Member Since:
July 21, 2023
K.A. Bachus
Biography
K.A. Bachus is acquainted with the world of Cold War secrets. A Chicago-born granddaughter of Lithuanian immigrants who fled Hitler and Stalin, she began adult life during the last year of the Vietnam era by enlisting in the United States Air Force where she typed aircrew intelligence briefings and ran a large claissifed library in a special operations unit. After receiving her commission, she served in England and Japan. As a lawyer, she practiced criminal defense law in Texas before retiring and moving eventually to Maine, USA.
Where to find K.A. Bachus online
Website: https://www.charlemagnefiles.com
Series
The Charlemagne Files
by K.A. Bachus
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Lion Tamer
Brevet Wedge
Vory
Quiet Move
A Lighter Shade of Night
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Price:
$4.99 USD.
Lion Tamer
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Brevet Wedge
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Vory
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Quiet Move
Price:
$4.99 USD.
A Lighter Shade of Night
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Books
Goat Rope
by K.A. Bachus
Series: The Charlemagne Files, Book 10.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 50,230.
Language:
English.
Published: December 9, 2023
by
K.A. Bachus.
Categories:
Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage
Mack might cut your throat but with faultless etiquette. Christine Barton, a Vermont state trooper, witnesses a murder while walking her dog in a Montreal park on a bright summer morning in 1999. She takes refuge from the killer in a safe house full of spies and deadly operatives who could be allies but seem more like enemies. She soon understands she is not free to leave. Charlemagne, the...
A Lighter Shade of Night
by K.A. Bachus
Series: The Charlemagne Files, Book 1.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 39,850.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: March 22, 2022
by
K.A. Bachus.
Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller
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...
Swallow
by K.A. Bachus
Series: The Charlemagne Files, Book 8.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 36,170.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: February 10, 2021
by
K.A. Bachus.
Categories:
Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage
"A woman should be able to ask for what she wants." It's 1993, and Air Force Captain Claire Nolan hopes to be one of the first women to fly a combat fighter aircraft. She has no intention of letting Steve Donovan's captivating brown eyes derail her ambitions, but his team could wreck more than her career. Steve is a member of Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by Western...
Quiet Move
by K.A. Bachus
Series: The Charlemagne Files.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 45,250.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: April 10, 2022
by
K.A. Bachus.
Categories:
Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage
"You must see your plan to shield her from us has failed." Jade Wilmerton runs a library for an intelligence outfit. It's 1997 and Skosh, a shadowy ops guy in her organization, takes her as his administrative assistant on a private flight to Lithuania. Jade hopes for a little adventure and maybe something more from this appealing man, but his irascible, profane, and worried manner is strictly...
Vory
by K.A. Bachus
Series: The Charlemagne Files.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 45,510.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: February 3, 2021
by
K.A. Bachus.
Categories:
Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Fiction » Adventure » War & military adventure
"You do not have a future if you do not stay alive now." It is the early 90s and Frank Cardova, his wife Maryann and his daughter Theresa, have become targets of an associate of the vory, Russian thieves under the code working for a foreign intelligence operative. They turn for help to Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by western governments for black operations conducted...
Brevet Wedge
by K.A. Bachus
Series: The Charlemagne Files.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 41,140.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: October 28, 2020
by
K.A. Bachus.
Categories:
Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage
"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...
State of Nature
by K.A. Bachus
Series: The Charlemagne Files, Book 6.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 63,370.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: July 24, 2020
by
K.A. Bachus.
Categories:
Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage
She was an expert shot and an expert fighter, and she was utterly helpless against the fury that held her. It is the early 90s and the Berlin Wall is down. At the insistence of her family, Mara Sobieski has a safe job in a quiet corner of the intelligence world, until Sergei Pavlenko asks for her help. As the USSR becomes the Russian Federation, Sergei finds himself in danger from his former...
Lion Tamer
by K.A. Bachus
Series: The Charlemagne Files.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 38,910.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: April 8, 2023
by
K.A. Bachus.
Categories:
Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage
I wondered what crime a professional killer could commit that his closest friends would find unforgivable. It is the mid 1980's and Barbara Kemp shatters another glass ceiling as she becomes the US babysitter for Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by western governments for black operations conducted without fingerprints. She arrives in-country for her first assignment in...
Cetus Wedge
by K.A. Bachus
Series: The Charlemagne Files, Book 3.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 49,190.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: October 21, 2015
by
K.A. Bachus.
Categories:
Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Fiction » Adventure » War & military adventure
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 in being involved with shady people in unsavory activities until he is suddenly promoted over the heads...
Trinity Icon
by K.A. Bachus
Series: The Charlemagne Files.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 36,390.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: April 8, 2023
by
K.A. Bachus.
Categories:
Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage
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...