English Private Eye Sam Dyke tracks down a vicious killer who seems to have no regard for the law ... or anything else.Making a killing in business is one thing - doing it for real is another.Private Investigator Sam Dyke turns down a job that would require skills that he doesn't have - patience, computer-literacy, tact. Then he finds that the skills he does have - tenacity, aggression, street-smarts - are exactly the ones he needs for his next case - hunting down a cold-blooded murderer who seems to know what his every step will be.To solve the case Sam must negotiate with his ex-wife, cement a relationship with a new love, unravel an office-based financial fraud and fight off an arrogant murderer armed only with a pen-knife. Altered Life is fast-paced, bitterly comic and introduces a tough new English private eye who knows what he wants and, usually, how to get it. Views: 293
-White House Protection Force story #2- Colonel Michael Gibson left the field after twenty years to take command of Delta Force. Two years later he wonders at what mental aberration made him do it. A lifelong warrior, White House and Pentagon politics are now his battlefield, not directing operations as he should be. With a child on the way, his normal mission plans for survival are all failing him. A lifetime ago, retired spy Miss Watson, turned White House librarian, gave her all for her country. Her one regret? Betraying the Soviet general she fell in love with. Betraying him to his death. Perhaps together, with some help from their young friend Dilya, they can find the answers lost Between Shadow and Soul. Views: 293
The Hills of Home is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Alfred Coppel is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Alfred Coppel then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. Views: 293
The Sorrow is a dark crime story that explores the consequences of pain, and losing yourself to it.The Sorrow is a dark crime story that explores the consequences of pain, and losing yourself to it. Jack Mercer is a struggling cop caught between two worlds - trying to protect his wife and daughter by staying under the radar, or taking the fight to his enemies.When a breakthrough threatens to uncover grand secrets about the mob, their hand is forced and Jack returns home one night to find his family brutally murdered. Three weeks later he receives a phone call from his dead daughter.As Jack chases the ghost of his child, he discovers a darkness within him; a bloodlust that he cannot control. Views: 292
Despite the title, the stories collected here recount cases from the middle of Miss Marple's career. They are: 'Sanctuary'; 'Strange Jest'; 'Tape-Measure Murder'; 'The Case of the Caretaker'; 'The Case of the Perfect Maid'; 'Miss Marple Tells a Story'; 'The Dressmaker's Doll'; 'In a Glass Darkly'; 'Greenshaw's Folly.' Views: 292
-a Night Stalkers CSAR romance story- The most dangerous mission of all: CSAR—Combat Search and Rescue. Captain Kandace Eversmann's plane goes down hard in the Somali desert. With her life expectancy falling by the minute, she uses tricks from her favorite movies in order to survive. Army Medic Bob Redford has run out of reasons to stay in the Army. Until he must use his own love of movies to find the wounded pilot—fast. The race is on to beat an attacking militia that wants to take them both down before the final credits. Views: 291
A battered woman tries to escape her abusive husband when she learns she is pregnant. Views: 291
A short story focused on three people, one tragedy, and one foggy night on a bridge. Lucky People is a story of great loss and overwhelming guilt.A short story in three chapters Three people stand on a bridge on a foggy night. They're all there for the same reason, and all brought there by the same event. Their stories are far different from each other's, and yet they all go through equal trauma. Lucky People is a story of guilt, survival, and three people's great hardship. Views: 291
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City.
A secret Arctic experiment becomes a frozen nightmare, when a team of scientists are set adrift on an iceberg--with a murderer in their midst, and a massive explosive charge only hours away from detonation. This original early Koontz novel--in the tradition of Winter Moon--is now available in large print edition, releasing simultaneously with Ballantine's mass market edition. Views: 291
Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas's side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the "glorious and touching" (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us.Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life—and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter's life. Switching between the perspectives of Lily and Atlas, It Starts with Us picks up right where the epilogue for the "gripping, pulse-pounding" (Sarah Pekkanen,... Views: 290
The fifth part in the series Apollyon's Saint. The nine kingdoms brings the religions of old into an apocalyptic clash. Gabriel find's himself in the kingdom of Norse, in Asgard. Gabriel learns of the nine kingdoms and see's the prophecy of what is to come. War was brewing, maybe the same one of old inside of Gabriel. Or one more easily defined as the divine, and the war of the nine kingdoms.Seek not pleasure or fancy beyond this point. These stories are not for everyone and I would warn against those that are faint of heart from continuing. The deaths contained in these stories are no pretty, glamorized, or funny. They are detailed and raw.A Death in Afterworld is a short story series that focuses on the death of a person in the After World universe. Pitfalls, deaths, and murder are commonplace and are a means of survival for others.Death is final. Death is abrupt. Death is the end of one’s story. Now these people get their last story told before the book is closed on them. Views: 290
