Rick Jones

• Mar-2026
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• Dec-2025
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• Aug-2025
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In 1307, as the flames of King Philip IV's purge consume the Knights Templar, a lone knight flees with a secret that could upend Christendom—a set of scrolls said to bear the words of the Apostles themselves, guided by Mary Magdalene after the ...

• May-2025
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In Paris, a delegate from Hezbollah's March 8 Alliance is gunned down as he arrives at a summit to broker peace, with all blame placed on Israel.As the world teeters on the edge of war, an unseen force moves in the shadows—a Hamas cell with pla...

• Feb-2025
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In 1943, the Eldridge, part of the Philadelphia Experiment, disappeared, only to reappear elsewhere, with its crew either driven mad or fused to the ship.A month later, the SS Proteus, an American tender ship, also vanishes under similar circumstance...

• Nov-2024
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In a London warehouse, an attorney is executed by a man with incredible power and reach. In Streatham, a couple comes under fire with threats of assassination. At the heart of it all, Chadwick Sommers becomes central to a global trade that ...

• Aug-2024
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In an exclusive restaurant in Budapest, Kimball Hayden confronts his protégé, The Black Monk, for the final time.Two weeks later, in a Texas town, Kimball finds himself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy after the shocking and violent murd...

• Jul-2024
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Fifteen hundred years ago, a fisherman off the coast of Greece, while diving, discovers a subterranean channel that leads to an underground lair where he finds a relic as old as the universe. Two days later, his body washes up on shore covered with b...

• May-2024
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As the Vatican mourns the loss of Kimball Hayden, Isaiah, branded as the new Master Commander, is tasked with confronting the Black Monk, who has utilized AI technology to spread disinformation across Europe, but with even greater focus on the Vatica...

• Apr-2024
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Joey Cavello, a man with a terminal illness, enters a hospice where he picks up on strange occurrences, such as the mysterious occupant of the second floor, a thing with a terrible origin, and the strange and impenetrable fog that surrounds the place...

• Dec-2023
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In Mindanao, Philippines, a terrorist faction holding members of the clergy hostage is summarily liquidated. On the same night in Manila, a separate team of sophisticated thieves with a considerable amount of military training enter a high-tech ...

• Jul-2023
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In the shadows of Tennessee and Los Angeles, a fortune-teller and an evangelist, both claiming to bear the holy wounds of stigmata, are brutally murdered.Meanwhile, in a shanty town on the outskirts of Rome, a young gypsy girl emerges bearing the unm...

• Mar-2023
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 In Paris, a man's suicide sets off a chain of events.  Days later, the Vatican's cybersecurity system is breached by a hostile element that forwards necrology reports on members of the Vatican that, in detail, spell out the time and m...

• Aug-2022
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In Cana, Jesus performs the first of His miracles that unites the Apostles.In 1307, a Templar Knight who is on the run from Philip the Fair carries a sacred relic of priceless value.In Germany, a collector of rare books purchases a tome on the black ...

• May-2022
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In Los Angeles, the niece of an esteemed cardinal of the Vatican is abducted by an Albanian mob.Kimball Hayden, a man without a country or the support of the church, soon finds himself in the crosshairs of an indigenous black-op unit that is trying t...

• Oct-2021
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In 1769, a wayward priest will create a manifesto that will serve Satan's three messiahs.In Central Afghanistan, Kimball Hayden commits an act resulting in a court-martial proceeding.In Munich, Germany, the manifesto is stolen from the Documentation ...

• Jun-2021
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Somewhere in the Apuseni Mountains, a member from Vatican Intelligence is running from a kill squad for the secrets he possesses.In Cluj-Napoca, three priests are discovered impaled in the church's courtyard.From St. Michael's Church in Transylvania,...

• Mar-2021
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Previously Published as The VALLEYIn a dystopian future, a self-contained valley in Argentina serves as the 'far arena' for those convicted of a crime. Inside the Valley: carnivorous dinosaurs generated from preserved DNA. The goal: cross the Valley ...

• Mar-2021
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The compelling characters that are the VATICAN KNIGHTS pulls in the reader and never lets them go.  Each of the 24 action thriller novels within the series will leave readers gripped by espionage, religious power, terrorism, political warfare an...

• Dec-2020
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In Vienna, one of religion's greatest treasures is stolen from the Imperial Treasury.In Washington, D.C., Shari Cohen finds herself in a struggle between life and death.In Austria, an elite terrorist faction commandeers a state-of-the-art high-rise.W...

• Aug-2020
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In France, a member of a secret guild is killed for the secrets he keeps.In Croatia, a stronghold is breached, and a treasure is stolen.At the Vatican, a corrupt pontiff views Kimball Hayden as a threat to his rule. When the Croatian stronghold ...

