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Tsar

Alexander Hawke #5 / 14
by Ted Bell
Tsar (Alexander Hawke #5) by Ted Bell
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Somewhere in Russia, there dwells a man so powerful no one even knows his name. His existence is only speculated upon, only whispered about in American corridors and CIA strategy meetings. Though he is practically invisible, he is pulling strings—and pulling them hard. For suddenly, Russia is a far, far more ominous threat than even the most hardened cold warriors ever thought possible.

The Russians have their finger on the switch to the European economy and an eye on the American jugular. And, most importantly, they want to be made whole again. Should America interfere with Russia’s plans, well then, America will pay in blood.

As this political crisis plays out, Russia gains a new leader. Not just a president, but a new tsar, a signal to the world that the old, imperial Russia is back. And in America, a mysterious killer brutally murders an innocent family and literally flattens the small Midwestern town they once called home. Just a taste, according to the new Tsar, of what will happen if America does not back down. Onto this stage must step Alex Hawke, espionage agent extraordinaire and the only man who can stop the absolute madness borne and bred inside the "New Russia."

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Release date: September 20, 2008

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Ted Bell

Ted Bell

Bell was a graduate of Randolph–Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, with a B.A. in English. He was a member of Kappa Alpha Order fraternity. He was a former member of the college's board of trustees. He was given an honorary degree in fine arts from Kendall College of Art and Designing Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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In 2011-2012, Bell was elected a visiting scholar at Cambridge University (UK) completing his studies at Cambridge's Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLIS). He was also elected to the position of writer-in-residence at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (UK).

DOCA, a Department of Defense committee, selected Bell as a civilian member of the standing group that supports the US military. He also served for a brief time as an advisor to the Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy at the U.S. State Department. He served on the advisory board of General George Washington's Mount Vernon (in Fairfax County, Virginia) under former Secretary of the Army, Togo D. West Jr. Bell's former wife is Greenwich, Connecticut-based Evelyn Byrd Lorentzen (known as Evelyn Lorentzen Bell), a relative of the founder of Richmond, Virginia, William Byrd II. Their daughter, Evelyn (Byrdie) Byrd Bell, is a model and actress.

Bell wrote the Alexander Hawke series of spy novels. Warlord, released in 2010, revolves around a vendetta against the British royal family beginning with the 1979 murder of Lord Mountbatten. His previous work, Tsar (2008), deals with the rise of the 'New Russia', the return of the KGB, and the new 'Evil Empire.' Overkill, his Hawke novel released in 2018, deals with Vladimir Putin and the kidnapping of Hawke's son, Alexei.

Bell's World War II time-travel adventure novel, Nick of Time, was published in a new hardcover illustrated edition by St. Martin's Press in May 2008. It features Nick McIver, along with Lord Richard Hawke, Archibald "Gunner" Steele, Kate McIver (Nick's younger sister), Commander Hobbes (Lord Hawke's colleague, a brilliant weapons designer), the murderous pirate captain Billy Blood, and his cohort Snake Eye. It debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list for Children at #4.

The sequel to Nick of Time was published in hardcover by St. Martin's Press in 2010. Titled The Time Pirate, it deals with the Nazi invasion of the Channel Islands and Nick McIver's role in George Washington's victory over Cornwallis at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. It debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list for Children at #6.

In January 2019, Bell and Jonathan Adler of Adler Films formed El Dorado Entertainment, a feature film and television production company based in New York.

In July 2019, Bell signed a two-book deal with Random House.

Bell lived and worked in Greenwich, Connecticut. He died in Hartford of an intracerebral hemorrhage on January 20, 2023, at the age of 76.

Alexander Hawke

Alexander Hawke consists of fourteen primary books, and includes three additional books that complement the series but are not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

Hawke (Alexander Hawke #1)
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Assassin (Alexander Hawke #2)
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Pirate (Alexander Hawke #3)
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Spy (Alexander Hawke #4)
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Tsar (Alexander Hawke #5)
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Warlord (Alexander Hawke #6)
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Crash Dive (Alexander Hawke #6.5)
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Phantom (Alexander Hawke #7)
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What Comes Around (Alexander Hawke #7.5)
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Warriors (Alexander Hawke #8)
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White Death (Alexander Hawke #8.5)
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Patriot (Alexander Hawke #9)
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Overkill (Alexander Hawke #10)
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Dragonfire (Alexander Hawke #11)
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Sea Hawke (Alexander Hawke #12)
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Ted Bell's Monarch (Alexander Hawke #13)
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Ted Bell's Warmonger (Alexander Hawke #14)
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