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They all sold their life insurance policies to the same company—and now they’re all dead. Mac and Oliver are on the case. On a beautiful spring morning in Washington, DC, a high-profile attorney is found dead in his office. McDermott “Mac” Burke and Oliver Shaw, homicide investigators for the Metropolitan Police Department, are called to investigate. There appear to be no signs of foul play, but there is also no obvious sign of a natural cause of death.

When Clint Carmichael died, he left a shattered wife and four children. Someone had to take over the reins of the Starlight Ranch. That someone was 23-year-old Deacon. Now, 10 years later, the multimillion-dollar ranch is running smoothly under his command. His family, not so much. Deacon’s siblings don’t always appreciate his inherent need to take care of everything and everybody. But he’s determined to carry on the family legacy to honor their father

Russian spies occupy senior positions in the National Intelligence community. China is planning a bio attack on the United States, and is using the Ukraine battlefield as a testing ground for the pathogen. A senior National Security Agency executive, suspected of espionage, is assassinated on the streets of the Nation’s Capital, and the hunt is on for the person he was planning to meet the night he was murdered.

King of the New York Streets is a gritty, utterly unrepentant memoir of growing up on the mean streets of New York City during the late 1970s.

Cantankerous, old-fashioned, and stubborn as hell, Donald Wilson was the first American soldier to enter Dachau, and has suffered with the horrors ever since. Now at 95, he grapples with a recent pancreatic cancer diagnosis and believes there is nothing left to live for.

Ashville is a town with a secret history. Ancient structures lie hidden in the woods, and strange rituals are performed to keep the dead where they belong. For gravedigger Abel Cunningham, it is also a town filled with regrets. And when Abel is tasked with an unusual burial, he discovers there are more than just corpses in the cemetery.

This may be the most challenging of Logan’s cases. When former child star and America’s Sweetheart is kidnapped off the set of a Western film, a producer hires Logan to take on the case. However, complications soon arise, and he’s now not only searching for a kidnapper but a crazed murderer as well.

A secretive, high-tech company in central California named QuarkSpin has achieved a major breakthrough in a stunning technology -- the development of a prototype quantum computer. A powerful US senator, chair of the Defense Appropriations Committee, has covertly engaged them to develop a military application, funding the R&D from a DOD black budget. The project is code-named The Quantum Protocol. Its objective -- use the technology to unmask, from earth orbit, the ballistic-missile submarine fleets of our adversaries.

Join LP Hernandez on an exploration of the terrain of haunted worlds and the souls of haunted people. A man becomes so detached from this world that he is claimed by another. An astronaut picks the worst possible time to leave Earth. A man for whom eternity is just the beginning. These stories present mankind at its most vulnerable. These are stories of triumph and of succumbing, of the dying and those already dead.

Dr. Dean Graves is notorious for being the medical examiner that gets assigned the wackiest accidental death cases in Georgia. But even as the detectives on those cases can’t hold in their laughter, Dr Graves finds nothing funny about death and shows great respect for the dead at all times. When a new serial killer chooses Augusta as his playground, Dr. Graves and his assistant, Kat, get pulled into the investigation, throwing everything they have into finding the murderer before he strikes again.

After a brutal murder ends in a shocking acquittal, Senator Adam Lucas is driven by grief, rage, and a need for justice no courtroom can satisfy. When those closest to him begin to change in impossible ways, it becomes clear that forces far beyond the legal system are at work.

The dragon is rising. An ascendant China has decided it is time to grasp their reunification dream - the seizure of Taiwan. First, they must take the United States out of the game. They develop a plan to attack America and frame Islamic terrorists. With the United States 100 percent focused on the aftermath of the attack and retribution against ISIS, China believes their hands will be free to achieve their destiny. Once again, Joseph Michael Barber and his partner, Marcus Day, are reluctantly drawn into the action.

The fight is on for the soul of resurrected America, and the good guys are losing. Tom Steeple and his Chinese allies have taken control of Overtime Prime, and with the fall of Nick Angriff their opposition is powerless to stop them. Steeple’s dream of a totalitarian America under his hand as benevolent dictator can now become a reality, even if it means making common cause with America’s mortal enemies. No treachery is too great to fulfill his ambitions, and those of his friends.

Chad Huntley can’t get sick. When an influenza pandemic kills almost everyone around him, he finds himself on the run, hunted by soldiers and mercenaries, chased across a wasteland of empty houses and dying suburbs as he tries to escape Fort Worth. Mankind’s only hope is for him to partner with a brilliant virologist to find a cure - but not everyone wants a cure for the greater good.

In the wake of the collapse of the European Union, sparked by the chaos of Brexit, a new alliance is forged between Germany and France. Their vision - create a superpower on the European continent capable of eclipsing the United States, China, or any nation on Earth. Iran exploits the chaos and devises a plan to settle old scores with a diabolically clever and horrifying twist on cyber warfare. Miscalculations, mistrust, misunderstandings, and mistakes push the world to the brink of annihilation as events quickly spin out of control.

Meet Martin Koll, the young CEO of a successful tech company that has just landed a multimillion-dollar client. Life is good. Until it isn’t. When Koll falls under suspicion of murder, all the evidence seems against him. Fortunately, he has an airtight alibi – until suddenly he doesn’t. As the police gather evidence for an arrest, it falls on Koll to clear himself – to find out who has set him up, and why?

In the wake of a catastrophic terrorist attack on a beloved American icon, Walt Disney World, the President vows “never again”. A new covert government anti-terrorist group is established, buried deep inside the National Security Agency. Its mission – stop the next terrorist attack before it happens. Their remit is to do whatever it takes, and there are no rules. Frightening new technologies are leveraged to spy on terrorists and everyday citizens alike in pursuit of public safety.

In the wake of a flu pandemic that has wiped out 90% of the population and the ensuing failure of the government's quarantine centers due to both asymptomatic carriers and a rapidly mutating virus, the United States has become a vast wasteland in which rebel factions and the remnants of the federal government fight over what remains of the country. The Federal Emergency Management Agency's fortified cities, called safe zones, promise safety and purpose to any healthy survivors who are willing to forgo personal liberty in exchange for peace.

The world ends. War doesn't: Those left alive following the unrelenting disease, and the war which reduced whole cities to radioactive rubble, were faced with the oppressive task of rebuilding society. From behind tall fences and guard towers, the colonies of Alice and Hightown were established, and a sense of normalcy prevailed. But now, a corrupt band of mercenaries, once thought to be extinguished, present their greatest threat yet to the fate of the colonies and humanity at large.

Angel Park, the final book of C.J. Booth’s Park trilogy, is an edgy thrill ride to a heart-rending end that no one will see coming. Detectives Stan Wyld, Jake Steiner, and Mallory Dimante struggle to unravel the mystery of the murder and dismemberment of Hollywood film director James Marston but all they find are more mysteries.