• Jun-2020
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During a visit to the United States, Pope Pius XIV is caught within the crosshairs of a lethal assassin. After scores of people are killed during an event featuring the Pope's address, a conspiracy theory emerges that the killings were conducted by o...

• Apr-2020
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In Egypt, those within the Saint Catherine Monastery are brutally attacked and a secret that has been hidden for more than 3,500 years is stolen.  In Zurich, an arms dealer makes an agreement with a band of elite terrorists for one-of-a-kin...

• Mar-2020
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In central Syria, villages are razed as young men are conscripted to join the ISIS faction. In a Doctors Without Borders camp, which is overrun by members of the Islamic State, people are abducted along with a priest, Father Savino, who also hap...

• Feb-2020
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When a highly sophisticated terror cell steals a contingent of deadly Reaper drones from a U.S. military base, no one has to wonder for long what they'll be used for. As America's own top military technology is turned against its homeland, it looks a...

• Dec-2019
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In a Washington, D.C. suburb, a family is executed by a government assassin.While flying at an altitude of 10,000 feet, an editor of a newspaper is murdered.In the middle of the night as a bus leaves Washington, D.C., travelers are gunned down in an ...

• Oct-2019
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In Antarctica, a massive column made of an unknown composite rises from the ice. It's a gateway to a world beneath the ice where an ancient city of incredible technology exists. It is also the final arena where three elite combat units seek out the H...

• Jul-2019
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JUGGERNAUT: a massive unstoppable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path.Kimball Hayden: JUGGERNAUTIn Virginia, a Blacksite facility is assaulted with military sophistication to free a homegrown terrorist who once a...

• Feb-2019
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After discovering secrets in Atlantis that mark the point of mankind's end, John Savage and Alyssa Moore once again seek the truth behind the riddles of a final extinction event.Along the chain of Himalayan mountains sits a precipice that serves as a...

• Feb-2019
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When Artificial Intelligence has been perfected, there are no longer flesh-and-blood actors, only AI characters that look as real as their human counterparts. Having been instilled with artificial intelligence, they begin to evolve naturally with hum...

• Nov-2018
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After a sacred tome written by Saint Peter is stolen from the Vatican's Secret Archives, people around the world begin to die at the hands of a madman once the secrets of The Brimstone Diaries are unveiled.In Rome, a terrorist faction has quietly bre...

• May-2018
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In Washington, D.C., three priests have been murdered and mutilated with their corpses hanging upside-down in mock crucifixion. The only indicator as to the culprit is a 500-year-old order known as the Nocturnal Saints, an underground faction that ha...

• Mar-2018
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Deep in the Atlantic Ocean lies the ancient city believed to be Atlantis. It is, however, much more than that. After John Savage and Alyssa Moore realized that mankind was on the brink of an Extinction-Level Event, they seek the one relic that could ...

• Jan-2018
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It's said that when the world isn't right, a man steps out of the shadows of St. Peter's Basilica to make it whole again.He is the priest who is not a priest.He's an angel to some and a demon to others.But in the Middle East he is known by another na...

• Oct-2017
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In Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943, a place where ashes rain down on a daily basis to cover the ground with a mantle of gray, a rebel force of Jews band together in a fight for survival.A young Jewish woman from Warsaw and an SS guard lean on one another ...

• Jul-2017
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In Geneva, a highly valued product with the power to cause major destruction is stolen from The CERN.  Eighty kilometers from the Austrian border, a young girl becomes the key that controls the will of the man with the power to create and destro...

• Mar-2017
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In Niger, a coup that is staged and funded by ISIL puts a vicious leader in command. People are summarily slaughtered, the government is in shambles, and a terrorist regime rules with impunity. But deep inside the sublevel of a defunct hospital is th...

• Feb-2017
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During military exercises in the Sea of Japan, rogue missiles are launched from a U.S. naval battleship and head directly to the heart of North Korea.During a return trip to Washington, D.C., Air Force Two disappears over the Rocky Mountains.Presiden...

• Oct-2016
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Long before Kimball Hayden became a Vatican Knight, he once served as an elite assassin for the United States government. After the ordered assassination on a United States senator by a cabal within the U.S. command, Kimball is set up for failure and...

• Jul-2016
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A Mythical Relic.A Mythical City.An Ancient Secret.In 2014, an earthquake off the Florida Straits uncovers a city that had been hidden beneath the sea for centuries. It's a land of dark miracles and black wonders, and a place that harbors extrao...

