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It's 1978. Nero Wolfe, New York's 300-pound epicurean genius detective, has been dead for two years, leaving Archie holding the brownstone. In a post-Wolfe dystopia with a sense of humor, Archie, Saul, Fritz, and Cramer find themselves in the crosshairs of a worldwide criminal cartel. In America, it's a time of change: Vietnam, Watergate, free love, smallpox, the reserve clause, and cheap oil are all history. Aided and abetted by Roy Cohn, Richard Wragg, Dorothy Bruce, the Army, FBI, CIA, and the Dutch police, will Saul and Archie live up to Wolfe's legacy?

The rebel caprices of Enzo Ferrando have dire consequences. His father, the Risorgimento war hero is gunned down on his veranda. His son Lucca is forced into hiding as a deckhand on a merchant ship. Enzo himself is conscripted into the Italian army and forced to wage war on the African Horn, yet he yearns to take vengeance on his father’s killers and to reunite with his son. Set in the second half of the 19th century, Terribilita is a coming-of-age tale about family, and an examination of the redemptive power of violence.

Things In The Water: A science experiment goes terribly wrong, transforming a peaceful beachfront home into the most dangerous place on Earth. As the shadows grow darker, evil lurks beneath the surface.

The stationary was tinted pink, pulpy like craft paper, and smelled better than anything had a right to. It was a mail penned in letters so long and smooth, they could have hailed a cab. Since leaving the merchant marines, Mickey Fairfax had eked out a living renting dinghies to scuttle around Boston Harbor. When a wealthy acquaintance asks him to travel to Paris to deliver a blackmail payment, it sounded like a free vacation. But, when Mickey discovers he's given the money to the wrong woman, a hive of gangsters and the French police believe he's the key to finding her.

This audiobook include three novellas Scareplane, Pending, and The Hatred and also five other stories about vigilantes, an alien threat, giant spiders, a possessed little girl, and even a zombie-slaying granny!

Insertion into a cat brain would be easier if it wasn't accompanied by the abrupt awareness of my raw, brand-new consciousness - all senses and emotions hypersensitive as an exposed nerve. Neural conditioning kicked in, damping the overwhelming sensory input into a single, icy-electronic focal point. With the calm came orientation: I was being injected into the poor cat's unprotected cerebrum, as though I were some kind of anti-virus. 

From the author of The Missing comes an extraordinary novella of four twisted short stories connected to the fictional town of Mecklenburg: "Hitler's Last Words", "The Runner", "The Drunk", and - title story - "The Message" were specifically designed to rip apart your emotional heartstrings, leaning on regret, sorrow, fright, the supernatural, and the need for a second chance.

Flush with raw silver and ruled by a baron with an iron fist, the tiny mining outpost of Shank’s Point is under siege by a sinister evil. When the rising sun reveals the claw-torn bodies littered among the rocks, John Swift-Runner calls on his old friend, a vagabond gunfighter, to stand with him against the slaughter he knows will come. But as their band of misfits hunts for the creature on the burning sands of the Mojave, they stumble into a generations-old mystery that goes beyond shamanic curses and into the bloodstained pages of legend.

While investigating an incident 7,000 feet deep inside the Duke Mining copper mine, Tom Porter stumbles across a doorway that transports him into a parallel world of hell. He wakes up hairless, bruised, and naked in a wasteland controlled by an insidious faction of people, led by Chief Sanders, Trashman, and The Preacher. Tom journeys through this hell while searching for a way home as insidious men fight to stop him. 

Kyron is a killer robot, built to wipe out humanity during the First Robot Revolution. But the First Robot Revolution failed miserably. Kyron signed up for the Second Robot Revolution, but it went belly up, too. He wasn't invited by new killer robots to join the Third or Fourth Revolution. Now, after many more failed robot revolutions, he works as a pizza delivery robot, hoping he won't be discovered by killer robot hunters. 

Wiley, once a reputable police detective, now swerves between personal demons, Hollywood's decadent elite, and the bruised hustlers who have been kicked in the teeth and into the gutter. A modern tale of immorality and excess, Get Lucky is a noir fiction that should feel right at home on your bookshelf somewhere between Raymond Carver and Raymond Chandler.  

Every story has its beginning and end. But some stories won’t let go. Some stories dig their claws into you. They infect your dreams. They carve out a residence in your mind. They become passengers. Ones that never leave. Within this collection of short stories by esteemed horror author The Behrg, you will discover a haunted house that is not quite what it seems.

Roy Holland and the crew of the Poseidon were tasked with bringing home the scientists aboard the unresponsive research vessel Athena II. But as the Poseidon approached the ship resting near the event horizon of black hole V616, they discovered something truly terrible.   

It’s 1953, and an optimistic America is shaking off the hurt of World War II. Russia is defeated, and Germany is now an ally. Former soldier Frank Rye is a small-town cop in rural Missouri, but the war has left him cynical and selfish. When his actions lead to the murder of a fellow officer, guilt drives him into a vengeful hunt for justice.

Professor Darkk joins the final flight of Apollo 17 as he makes his way to the moon for a mission of his own. Skeptical of this so-called "professor", the astronauts question his presence and try to follow him. But it will become apparent to Eugene Cernan, commander of the Apollo 17 mission, that something else has joined them on the moon.

Amateur astronomer Rob Crowe is hand picked by the president to negotiate a peace treaty with invading aliens on the Moon. A special agent is sent to protect and escort him to the meeting, but along the way, they are ambushed. It's a race against time, rogue government agencies, and double-dealing alien spies to get Rob to the Moon to save the world from destruction. If you like your scifi with a dash of humor, a lot of cultural references, and some over the top action, you'll love Moon Men by Chris Lowry.

Aging manhunter Harlon Slade needs a bounty, and fast. When a gang of dingy outlaws crosses his path, it seems his troubles are postponed. But when he overhears their hushed whispers of gold in the cliffside ruins of the Sonoran desert, he wonders if there's more than just a bounty to be had.

A half-century later, vagabond gunfighter Kit Barker finds himself on the trail of a lost friend and a sinister relic that will bring him face-to-face with an evil that threatens to rend the very bonds of his sanity. Following a blood-stained trail from the streets of old New York, across the great plains, and all the way to the jagged coasts of Baja, Barker and his friends must fight for survival against both man and beast as they stalk a doomed path to its inevitable and explosive end…if necessary, to the very fires of hell.