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A lovely young teacher is brutally assaulted by her honors class.... A tiny infant is thrown from the top of a double-decker bus to smash on the pavement below.... An elderly man is burned to death by a gang of rampaging teenagers.... And as child after child is sucked into the ever-spreading whirlpool of violence, school security chief Max Donnelly works frantically to discover what is turning six hundred thousand innocent youngsters into deadly machines of destruction - racing against time to prevent their dreadful power from being unleashed against a helpless city.

When the head of Army Black Ops is murdered by assassins, Steel and Christie hunt the killers, and become the hunted. The Jack Steel series is now in development for a major motion picture. From the snowy Virginia forests, to the frigid interior of Alaska, to a lush mountain on St. Croix Island, Steel and Christie will face off against a powerful mercenary organization that wants them dead. Someone is using murder to reshape the U.S. government. And that person has a score to settle with Steel.

One by one, the top officials of US anti-drug agencies are targeted for murder. A cartel hit squad is running free in Washington, DC, and racking up a body count that sends shock waves through federal law enforcement. Team Reaper must stop the killings, but John Kane begins to suspect a web of corruption that extends to the highest levels of the government. The assignment against the cartel hit team is compromised from the start, and soon Team Reaper is under attack.

For rising young executive Bart Hughes, his Manhattan brownstone was his castle - a haven of peace and security amid the urban rot of New York. Now, with his wife and children away for the summer, it was more peaceful still.

Fear grips the city. Frank’s fight with cancer continues, but it’s not keeping him off the job. This killer is clever. As chemo clouds his mind, he struggles with a nagging feeling that something isn’t right. Is the killer toying with him? Will he choose justice or vengeance? His partner, Mary Ann, has her doubts, too. The leads are few and seem to be telling different stories. Her profiling skills are put to the test as she wonders if they’re chasing a single killer. Is she letting her affection for Frank cloud her judgment?

Matthew Daley is an enigma. He’s appeared after seven years - eager to pick up the threads of his life, and make contact once more with his loved ones, which is something that’s not so easy to do when everyone knows that's he's dead.

While on a mission helping the Mexican authorities against La Vibora, Team Reaper hears a whisper about a shipment of cocaine coming in from Nigeria. Nothing much to worry about there, or so they think. The cocaine shipment, however, has ties to ISWA terrorists. The same group that is starting to publicly execute members of a captured DEA/CIA team. And what does a South African bioengineer have to do with it all?

I believe that there are no bad talents, only bad approaches. Whereas most books are full of vague advice on positive mind-sets and lofty goals, The Talent Hacker’s Guide details concrete strategies to build your skills for any pursuit. Whether athletic or academic, artistic or linguistic, we will cover a range of tools that ordinary people with busy lives can apply for their interests. Together, we will build a comprehensive talent-hacking strategy by first understanding your perceptions of talent itself.

The signs of life are all around us. Everywhere we look. How much do the stars tell you about who you are, and about your future? For a group of strangers - the 12 Signs of the Zodiac in particular - the omens and predictions can only mean one thing: Their lives will never be the same again. The lonely heart, the teacher, the family, the man on the run from the mob, the would-be star, the psychopath, and others. All will soon discover that their signs have more meaning than they thought, and that destiny can be a dangerous thing indeed!

The sleepy English locality of Middletown is about to get even sleepier, as a strange malady starts to affect the population. It spreads quickly, causing the authorities to quarantine this small city and seek out the only person who might be able to help: Doctor Andrew Strauss. However, Strauss has a secret - one that has linked him to this place all his life; one that has linked him to a particular person there, though he doesn’t yet know who.

It should have been the perfect evening. But for blue collar delivery man Nick Skinner, the romantic time he spent with the love of his life, Dawn, has just turned into his worst nightmare. Waking suddenly, he’s attacked by something feral in his room...and it’s not alone. The clock is frozen at just gone midnight and only certain things work, only some lights, only some vehicles. The city has become a hunting ground for...the loons: humanoid creatures with claws and completely white eyes. White like the moon above that seems to be influencing them.

Alejo Chaves rose to the top riding the blood of others. He took out his rivals and unified the three largest cartels in Mexico, with himself in charge. It was called, El Conglomerado. The Conglomerate. However, the sheer size of his organization was bound to draw the attention of the Worldwide Drug Initiative, and before long Team Reaper had caught their fish. But after two bloody rescue attempts, the CIA decided to take out his top lieutenant with a drone strike, creating massive collateral damage.

Sgt. Windflower is back, and as usual, he’s loving life on the East Coast. He may be a long way from his home in Northern Alberta, but he has been adopted by the locals as almost one of their own. He has a good life, good work with the RCMP, and a good woman that he has grown closer to in his years on the southeast coast of Newfoundland.

The theft of nuclear weapons in Pakistan, a terrorist attack in India, the kidnapping of a nuclear scientist, and the Russian FSB. All become entwined in a twisted plot that will come to a head in England on one of the nation’s most famous days. But Team Reaper isn’t known for shying away from a fight. Especially one that could devastate a nation, with international implications, by the biggest terrorist attack the world has ever seen. The price of failure is the death of thousands.

In Face of Death, FBI Special Agent Zoe Prime suffers from a rare condition which also gives her a unique talent - she views the world through a lens of numbers. The numbers torment her, make her unable to relate to people, and give her a failed romantic life - yet they also allow her to see patterns that no other FBI agent can see. Zoe keeps her condition a secret, ashamed, in fear her colleagues may find out.

The finest exponent of one line.

John Kane might be on a mission, but he’s experiencing a crisis of confidence this time around...A jailed cartel leader buried a fortune - and it’s a kill or be killed race to find it! John Kane and Team Reaper have put the destruction of the French-Italian Corridor on the top of their priority list. If Crisfulli thinks he can simply dig up the money and control the flow of drugs through Europe, he has another thing coming.

Maybe it was a moment of insanity. Maybe it was revenge. Or maybe the Metis Indian, Shambeau, finally had enough of the white man's hatred. Whatever it was, Sheriff Ben Stillman now has a murder case on his hands - and, as the law dictates, he must hunt down and hang the outlaw. But nobody knows the land better than Shambeau. He could be anywhere. Then again...nobody can track a bloodthirsty killer like Sheriff Ben Stillman. And there's no hiding from his swift brand of justice.

A scrap of cloth fluttering in the wind leads Hilo police chief detective Koa Kāne to the tortured remains of an unfortunate soul, left to burn in the path of an advancing lava flow. For Koa, it’s the second gruesome homicide of the day, and he soon discovers the murders are linked. These grisly crimes on Hawaii’s Big Island could rewrite history or cost chief detective Koa his career. The dead, a reclusive couple living off the grid, turn out to be mysterious fugitives.

It’s their most brutal assignment yet. After a mission in Somalia sees them rescued by an Australian SAS team, Reaper and his people return to the U.S. where a raid on a warehouse sets into motion a chain of events which will lead them on a violent search for one of their own. The team hits Europe with the force of a runaway train, gathering intel which leads them to Pripyat in the Ukraine and an auction like they’ve never encountered before. Then to Italy and a conspiracy which, if carried out, will rock the religious world to its core.