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Synopsis
Jacob Stearne, ex Army Ranger and current Sabel Security operative, is about to propose to his girl when he discovers that "next generation" weapons are being shipped to our enemies. Some factions in the US government ask him to find the perpetrators while others work to make sure he fails.His intended fiancé does not understand his disappearance and he can’t give an explanation. When Jacob sets out to expose the billionaire intending to auction off national secrets, he is fired, expelled, and hunted by the government that once awarded him medals. If he ever wants to return to his homeland, he must insert himself into the dangerous world of technology smugglers.
It’s a place where only the aggressive and ruthless survive. In the cutthroat world of modern-day pirates, every breath he takes may be his last. He must ask himself, can he outsmart the most corrupt billionaires in history before democracy is destroyed? Can he lose the woman he loves to save the nation?
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Have you ever been betrayed by your government, your best friend, and your fiancé—all at the same time?
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The Series: Sabel Security
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The Geneva Decision [Origins 1]
Before the bestselling Sabel Security series, Pia Sabel took over dad’s company. Ever wonder how that happened? Sabel Origins #1 chronicles Pia’s foray into the business.
Until a few weeks ago, Pia Sabel was an international soccer star. But now she’s taken the helm of her billionaire father’s private security company, and she’s playing against a whole new set of opponents – the kind who shoot to kill.
On her first day on the job, Pia’s client is assassinated in front of her. There’s no time for training, so Pia must trust her instincts and athletic skills to unravel the complicated maze of money laundering and piracy that will take her from Swiss mansions to the jungles of Cameroon.
Her battle-hardened employees suspect she’s just a spoiled rich girl with a mean corner kick. But Pia’s got some unexpected moves of her own. Will they be enough to bring her team through its mission?
[Published 8 February 2013, 290 pages]
Bring It [Origins 2]
Before the bestselling Sabel Security series featuring Jacob Stearne and Mercury, Pia Sabel took over the company and ran into trouble. Sabel Origins #2, Bring It, chronicles that time Jacob, still on his meds, was tasked with saving the boss.
When Pia Sabel is abducted after trying to bust a ring of deviant criminals, it’s up to veteran agent Jacob Stearne to navigate the dark web of deceit and lies to save her from her torturous captors.
Pia Sabel expected a little recognition after she liberated a pedophile resort in Sri Lanka, not a State Department inquisition. Forced to play the deadliest game of her life, she finds molested children used in a new version of “enhanced interrogation tactics”. Putting herself in danger to save the innocent, her overconfidence leads to agonizing torment.
Sabel Agent Jacob Stearne and his team of decorated veterans have lived through warzone horrors but nothing could have prepared them for the ugly reality they uncover. Fending off accusations of treason and terrorism, Jacob unravels a network of ambitious appointees and black-budget contractors to discover who is responsible for some of the most horrific crimes against humanity.
[Previously published as the Trench Coats series, episodes I-VI: The Meeting (12 May 2013), Jacob's Story (3 June 2013), Bring It (26 June 2013), The Desperate (10 October 2013), The Reckoning Road (1 February 2014), The Tiger Strikes (18 March 2014); this Omnibus 1-6 edition published 22 April 2014, 356 pages]
Element 42 [1]
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That time you stumbled onto a mass grave and mercenaries bolted from the jungle to hunt you down.
Veteran bodyguard Jacob Stearne aims to spend quality time with his heiress-boss during a charitable mission to Borneo. Building a school seems simple enough until the locals give chase. She won’t say what she did to provoke them, but providing her protection just flipped from being a
mini-vacation to a death sentence. Jacob Stearne is Jack Reacher … without the sanity — Paul Westmoreland
Athlete Pia Sabel intended to put her fortune to use helping educate isolated children. When corrupt officials force her to flee, she remains haunted by the sight of dead and dying villagers. Without evidence of murder, international authorities dismiss her as simply rich and spoiled. Her obsession even grates on the Sabel Security team. Then one of their own contracts a highly contagious disease.
[Published 7 April 2015, 350 pages]
Death and Dark Money [2]
What if you discovered foreigners were donating to the campaigns of American politicians?
Jacob Stearne wants to find a wife, start a family, and settle down. He’s doing his best to impress his date when a stranger is murdered in his driveway. He tries to follow a clue the dying man left but the cops collar him as the murder suspect. He must track the real assassins before the detectives lock him up with the criminally insane. All the clues point to someone at the symposium his boss will attend.
