When you get paid by the mile, sitting still isn’t an option. All Frank Massi had on his mind was the five grand he would get for driving a big rig from San Diego California to Philadelphia Pennsylvania until he realized there were a whole bunch of people who didn’t want him to reach his destination. A run for the money became a run for his life across ten states as Frank eluded his pursuers. Weaving through small towns, on two-lane highways, got Frank where he had to go but without the ca...

Road Kill is a classic suspense novel, Chicago Style. Just when you think you can predict the next turn, it takes a new twist. Road Kill is true page-turner. Frank tells a story of intrigue from the seat of his Freightliner. The characters cross paths and meet from time to time, in the great Midwest heartland of America. Offering shelter to a wayward soul turns into a run-for-your-life journey. Had he known what lie in store on the road ahead, he would still have made the same choice. It w...

There wasn’t ever any question as to whether Frank Massi would be able to drive his rig from New York to Port Angeles in Washington State without getting shot. He had been in this situation before – just on different highways. The real question was whether he would be able to get out of town before the bad guys found him. Having been this way before it was easy to evade the would-be killers who wanted what was in his trailer. Hot cars, hot ice, and hotter women were no match for cool Frank...

Frank Massi sold his cab-over road tractor but that didn't stop him from going across the country with his brother Joey on a fishing trip even though they were the bait and the people after them were using rods with bullets instead of reels. Bullets fly and people die in this fast paced thriller that starts in the heartland of America and winds up on the Oregon coast. So why are the Massi brothers the only ones having fun? FBI special agent Joe Colletti was fishing for mobsters and danglin...

Frank Massi’s wife Jennie is investigating activities at Palatine Park race track. Healthy horses are being destroyed and Jennie, along with her assistant Cyndy Marconi were closing in on the culprits until Frank came up missing. Jennie turned to their friend FBI agent Joe Colletti to rescue her man but Frank wasn't lying around waiting for Joe. Jennie chased Frank, Joe chased Cyndy, and they all ended up in the Florida keys where the bad guys were hiding. The girls play detective to solve...

A new mystery series starring a Memphis crime scene photographer with ghostly assistanceJackie Lyons, a former vice detective with the Memphis Police Department, is trying to put her life back together. Her husband has served her with divorce papers, she's broke, and her apartment has just gone up in flmaes. But a failed marriage, unemployment, and an incinerated home aren't her only problems: she also sees ghosts.Since Jackie left her job with the MPD, she's been making ends...

From the author of The Carter A. Johnson & Kate Menke Thriller series and Outnumbered comes The Irrevocable Change Trilogy Book 2 The Assassin Evolves.Clayton Albrecht has become the Assassin. He has a new boss, a ruthless female crime lord in Chicago. He knows her well; his precarious position with her will one day cause her to release a horrific fury against him. The ensuing battle unleashes revenge that shocks even Chicago's jaded crime lords....

Now a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, this noir novel, "is full of sly humor, poetic details and plenty of rude violence . . . A terrific ride" ( Los Angeles Times).I drive. That's what I do. All I do.The gritty back streets of Los Angeles are the backdrop for what the New York Times calls "a perfect piece of noir fiction" in which the Driver is double-crossed in a burglary gone horribly wrong.This beautiful new edition i...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Prey series comes a crime novel of “classic stings” (Booklist).With the same sharp human insight he brings to the murderers and manhunters of his bestselling Prey novels, Sanford takes us into the minds of two irresistible con artists. Kidd and LuEllen are a winning pair of lovers and liars plotting the ultimate sting. Their target is the wealthy (and corrupt) mayor of a small Mississippi river ...

One day I was 12 years old and broke. Then Grandma gave me Grandpa's old riding lawnmower. I set out to mow some lawns. More people wanted me to mow their lawns. And more and more. . . . One client was Arnold the stockbroker, who offered to teach me about "the beauty of capitalism. Supply and Demand. Diversify labor. Distribute the wealth." "Wealth?" I said. "It's groovy, man," said Arnold.If I'd known what was coming, I might have climbed on my mower and putted all the way home to...

Won Book of the Year Adult Non-Fiction—2012 Indie Choice AwardsAmazon Best Book of the Month February 2011"Dubus relives, absent self-pity or blame, a life shaped by bouts of violence and flurries of tenderness."—Vanity FairAfter their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their overworked mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and everyday violence. Nearby, his father, an eminent autho...

On 11 Jun 1951, the US Government established the Nevada National Security Site located sixty-five miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. This 1,400 square mile area is pockmarked from the detonation of 1,021 nuclear tests. There was a reason for so many nuclear tests at this location, beyond the obvious. How better to protect Top Secrets until one escapes and begins killing people.