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War Tides [Secure]
by Don Pendleton
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When the President needs immediate, covert intervention for a crisis too sensitive or desperate to involve normal channels, Stony Man strikes under the radar and beyond official government protocols. Baptized in the fires of justice, freedom and protection, Stony Man stands for the highest of ideals: dedication to duty and a fierce resolve to defeat those who would brutalize nations.
It’s called FACOS—Fast Attack Covert Operations Submarine—and is now in the hands of an elusive and violent gr... more info>>
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'Nids
by Ray Garton
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Medical research? Genetic experiments? No one knows exactly what goes on inside the sprawling BioGenTech building on the edge of town. But after an enormous explosion at the facility, people in town start turning up dead...and in pieces. Something is loose in Hope Valley. Something big...and fast...and hungry. It has a lot of legs, a nasty disposition and a big appetite. This is one spider you can't step on. (Published: 2006)
Words: 36782 - Reading Time: 105-147 min.
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13 Days - The Pythagoras Conspiracy
by L.A. Starks
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Energy executive Lynn Dayton thinks her challenge is fixing the troubled Houston refinery her company just bought. But she discovers she must save it, and hundreds of people in nearby Ship Channel plants, from injuries and deaths directed by a French saboteur. Simultaneously, she fights off threats to her own life. As Lynn deals with chemical leaks, disloyal employees, a new season of hurricanes, and mounting casualties, corrupted idealist Robert Guillard plans to manipulate her through her vuln... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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2012 Montezuma's Revenge
by V. Mark Covington
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Montezuma returns just in time to prevent the end of the world as predicted by the Mayan calendar? As he said, "Bean there, done that?" Yes, the world as we know it will end on December 21st, 2012, just like the Mayan calendar predicted. No, it won't be a result of nuclear war or a pandemic of some strange avian flu. The end of the planet won't be caused by SUVs pouring exhaust into the air, aerosol cans or non-recyclable grocery bags. No space aliens are coming to eat us and the planet ... more info>>
Words: 112499 - Reading Time: 321-449 min.
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A Bullet for the Environment
by George W. J. Laidlaw
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This is an era where the youth or doubters no long accept what is told to them. No longer are they willing, like their parents to believe those in power are truly responsible and caring. Too many examples of their failure in parliament or from disasters seen on the nightly TV news have proved that trust is no longer possible. The governments' line, as well as the positions taken by big companies fall on disbelieving minds. In the case of the environmental protection carried out by oil and gas co... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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A Cry for a Hero
by Jonathan Womack
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An act of carelessness on a camping trip causes things to go horribly wrong for Jack Ramsey. When a scavenging grizzly rips apart his camp, Jack plays dead to survive, and this triggers an out-of-body experience. Test-flighting his soul body, he discovers fantastic powers, then stumbles upon a terrorist's plot to destroy Boston, the Cradle of Democracy. Jack ignores the odds and answers the call by transforming into the superhero Ram, then uses his powers to fight the terrorists. Fiction's first... more info>> (Published: 2005) Preditors and Editors Reader's Poll Top 10 Finalist
Words: 124430 - Reading Time: 355-497 min.
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A Dangerous Dance
by Pauline Baird Jones
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Dorothy returns to Oz for a dangerous dance? His whole career, Remy Mistral has fought for reform in a state where corruption is an art form. Now is his chance to quit talking about reform and make his move to change things, but two things stand in his way. One is a woman, the other a killer. (Published: 2004)
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A Dangerous Remedy
by Mike Brecon
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The owner of a multi-national pharmaceutical company fears that the arrival of a herbal remedy on the market will damage his profits so he sets out to ruthlessly destroy his competitor. (Published: 2010)
Words: 102906 - Reading Time: 294-411 min.