The intricate plotting in Sabel Security novels creates a world you’ll love to get lost in — Pat Chapman
His boss, Pia Sabel, and her father attend the symposium for top corporate executives. They are happily mingling with other CEOs when a lobbyist is found dead. Pia quickly uncovers the real purpose of the gathering: to pump foreign cash into the hands of American politicians. Outraged, she sets out to expose the oligarchs, autocrats and terrorists buying senators. Then her father is kidnapped. Before she realizes the size of the hornet’s nest she kicked over, she’s ducking mercenaries and assassins. Can Jacob and Pia clean up international corruption or will they be the next to die?
Pia Sabel reminds me of a young Eve Dallas, or a tragic Daenerys, always driven to succeed — Ingrid Anderson
[Published 8 March 2016 , 404 pages]
Death and the Damned [3]
Why would a billionaire smuggle terrorists into the country?
On a mission to free enslaved Iraqi friends, Jacob Stearne feels good about liberating an American held with them. Then he learns the American leads a terrorist cell. The man vanishes. Scrambling after his mistake from Latin America to the South Pacific, Jacob gets a bad feeling when he tracks the fundamentalists heading for the USA.
The twists in Seeley James stories are better than Steve Berry, Tom Clancy, or John Sandford — David Gormer
Pia Sabel is doing her best to learn the family business. She’s feeling a little out of place among the billionaires when the president charges her with uncovering a peer intent on destroying the country. With no shortage of rich, arrogant suspects, trust quickly becomes her biggest problem. Who is funding the radicals Jacob is hunting? Her boyfriend? An old associate? Her father?
The intricate plotting in Sabel Security novels creates a world you’ll love to get lost in — Pat Chapman
While the wealthy fraternize with politicians, everything Pia believed in is turned upside down. Facing a collision with evil she cannot win her team can only hope to save some—not all. As the clock ticks down, Pia and Jacob must face the ultimate question: in the final showdown, will they have what it takes?
[Published 9 November 2016, 474 pages]
Sabel Security Boxed Set [1-3]
Veteran Jacob Stearne and athlete Pia Sabel are all that stands between right — and a world full of deadly wrongs. The pair takes on corrupt politicians, rogue corporations, and terrorists in three novels ripped from tomorrow’s headlines.
Join over 100,000 readers riveted by nearly 1,000 pages of murder, betrayal, rogues, and traitors. From the madness unveiled in ELEMENT 42, through destructive forces in DEATH AND DARK MONEY, to Americans who would use terrorists to push their political agenda in DEATH AND THE DAMNED, you’ll love the irresistible characters, the chilling masterminds, and tense circumstances. As one VineVoice reviewer said, “I could not put this book down.”
Jacob Stearne was a killing machine for the Army until he started listening to Mercury, winged messenger of the Roman gods. Now he works for Sabel Security. This irresistible hero is definitely lethal—but is he divinely guided, completely insane, or the next rampage killer?
Ever since Pia Sabel witnessed her parents’ murders, she’s been looking for ways to eliminate the corrupt and murderous. When her adopted father hands her the keys to a security company staffed with battle-scarred veterans, she discovers her calling as an avenging angel.
Unmatched in scope and depth, Sabel Security thrillers throw you into a unique world that kidnaps you on the opening pages and won’t release you until the end. Read one, and you’ll yearn for more.
From the master of thrilling adventure comes the latest novel in a landmark series unlike anything you’ve read before. With Sabel Security, Seeley James has launched a groundbreaking world, combining psychological, political, and action thrills in a continuing epic. Mystery, loss, intrigue, humor, romance, and adventure fill the pages of these magnificent stories.
[Published 10 April 2018, 1060 pages]
Death and Treason [4]
What if you discover foreigners plotting to assist a political campaign?
Jacob Stearne wants to settle down and start a family. The woman he falls for doesn’t want him to kill people anymore. Even if they’re trying to kill him. As their romance blossoms, duty calls him away. He can’t allow his love to stop him from his assignment: tracking down the hacker who crashed two airliners killing 365 Americans.
It wasn't only the story that kept me riveted. It was characters that I loved or detested with a passion — Vine Voice DreamBeast
Pia Sabel is hoping to escape corporate life on a soccer field when a dying Russian spy gives her a USB drive filled with impenetrable codes. Her team sets out to unravel the mystery. But the documents raise more questions than answers. Chief among these is the link between a Cold War spy master, her parents’ murders, and the presidential campaign’s frontrunner.
You can feel them facing evil, staring it in the face and saying, "Bring it on!" — Ann Graham
As Jacob’s team closes in, the hacker offers Pia a bargain. She opts to face down the Cold Warrior who ordered her parents killed. But the old-timer still has some deadly tricks up his sleeve. When overwhelming forces descend on her, she must decide, will she die on an isolated, arctic island, or rise up and exact her revenge?
