PUBLISHED/Pinnacle (Kensington) thriller
Black Skies
Leo Maloney
When U.S. Secretary of State Lee Irwin Wolfe is kidnapped during a diplomatic visit to Pakistan, suspicion falls on terrorist mastermind Haider Raza. It is a mad scramble to retrieve the Secretary as Zeta Division sends Peter Conley, Code Name Cougar, to Islamabad to investigate.
Based on intelligence received from an on-ground asset in Pakistan, Zeta Division sends black operative Dan Morgan, Code Name Cobra, to Monte Carlo to follow up on an unlikely conspirator in the abduction of the Secretary: billionaire Gunther Weinberg, a German shipping magnate whose company is surrounded by dark rumors and allegations. There, the appearance of a mysterious English femme fatale throws a wrench in their carefully laid plans, but puts them on the trail of a conspiracy beyond anyone’s expectations involving corruption that cuts to the nation’s heart and deadly weapons capable of untold destruction.
A wild ride of twists and turns and nail-biting action, suspense and betrayal, Black Skies takes readers from the Pakistani hinterlands to global seats of power as Dan Morgan and Zeta Division attempt to thwart madmen who will stop at nothing to get what they want.
Here's what other thriller writers have to say about Leo J. Maloney
"Leo J Maloney has done it again. Real life often overshadows fiction and Silent Assassin is both: a terrifying thrilling story of a man on a clandestine mission to save us all from a madman hell bent on murder, written by a man who knows that world all too well."
- Michelle McPhee, New York Times bestselling author
"An outstanding thriller that rings with authenticity"
- John Gilstrap, bestselling author
"From the bloody, ripped-from-the headlines opening sequence, Silent Assassin has everything a thriller reader wants - nasty villains, twists and turns, and a hero - Cobra, who just plain kicks ass"
- Ben Coes, New York Times bestselling author
Based on intelligence received from an on-ground asset in Pakistan, Zeta Division sends black operative Dan Morgan, Code Name Cobra, to Monte Carlo to follow up on an unlikely conspirator in the abduction of the Secretary: billionaire Gunther Weinberg, a German shipping magnate whose company is surrounded by dark rumors and allegations. There, the appearance of a mysterious English femme fatale throws a wrench in their carefully laid plans, but puts them on the trail of a conspiracy beyond anyone’s expectations involving corruption that cuts to the nation’s heart and deadly weapons capable of untold destruction.
A wild ride of twists and turns and nail-biting action, suspense and betrayal, Black Skies takes readers from the Pakistani hinterlands to global seats of power as Dan Morgan and Zeta Division attempt to thwart madmen who will stop at nothing to get what they want.
Here's what other thriller writers have to say about Leo J. Maloney
"Leo J Maloney has done it again. Real life often overshadows fiction and Silent Assassin is both: a terrifying thrilling story of a man on a clandestine mission to save us all from a madman hell bent on murder, written by a man who knows that world all too well."
- Michelle McPhee, New York Times bestselling author
"An outstanding thriller that rings with authenticity"
- John Gilstrap, bestselling author
"From the bloody, ripped-from-the headlines opening sequence, Silent Assassin has everything a thriller reader wants - nasty villains, twists and turns, and a hero - Cobra, who just plain kicks ass"
- Ben Coes, New York Times bestselling author
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
While Leo J. Maloney was serving in the army, he was recruited by a United States government clandestine agency and received highly specialized Black Ops training. Among his assignments in the decades that followed were asset extraction, espionage, and numerous missions still too secret to divulge. Now retired, he lives in the Boston area. To learn more, please visit leojmaloney.com.
