Bøger af John Sager

In this, his eleventh novel, octogenarian/author John Sager writes about a close-to-home subject, our nation's health care system. As the resident of a thriving retirement community, he explores the proposition that America's health centers have not always been what the are today: dishonest physicians who prescribe drugs that have no medicinal value, grossly-inflated charges for routine health care procedures, the country's largest eldercare conglomerate that is heavily influenced by Chicago's Mafia and whose accounts are controlled by an unaccountable financier in the Cayman Islands. As the story unfolds, lawyers and judges begin to target the offenders, asking hard questions and demanding truthful answers. Finally, the culprits are identified and punished, but only after being prodded to do so by a persistent Seattle law firm.

Read, as the four gospels come to life! Author John Sager, once a Doubting Thomas, tells his readers how he became a True Believer, at last recognizing the Jesus Christ is real!

Author John Sager, a retired CIA intelligence officer, tells his readers how he changed from a critical suspect to a firm believer in Jesus Christ. In this anthology/apologia, he traces the historicity of the four gospels, describes their authors, and leads his readers all the way to the crucifixion and ascension of Jesus Christ. Citing reliable source material, his writing dispels any doubts his readers may have about the life and times of Jesus Christ.

This is author John Sager's seventh novel, each of which reflects his fifty-plus years' service with the CIA. But Crescent Blood is a whole new ball game: new characters and a new environment. The story is a realistic exposition of America's struggle with a most unusual enemy: ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. It deals with real people but retains its fictional premise: The first woman president of the United States, elevated to the position by virtue of the murder of the man she helped elect president. The butchery of Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria. The deadly meddling of Vladimir Putin, Russia's cunning president. The story reminds its readers of the unappreciated cooperation between the FBI and the CIA, how the two services work together for the greater good. As the title suggests, the region still known as The Fertile Crescent is indeed a place of much bloodshed, and a contest between the world's only superpower and a shadowy group of Muslim jihadists who have vowed to spread their evil ideology far and wide. The contest's 'winner' will control the world.

Shahnoza Babayeva, Uzbekistan's first-ever woman to compete in the Miss Universe pageant. Beautiful, talented and brilliant, she falls in love with and marries CIA ops officer Jeffry Holden. Together, as Agency officials, they embark on a mission that will take them to Shahnoza's home town, Tashkent, the Uzbek Republic's capital city. The story moves between CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, then to Tehran, Moscow and Tashkent. In Tehran, Iran's leadership secretly plans to produce and deploy a nuclear-tipped ICBM that it hopes will be able to reach New York City; and the assassination of Israel's prime minister is part of its plan. And if that were not enough, the Agency's Tashkent station uncovers a drug-running operation, financed by Afghanistan's ruthless Taliban leaders. At the same time, Russian president Vladimir Putin intends to annex Ukraine, to include, if needed, the assassinations of its leaders in Kiev. When CIA headquarters learns of these threats it directs its Moscow and Tashkent stations to intervene. Shahnoza's role in these efforts will be key to their success but that role, in the end, threatens her life.

Who are 'God's Listeners'? In this collection of ten short stories, author John Sager guides his readers through a fictionalized account of the BeFrienders, a nation-wide, volunteer Christian ministry in place at each of the Covenant Retirement Communities twelve campuses. The program's mission is to come alongside people who are on a difficult part of their journey by providing a trained, compassionate BeFriender who will maintain confidentiality, listen, empathize, and represent his/her caring community in the name of Jesus Christ. BeFrienders are lay volunteers who-by actively listening to people in difficult and transitional situations, such as illness, loneliness, or loss of a loved one-embody the caring presence of God. BeFrienders accept people as they are and listen with compassion. Through spiritual and emotional care, BeFrienders encourage those they befriend to make their own decisions. Because their role is to care, not cure, the skills BeFrienders learn in training allow them to respond to spiritual and emotional needs with the confidence that they can provide a nonjudgmental and compassionate listening presence. BeFrienders gain a deeper understanding of unity in Christ by appreciating the value of each person. BeFrienders experience how Christ calls us to be together in joy and in pain. www.befrienderministry.org

