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The crack of a rifle brings the Senator down. Standing nearby, Judge Warren Alexander tries to save him, but it's too late, the wound too severe. With few leads in the Senator's murder, life in Washington eventually resumes a normal pace. So does Judge Alexander, until his wife is arrested for the crime. But it doesn't make any sense. His wife isn't a killer. Still, the FBI's new evidence is overwhelming and he, alone, believes in her innocence....
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On a dirt road in Barranquilla, Colombia sometime in the
1970's a mother of baby twin boys is forced to make the
most difficult decision of her life. One of her sons grows to become a major part of the Cali Cartel drug trafficking world. The other boy's life remains a mystery until the drug dealer son begins searching for his lost twin.
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Two young women, tortured by their past--and now the present--latch onto Evan, an interning therapist.
Jennifer and Ruth make for intense relationships that will test Evan both professionally and personally.
This novella is a compelling psychological thriller that will keep the reader guessing until the last few pages.
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On the fringe of the Milky Way, a great sun anchors fifteen planets on varying orbits. All but the fifth planet are lifeless and have few distinguishable characteristics. The fifth planet, however, stands forth among all others as a sparkling jewel lying upon the black velvet inter-space of the universe. Hues of blues, shades of green and brown are painted across the equatorial belt, while wisps of white and gray clouds wind and feather over the orb....
5) The Geek
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Gary Geiecki (pronounced Gee-ecki) is a skilled assassin. He's been an unofficial CIA killer for the past twenty years and has decided to retire. There is no such thing as a truly perfect assassin and Gary was no exception. He was, however, very good. Gary left a wide trail of bodies behind him, over his long and productive career. Riddled with childhood insecurities and social awkwardness Gary desperately tries to move forward with his life after...
6) Catechisms
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Detective Paige McGraw is waiting for something to go her way for once. After letting a suspect slip through her fingers, her career is now in shambles. Stuck working in the shadow of the brash new homicide inspector on the force, Clarissa Wright, she hopes to redeem herself by catching a good case or bringing her slippery fugitive to heel.
When a defrocked priest is found horribly murdered and mutilated, it may be just the right investigation...
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Every small town has an eccentric or two, and Killdeer, New York, is no exception. Morgan Mason attracts more than a few stares when he drives through town on his ramshackle tractor wearing a skirt. His sister is mortified, his neighbor resents the Skirt Man's interference, and a local preservationist is horrified by Morgan's huge satellite dish. These minor small-town annoyances become more serious – and deadly – when the Skirt Man is killed...
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Trip Elix is the author of the new novel Extortionware. The novel exposes one of the darkest sides of the internet that is rarely discussed and often times considered to be a taboo topic. Hackers and cyber thieves make the nightly news but they are only part of the story. People who have read the book have a greater understanding of other vulnerabilities we all face in our daily lives in cyber space. The book is written in a way that even those without...
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Imagine living in a world where Consumerism is the constitutional order, and where the Inspectorate is in charge of destroying goods whose season has passed, so as to maintain the Balance. In this world you can survive only if you work and buy goods with every new season. And when you are no longer able to – the only thing remaining is Euthanasia. This thriller was written for all those that like to surrender themselves to a good book, but also...
10) The White House
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Days before the presidential election, a terrorist attack occurs at an Ivy League university and amidst the chaos, several students and a professor are kidnapped. One student is the son of Alex Hamilton, the presidential nominee, and another the heir to a vast fortune. Among those taken is Vanessa Colletti, the daughter of FBI Agent Dominic Colletti – a man who will do anything to get her back.
A race against time ensues, and Agent Colletti isn't...
11) The Night-Comer
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Islamic terrorists have been paid $400 million dollars to smuggle a nuclear bomb into the United States and detonate it over Midtown Manhattan. It's so horribly frightening, that our government is already preparing for it.
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Queen's Witness is a tense political thriller set on the edges of London's criminal underworld that overlaps with Fleet Street and Westminster. After it appears that the government's Witness Protection Programme has been broken, investigative journalist, Matthew Kent, is lured into making a dangerous error of judgment, when the ensuing spiral of violence and mystery threatens not only his life but also those of both his lovers.
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"Fateful Connections" follows a group of four CEO's as they gather for an executive conference in Seattle on September 11, 2001. As they attempt to reach home following the day's catastrophic events, they are besieged by terrorists of a different kind. The story follows their troubles, trauma, and redemption as they race to safety amidst international chaos. Much of the history and events of 9/11 are woven throughout the story. This compelling, exciting...
14) Diomede
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The world is on edge. The United States has declared Martial Law nationwide and is officially at war with Canada. Eli Reznor and Jessica Nelson managed to survive the events at Enloe but now they face even greater challenges. Follow our modern day revolutionaries as they continue to fight for their lives and their livelihood. The duo and their supporters encounter new friends and new foes as they push to usher in a new age for society. Not everyone...
15) The Insider
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THE INSIDER is a 51,000 word thriller set in the world's financial markets, principally London and Rio de Janeiro. In the high stakes world of financial traders, the prospect of a large financial loss drives a group of bankers to take desperate measures to avoid financial ruin from derivative bets gone wrong. An accomplished bond trader with London investment bank Weinstein Reiss, Joe McGowan is drawn into a deadly trading game of life and death...
16) Hell Is Naked
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This award winning mystery/thriller took finalist honors in the Readers Favorite International Book Awards. One of WARREN ROBERTS' SWAT cronies once told him a woman would run naked into the street to save her baby, but a man would stop to put on his pants first. It was an interesting thought, an enigma to ride the back of his mind and wait for a time of future analysis. But time plays tricks and sometimes there is no time for analysis, only for action....
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William McManus the singleton, the maverick, the only child of John McManus and Nicole O'Connell suddenly realized that his step uncle Sean McManus adopted in East berlin 1951, after his grandfather Tom fled Belfast in 1948, was a liability to the world the moment he set foot in the United States with his adoptive parents as six years old child. Five decades later, his step nephew William went through a strange adversity against all odds to uncover...
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Sorrow's Garden is an intriguing tale of manipulation. The novel chronicles the activities of Radulf, an architect and writer living in Germany, a man whose psyche is in a state of constant trauma about the fact that he has no real moral compass. He vents this frustration by viewing the world as a selfish place despite his success. In a kind of desire for revenge, Radulf perfects his skills of manipulation by gaining the trust of victims by exploiting...
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Hard-working, second year pediatric resident Dr. Egan is chronically exhausted, as are most residents at Malloy Medical Center, a very busy New York CIty hospital that is humming with activity 24 hours a day and renowned for both its transplant service and in vitro fertilization clinic. One day Egan is woken at 3 AM to see a baby who has arrived in the emergency room with early signs of bacterial meningitis. Despite Egan's frantic efforts, the baby...
20) Chain of Command
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The road to the Oval Office is paved in blood...the simultaneous assassinations of the President and Vice President catapults the Speaker of the House into the White House as the first female President of the United States. Evidence points to a former Navy SEAL as one of the assassins. Relegated to writing sidebar stories instead of headlines, journalist McKenzie McClendon composes a scathing story about the Navy training killers, igniting the fury...
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