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A Dutch Affair
by Sally Dixon
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Sadime is alienated from her Moroccan family. Despite her father's threats, she wants a boyfriend of her own choosing. Young Dutch student Jaap van der Broek is captive by Sadime, but their relationship looks doomed. Ironically, terrorist Abdul is the catalyst who will bring them all together? (Published: 2010)
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A Fat Boy is Missing
by George W. J. Laidlaw
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Losing a father in a post war military air disaster is cruel; growing up without a father leaves a scar for life. The military had for over 20 years successfully avoided telling the truth to the families who lost loved ones and to the world when in 1950 a US Peacemaker, the B-36 was lost over British Columbia, Canada, carrying nuclear weapons. Sarah Redbourne has started to raise the eyebrows of the archaeological world with her pre-Aztec discoveries down in the Yucatan peninsula, yet a letter f... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 60191 - Reading Time: 171-240 min.
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A Fateful Legacy
by Peter Glassborow
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Ecstatic at a vast fortune left him by a mysterious uncle he's never met, John travels from his home in New Zealand to Britain to claim his inheritance. There he is immediately captivated by the lovely and psychic legal assistant, Kathryn. Together, John and Kathryn seek to unravel the common mysteries hidden in a posh London apartment building, a scenic York country house and a decrepit, cursed farm in rural Scotland. Together, they discover a tale of violence and heartbreak spanning thirteen h... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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A Fear Unnatural
by Brian M. H. Goodwin
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Terror has been made?but not controlled. When a hysterical man runs into the woods, screaming that he is being chased by angels, he is dismissed by police as being little more than a lunatic or a drug addict. But as two detectives from the Whitewater Falls police detachment start to investigate the man's disappearance, they uncover the clues that lead to a reclusive commune, abandoned children, and a supernatural force that is beginning to attack the citizens of their own town. Together th... more info>> (Published: 2011)
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A Lethal Quest
by A.W. Lambert
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London cabby Frank Barnes is left 250,000 pounds by his estranged mother. But how did she die? Frank seeks answers, but only unearths more questions; the most disturbing of all: is she really dead? (Published: 2009)
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A Lingering Passion
by Lee Barwood
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A haunting revived and set in motion by an obsessed producer's search for the truth of his family history reaches out to ensnare the cast of a revived play. As cast members face old ghosts, both their own and those bound to a century-old theater, love and jealousy clash as greed and fear drive the living and the dead alike. Producer Stan Richards, obsessed with his family history and his own drive for fame, resolves to find the truth about his great-grandfather in the Ozarks town where he perf... more info>> (Published: 2011)
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A Mission of Evil
by Barbara Wilson Wright
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June McDowell, Terri Jewell, Ahmed Zawaibi and Kim Bessinger were innocent bystanders pulled into a whirlpool of conspiracy by terrorists plotting to destroy Denver Internatioanl Airport. Khalid Kadrim, Ahmed's cousin, came to Denver on the pretext of a visit. He brought a group of terrorists with him and invaded Ahmed's home and life. June did not know her act of kindness to Teri would put her life and her family's in danger. Terri perished but her friend Kim doggedly searches for her not reali... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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A Slip of Wormwood [An Echelon Press Short Story]
by Heather S. Ingemar
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Victorian era pharmacist, Edgar, has just inherited the family estate from his recently deceased brother, Hamilton. But Hamilton--though deceased--isn't done yet. Strange things happen when sibling rivalries go too far.... (Published: 2007)
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A Voice in the Dark [Secure]
by Jenna Ryan
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No one knew what Noah Graydon looked like, but they'd all heard the rumors. How he'd been broken, even scarred, on his last case. How he never showed his face--until the day he took an overwhelming interest in one very special agent. Angel Carter would have been a serial killer's next victim if not for Noah. The rescue gave her a glimpse into his world of shadows--yet she dared to want more. To really know if the passion between them was real. They would have to come face-to-face if the killer w... more info>>
