Erebus is back and ready to play another game in the final installment of the Next Move, You're Dead Trilogy. However, this time he added a new twist. Erebus has kidnapped John, and it's up to Mac and Tom to rescue him before time is up. Each move takes them closer to solving the mystery of Erebus, but will they succeed before they are all destroyed?In books 1 & 2 you learned to hate Erebus. Now you will learn who he is, and why he plays his games. Views: 19
FUTURE SPOILS The human will to survive has sharpened to a knife edge after a century of postnuclear madness. In a lawless land where firepower and savagery rule, power lies with the barons and coldhearts who wield control through terror. Against all odds, a courageous few still fight for something better to live by - honor, decency and hope. CHILL FACTOR Emerging relatively unscathed from the apocalyptic rebirth of North America, Canada hides a trove of Cold War-era secret government installations known as Diefenbunkers, filled with caches of weapons, wags and food. Ryan Cawdor and his companions agree to ride sec for a convoy headed west across the remnants of the old Trans-Canada Highway to retrieve the ultimate prize: four portable nuclear reactors. It's enough power to light up a ville for years, a bright beacon for a new tomorrow. But they have death on their tail, a baron and his sec men who will stop at nothing to claim the prize as their own. In the Deathlands, the road to hell is a one-way ride... Views: 19
This is the omnibus version containing the 3 volumes of the trilogy. Present Day Wall Street. Where intelligence agencies and the financial industry are strange bedfellows, and the two worlds are often intertwined in disturbing ways. In this chillingly plausible, controversial scenario of a military/industrial/financial complex run amok, Zero Sum pits Dr. Steven Archer Cross against powerful financier Nicholas Griffen in a conflict that raises troubling questions about our markets and our government. Racing against the clock in a chase that spans continents, one man's battle to expose the Machiavellian machinations of a ruthless Wall Street marauder forces him into a financial jungle populated by every variety of unscrupulous sociopath - rogue intelligence agencies, Russian mafia oligarchs, drug cartels and terrorist networks. As a white-collar game of chess transitions into a lethal real world cage-fight, Steven finds himself in a deadly showdown, where hunters can quickly become the hunted and blood is the ultimate currency. Zero Sum is the first novel featuring Dr. Steven Archer Cross ++++ Q & A for Zero Sum Question: Where did the idea for Zero Sum come from? RB: I thought the inside scoop of how a Wall Street pump and dump works would be a great framework for a thriller. The innate conspiracy begs to be told, and I also wanted to give some background on how the market actually functions. Q: Zero Sum offers readers a look behind the curtain on Wall Street's dark side. Do you think there's much of an audience for that? RB: With the current financial crisis & the emerging awareness that things are badly broken in the regulatory & law enforcement scheme, I think the novel's timely. Its depiction of Wall Street predators with their pet politicians, regulators & media cronies is spot on. I've found readers are fascinated once they understand it all. Q: Zero Sum paints a picture of Wall Street that's at odds with the sanitized image in the media. Have you gotten any flack because of it? RB: There's definitely a segment of the financial industry that would prefer nobody reads the book. The parasites that run the schemes described in it are alive & well & doing it every day, relying on the public's ignorance to prosper. There are some annoyed players who want this read about as much as they want a 60 Minutes crew at their office. It's a controversial story, & I'm not making any friends telling it. Q: Your characters seem real, especially the Wall Street villain, intelligence operatives & mob goons. Are these based in fact? RB: A good fiction author blends truth & fiction to the point where you aren't sure where the story starts & the facts leave off. Let's just say that the characters & scenarios that seem real, are likely that vivid & believable for a reason. Q: What authors do you read & which have most influenced you? RB: I grew up on Ludlum. Forsyth. Harris, Grisham. Fans of those authors will find my writing's similar - Bourne, Day of the Jackal, The Firm. + Zero Sum features Dr. Steven Archer Cross, from The Voynich Cypher** Views: 19
