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In a world ruled by the purest survivors, the fiercest warriors, Gage was the strongest - an American executing his country’s darkest missions with legendary cunning and skill. Until, wounded and dying in a scorched wasteland, he found mercy at the hands of an aging priest. Separated from the secret world he once dominated, he chose a life of exile, pursuing a lonely peace, a solitary faith. Only the murder of his mentor and the mysterious theft of an ancient manuscript can compel him to emerge from solitude.

New Frontiers, Inc., is leading the drive to conquer space. Overcoming opposition from powerful and jealous nations is only the beginning. What of the alien society that left those mysterious beacons in the asteroid belt? They’re still here, and they’re not happy.... If you liked John Ringo’s Troy Rising trilogy, you’ll enjoy Jack Knapp’s New Frontiers series.

On December 9, 2001, Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in her Durham, NC home. Her scalp was laced with deep incisions, and her blood was strewn from outside to inside the house. The sinister truth of that night turned her murder into North Carolina's most enigmatic criminal case, capturing media attention across the globe.

Days after preventing a sarin gas attack on the nation's capital, CIA operative Titus Ray arrives in Santiago de Cuba on a mission to rescue fellow operative Ben Mitchell from the hands of the Los Zetas drug cartel.

Silas faces the most challenging case of his career at Discreet Corporate Security Services. He has seven days to rescue five oil workers kidnapped in a remote area of Saudi Arabia. Using his expertise as a former intelligence operative, Silas quickly brings together a highly skilled rescue team of four men and one woman—each with a complicated past—who are forced to confront their past as they embark on a high-risk mission that threatens their future.

A fatal accident during a Duluth blizzard is declared suspicious by Homicide Lieutenant Ernie Gramm in order to keep his people from having to do storm duty. The cops soon realize the made-up murder is the real thing. The motive may be revenge for an incident fifteen years earlier, but police consultant Milo Rathkey isn’t so sure. One thing everyone knows, freezing rain in Duluth in January can be deadly.

Private investigator Tucker Randall doesn’t have time for cold cases, but when Gary Fisher begs them to solve his brother’s murder eleven years ago before their father dies, the partners can’t say no. What at first seems like a simple cold case in a small Tennessee town explodes into a deadly conspiracy involving gunrunning, corrupt officials, and a series of execution-style murders. And at the center of it all stands a sadistic killer with a twisted concept of right and wrong.

Most of the successful private prospectors who’d struck it rich during the California and Nevada gold rushes during the mid- to late-1800s, had journeyed westward with a specific plan from which they never deviated. Upon achieving their pre-defined goals, they packed up and returned to their original homes in distant regions of the United States. There were also plenty of others, who’d been unable to pull the plug after striking it rich, believing their lucky streak to be a never-ending one.

Tabitha Willard was a beautiful, wealthy young woman with everything to live for, so why did she take her own life? What did powerful US Congressman Gordon “little Billy” Harper have to do with it? And then there’s Lester, “Shady” Tree, a crooked entrepreneur and a man with secrets. What about him? Harry Starke, an ex-cop turned private investigator, wants to know, and his search for the answers leads him deep into the shadows of the underworld, and the body count begins to rise. Can Starke find the answers he needs and stop the carnage?

The phone call came on a Tuesday evening in the middle of August. Harry Starke hadn’t heard from his old school friend in almost five years, and he hadn’t thought about him in almost as long. Tom Sattler wanted to meet, and it wouldn’t wait until morning. But when Harry arrived at Sattler’s home less than an hour later, he found him lying in a pool of blood with a single gunshot wound to his head and .22 revolver lying close to his hand. Was it suicide, or was Tom Sattler murdered? If so, by whom and why?

Nicknamed “the most beautiful woman in Alaska”, 31-year-old Diane Wells was bruised and bloodied when she screamed for help in the early hours of October 17, 1953. Her husband Cecil, a wealthy Fairbanks businessman, had been shot dead, and she claimed they were the victims of a brutal home invasion.

Secret plots to exterminate most of the world’s population to bring peace to the world. Two old enemies must work together to foil the peacemakers.

Who was she? Who put her there? Why did she have to die? Harry Starke vows to find the answers to those questions. But the trail has gone cold and Hill House is a desolate ruin with many secrets. To find the answers, Harry must embark upon an investigation that will put him and those close to him in deadly danger, take him to the lost and long-forgotten streets buried under the city, and deep into the Dark Web where he comes face to face with murder, organized crime, prostitution, and human trafficking.

In this life, you have to play the cards you’re dealt. Sometimes the cards aren’t worth a dime. Even holding the winning hand is not a guarantee you will take the pot. One thing is certain, somewhere along the way you are going to cashing in your chips. It is a good bet the aces and eights you’re holding means that time is near.

In Liar Liar, Book 8 in the Harry Starke Genesis series, PI Harry Starke is tasked with solving the ten-year-old cold case of Brice Manning, a nineteen-year-old university student whose death was declared a suicide by the police. But Harry, skeptical at first, soon realizes that the case isn’t as simple as it seems, and that the people closest to Brice may be hiding some dark secrets. As he delves deeper, Harry uncovers a web of lies and deceit that will leave you on the edge of your seat.rilling ride from start to finish.

Here are stories and emails written from the fictional writer Robin Masters. Or is he fiction? Could he exist in another dimension? With nods and winks to stories and travel articles written for magazines, the author has included “Easter eggs” and more.

Children at Lakeview Elementary School were at work on their lessons when fifth-grader Emma Neibert noticed wisps of smoke, a discovery that led to a panicked stampede inside the school—the chaos of nine teachers trying to control and then save pupils in overcrowded classrooms. Outside, desperate parents and would-be rescuers fought to save as many children as possible, while Collinwood’s inadequate volunteer fire department—joined by members of the Cleveland fire department—fought a losing battle with the rapidly spreading blaze.

He’s Silas McKay, head of Discreet Corporate Security Services (DCSS) in Dallas, Texas. She’s Ashley Davenport, the daughter of DCSS’s highest-paying client. They each have personal issues....

He’s Silas McKay, head of operations for Discreet Corporate Security Systems in Dallas, Texas. Silas doesn’t usually investigate stolen merchandise, but when his boss asks him to look into a jewelry heist at Gadise Diamonds, a high-end store in the Dallas area, he makes an exception. When Silas learns this was no ordinary robbery, and the suspect is no ordinary thief, he enlists the help of Ashley Davenport, who’s no ordinary woman.

Why would someone buy seven ugly winter hats in May? Police Consultant Milo Rathkey wanted to know, but the buyer told him to mind his own business. Milo would have forgotten all about it if the Hat Man hadn't been found floating facedown in a nearby river.