[Published 18 January 2018, 562 pages]
Death and Secrets [5]
What if DNA led you to discover your mother was the vice president — and a murderer?
Jacob Stearne can’t remember who shot him. He wakes up with amnesia obscuring the events of recent weeks. Both his girlfriend and his boss have vanished. With his dream of starting a family crushed, Jacob decides to hang up his Glock and find a job less deadly. That doesn’t stop a former president from demanding that he find Pia Sabel. He refuses. But his past catches up with him when four assassins stop by intent on ending his life.
The twists in Seeley James stories are better than Steve Berry, Tom Clancy, or John Sandford — David Gormer
Pia isn’t lost. She’s dropped off the grid to get her mental health under control. While chilling on the French Riviera, curiosity gets the better of her. When she traces a clue back to an art gallery, she decides to focus her energy on annihilating the toxic American president back home. Still plagued by self-doubt, events quickly overwhelm her. To unravel the evidence, she must join a cabal of international oligarchs, all of whom kill to stay at the top.
You can feel them facing evil, staring it in the face and saying, "Bring it on!" — Ann Graham
Can Pia and Jacob expose the president before competing factions dismantle the nation’s balance of power and destroy the USA?
[Published 7 November 2018, 450 pages]
Death and Vengeance [6]
The president declares war based on a lie. Can Jacob Stearne stop him before the world descends into chaos?
Plenty of edge of the seat suspense, a splash of well-timed humor, and adventures that leave you wanting more — Susan Gainoutdinov
Jacob longs for a quiet suburban life, maybe find a wife and start a family. Everyone else wants him to wade through paramilitary assassins to find an admiral accused of treason. What he needs to know is why Indian government agents are following him. And what happened to the first Sabel agent who went in search of the officer?
Jacob Stearne is Jack Reacher … minus the sanity – Paul Westmoreland
After finding her birth mother through DNA, Pia Sabel isn’t sure she wants to connect with the woman. Bio-mom is the VP and possibly involved in the murder of Pia’s adopted parents. Is the president forcing a war under false pretenses? Can she use the woman for access to the administration she wants to destroy?
Jacob and his sidekick god, Mercury are two of the best characters ever created — Secret World Book Club
[Published 14 May 2019, 394 pages]
Death and Conspiracy [7]
Is Jacob Stearne a terrorist or a hero?
All Jacob wanted was a romantic weekend in Paris with his girlfriend. But when he spots terrorists bent on attacking a crowded church, he flies into action. The victims mistake him for one of the extremists causing the authorities to give him a choice: go undercover to expose neo-Nazis fanatics — or jail.
“Jacob and his sidekick, Mercury are two of the best characters ever created” — Secret World Book Club
Jacob infiltrates an international conference for violent radicals in rural Spain. Far from home and cut off from his support team, he must navigate the dangerous waters alone. In the shadowy leadership of the fringe group, he learns no one is who they seem. And trusting the wrong person for even a second could be fatal.
“Seeley James’s writing swings from downright funny to rollercoaster thrills and unpredictable twists. The shocking plot will keep you reading all night and worried about the real world afterwards. The best read of the year” — Krueger Reads
The sinister plot Jacob uncovers is far worse than anyone imagined. It threatens the lives of thousands and may explode into global chaos. He must trust someone to get word to law enforcement but a chess game of lies and deception undermines his credibility. How can he outsmart the malicious conspirators before the world erupts into war?
[Published 17 September 2019, 303 pages]
Death and Deception [9]
The next installment of the sensational series continues with Jacob Stearne in hot water. Who could've seen that coming?
[Published 7 July 2020, TBA pages]
About the Author
His near-death experiences range from talking a jealous husband into putting the gun down to spinning out on an icy freeway in heavy traffic without touching anything. His resume ranges from washing dishes to global technology management. His personal life ranges from homeless at 17, adopting a 3-year-old at 19, getting married at 37, fathering his last child at 43, hiking the Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim at 59, and taking the occasional nap.
Seeley's love of creativity began at an early age, growing up at Frank Lloyd Wright’s School of Architecture in Arizona and Wisconsin. He carried his imagination first into a successful career in sales and marketing, and then to his real love: fiction.
His writing career ranges from humble beginnings with short stories in The Battered Suitcase, to being awarded a Medallion from the Book Readers Appreciation Group. Seeley is best known for his Sabel Security series of thrillers featuring athlete and heiress Pia Sabel and her bodyguard, veteran Jacob Stearne. One of them kicks ass and the other talks to the wrong god.Get the first book in the series FREE when you sign up to Seeley James's newletter!
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