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K.A. Bachus

The Charlemagne Files

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The Charlemagne Files
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K.A.
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Bachus
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Espionage Thriller
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TITLE #1

Book #1 Cover Image
Book #1 Title
A Lighter Shade of Night
Book #1 Publication Year
2022
Book #1 Author
K.A. Bachus
Book #1 Publisher
K.A. Bachus
Book #1 ISBN
978-1-7364925-5-0
Book #1 cover price
12.00 USD
Book #1 Description
Why don't you kill the guards and let us fight our way out?

They grew up together and are distantly related. But can three such different personalities form an effective fighting team? When a car bomb leaves Misha orphaned at nineteen, his life changes its trajectory. The possibilities of a privileged youth fade to a dismal choice between a brutal death or a violent life. He will never know peace and safety again.

Misha’s distant cousins, Louis and Vasily, are more accustomed to danger. They have the skills for it. But it is not long before they realize that it is Misha who has the judgment necessary to keep all three of them alive.

A Lighter Shade of Night is a collection of short stories about the early days of Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by western governments for black operations conducted without fingerprints. The stories illuminate the personalities, strengths, and weaknesses of the three men on the early team as well as their long-time American handler, Frank.

These tales span a period from the mid-sixties until the events in the first novel of K.A. Bachus’s fast-paced Charlemagne Files series. As a prequel to the series, A Lighter Shade of Night illuminates a few of Charlemagne’s exploits during the early days of the team.
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TITLE #2

Book #2 Cover Image
Book #2 Title
Trinity Icon
Book #2 Author
K.A. Bachus
Book #2 Publication Year
2015
Book #2 Publisher
K.A. Bachus
Book #2 ISBN-13
979-8717767545
Book 2 Cover Price
12.00 USD
Book #2 Description
It was the moment of disaster, when silence gives the boundary between peace and violence.

Alexandra Dolnikov is a twenty-year-old chemistry major at a Chicago university who might, if she works hard, graduate by 1974. She struggles to get along at home and thinks she has figured out how to manage work, school and a tiny apartment, all on her own, until her parish priest asks a favor. She cannot refuse, though she doubts that the missing icon he is looking for could actually be miraculous and is sure her intervention will fail.

While fulfilling her promise to the priest, she meets a captivating man who draws her ever deeper into a world of secrets she did not know existed. That it is also a world of violence and treachery becomes ever more clear to her as she learns the costs of her smallest decisions.

In her search for what may or may not be a miraculous icon, Alex becomes the bait in a plan to stop a deadly terrorist attack. Her life depends now on Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by western governments for black operations conducted without fingerprints, and they are every bit as dangerous as their targets.

Trinity Icon is the first novel in K.A. Bachus’s fast-paced Charlemagne Files series chronicling the lives of a team of deadly Cold War intelligence operatives over a span of three decades.
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TITLE #3

Book #3 Cover Image
Book #3 Title
Cetus Wedge
Book #3 Publication Year
2015
Book #3 Author
K.A. Bachus
Book #3 Publisher
K.A. Bachus
Book #3 ISBN-13
978-1735365534
Book #3 Cover Price
14.00 USD
Book #3 Description
After investigation came retribution, vindictive and indiscriminate.

It’s the early 1980’s and the height of the Cold War when Steve Donovan, despite a checkered past, troubled marriage and no prospects, lands a job at the very bottom of the intelligence world. He finds a kind of happiness being involved with shady people in unsavory activities until he is suddenly promoted over the heads of fifty-nine colleagues by his Section chief, who is himself being promoted.

Steve’s boss Frank is handing him the responsibility for Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by western governments for black operations conducted without fingerprints. The deadly team has filled several drawers at a Chicago morgue and Steve and Frank fly out to investigate why.

With three days left until Christmas, their investigation uncovers tragedies, past, present and perhaps, yet to come in their own futures. Frank appears to be the next target, but is Steve as well? It is difficult to tell, because truth is hard to come by and deception obscures everything and everyone they speak to. Loyalties are hidden, moral codes nonexistent.

Can Steve convince Charlemagne not to kill his boss without putting himself likewise in the crosshairs of their revenge? And just how far is he willing to go to save the innocent?

Cetus Wedge is the second novel in K.A. Bachus’s fast-paced Charlemagne Files series chronicling the lives of a team of deadly Cold War intelligence operatives over a span of three decades.
Book #3 Distributors
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TITLE #4

Book #4 Cover Image
Book #4 Title
Brevet Wedge
Book #4 Publication Year
2020
Book #4 Author
K.A. Bachus
Book #4 Publisher
K.A. Bachus
Book #4 ISBN-13
978-1735365596
Book #4 Cover Price
14.00 USD
Book #4 Description
"I’ve never known Mack to make a threat he was not prepared to carry out,” I said carefully. “He doesn’t bluff."

Frank Cardova provides logistic support for a highly effective team of deadly operatives known as Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by western governments for black operations conducted without fingerprints. Mack, the team’s knife-wielding leader, and his son Charlie arrive on Frank’s doorstep bringing chaos, terror and violence with them.

The last thing Frank ever wants to see is Louis, the volatile marksman of the team, anywhere near his home, let along sitting at the kitchen table drinking a martini meant for him and flirting with his wife. For Frank, the men of Charlemagne have become the ultimate houseguests from hell.

Mack offers Frank’s subordinate, Steve Donovan, a chance to join the team after the fallout of a recent disaster puts his young family at risk. As Frank watches Steve turn into a killer and his own wife and daughter discover what his thirty-year career has been all about, he helps the team save the lives of Steve’s family while dreading the danger to his own.

Can Frank trust anyone in his immediate circle?

Brevet Wedge is the third novel in K.A. Bachus’s fast-paced Charlemagne Files series chronicling the lives of a team of deadly Cold War intelligence operatives over a span of three decades.
Book #4 Distributors
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