Western Anthology by a group of award-winning and best-selling western authors. Each author wrote a short story using the same protagonist...Sheriff Mason Flynn as in "Flynn" and "Aurali Red". It's like a TV series, same character, different writers.

Can it get any worse for Jake Thomas, leader of the classified BlackStar Ops Group strike team? Agent Joanna Davies is missing and presumed kidnapped. A deep-cover Soviet spy has fled with stolen nukes and a desire to jump-start the old Soviet Union. A megalomaniac ex-DEA agent wants to take over the world. A raid in Chicago fails, and rumor says New York and DC are the final targets. Can they be stopped before they set off the nukes?

Volume 2: Three members of Mather Air Force Base's security force return from Lake Tahoe after locating a stolen nuclear device planted in a casino by a deep-cover, ex-Cold War Soviet spy. Disarmed with the help of two agents from a clandestine National Security Agency team, the bomb is safely back at the base.
The steady routine of guarding a military installation is no sooner back to normal when Lieutenant Colonel Bart Winfield, code-named Tupelo in the elite circle of global clandestine operatives, is surprised by a visit from Mary Benson, the lead agent of a task force urgently searching for two other missing nuclear weapons—as well as the ultra-secret Black Star System.
The three members of the Mather team and Bart's wife—a former OSI agent—are whisked away by helicopter to the West Coast Headquarters of the National Security Agency for a meeting with a hidden agenda and faced with a life-changing decision that involves ex-Spetsnaz smugglers and a shadowy rogue spy ring.
They have little time to prepare before they are sent undercover in Seawind Bay, a sleepy coastal village with a checkered past, where secrets from a by-gone era mix with the contemporary high-tech computer world. Threats come at them from all directions and they must sort out who among the townspeople they can trust.
When two of their members are kidnapped, they work feverously to rescue them. The puzzle of how a building with the word Druid carved in stone above a door fits into a spider web of government corruption and international terrorism is mixed with an unusually high number of deaths from seemingly unrelated accidents.

Volume 1: The Thursday Night Mafia, five average guys in Northern California, plot to scam Lake Tahoe casinos. Caught red-handed by real mob goons, they face certain death.  The group uses inside knowledge of Mather Air Force Base to capture and hold a B-52 with nukes on board for a seven-hundred million dollar ransom