North Korea and Iran, two nations, half a world apart, each with its own evil aspirations for power and control. Each armed with nuclear weapons and each, apparently, ready to use them. And each makes no secret of its intentions, daring other nations to intervene. At its headquarters in Langley, Virginia the Central Intelligence Agency has been ordered by the president to 'do something.' Problem is, the CIA has no assets in either country. In Iran, the CIA's station was shut down in 1979, nearly 40 years ago. North Korea is a walled-off country, since the 1953 armistice its ties to other countries are limited to those sympathetic to its Communist rulers Gradually, ever so slowly, the CIA is able to recruit agents indigenous to both countries and send them 'home' to report on current events. But there are only four of them and their lives are at risk at every turn. Using its latest spy-in-the-sky technology, combined with the incredible bravery of its on-the-ground assets, the CIA eventually negates the plans of the two nations, with regime change in each a real possibility.

In this sequel to his first novel, Night Flight, author John Sager leads his readers through a maze of deception and intrigue as the Soviet Union attempts to regain its war-making superiority over the United States. Its plan is to upgrade its nuclear submarine fleet in arctic port city of Severodvinsk. But two KGB officers fear the plan will lead to a nuclear war with the United States and they want no part of it. After sharing their concerns with the CIA, it Special Activities Division mounts an operation to thwart the Soviet plan, but to do so they must insert one of their own deep-cover officers into the Severodvinsk complex. Two questions: Will he have enough time to unlock the secrets of Severodvinsk before he is discovered and the nuclear bombs begin to fly? And will a beautiful young woman, a KGB agent, be able to distract him from his mission?

Author John Sager, a retired CIA intelligence officer, tells his readers how he changed from a critical suspect to a firm believer in Jesus Christ. In this anthology/apologia, he traces the historicity of the four gospels, describes their authors, and leads his readers all the way to the crucifixion and ascension of Jesus Christ. Citing reliable source material, his writing dispels any doubts his readers may have about the life and times of Jesus Christ.

In this, his tenth novel, author John Sager brings his readers back to the CIA's Moscow station, the venue with which he is most familiar. The Russian Federation has elected a new president, Rasim Kalugin. Within days of his inauguration, four children, offspring of Kremlin employees, mysteriously die while playing outside. Weeks later, there are more deaths. The Muslim terrorist organization, ISIS, claims responsibility for the deaths and threatens more of the same if the president ignores its demands. As the story unfolds, more deaths do happen and the pressure increases. The Muslims' demand: a new nation, divorced from the Russian Federation, from which ISIS can pursue its terrorist plans without interruption. With help of Russia's intelligence service, the Moscow station's assets eventually derail the ISIS plan but along the way others will perish. Finally, justice prevails but with an unexpected finalé.

In this, a sequel to his most recent novel Shahnoza, Super Spy, author John Sager introduces his readers to a new kind of intelligence gathering. The year is 2017 and the United States has a new president. It also has a more-than-usually aggressive Central Intelligence Agency, recently empowered with a unique collection method, a method that allows the Agency to read the mail of its adversaries. This reading of the mail has revealed that the Russian Federation's president, Boris Azarov, has authorized the destruction of the island of Oahu, a threat that can be removed only if the United States agrees to scrap its entire Pacific Theater military might. But CIA headquarters and its Moscow Station have their own ideas about how to negate the Russian threat. The stakes couldn't be higher. World War III might be just over the horizon. The author, himself a veteran CIA official, writes from personal experience; he has been there, done that

This is author John Sager's third sequel to his first novel, Night Flight. The year is 1982 and the Cold War has reached its highest level of tension. Four dedicated Muslim jihadists lay a web of intricate planning which, if successful, will destroy the American embassy's eleven-story building in Moscow, killing all or most of its inhabitants with the devastating explosion of a home-made truck bomb. At the same time, two influential Muslim members of the Soviet Union's Politburo have persuaded their colleagues to authorize the detonation of a nuclear warhead, many miles above the earth; its electromagnetic pulse will destroy every item on the ground below that relies on electricity, rendering the United States helpless for months to come. Through several penetrations of key Soviet institutions, the Central Intelligence Agency's Moscow station becomes aware of these plans and has barely six months to defeat them. If it fails, hundreds of innocent Americans will die and the Soviet Union will stake its claim as the world's sole remaining superpower. The author, for more than fifty years a CIA operations officer in its Clandestine Service, tells the story as few others could, having served many years in the Soviet Union and the Muslim world.