144 civilians were slaughtered 20 years ago, when a Serb unit wiped out their village.Overshadowed by the genocide at Srebrenica, it was just another tragedy in a dirty little war where brutality was the norm. Major Josef Durakovic, commander of the Red Wolves, escaped from The Hague and has been on the run ever since. Now a single slip of the tongue indicates he could be in Auckland. Could one of the most wanted mass murderers on the globe really be hiding in sleepy God's Own? The Security Intelligence Service launch an operation to find out.Charlie Nickals is handed the reins for his first big op, and with promotion on the cards, the pressure is on to pull off a major coup. One wrong step and more innocent blood will be spilled. Charlie knows he has to be fast, accurate and ruthless. With the unwanted assistance of Special Forces, and utilising all their skills at covert surveillance, Charlie and his team of spies have one mission-identify and neutralise wanted war criminal... Views: 19
From BooklistFlorida may no longer be the crime-fiction hot spot it was in the wake of Miami Vice (and the cocaine cowboys of South Beach), but perhaps the union’s most distinctive, diverse, and perverse state still boasts an impressive list of crime writers. This anthology brings together many of those writers to celebrate not only the state’s richness as a setting but also the special power of the short story. Included are James W. Hall, Tom Corcoran, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, James. O. Born, John Dufresne, and Jonathan King—names just about every fan will recognize and writers whose use of the Florida landscape is at the heart of their work. Also included are well-known writers, such as John Lutz, whose work is set in a variety of locations not limited to Florida. The quality of the stories is high across the board, making this collection of definite interest both to followers of Florida crime fiction specifically and to anyone who enjoys the hard-boiled and noir styles. --Steve Glassman About the AuthorMichael Lister is a novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright who lives in northwest Florida. A former prison chaplain, Michael is the author of the Blood series featuring prison chaplain/detective John Jordan. His second series features Jimmy "Soldier" Riley, a PI in Panama City during World War II (www.FloridaNoir.com). Michael also teaches college, operates a charity and community theater. www.MichaelLister.com Views: 19
A young woman awakens from a coma and finds she has special abilities and with that special challenges!
In this near future SciFi Thriller novel, a young woman has been awakened from a coma after nearly two years. Miranda Summerlin finds that she has been given nanites that give her enhanced mental abilities and extraordinary hand-to-eye coordination. She attends the nearby Space Academy where she uses her mental genius to work on cutting edge astrophysics and she joins the school shooting competition team after discovering she can hit wherever she aims at on a target. Intending to keep her skills low key, Miranda must step up to prevent a terrorist attack against the school that only she has the skills to do so.
Miranda has also drawn the attention of a girl on the soccer team who becomes her nemesis at the school. While playing pool at a school party, Miranda lets her irritation with her nemesis cause her to let some of her skills slip thru to others. But Miranda will soon be faced with the need to use many of her skills and in so doing, Miranda will come to the attention of her true nemesis, a rogue Organization that wants her nanites. She will need help to escape from their agent. In the process, she will discover her true identity. But what is the cost for her rescue? How will she deal with the Organization?
The first in the Near Future series, Awakening is a near future sci-fi thriller in a world that combines science that just might be possible soon with psychic visions and an evil Organization that is backed by an unknown power.
Coming soon, books 2 and 3 in the series and a novella too!
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Luke and Eileen meet in college in the early 1960s, fall deeply inlove, marry and move to Southern California where Luke becomes one ofthe first telephone talk radio hosts. They love their life together,awaiting their first child and living in paradise, a block from thebeach.
But everything changes when Luke gets an on-the-air caller who turnsthe world upside down with remarkable predictions about thetransformation of life on Earth, and proves his power with a globalmiracle.
In this novella, read how Luke and Eileen's powerful devotion to eachother sustains them in the center of the maelstrom of controversy thatsurrounds the caller's predictions, and how a tragic loss challengestheir love and determination to be together.
You'll find it hard to put down the very fast-moving, emotion-filled,"A Voice InThe Night."
Author: Brian J. Matthews has spent many years as a writer, reporter,producer and director in radio, television, advertising and publicrelations. He lives in Connecticut with his wife Catherine. There arethree grown children. Views: 19
