Service and a legend amid the intelligence community, has been called in from the field. Her lover is dead, gunned down on a London street, and Madison, paralyzed with grief, understands too well that she was the intended target.Andrew McFaye, director of the NOIS, is Madison's mentor and friend. He and the CIA director convince the Secretary of State that Madison must return to the field to identify the multi-national group of terrorists known as Club Twelve. Amid that lethal group is a highly placed American, and the daughter of that American is lesbian Terry Woodall, Madison's next contact..In pursuit of Club Twelve through the capitals of Europe, Madison is suddenly caught in a scheme designed to badly damage America. With the stakes raised to entirely new levels, pursued by agents of her own country, Madison calls on old allies - and new lover Terry - to extricate herself and her country from an insidious plot.Edited by Katherine V. Forrest less

From the back cover:Madison McGuire is back!The elusive, deadly deep cover agent introduced in the sensational best seller Club Twelve returns in an adventure torn from today's headlines.Over the Atlantic, a plane is bombed from the skies with massive loss of American life. At Athens' airport, dozens of innocent civilians are ruthlessly gunned down... moreFrom the back cover:Madison McGuire is back!The elusive, deadly deep cover agent introduced in the sensational best seller Club Twelve returns in an adventure torn from today's headlines.Over the Atlantic, a plane is bombed from the skies with massive loss of American life. At Athens' airport, dozens of innocent civilians are ruthlessly gunned down.These events mark only the beginning of a reign of terror designed by the leader of an organization whose recruits welcome their own death in support of their cause. Now he is ready for his next move: to export his recruits onto American soil for direct violence against American citizens.The CIA lures Madison McGuire out of retirement for a daring covert operations: to penetrate the Providence Liberation Army and locate their training camp for a lightning strike by American commandos.Madison begins her assignment on an anonymous island off America's coast . . . then in intrigue-filled Frankfurt, West Germany . . . and Lebanon's war-torn Beirut . . . and the mysterious Bekaa Valley.It is an assignment that may very well cost Madison her life. It seems certain to cost her her relationship with lover Terry Woodall.edited by Katherine V. Forrest less

From the back coverMadison McGuire returns - in the third high voltage adventure in this thrilling series.In Geneva, an insignificant station clerk is blackmailed and then killed. A seemingly minor event, in the ruthless world of espionage... moreFrom the back coverMadison McGuire returns - in the third high voltage adventure in this thrilling series.In Geneva, an insignificant station clerk is blackmailed and then killed. A seemingly minor event, in the ruthless world of espionage.But his murder has set into motion a chain of events that will send Madison McGuire from her quiet life with lover Terry to her most challenging and dangerous assignment: to uncover a traitor - a lethally dangerous mole - in the highest echelons of the government of the United States.To direct an officially unauthorized action in neutral Switzerland, and to neutralize the deadly mole, Madison must operate in utmost secrecy. She compiles her team: a crack photographer, an expert at electronic penetration, a master interrogator. She also recruits rookie agent Alexandria Kimble, and former head of records Donna Sylves, who has been drummed out of the CIA, rumor has it, because she is a lesbian.How can this secret operation be sealed away from the scrutiny of so highly placed an American mole? Soon there is a string of deaths...and Madison learns all about a vicious killer named Natasha, a spy named Raven, and the menace that will reach into the most deeply personal area of Madison's life. less

From the back cover:The fourth Madison McGuire thriller is here!Topical as today's headlines, filled with all the fast-paced action and high-octane suspense you have come to expect from Lambda Award-nominee Amanda Kyle Williams... moreFrom the back cover:The fourth Madison McGuire thriller is here!Topical as today's headlines, filled with all the fast-paced action and high-octane suspense you have come to expect from Lambda Award-nominee Amanda Kyle Williams.Madison is thoroughly enjoying an accidental liaison with a famous female rock star when she is summoned to her most challenging assignment:Locate and offer American help to a small resistance band hidden in the Peruvian jungle - the alternative to the murderous Shining Path guerrilla movement that controls the area from which half of the world's cocaine originates.The resistance fighters are disciplined and courageous, their main cog Paulina Holgodo, a jungle-savvy Latina. Neither the resistance nor Madison know that a separate clandestine American military operation is also at work in Peru - to place a major drug victory in the lap of the re-election campaign of the US President.Madison also does not know that the head of the Colombian Cartel has his own plans for her and for the American military expedition.Nor does Madison realize that she and her operation will be forsaken in a heartbeat if word leaks out that the U.S. is involved in a secret mission.But everyone has underestimated Madison and the resistance - their toughness and heart, and Madison's own resourcefulness . . . less