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Most mercenary units fly flags on two flagpoles at their headquarters: one with their unit’s flag, and other bearing the flag of their current employer. However, the Third Regimental Combat Team—a.k.a. the Eridani Light Horse—leaves one flagpole bare, as a reminder of the death of the Star League, and the other pole flies the Light Horse’s unit and regimental flags at half-mast.

Russian warships are arriving in Cuba and the president wants to know why. Nick Storm and the Caribe team are instructed to find out! While Maya and Julio head for Cuba, Nick Storm and Liza Breton are dispatched to Venezuela where a coup is in the making. Are the Russian ships being sent to offer aid to the embattled leader of the South American government? Or are they there for a far more sinister purpose? One that could ignite into World War Three?

This new series is for “the fans of the old style of action tales and stories of High-Adventure. Here, you’ll meet Mike Harrigan, known to his friends and foes as “Hardluck Hannigan.” Traipsing through the Belgium Congo, he takes on Nazis, river pirates, even the legendary Prester John. With Bridget Ellen O’Malley and Father Niles McKenzie at his side, .45 blazing, Hardluck Hannigan pits himself against the nefarious Doctor Ragnarok in the search for the fabulous Emerald of Eternity.

Willie Walker was a famous saxophonist in the Jazz world. He had played all around the world. But now he was retiring to Key West to open up a Jazz Club at the End of the Road. But people around him start dying, and pretty soon Willie gets the idea that somebody doesn’t want his club to open. His granddaughter Ruby is getting the same idea and hires Marlow to find out who is out to kill her grandfather and why. Willie has secrets he plans on taking to the grave. Secrets he promised never to reveal. But in order to keep Willie alive, Marlow has to uncover those secrets or they both might end up singing the Midnight Blues.

When Irishman Corky O’Brian opened his bar, the Hanging Monkey, on the island of Motugra, he had no idea it would become a magnet for some of the most colorful rogues ever to ply their trades in the South Seas. The cast includes his lovely, but deadly, Chinese waitress, Miko; Khuna, the powerful island warrior; sea captain Nick Fortune; and pilot Jimmy Dolan. Together, these five colorful characters fight their way through one breathtaking adventure after another.

When a dead US Intelligence agent washes up on Nassau, it gets the authorities' attention. Especially since he was reported killed 10 years before in Europe. The Caribe team is tasked to look into this mystery, which is personal for Nick Storm since he was the man's backstop in Croatia. But on arriving in Nassau, they discover that the twice dead agent is only the tip of the iceberg as they race to stop S.H.A.D.E. from selling a stolen nuclear device to ISIS!

When Caroline England first walked into her office with a wild tale of being followed and feeling that someone had targeted her for murder, Rebekah McCabe really didn't believe her. But the money was real enough and there was enough of it to make her a believer, at least long enough to investigate. Caroline was a hostess at Club Prana, a five level nightclub featuring everything from hip-hop to reggae. The night before she had nearly been shoved over a balcony rail. Could it have been an accident?

After the bloody American Civil War ended, the rugged landscape that was the frontier West was soon flooded with all manner of immigrants - cowboys, pioneer settlers, and all manner of outlaws. In their path were the various Indian tribes desperate to save their way of life. Soon the mountains, plains, and valleys echoed with the sounds of gunfire, and blood flowed like rivers in these lawless territories.

Detective Rick Marlow is at it again, solving crimes in Key West, getting his act together. He had cut down to five cigarettes a day and only occasionally anything stronger than beer to drink. He was running nearly half a mile now, a long way from where he had been before he got shot. So when he gets a new case, he's not prepared for the violence that's sure to follow.

Hot on the trail of the outlaw Bad Bart Sterkin, Jericho Walls has chased the villain over half of Texas; now Sterkin has killed Dick York and kidnapped his daughter, Laura Belle. With the aid of Leroy Cord, York's Foreman, Walls chases Sterkin across the Red River into the Indian Territories of Oklahoma and back into Texas...

As a cop, Joe Collins knew there were bad people out there - serial killers, monsters that needed to be caught... and eliminated. His vigilante brand of justice makes for exciting listening in this new mystery series that will etch itself into your imagination like a tattoo.

Marlow should have known that leaving the past behind is never easy. Because trouble seems to follow in his footsteps. Faces from the past turn up on Key West, and when one of them turns up dead, Marlow is faced with the most difficult case of his new life. He has to solve his own shooting, the one that ended his career on the NYPD. But the hardest part is that he has to solve it from Key West and his suspects are all in town and one of them is the killer that seems to be stalking him again...

He awakened in a burnt out wagon train below the Rockies with no memory of who he was. There was nothing to tell him either. So he took the name that Texans called unbranded cattle and made his way into the mountains to try and carve out a new life for himself in the wild west. However the man calling himself Maverick has enemies on his back trail anxious to put a bullet in his back and the only thing keeping him alive is courage and a deadly hand with a gun.

When Hannibal Tucker Rides into Wolf Creek he is not looking for trouble - but it seeks him out anyway. Soon he finds himself caught up in a range war not of his choosing until he ties in by becoming half owner of the ranch caught in the middle. Now, with trouble on both sides, Tucker calls in his old pals from the Lazy T - and then things explode in Wolf Creek Pass!

While in the Everglades promoting both a fishing tournament and a concert to save the Everglades, country music icon Wally Norwood finds a dead body and a metric ton of pot and is immediately arrested for possession. Wally hires ex-DEA agent turned private investigator Sam Decker to clear his name and find out who framed him. As Decker begins to weed his way through the case, he begins to understand that there are a lot of suspects, including the very sheriff's department that made the initial arrest.

The Freetrader Orion has made a stop to deliver supplies at an Asteroid mining facility when the asteroid suddenly comes under attack by strange spider-like creatures intent on destroying the ore refinery. With his crew and ship at risks from the strange creatures, Captain Kiel Dorn leads a strike against them. Once the creatures are driven off, Captain Dorn wants to find out where they came from and why they attacked the refinery...

In best-selling author Bill Craig's second entry in his Marlow series, a woman is washed up on the beach, battered and beaten, clutching a small leather sack and no memory of who she was. But Jorge Leone recognized what was in the sack and knew it meant trouble was blowing into Key West. He hired Marlow to find out who the girl was and where she had come from. As Marlow works the case, he finds himself being blown about in a Banana Wind as a storm of violence descends on Key West!

When her baby sister shows up on Scorpion Cay, Police Chief Monica Sinclair is initially pleased. Until she finds out that her sister is on the run from a drug deal gone bad in Columbia. Monica knows she needs unofficial help if she wants to keep her little sister alive and out of jail. Monica does the only thing she can and enlists the help of her former lover, Ex-DEA agent turned Private Investigator Sam Decker to help her sister out of her deadly fix.

While on an expedition looking for a lost city high in the Andes, adventurer Paul Sabre is ambushed and left for dead. However Sabre is not an easy man to kill and he takes up the trail of the villainous Jorge Montoya, a Bolivian treasure hunter who holds Shelly Newmar, Sabre's love captive. Attacked by demon-winged beasts, the expedition is in shambles. Montoya heads higher up the mountain looking for the legendary Temple of the Sun said to be guarded by the Hawkmen of Hiratu, a race said to pre-date the Incas.

After the autopsy reveals that the bullet that killed her was fired from Sam's gun, Decker is on the run, a fugitive from the law. Trying to find out who killed Rita and clearing his name seems like an impossible task, especially when a small army of hitmen arrive looking to make sure Decker doesn't off the island alive. His search will lead him to an old enemy, one who feels that revenge is a dish best served cold!