When a man enters the inner circle of government service, a whole new world is opened up to him, a world of awesome power—and of absolute vulnerability. So learns Alexander Rhalles, Nobel Prize-winning historian and foreign affairs adviser to the President, when his wife is kidnapped by the KGB. His choices: committing treason by passing on transcripts of his meetings with the President or condemning his wife to a terrible death. Rhalles knew that there was only one man who might be able to end his nightmare and save Moira’s life—her former lover Peter Sawyer, a corporate investigator whose work in industrial espionage required tactics as sophisticated—and as ruthless—as the KGB’s…or the CIA’s….

Pete Sawyer is a private eye of a different kind. The son of a World War II American pilot and a brave French resistance fighter, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic—though he prefers his sun-dappled villa on the Riviera to most other places. He takes pleasure in a fine wine...and a good gun. His French name is Pierre-Ange, and it suits him. In English, it means Stone Angel. Pete's been hired by a wealthy American couple to locate their missing teenaged daughter. But when the detective tracks down Sarah Byrne's most recent Paris address, he finds not the girl, but the bloody trail of a band of terrorists. What's the link between Sarah and the deadly group? And, more perplexing, what's the link between the group and the aristocratic Lemaire family, whose fortune was made by a Champagne business to rival Pommery and Mumm? Pete Sawyer must use all his charm and cunning to solve these problems—and prevent a national disaster....

STONE ANGEL: HE'S GOT AMERICAN GRIT. AND FRENCH SAVOIR-FAIRE. Pete Sawyer is a private investigator who's half-French; half-American, and totally sophisticated. Following his education in the States, he served a tour of duty in Vietnam But these days, sunny afternoons find him in the garden of his villa on the Riviera. Unless he's on the trail of a killer. When Pete drops by his friend Frank Crowley's house one evening, neither Crowley nor his wife Nathalie is home, Instead, Pete finds two dead bodies—and he recognizes them both. One is a rival private eye, The other is Nathalie's gorgeous sister-in-law, Anne-Marie Both are naked, with bullet-holes in their heads. Were the two having an affair? Is there a connection between the two murders and the recent goings-on at the prestigious couture house where Anne-Marie was a star designer? Pete Sawyer must keep his wits about him—and his gun in hand—to solve this stylish mystery and keep his friend Crowley out of jail.

Minding his own business at a favorite Nice creperie, Pete notices a teenage girl hurrying by—with a desperate look on her face. Moments later, two cops arrive, a young actor named Bruno Ravic bursts from a nearby doorway, shots are fired, and Pete's most dangerous case to date begins! The girl is Odile Garnier, and her father (former Grand Prix champ Egon Mulhausser) hires Pete to find her. But what is the connection between Odile and Bruno, who is murdered just a few days later? And why do so many clues seem to lead to the Cannes Film Festival...and to a certain director? Pete Sawyer must go underground—literally—to save lives and solve this sensational mystery!

Pete Sawyer is a private eye of a different kind. The son of a World War II American pilot and a brave French resistance fighter, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic—though he prefers his sun-dappled villa on the Riviera to most other places. He takes pleasure in a fine wine...and a good gun. His French name is Pierre-Ange, and it suits him. In English, it means Stone Angel.When Arlette Alfani, a lawyer as competent as she is beautiful, asks Pete to help her client whose wife has been kidnapped, Pete agrees—only to find that the man in question is none other than Karl Malo, the inconceivably wealthy patriarch of the Malo Transport family. Completely in love for the first time in his life, Malo is inconsolable over the kidnapping of his third wife, Jacqueline. But no sooner has Pete done all he can to get Jacqueline back than Malo has another problem. Someone very close to him has betrayed him. Is it his brilliant, rebellious son, Alexandre? His one-wild daughter, Claudette? His imeccably tailored son-in-law, Jean-Noel? Pete Sawyer must keep his eyes open—and his gun at hand—to solve this family affair.

Pete Sawyer is tackling an investigation for purely personal reasons when defense lawyer Arlette Alfani is suspected of organizing the escape from jail of France's most wanted thief. The author is a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America.

Another of those ubiquitous beautiful strangers visits P.I. Pete Sawyer, bearing a letter to be delivered to his friend Desire Brissac, and soon the detective finds himself in Brissac's mysterious past and the danger of the present

Pete Sawyer investigates after being approached by an American heiress, the victim of an unsolved childhood kidnapping, who is nearly hysterical after recognizing the voice of her childhood tormentor in the foyer of the Ritz Hotel in Paris.

Private eye Peter Sawyer must locate and bring back alive Sandrine Tally, the beautiful woman who left a bullet-ridden body in her apartment in order to escape from a group of international thugs. A Stone Angel book originally published under Al Conroy.