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A Wrongful Death [Barbara Holloway Series Book 10] [Secure]
by Kate Wilhelm
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Who knew that being a Good Samaritan would lead Barbara Holloway to face her biggest challenge ever: being named prime suspect in a high-profile kidnapping? The peace and quiet of Barbara's retreat on the Oregon coast is shattered when a terrified young boy calls to her as she walks along a deserted beach. Frantically he leads her to a cabin deep in the woods where his mother lies senseless and battered--clearly left for dead. Barbara runs for help, but by the time she returns with the police an... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Absence of Light
by Rick Giernoth
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Taken off the streets at the tender age of 12, Helen was "rescued" by David Washington, founder of a separatist hate group. Now in her 20's, the lost youth knows nothing but hatred, a hatred that leads to her death and re-emergence. Helen has an ability the Legions of Hell want, she has seen the path to the afterlife but still walks among Heaven's hopefuls. They need her to scar the one who spurned them. To save her, a hidden sect of the Church, The Order of Camerone, fight the supernatural. The... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Act of War [Stony Man Series] [Secure]
by Don Pendleton
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When crisis demands skill, stealth and the kind of diplomacy that comes from a mandate to strike down terror, the call to action goes to Stony Man. Under presidential directive, the crack commando teams of Phoenix Force and Able Team, backed by the most sophisticated cybernetics team in the world, bring the fight to the enemy...and take no prisoners. Remote Nuke Trigger.... Technology capable of exploding cached nuclear arsenals around the globe has fallen into the hands of a group of unidentifi... more info>>
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Aim and Fire [Room 59 Series Book 3] [Secure]
by Cliff Ryder
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ON ALERT.... A nuclear bomb has gone missing. At the same time Room 59, a covert unit of the International Intelligence Agency created to fight terrorist cells, intercepts a communique from U.S. Border Patrol agent Nathaniel Spencer. A known terrorist, thought to be dead, is back in business.... AND UNDERCOVER.... Tracy Wentworth is working for the Department of Homeland Security when she's contacted by Room 59 for an inside job. Aligned with Agent Spencer and backed up by Room 59's considerable... more info>>
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Alex Kava Bundle [Maggie O'Dell Series Bundle] [Secure]
by Alex Kava
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A thrilling collection of Alex Kava's five Maggie O'Dell novels, A Perfect Evil, Split Second, The Soul Catcher, At the Stroke of Madness, and A Necessary Evil, plus a bonus title, One False Move.
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Alias the Gray Seal: The Jimmy Dale Omnibus--The First Two Novels About the Legendary Fin-de-Siecle Gentleman Thief
by Frank L. Packard
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Reintroducing the greatest romantic duo in suspense fiction! Jimmy Dale was the most brilliant of all thieves, a member of society by day, at night a celebrated cat burglar, "The Gray Seal." But vulnerable to blackmail, he was only a pawn in the hands of the "Tocsin," the mysterious, unseen woman who forced him to steal-for good! When she orders him to "Lay low for a year, Jimmie," he lies low, and when she sends him a letter saying, "Crack this safe, Jimmie," he dons his mask and gets out his s... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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Aliens, Minibikes ond Other Staples of Suburbia
by M. F. Korn
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Welcome to the America of your childhood fantasies. When traveling carnivals came and left seemingly overnight, when the fish your father caught was related to dinosaurs, and when that strange animal you found in the ditch obviously was a space alien. In this collection of stories, return to the land of innocence and imagination. Prepare to laugh, to be scared senseless, and above all, to remember what it was like when a simple towel around your neck made you the greatest superhero of them all. (Published: 2004)
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All the Evils
by Stefan Vucak
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Working as a researcher in the Vatican's Secret Archives, Father Garbaldi stumbles across a first century papyrus that claims Jesus was John the Baptist's disciple and the second Messiah who would drive out the Romans from Palestine and rule over the twelve tribes of Israel. If revealed, the papyrus could seriously undermine the Church's position and cause widespread unrest. As a priest, Garbaldi is shocked by the revelation, but before reporting his find, he decides to validate the papyrus. He ... more info>> (Published: 2012)
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