The defection of the archivist for the KGB, who escapes Russia with seven suitcases full of notes purloined from the files of his former employer, and a massacre at a government safe house put Tommy Carmellini on the trail of a dark conspiracy.

After he barely escapes with his life, he realizes someone in the United States government is behind it all. Which begs the question, who can Carmellini trust?
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Note: This book was published as LIARS & THIEVES in the U.S. and Canada by St. Martin's Press, which didn't like the original title, WAGES OF SIN.  The British publisher, Orion, stayed with the original title.  Buyers should beware if they buy books over the internet... LIARS & THIEVES and WAGES OF SIN are the same book as published by two different publishers.

Assigned to Paris, CIA officer Tommy Carmellini finds himself working for his old boss, Jake Grafton, who is the new CIA operations officer in charge of Europe. Grafton has a mission: He believes that the director of French Intelligence has a secret agent among the leaders of Al Queda and the Americans want access to that intelligence. Yet the director denies it! 

Trying to ferret out the truth, Grafton and Carmellini are quickly entangled in a mare’s nest of espionage, deception and murder. The director has secret investments in the Bank of Palestine and a killer is on the loose. If that weren’t enough, the leaders of the G-8 industrialized nations are soon to meet in Paris, an event that would make a tempting terrorist target. Throw into the mix the very beautiful and clever daughter of the French Ambassador to Washington, an Israeli spy or two, and the stage is set for a tour de force of deception and drama in the world’s most beautiful city, graceful, ageless Paris.
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THE TRAITOR will be published in the United States and Canada by St. Martin ’s Press and is available in bookstores and on-line.  It will be published as TRAITOR by Orion Press in the United Kingdom. 
 
AudioFile Magazine has awarded THE TRAITOR an AudioFile Earphones Award, their recognition of excellence in audio. In their review, AudioFile raves: "With just a little imagination, listeners get the feeling they are sharing a beer with Carmellini while he tells his fascinating story. It doesn't get much better than this." THE TRAITOR is published in audio by Audio Rennaissance and narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris. All of Mr. Coonts' books are available in audio, in either cassette tape or DVD format, or both, abridged and unabridged. Check with your local bookstore or an on-line bookseller for the titles you've missed.

Tommy is up to his eyes in beautiful women and corpses as he tries to piece together the puzzle and keep Grafton’s friends alive. But who is killing whom? With bombs ticking, bullets flying, and blood flowing, Tommy and Jake close in on Abu Qasim, who has one last nasty trick up his sleeve, one he’s been planning for years.

As hot as today’s headlines, The Disciple is Stephen Coonts at the top of his game. Spies, soldiers, scholars, fighter pilots, patriots, traitors, presidents and ayatollahs are all here within the pages of The Disciple. Not since Cuba has Coonts written a novel as big and bold as The Disciple, a novel that catches the dreams and aspirations of a nation.

The Disciple will be published in hardcover by St Martins Press in December, 2009.

LARRY BOND takes us into the wild frontier of space warfare, where American soldiers fight a dangerous zero-gee battle with a tenacious enemy that threatens every free nation on Earth.

DALE BROWN lets us inside a world that few people see, that of a military promotion review board, and shows us how the fate of an EB-52 Megafortress pilot's career can depend on a man he's never met, even as the pilot takes on the newest threat to America's forces in the Persian Gulf--a Russian stealth bomber.

JAMES COBB finds a lone U.S. Armored Cavalry scout unit that is the only military force standing between a defenseless African nation and an aggressive Algerian recon division.

STEPHEN COONTS tells of the unlikely partnership between an ex-Marine sniper and a female military pilot who team up to kill the terrorists who murdered her parents. But, out in the Libyan desert, all is not as it seems, and these two must use their skills just to stay alive.

HAROLD W. COYLE reports in from the front lines of the information war, where cyberpunks are recruited by the U.S. Army to combat the growing swarm of hackers and their shadowy masters who orchestrate their brand of online terrorism around the world.

