J. Clayton Rogers

Once again, Ari Ciminon (Ghaith Ibrahim, The 56th Man) sets out to defeat his foes. For almost a year he has been identifying radical insurgents for the U.S. Government. Only now, he has a new adversary: his employer. Ever since his arrival in Virginia he has suspected a hidden nemesis: someone, or some entity, who seeks his destruction. Can he turn the tables on him? Or them? Confronted by the CIA, the FBI, the Treasury Department, CENTCOM, the U.S....

The Union Secret Service (initially led by Allan Pinkerton; and, later, by Lafayette C. Baker) attempts to suppress the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secessionist-terrorist organization, during the American Civil War.

Against the backdrop of an early-summer heat wave, Heat Seekers plays out the brutal logic of tragedy, with emotions following a predictable pattern to an unanticipated conclusion. The Old South has not vanished completely. New sensibilities and an antique code of honor meet in Ash Mason, who cannot reconcile himself to losing his girlfriend to a high school classmate and begins to act out his vengeful fantasies. Nor can the adults around him deal...

Charlie Bretall comes to believe the malevolent spirit of a dead man possesses his daughter. He risks his sanity and his life to save her, only to encounter evidence that he is being manipulated by invisible forces he never suspected.It is a race he is bound to lose without help. This first comes in the form of Detective Rosen, who deduces the truth from a simple limp.But no one Rosen, Charlie's daughter, the narrator, or Charlie himself are who they...

A former member of Saddam Hussein's Special Security Force arrives in Richmond, Virginia. Under the name of Ari Ciminon, he sets up house on the James River. The house was purchased for him by the U.S. Marshals Service, which is responsible for watching over him while he supplies intelligence to CENTCOM. Because he is fluent in Italian (as well as a host of other languages) he is presented to his new neighbors as an Italian of Arab descent. Ari learns...

During Canada's Crisis of 1970, Pierre Laporte, a member of Pierre Trudeau's cabinet, has been found murdered in Montreal. At the same time, using the chaos caused in the French-speaking community by the imposition of martial law, a federal officer tries to dupe the FLQ terrorists out of their war chest. But he confronts an unanticipated adversary a "human monster". The story moves to Virginia, 1996. Dr. Paul Racine, a Parisian who lives in Richmond...

Homophobic Ari Ciminon (The 56th Man) almost meets his match when he searches for a young man who has run off with the Thebans, a group of gay bicyclists for whom fitness is paramount. Joey Haider, the son of an official at the Iraqi Consulate, eludes his bodyguard in Richmond. Called in to translate for the guard, Ari quickly becomes embroiled in the search for the boy. This puts him in far more peril than he had anticipated, including a run-in...

Summoned out of his safe house by his handlers, Ari Ciminon (The 56th Man) is shown CCTV footage of a group of men arriving at Richmond International Airport. The group is comprised of: lawyer Benjamin Cassin (nicknamed 'the Rabbi' by his admirers); his bodyguard, Henry Jones (an African-American who has converted to Judaism); a small man dressed as a woman, who turns out to be a deadly assassin; and a mysterious Turk whom neither the FBI nor Mossad...