Book Preview INCH BY SOLID INCH, Atlee Pine watched the battered coffin being lifted to the surface from where it had rested six feet down for nearly two decades. Coffins and bodies were not supposed to be retrieved. They were supposed to stay right where they were planted, at least until a dying sun lashed … Read more
Book Preview Chapter 1 AMOS DECKER WOULD forever remember all three of their violent deaths in the most paralyzing shade of blue. It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light. He would never be free from it. The stakeout had been long and ultimately unproductive. Driving home, … Read more
Book Preview I’m thrilled to introduce a brand new series character to the world: FBI Special Agent Atlee Pine. I’ve written plenty of female characters into my stories, but it’s about time I wrote a book with a female lead. She’s investigating a mysterious case in the Grand Canyon, near to where she works and … Read more
Book Preview Web London roars into a dark al ey one night with his FBI Hostage Rescue Team. Seconds later, the team is ambushed and every man is dead—except Web. As the FBI conducts their investigation, the suspicion surrounding Web deepens. Now, he needs help from an unlikely al y in his desperate search for … Read more
Book Preview 1 FORTY-EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS. That was roughly how much the cargo in the crate weighed. It was off-loaded from the tractor-trailer by forklift and placed in the back of the smaller box truck. The rear door was closed and secured with two different locks, one a key, the other a combo. Each lock … Read more
Book Preview THE MAN IN THE RAIN SLICKER WALKEDslightly bent over, his breathing labored and his body sweaty. The extra weight he was bearing, though not al that substantial, was awkwardly placed, and the terrain was uneven. It was never an easy thing to tote a dead body through the woods in the middle of … Read more
Book Preview OLIVERSTONE WAS COUNTING SECONDS, an exercise that had always calmed him. And he needed to be calm. He was meeting with someone tonight. Someone very important. And Stone didn’t quite know how it was going to go. He did know one thing for certain. He was not going to run. He was through … Read more
Book Preview As Will Robie stared out the plane window, he knew the next twenty-four hours could possibly be his last ones on earth. Yet that was simply another day on the job for him. The undercarriage of multiple reinforced wheels touched down and grabbed the tarmac, and the thrust reversers engaged. The world’s largest … Read more
Book Preview This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Copyright © 2022 by Columbus Rose, Ltd. Cover copyright © 2022 by Hachette Book Group, Inc. Hachette … Read more
Book Preview A longtime burglar breaks into a plush mansion in the Washington D. C. area and is in the process of removing items of enormous wealth from a vault behind a two-way mirror when a limousine and a van pul around the back of the mansion. A man and a woman come into the … Read more
Book Preview CHAPTER 1 THE NINETY-SIX-YEAR-OLD MAN sat in his comfy armchair enjoying a book on Joseph Stalin. No mainstream publisher would touch the delusion-filled manuscript since the author had been unfailingly complimentary about the sadistic Soviet leader. Yet the self-published book’s positive opinion of Stalin appealed greatly to the old man. He’d purchased it … Read more
Book Preview Chapter 1 WITH A NEW DECADE LOOMING, Aloysius Archer was on a creaky bus headed west to California to seek as much of a life as someone like him could reasonably expect. A roof over his head, three squares a day, a pint of decent liquor every now and then, and a steady … Read more
Book Preview Scanned and proofed (version 1.0) by Nizhny R. Scott Bakker The Thousandfold Thought To Keith and Tina ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To think I started this journey almost twenty years ago … Like anything else, life has a life of its own. If anyone had told me years back that the summer of … Read more
Book Preview The First Apocalypse destroyed the great Norsirai nations of the North. Only the South, the Ketyai nations of the Three Seas, survived the onslaught of the No-God, Mog-Pharau, and his Consult of generals and magi. The years passed, and the Men of the Three Seas forgot, as Men inevitably do, the horrors endured … Read more
Book Preview [Version 0.9—scanned by JASC; most formatting errors have been corrected] [Version 2.0—proofread and formatted by braven; Retained Canadian English spelling] R. Scott Bakker The Darkness that Comes Before (Book One of The Prince of Nothing) PROLOGUE … Read more
Book Preview In which it is established that: IN THE CITY of Westminster, in the vicinity of Birdcage Walk, in the year of our Lord 1844… There was once a private residence with a view of St. James’ park. It was generally known, among the London tradesmen, that a respectable widow resided there, upon whom … Read more
Book Preview In the year 1848 there was, in the vicinity of Whitehall, an exclusive dining establishment catering to many of those distinguished gentlemen who might be observed going in and out of the Houses of Parliament. Its customers were by no means limited to statesmen and peers, however; Royal Society members, journalists, and other … Read more
Book Preview THE WOMEN OF NELL GWYNNE’S Kage Baker Illustrated by J. K. Potter SUBTERRANEAN PRESS 2009 The Women of Nell Gwynne’s Copyright © 2009 by Kage Baker. All rights reserved. Dust jacket and interior illustrations Copyright © 2009 by J. K. Potter. All rights reserved. Interior design Copyright © 2009 by Desert Isle … Read more