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A cache of diamonds is stolen in Phoenix. The prime suspect is former Maricopa County sheriff Mike Peralta, now a private investigator. Disappearing into Arizona's mountainous high country, Peralta leaves his business partner and longtime friend, David Mapstone, with a stark choice: He can cooperate with the FBI or strike out on his own to find Peralta and what really happened.

In The Republican Noise Machine, David Brock skillfully documents perhaps the most important but least understood political development of the last thirty years: how the Republican Right has won political power and hijacked public discourse in the United States. Brock, a former right-wing...

a loyal warrior. a dying cause. an epic race for salvation. As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to sink the U.S...

The stories in this anthology have been published before, but they have not been widely circulated. These stories are some of my favorite works, and I created this book to put them all in one place for the listener. The Fall of Tryos is a retelling of the fall of Troy but on a planetary scale with spaceships and freaking lasers built into swords. The Emperor's Will, Sergius the Sorcerer, Living Ink, and Reset are a few of my first publications, so they will always hold a special place in my heart.

This compelling combination of history and myth will suggest a radical alternative to evolution that explores a newfound reality and examines everything believed to be factual about our world. Science fiction meets thriller in this twisting tale of ancestral warfare.

Sam has a problem. In a world where all of your memories can be digitally augmented and recorded for later viewing and sharing, Sam's are eroding fast due to malfunctioning equipment. Unfortunately for Sam, that particular bit of equipment is installed in his brain, and a simple malfunction can lead to a decidedly less than simple cerebral hemorrhage, coma, and even death. Sam's only hope to prevent losing everything is a pithy computer program, a piece of technology known as The Goldfish.

The current-day city of Fort Brazos, Texas, and the nearby Joint Reserve Base awaken to find that they have been abducted — scooped up whole and deposited inside a vast 4000-mile-long hollow alien world. Thousands have been killed in the wake of this harrowing event, leaving those who remain to fend for themselves in the absence of any outside aid. In the midst of this chaos, a power struggle between military and civilian leadership threatens to further complicate the situation.

Edgar Wallace und der Fall Morehead - Sieben suchen in Soho. Wer sich mit dem Baulöwen Londons anlegt, muss mit allem rechnen. Diesmal haben Old Arthur und seine jungen Freunde Gegner, die offensichtlich eine Nummer zu groß sind. Und trotzdem kommen sie Schritt für Schritt weiter. Als sie entdecken, daß Altmeister Edgar Wallace sie höchstpersönlich auf eine heiße Spur führt, lichtet sich das Dunkel.

Wayne McLair und sein Team sind nach einer turbulenten Flucht aus Smokestack in der irischen Hauptstadt Dublin angekommen. Der Meisterdieb zögert keine Sekunde und konzentriert sich umgehend auf sein nächstes Ziel: das Gold der Bank of Ireland! Natürlich mit Ankündigung. Dabei trifft das Team McLair auf Gestalten aus Waynes Vergangenheit und ein neuer Dieb macht unserem Helden Konkurrenz ...

As Melekath's Guardians build an army—one burned soul at a time—Rome races to raise a force that can stand against him. But the shadow world of Pente Akka has awakened, and he is beginning to realize there are more enemies in this war than he ever imagined.

Cody Roche ist nicht nur jünger, agiler und bescheidener als Wayne McLair, seine Weste weist auch die exakt richtige Zahl an Knöpfen auf. Die Zusammenarbeit der beiden droht zu kippen, doch gilt es, ein gemeinsames Ziel zu verfolgen: die Goldreserven der Roten Schlange! Um der neuen La Zorra zu helfen, muss das Team ausgerechnet in die Höhle des Löwen ... in das Büro des Superintendents der DMP!

In Aeromorea, a cube-shaped world, where every bloodline has a magical blessing and a curse, Detective Merlonoit Alondere yearns to sail to another surface to find the cure for his ailing lover. The price, however, is too high. Yet everything changes when a powerful political figure approaches Merl to investigate the mysterious death of Kyster Kinstone, an invincible man. If he solves the case, Merl will be given voyage to the cure. Merl instantly accepts, using his blessing of heightened senses to find clues others cannot.

French ex-pat Tristan Mourault is the wealthy, urbane heir to a world-renowned collection of art - and an insatiable voyeur enamored with Karen Miller, a 15-year-old from a working-class family in San Francisco. Deciding he must 'rescue' Karen from her unhappy circumstances, Tristan kidnaps her and stages her death to mask his true crime.