Todd Moss

The Golden Hour: In international politics, the 100 hours following a coup, when there is still a chance that something might reverse the chain of events....

When four American sport fishermen stray into Cuban waters and are promptly arrested by Castro's navy, State Department crisis manager Judd Ryker finds himself called in to negotiate....

In every country, at a moment of extreme national disruption, there is a brief period of breakdown, when everything is uncertain, events can turn on a dime. That is Minute Zero....

We laugh when it pops up in our inbox: the scam letter promising a windfall. We wonder: Does anybody fall for these? But it's one of the biggest organized crime rackets in the world, and deadly....