The second prequel will continue the story of the rise of the Antichrist and the journey of the other main characters as, unknown to them, time hurtles toward the Rapture. Readers will want every possible soul saved to avoid the seven-year Tribulation, and they will see why characters such as Rayford, Chloe, and Buck fail to believe. Events in Israel will be heating up, and some main characters like Rayford and Buck will be thrust into the thick of the drama. Views: 22
Money to burn… Bounty hunter Bladen Cole rode into Santa Fe with the bodies of two wanted outlaws who decided to try their luck against his Colt .45. But he’s riding out with an even more profitable venture—the capture of four robbers who stole a payroll from the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Rather than let word spread about the theft, the railroad men need someone who can get the job done quickly and quietly. This is a job for a bounty hunter. Following a trail of bodies, Cole soon realizes that the payroll robbery is only the beginning of something much bigger and bloodier on the horizon…** Views: 22
Bad Guys, the first book in the Gibbons and Tozzi thriller series, introduces FBI agents Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons, odd-couple partners and dedicated mob-busters. Hot-headed Tozzi goes renegade, and Gibbons is pulled out of retirement to stop him. Together they uncover a secret crime family headed by Richie Varga, a convicted mobster pulling the strings from the safety of the witness protection program. When Tozzi gets involved with Varga's sexy ex, the fur really starts to fly."Grisly…tense…good stuff!" Washington Post"This series dazzles with fast, intricate plotting, terrific characters and humor…" Publishers Weekly Views: 22
The fight for control of the massive Zed.Kicker botnet continues in Returning to Zero, the sequel to the explosive technothriller Counting from Zero that introduced Mick O’Malley and his unlikely hacker friends.
The ultimate weapon of the Internet arms race is the botnet, short for a robot network of compromised computers. Control of a botnet gives the power to threaten individuals, organizations, and even nation states by launching punishing denial of service attack targeting commerce, public safety, and security.
Mick O’Malley is a former security consultant, now hiding out in Australia under an alternative identity. Mick learns startling news about the events that turned his life upside down in Kiev six months previously. As Mick loses control of the botnet, he is drawn into a new global adventure.
Across four continents, Mick tracks the shadowy exploit writer who now controls the botnet, evading governments and cybercriminals alike. Whom should Mick trust: a compromised intelligence asset, a whistle-blowing government insider, a flighty open source privateer, a returned-from-retirement military operative, or a smuggler on the high seas?
Returning to Zero gives a dramatically realistic view of the ongoing struggle to secure today’s Internet from botnets, cyber criminal networks, and malicious nation-state actors. Views: 22
THE EAST VILLAGE, NYC, 1976.A 26-year-old starving poet needs $60. What else to do but register with a temp agency as a house cleaner? The excitement never wanes as he is catapulted into the everyday yet unimaginable worlds behind closed (apartment) doors. Bob knows one thing: the dirt will always win. Clients are a bit more unpredictable, he discovers, as he comes to terms with eccentric domestic habits and strange discoveries. When Bob becomes a weekly fixture in his clients' lives, anything can happen, and does, including a memorable encounter with an obliging Hoover that ultimately proves unable to get the job done. Cleaning Up New York has been a cult classic since it was first published in 1976 in an edition of 750. Views: 21
Jane is an innocent in 1930s Hollywood, but will she be seduced by the darker side of celebrity It is 1935, Jane Curry is homesick, tired and worn down. She lives in a cheap two-bedroom Hollywood rent house with her parents and six siblings. As the oldest child, the nineteen year old has given up her dreams of college to work in the wardrobe department at Zenith Studios. The job is tough, requires long hours and her boss is a demanding, unhappy person. For Jane the only joy beyond her family is in her faith. A chance meeting with the studio’s biggest star Brent Wilson changes Jane’s world. One of Wilson’s co-stars bets the actor he can’t transform the hick from Oklahoma into a woman who would fit in at a Hollywood party. In a Cinderella story Jane suddenly finds herself the belle of the party at a powerful movie mogul’s home. The next day her innocent world is rocked as newspapers report that she is the playboy Brent Wilson’s latest conquest. Over the next few weeks, in an attempt to make the newspaper stories ring true, Wilson tempts her as only a wealthy, handsome star can. Yet he can’t corrupt Jane. Over time he goes from making fun of her faith to being fascinated by it. He ultimately attends church with Jane, shocking the whole film community. In the end it is his life that is transformed, not hers. “Hollywood Dream” is about the redemption and real values found in a Christian life—values that sustain a person through the toughest times and greatest temptations. It is the tale of a hick girl who has nothing but faith and the huge movie star who can buy anything but happiness. It is a plot right out of some of the great Hollywood films of the 1930s such as Meet John Doe, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town and It Happened One Night. It is also a love story that becomes the vehicle to faith for a faithless man and to hope for a young lady who was truly hopeless. Views: 21
Weir's back and even weirder! But it's not just Weir who's weird, it's his whole family. Not even their pet bird is normal! How will he keep cool with a school trip to the zoo coming up AND Bella's birthday party?! It won't be easy . . . but it will be funny! Views: 21
The search for a legendary automobile threatens the careers and lives of husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo in this thrilling new adventure in Clive Cussler's bestselling series.
In 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce prototype known as the Gray Ghost vanishes from the streets of Manchester, England, and it is only the lucky intervention of an American detective named Isaac Bell that prevents it from being lost forever. Not even he can save the good name of Jonathan Payton, however, the man wrongly blamed for the theft, and more than a hundred years later, it is his grandson who turns to Sam and Remi Fargo to help prove his grandfather's innocence.
But there is even more at stake than any of them know. For the car has vanished again, and in it is an object so rare that it has the capacity to change lives. Men with everything to gain and a great deal to lose have a desperate plan to find it--and if anybody gets in their way? They have a plan for that, too.
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“A fast-paced tale that reaches back to the early days of automotive glory. . . A complicated and clever plot. . . The Fargos are great series characters, whip-smart and altruistic. . . Thriller fans will delight in this latest escapade. Cussler and co-author Burcell have delievered a winner.”--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
About the Author
Clive Cussler is the author or coauthor of more than seventy previous books in five bestselling series, including Dirk Pitt, NUMA Files, Oregon Files, Isaac Bell, and Sam and Remi Fargo. He lives in Arizona.
Robin Burcell spent nearly three decades working in California law enforcement as a police officer, detective, hostage negotiator, and FBI-trained forensic artist. She is the author of ten novels, and coauthor with Cussler of the Sam and Remi Fargo novel Pirate and The Romanov Ransom. She lives in Lodi, California. Views: 21
Romance/History. 83498 words long. First published in 2010 Views: 21
