Robert Landori

But behind the facade of the quiet man of numbers lay a life of intrigue and mystery. He traveled widely throughout South America and the Caribbean, where he came into contact with international financiers, notorious con men, well-known artists and entertainers… and members of several countries’ intelligence communities. Robert Landori also developed a highly charged and double-edged relationship with Castro’s Cuba, and was, at one time, held in solitary confinement there for over two months on false accusations of espionage. He was eventually freed, and is now a security consultant, lecturer on Money Laundering and Terrorists and writer of international fiction and espionage novels. Robert Landori lives in Montreal, Canada.

MAYHEM ON THE DANUBE

This fast-paced international thriller reveals how various Jihadist factions competed for world dominance using a new weapon of mass destruction.

Baghdad, October 2001. Chemical Ali, Saddam Hussein’s cousin, has a Weapon of Mass Destruction – human, new variety Creutzfeld-Jakob (Mad Cow) Disease against which there is no known cure. Ali plans to weaponize the virus in bulk, disguised as surgical glue, at a Hungarian facility, but first needs a vaccine to protect the True Believers against this deadly virus.

He learns that the Canadian scientist, Jason Moscovitch, is feverishly working on such a vaccine. Ali recruits an Al Qaeda Snatch Team, composed of Iraq, Bosnian and Jordanian elements, who kidnap the man. When the scientist refuses to work for the extremists the team kidnaps his mother as well.

Robert Lonsdale, a contract officer with the CIA’s Counter-Terrorism Division, is tasked to find and free Moscovitch. But, to succeed, he must first penetrate the unbelievably complex web of Islamic Factionalists involved in the case.

HAVANA HARVEST

The dangerous double-dealings of the CIA in Cuba are revealed in this fast-paced international thriller. Cuban General Patricio Casas must decide whether to support the revolution he has fought for so hard and long or do what is good for his people and challenge the selfish authoritarianism of the Castroite regime. Robert Lonsdale, the CIA operative tasked with making sense of this intricate situation soon finds himself drawn into a maelstrom of intrigue and murder out of which there seems to be no escape.Apparently double-crossed by his colleagues, Lonsdale struggles on alone and outfoxes his shadowy tormentors who intend to silence him forever. This gripping novel exposes the way two countries’ intelligence services operate in a world in which the right hand never knows what the left hand is doing.

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FATAL GREED

Avarice and hatred between the partners of a biotech firm lead to murder – and to a possible pandemic of Creutzfeld-Jacobs disease in this riveting thriller that begins in a placid North American suburb and ends on the high seas on the morning of 9/11. Ex-CIA, Mossad and SAS men are pitted against Latin American stringers for Al Qaeda in a race against time when it becomes clear that an innocuous incident involving surgical glue derived from cow blood has led to the generation of a weapon of mass destruction.FATAL GREED is about an underground world that most of us will never know, a world of easily-bought passports and citizenships of convenience, secret off-shore banking with numbered and coded accounts, anonymous bearer share certificates, and unparalleled moral turpitude. When its surface ruptures it threatens to engulf civil society like a tidal wave.