While vacationing with his family in Europe, businessman Benjamin Sager is assaulted and abducted, awakening in a small cell occupied only by another captive American. Ben’s senses send him reeling into his own past; to a place both exhilarating and terrifying. As Sager struggles to determine where he is and why he and his cellmate are being held, Christopher Falen, a covert agent of the CIA offshoot, Unit 1, uncovers a disturbing pattern of unexplained American tourist disappearances, seemingly vanishing without a trace. Two paths cross as Falen’s investigation and Sager’s desperate will to survive draw them both into the deadly web of the Shield of Darius. A timely and relevant thriller, The Shield of Darius takes the reader on a journey through the maze of international espionage and politics between the United States and the Middle East and poses the question: Who can be trusted?

A Forty-Five Year Old Letter Reveals A Threat That Is Still Very Much AliveWhen a letter to a CIA operative suddenly shows up forty-five years after the contact who sent it disappeared in Southeast Asia, Unit I agent Adam Zak is assigned to investigate a group of Chinese children who the missing informant had discovered in a remote village in Cambodia, receiving an American education. \>>>An Adventure that Spans from the Jungles of Cambodia to the Notorious Streets of BangkokZak's search to determine who the children were and why they might present a security risk to the United States takes him into the heart of Bangkok's notorious red light district, through the jungle temples of Cambodia's Angkor Wat, and into the volatile secret world of computer network security. Who were the children the villagers called "Weavers," and why does the economic future of the United States depend on unraveling their web of secrecy? Scroll Up and Grab Your Copy Today!

While investigating an extortion scheme involving high-priced Washington call girls and some of America's most powerful politicians, Unit 1 agent Adam Zak becomes embroiled in a deadly conspiracy to manipulate election of the next President of the United States. During the run-up to the primaries, Zak and systems analyst Dreu Sason pick their way through an entangling web of murder, blackmail, and political intrigue that asks of both the government and the media that cover it, "Who can we trust" and "How can we know?"

At the death of fabled CIA operative Bud (Fisher) Liljigren, field agent Adam Zak and his tech-savvy partner, Dreu Sason, are recruited to lead the Agency’s deep-cover Unit 1. When Fisher’s former lover from his service days in Norway alerts the Unit of renewed secret activity in what was once a WW II Nazi experimental lab, Zak recruits a brilliant but disaffected FBI agent, Janet McIntire, to replace him in the field and lead the investigation. As McIntire inserts herself into the life of Alesund, Norway, as the visiting great-niece of Fisher’s wartime lover, word circulates through the international intelligence community that a weaponized strain of the deadly Marburg virus is on the market to be auctioned to the highest bidder. Following a devastating demonstration of the virus’s phenomenal kill rate, McIntire and the Unit 1 team race international buyers to identify the seller, destroy the Marburg mutation, and prevent a global catastrophe.

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This book set includes "USA Today" and Amazon bestselling author Allen Kent's five international thrillers that make up the popular Unit 1 Series: "The Shield of Darius," "The Weavers of Meanchey," "The Wager," "The Marburg Mutation," and "Straits of the Between." Follow Kent's covert Unit 1 team as they defuse crises and clean up disasters too hot to handle by America's more visible intelligence community. From the labyrinthine bazaars of Tehran, to the jungle ruins of Cambodia's Angkor Wat, to the monastic palaces of Tibet's Buddhist lamas, the Unit 1 Series takes the reader on a globetrotting, page-turning ride into the darkest corners of the world's most sinister places. A "must read" for thriller enthusiasts. This bargain collection is priced at what three of the books would cost separately. For a brief summary of each novel, see www.allenkentbooks.com.