DAVID HAGBERG brings us another Kirk McGarvey adventure, in which the CIA. director becomes entangled in the rising tensions between China and Taiwan. When a revolutionary leader is rescued from a Chinese prison, the Chinese government pushes the United States to the brink of war, and McGarvey has to make a choice with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

DEAN ING reveals a scenario that could have been torn right from tomorrow's headlines. In Oakland, a private investigator teams up with a bounty hunter and FBI. agent to find a missing Marine engineer. What they uncover is the shadow of terrorism looming over America and a conspiracy that threatens thousands of innocent lives.

RALPH PETERS takes us to the war-torn Balkan states, where a U.S. Army observer sent to keep an eye on the civil war is taken on a guided tour of the country at gunpoint. Captured by the very people he is there to monitor, he learns just how far people will go for their idea of freedom.

R. J. PINEIRO takes us to the far reaches of space, where a lone terrorist holds the world hostage from a nuclear missile-equipped space platform. To stop him, a pilot agrees to a suicidal flight into the path of an orbital laser with enough power to incinerate her space shuttle.

BARRETT TILLMAN takes us to the skies with a group of retired fighter jocks brought back for one last mission--battling enemy jets over the skies of sunny California.

Now bestselling author Stephen Coonts has collected in a single volume some of the finest fiction about flying. ON GLORIOUS WINGS contains stories and excerpts from world renowned authors, including Ernest K. Gann, James Michener, Joseph Heller, Len Deighton, Frederick Forsyth, John Hersey, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, William Faulkner, Louis LÕAmour, Ralph Peters, Dale Brown, and Stephen Coonts himself.

Published by Forge in hardcover in November, 2003.

Writers of military fiction are still fascinated by World War II. Sooner or later they have to try their hand at a tale set in that conflict. The idea that grew into the VICTORY collection was conceived four years ago. We think that you will agree that the collection was worth waiting for. VICTORY includes a novella by Harold Robbins, who passed away several years ago. He wrote the original story during or immediately after the war. It appears here with the permission of the Robbins Estate.

This volume also includes short novels by a stellar collection of literary criminals, including James Cobb, Stephen Coonts, Harold Coyle, Jim DeFelice, David Hagberg, Dean Ing, Ralph Peters, R.J. Pineiro, and Barrett Tillman, most of whom were born after World War II. However, one or two of them did spend that conflict wearing diapers.

VICTORY is now on sale nationwide. Look for it in your favorite bookstore or, of course, on-line.

Never before has there been a collection of real-life tales of aerial warfare drawn from so wide a range of sources: American, British, German, Japanese, and more. You will see firsthand what it's like to skim the clouds in wood and fabric biplanes with the daring young men who flew and fought by the seat of their pants; you'll climb into the cockpit of the most technologically advanced fighting machines, piloted by men of consummate skill, instinct, and intelligence. You'll sit in the bombardier's bay as flak explodes around you, experience the rush of adrenaline as a helicopter skims the trees in battle, and take off from the swaying deck of an aircraft carrier and fly straight into a dogfight fought at the speed of sound.

In WAR IN THE AIR you'll meet some of the greatest figures in aviation history and share their most thrilling moments, including:
"The Hero's Life" from Fighting the Flying Circus by Captain Eddie V. Rickenbacker, America's first air hero, whose legendary exploits set the standard for all fighter pilots to follow.
"The Reprieve" from Nine Lives by Alan C. Deere, one of the most harrowing aerial combat stories ever recorded.
"The Doolittle Raid", from Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo by Ted W. Lawson, the story of the famed bombing run by B-25 Mitchells into the heart of the Japanese empire.
"The Flight of Enola Gay" from Enola Gay by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts, the mission that changed the shape of war and of history--target Hiroshima.
"The Last Ace," an original piece by Stephen Coonts of the first victory of Vietnam ace Steve Ritchie, who Coonts believes will be the last American ace.