Twilight's Last GleamingSomeone is turning American school girls into suicide juggernauts.Detective Jack "Blackjack" Carnahan investigates the brutal homicide of a postal employee and his family. A mysterious Man In Black agent from Homeland Security is focusing on Carnahan over the victim's computer hard drive and what wasn't on it when taken into custody.Meanwhile, in the swamps of Louisiana, Special Agent Mallory Hammond is trussed up for ritual sacrifice by an i...

This is the genre novel writing guide you've been looking for. Lean and mean with no fluff, filler, wazoo theories or politically correct clap-trap. This guide gets right to the point and teaches the beginning writer how to create a complete plot blueprint in 4-Steps. That's it. It doesn't take 500 pages to reveal this. The complete manuscript for this booklet weighed in at 37 full-length document pages. It won't waste your time. Based on the author's 50-plus years of writing and figuring ...

PLOT TEASER for Installment 1 of Pretty Hate Machine (constitutes Act One of the Whole Novel)Twilight's Last GleamingSomeone is turning American school girls into suicide juggernauts.Detective Jack "Blackjack" Carnahan investigates the brutal homicide of a postal employee and his family. A mysterious Man In Black agent from Homeland Security is focusing on Carnahan over the victim's computer hard drive and what was...

Twilight's Last Gleaming Someone is turning American school girls into suicide juggernauts. Local hypnotherapist Buffy Rayburn has been drafted into the service of a "special task force" dispatched to investigate the the worst schoolyard shooting in U.S. history, the May Day Massacre. Buffy is the leading expert in the hotly debated existence of Satanic Ritual Abuse. Detective Jack "Black Jack" Carnahan investigates the bru...

In this thrilling story from the world's #1 bestselling author, when a man falls to his death, it looks like a suicide—but Detective Michael Bennett finds evidence suggesting otherwise.A man plunges to his death from the roof of a Manhattan hotel. It looks like a suicide, except the victim has someone else's fingerprints and $10,000 in cash. Enter Detective Michael Bennett.BookShots—original, lightning-fast stories by James Patterson, designed to be...

For years the Department of Military Sciences has fought to stop terrorists from using radical bioweapons—designer plagues, weaponized pathogens, genetically modified viruses, and even the zombie plague that first brought Ledger into the DMS. These terrible weapons have been locked away in the world's most secure facility. Until now. Joe Ledger and Echo Team are scrambled when a highly elite team of killers breaks the unbreakable security and steals the world's most dangerous weapons. With...

When carjacking an FBI agent, the risks go beyond life and limb—they can go straight to the heart.The head of the US Secret Service Presidential Protection Detail, Frank Adams, started out on the wrong side of town. The day he tried to carjack a rookie Secret Service agent altered his life’s path beyond recognition.Agent Beatrice “Beat” Belfour gets trapped by a routine diplomatic assignment gone terribly wrong. Now an ambassador’s life is slipping through her fingers....

What do you get when a dozen bestselling, award-winning mystery/thriller authors write brand-new material centered on one heart-stopping event?You get FLIGHT 12, the revolutionary followup by The Twelve to the New York Times and USA Today bestselling DEADLY DOZEN. The groundbreaking FLIGHT 12 series a new release from each member of The Twelve, plus very special guests, with a conclusion so thrilling it could only come from the minds of our reader...

Joe Ledger Fans Rejoice!Everyone’s favorite snarky, dangerous, idealistic, relentless covert operative is back, and this time he’s brought friends. Joe Ledger: Unstoppable presents original short stories about Joe Ledger and the Department of Military Sciences by some of New York Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry’s "friends in the industry." Buckle up for powerful, exciting, and nail-biting adventures by Seanan McGuire, Scott Sigler, Larry Correia, Weston Ochse, S...

Short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authorsA thrilling Condor novella from the bestselling author of Six Days of the Condor.Vin, a name of convenience for the agent known as Condor, has been released from psychiatric care and it's back to work. Unfortunately, he's been assigned the mundane job of sorting through books meant for the incinerator instead of the high-adrenaline rush of being a covert spy for the CIA. Struggl...

"A lost friend, a mysterious Pacific island and an evil conspiracy come together in strange ways in Renner's sci-fi/conspiracy thriller/fantasy novel." — New York PostIn The Man from Primrose Lane, James Renner fused time travel with serial-killer thrillers, resulting in what the Associated Press called "a superbly crazy and imaginative story." Now, in The Great Forgetting, he blends science fiction and conspiracy thrillers with a touch of...

Another action-packed thriller from Stephen Hunter, this time starring Ray Cruz, the son of ex-Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, who was introduced in Hunter’s previous bestseller, Dead Zero.Ten thousand people jam the aisles, the corridors, the elevators, and the escalators of America, the Mall—a giant Rubik’s Cube of a structure with its own amusement park located in the spacious center atrium. Of those people, 9,988 have come to shop. The other twelve have...