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Rob Marshall has it all. A great job, a nice house just outside Washington, DC, and a wonderful family. He was living the American Dream. But the dream becomes a nightmare with one phone call - his son has been kidnapped. After a media frenzy and a frantic hunt for the kidnapper, the FBI is out of leads, and they hand the case over to local police. The only problem is that the lead detective suspects Rob is behind it all. Amid the accusations and investigation, his marriage is falling apart.

Transformation is the exciting second book in the Euphoria Z Trilogy. Cooper has found his sister, Ellen, and her boyfriend, Taffer, who survived the infection. But there's something not quite right about him now. Cooper must leave Ellen and Taffer behind with a new companion to go on a critical mission to find the one person that might be able to help him. Weed, the surviving member of the Wild Rebels MC, has infiltrated the parking garage as a harmless old man, but he's not fooling everyone.

È l'alba del 5 settembre 1972. Il marciatore israeliano Shaul Ladany si sveglia di soprassalto nel suo letto del villaggio olimpico di Monaco. È andato a dormire da poco. Fino alle 3 aveva ritagliato gli articoli di giornale che parlavano della sua gara: la 50 chilometri di marcia. In quel momento il sangue di Moshe Weinberg è già sull'asfalto. Il suo corpo è crivellato dai colpi di kalashnikov del commando di Settembre nero.

Lo zar semplicemente era imbattibile. E lo zar era Aleksandr Popov. Per tutti era lo zar, ma per gli americani era Big Dog, il cagnaccio. Perché non ti mollava mai. Inesorabile. Nel 2000 Popov si presenta a Sidney per affrontare la sua terza olimpiade. Può diventare l'unico nuotatore nella storia a vincere tre ori di fila nella stessa specialità. Il traguardo è lì ad un passo.

Si possono ricordare i dettagli di quella foto. 1968 Città del Messico, Tommie Smith e John Carlos sul podio. Pugno destro Smith sinistro Carlos, sguardo in basso. Smith ha una scatola nella mano sinistra tutti e due sono scalzi... Poi c'è quello che è arrivato con loro... di solito non ricordiamo il nome, ma è quello senza guanto. Un bianco in mezzo a due "negri", come si diceva senza le virgolette una volta. È Peter Norman. È prima di uscire dal tunnel indossa la coccarda dell'Olympic Project for Human Rights.

È il 22 luglio 1945. Siamo in Nord Dakota, ed è in corso una partita di baseball. Il pubblico è composto da bianchi. Nell'intervallo un corridore di colore sfida prima i più veloci tra i giocatori delle due squadre, poi addirittura un cavallo da corsa. Fa caldo, ma Jesse, trentatrè anni e un fisico invidiabile, sembra pronto a ripetere il solito spettacolo: l'uomo che corre più veloce del cavallo.

La superficie della Guinea Equatoriale è attraversata da est a ovest dal Rio Mbini, a nord il fiume Ntem percorre il confine col Camerun, a Sud il Rio Muni quello col Gabon. Lo sport più diffuso è la pelota, importata dagli spagnoli. "Unità, pace e giustizia" recita il motto del popolo Fang, un'etnia, tra le più diffuse del Paese, Eric Moussambani Malonga nel 2000, a 22 anni, ha potuto partecipare alle Olimpiadi, quelle Sidney. Specialità: 100 metri stile libero. Eric prima d'ora non era mai stato in Australia, non aveva mai visto una piscina olimpionica lunga 50 metri e fino a pochi mesi prima, otto per l'esattezza, non sapeva nuotare.

L'uomo che nel 1997 corre lungo le strade di Tokyo portando la torcia dei giochi invernali di Nagano non è una leggenda olimpica. O perlomeno non lo è in senso classico. Non ha realizzato imprese colossali, frantumato record mondiali o dato vita a duelli memorabili in pista. Grazie a una storia che se non fosse vera sarebbe un romanzo d'avventura.

Dr. Jack Norris arrives at work one day to find out his best friend, Dr. John Connor, was gunned down by a patient gone mad. While helping the police uncover the reason for this calamity, Jack uncovers a ring of mass murders who will stop at nothing to become rich and famous, even if it means killing innocent lives.

Meet Clara, reluctant spell caster and former member of the Texas Lycan pack. She fled the pack in fear in the 1970s. In the 30 years that pass, she never fully reclaims her life. It takes a loving family and a Christmas visit to give her the courage to open her heart.

Ambition, murder, politics. Elements in the tragic collision of two lives. Anthony "JoJo" Machado, decorated marine combat veteran, and Detective Sergeant Josh Williams, East Providence Police Department. Two men inextricably linked by circumstances beyond their control. One will die. One will face the loss of everything he holds dear. Collision Course is the riveting story of blind political ambition trampling truth.

Old Chicago has a new hero, the Bagman. Created by writer B.C. Bell, the Bagman is former gangster Frank McCullough who goes straight and becomes a crime-buster to protect the good people of the Windy City. These stories mix fast-paced action and humor in the finest pulp tradition.

Veteran Police Sergeant Clarke is gunned down by hoodlums, shot in the back of the head. As he lay dying, a rush of blood to his face formed a macabre mask - a crimson mask. When his son, Doctor Robert "Bob" Clarke, saw that strange stigmata, he interpreted it as a sign, inspiring him to become his father's avenger, the Crimson Mask!

They came from the sea. They came from the shadows. They came from the sewers. But what are they, and what do they want? No one knows. Their thirst for blood is insatiable. They scramble from city to city, spreading destruction and death in their wake. Some call them "Mutes". Some call them "Mimes". Their names are synonymous with terror.

Logan Braxton faces impossible odds as he attempts a coup against the powerful Alpha of the Texas Pack - his brother, Richard. Ruled by terror and violence, the pack is crumbling and none are powerful enough to challenge the alpha. Logan will risk his life, his honor, and his place in Lycan society to save those dearest to him.

In the summer 1953, Private Investigator Will "Lucky" Marks was working as the in-house private eye for Arcane Pacific Pictures. That's the summer when famed director Alister Walters was brutally stabbed to death on the scene of his last blockbuster hit mystery, the 1953 noir cult classic, Witness to the Act. Lucky is on the scene, and is pulled into this deliciously deceitful drama of Hollywood film making.

A patient in the intensive care unit, for no apparent reason, begins shooting and kills a nurse and a doctor who are caring for him. Gunfire is exchanged between the patient and a security guard, and they both die. Why did this happen? Where did the patient get the gun?

Marcus Freling is working as a mail carrier enjoying life. His pride and joy is his 13-year-old niece. Innocence is lost when her young life is snuffed out by a senseless random drive-by shooting in Harlem, New York. Over the next several months, Marcus's sorrow turns to anger. Anger gives way for a yearning to inflict vengeance on Troy, the drug dealer, whom fired the kill shot - Troy was questioned by Detective Rodgers about the murder, but he was released due to a lack of evidence.

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From time to time when I take a break from researching and writing my thrillers, I write short stories such as the ones collected for the first time in this new anthology, Trust and Other Nightmares. Each of these stories has its germination in nights when my sleep was suddenly savaged by ethereal visions and sounds sufficiently disturbing to wrench me from tangled, sweat-drenched sheets.