• Jun-2016
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After the march on the Vatican by the Islamic State, the radical group begins its push deeper into the European and American Fronts. But when the True Cross -- the wooden remnants of the cross Jesus was crucified upon and the holiest of all relics --...

• May-2016
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In southeast Turkey where the heads of the four main rivers once met, a magnificent temple created 14,000 years ago is discovered beneath the desert floor. Believed to have been created by lost technology, it is quickly determined by a team of archeo...

• Feb-2016
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In an abandoned church deep inside the Syrian Desert, Father Jenkins watches over a group of children who'd been orphaned by war and unrest. Having been marked for extraction by the Vatican Knights, a cabal of ruthless killers from the Islamic State ...

• Jan-2016
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While on a mission in Jarablus, Syria, Jon Jericho, codename the Hunter, is severely wounded, ending his career as a Special Field Operative for Delta Force. When he returns stateside to begin life anew, he quickly finds himself caught up in a scanda...

• Nov-2015
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Growing up with a sheltering mother and a belligerent father, Kimball Hayden's young life goes from one of innocence to the depths of chaos.When a vicious syndicate of murderers and extortionists begin to run the streets, Kimball soon becomes the foc...

• Sep-2015
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Three years ago, the papal airliner goes down over the jungle of Brazil never to been seen again.Three years later, those considered lost on that fatal flight begin to show up at Vatican City disconnected from reality.When the pope is gunned down in ...

• Mar-2015
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In a dystopian future, a self-contained valley in Argentina serves as the 'far arena' for those convicted of a crime. Inside the Valley: carnivorous dinosaurs generated from preserved DNA. The goal: cross the Valley to get to the Gates of Freedom. Th...

• Jan-2015
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Political dignitaries including the President of the Federation gather for a ceremony onboard Mausoleum 2069. But when a cloud of interstellar dust passes through the galaxy and eclipses Earth, the tenants within the walls of Mausoleum 2069 are rebor...

• Oct-2014
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In a Galveston, Texas lab, a lethal strain has been stolen by a terrorist faction.In New Mexico, the population of a small town is completely wiped out.In Las Vegas, a vicious underground clan called the Community surfaces at night to prey on the wea...

• Apr-2014
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While vacationing in Paris, Shari Cohen's children are kidnapped by Jadran Božanović, a Croatian kingpin who runs a human-trafficking cartel who is as deadly as the knife he wields. Few dare to challenge him. And even fewer dare to defy him. With t...

• Jan-2014
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More than a year ago John Savage and Alyssa Moore nearly lost their lives after discovering the Temple of Eden. Now, two more temples have been discovered: The Temple of God, which holds the answers to mankind's inevitable fate, and a third temple th...

• Jul-2013
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THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FINAL EXTINCTION EVENT...THE HISTORY OF HUMAN ORIGINS...THE RISE OF APEX PREDATORS...Nearly sixty-five million years ago an asteroid collided with the Yucatan Peninsula in the fifth and final Extinction Event that nearly destroyed...

• Apr-2013
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Lock and load! Private Military Companies are becoming more and more common, exchanging higher costs for better trained and better equipped military specialists. In a world where people in spandex can juggle armored personnel carriers, they need to b...

• Feb-2013
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How can a killer be 3000 miles away and at your doorstep at the same time?Ashley Quinton is on the verge of madness after the release of a killer she helped put behind bars nineteen years ago. Upon the exact moment of his discharge, she immediately r...

• Jan-2013
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In southeast Turkey where the heads of the four main rivers once met, a magnificent temple created 14,000 years ago is discovered beneath the desert floor. Believed to have been created by lost technology, it is quickly determined by a team of archae...

• Dec-2012
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Thirty years ago the world was in the exploratory stages of creating a technology capable of artificial intelligence. Thirty years later that technology has been perfected. In a lab somewhere in a remote mountain region in Iran, nanoparticles, or mic...

• Nov-2012
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In viaggio per gli Stati Uniti, l'aereo papale, lo Shepherd One, viene dirottato da una cellula terroristica autodefinitasi "Fronte rivoluzionario musulmano". A bordo, un carico nucleare con metà della resa che distrusse Hiroshima. La loro richiesta...

• Sep-2012
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While on a visit to the United States, Pope Pius XIII is kidnapped by a terrorist cell calling itself the Soldiers of Islam. If the United States and its allies do not meet their demands, they will execute the pope. So when FBI Specialist Shari Cohen...

• Jul-2005
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• Sep-2000
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Kimball Hayden is the Commander of an elite commando group known as the Vatican Knights, a black-op force that works for the Church to protect its sovereignty, its interests, and the welfare of its citizenry. But Kimball is being stalked by someone f...

• Apr-1999
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