SASHA is the life-story of Alexander Malinsky, a Ukrainian Jew who grew up in Stalin's Soviet Union. He endured the endemic anti-Semitic discrimination rampant throughout Russia, managed against all odds to achieve a higher education and eventually established himself as a respected electronics design engineer. But when the opportunity came his way, he and his family left the Soviet Union, came to Seattle, and began the arduous task of adapting to a new environment: new language and new 'rules.' Now, in his late seventies, he enjoys his retirement and the opportunity to have his story told. It is a story of determined perseverance and success, reflecting a littleknown or long-forgotten chapter in the history of his people.

In this sixth in a series of novels reflecting his experiences as an operations officer in the CIA, author John Sager brings his characters and his readers back home, from Moscow to Washington, DC. It is the year 1984 and president Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (aka Star Wars) has become the Soviet Union's major concern. KGB headquarters has tasked its rezidentura in Washington to initiate a full-court press, to determine the nature and scope of SDI and then develop a plan to defeat it. The CIA, through a penetration of that rezidentura, identifies the KGB officers who will do the work. It then develops an elaborate plan to mislead them; if successful, the savings to American taxpayers will exceed billions of dollars. However, the KGB has its own sources and dispatches a hit squad from Moscow to assassinate the Agency's principal participant in the plan. As the title suggests, the nation's capital becomes a secret world of manipulation and intrigue as the two intelligence services try to outwit each other. Readers will recognize many of the characters from the author's previous works-but at home, in the nation's capital city, the stakes are much higher than before.

In this most unusual novel, author John Sager takes his readers on a photographic tour of the places he has visited over the past sixty years: Iran, China, South America, Kamchatka, Alberta, and, yes, his home on the beautiful shores of Lake Washington. His principal character is Jeffry Wilkens, a long-ago-retired photo/journalist who never leaves home without his camera. With more than 150 images to choose from, readers are bound to find a few that appeal

Author John Sager writes about a country with which he is intimately familiar, having visited New Zealand several times in the 1980s. His principal character is Jeffry Reardon, a private investigator on leave from his Bellevue, Washington law firm. With the help of native Maori friends, he discovers the perpetrators of several crimes: a drug-running syndicate in the nation's capital and a murder closer to home. As committed Christians, he and his Kiwi wife establish rehabilitation clinics for the country's drug addicts and their families.

Eleanor Wilson, the 46th president of the United States, elected to her position by the thinnest of margins, four electoral votes. A life-long and certified Liberal from the state of Massachusetts, she brings to the nation''s capital a team of likeminded helpers. Her legislative agenda includes The Green New Deal, the forgiveness of college student debt, Medicare for All and free college education for those who want it. America''s adversaries soon learn that she is a neophyte in the realm of foreign policy, and pay her no attention. Over the course of her four-years in office, the nation''s debt climbs to 24 trillion dollars. She loses her bid for another four-year term and most political observers conclude that she was the worst president in the nation''s history.

In this novel, author John Sager takes his readers to his most familiar venue, the CIA''s Moscow station. (In real life, he served there for three years, in the 1960s.) His alter ego, Robert (Bob) Oxner has been sent to Moscow as the Agency''s Chief of Station. What follows is a series of not-so-traditional espionage operations, sometimes on his own, sometimes in cooperation with the Russian FSB, its internal security service. The stakes couldn''t be higher, as the president of the United States travels to Moscow to make things right.

From far-away Pakistan the long arm of Islamist terrorism reaches into the heart of the Pacific Northwest. Islamic State operatives are using the northward-moving caravans of Latin American asylum-seekers as cover for their nefarious schemes: to sever Interstate 90 by destroying the Lake Washington floating bridge and render inoperable Seattle''s newly completed SR 99 tunnel. In a remarkable display of intragovernmental cooperation, the FBI and CIA manage to thwart the plotters'' schemes; but they nearly fail to do so.

Tehran Revisited is the fictional memoir of author John Sager, who served as part of the CIA's Tehran station in the 1950s. He sometimes dreams of returning for a brief visit, knowing it's unrealistic. Instead, this is his story.The tale is contemporary, as the American president--frustrated by his unavailing tweets--has directed the Central Intelligence Agency to bring about regime change in Iran. The critical caveat is to have no American fingerprints.Using a most unlikely array of agents and helpers, the agency succeeds in its mission, but not without the help of Roya, a beautiful young woman who has the last word.