This edited collection explores how national airlines in postcolonial states operate at the complex intersection of corporate branding, cultural governance, tourism development, and national identity formation. It conceptualizes airplanes and airports as both tangible infrastructural spaces and symbolic domains that connect geographically distant regions while embodying aspirations of political sovereignty and cultural unity. Through diverse case studies spanning multiple continents, the b...

“A Tarrantino-like thriller that’s hard to put down” featuring military sniper Tommy Smith from Under Tower Peak (Booklist).Under Tower Peak was acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal as one of the Ten Best Mysteries of 2013. In this sequel, Tommy Smith, the Iraq War vet and former Eastern Sierra packer, is home from war after re-upping for a tour in Afghanistan. When his old friend Dave Cathcart disappears from his ranch, Tommy an...

This tautly written debut thriller was named one of the 10 Best Mysteries of 2013 by the Wall Street Journal.After two tours as a sniper in Iraq, Tommy Smith has returned to his former life as a cowboy and wilderness guide in California’s Sierra Nevada, hoping to reclaim the simplicity of his youth and heal the wounds the world can’t see. When, high on a mountain pass, he and his partner find the wrecked plane of a billionaire adventurer who disappeared months earlier, a seemingly innocent...

A CIA-operated jet on a clandestine mission disappears in Eastern Europe. No mayday, no wreckage, and no known survivors. No way to know if the top-secret extraction of a key American scientist from Slovakia, or his liberator, Dr. Lauren McKenna, code name Pegasus, are dead or alive.Donovan Nash's precarious world is rocked when word reaches him that his wife, Lauren, is missing in Eastern Europe. Using his millions, and fueled by the fear of losing his wife, Donovan and company cu...

An explosive novel of domestic terrorism and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year from the national bestselling author of Three Minutes to Midnight.It starts with the unthinkable. A school under siege. A shooter in the classroom. A nightmare scenario that has become all too common in today’s United States. But this time, former Delta Captain Jake Mahegan is there when it happens.Checking in on the schoolteacher daughter of a colleague...

A 1980s smalltown Alabama cop and mother attempts to solve a serial killer cold case in this crime thriller by the author of Close to the Broken Hearted.Detective Leah Teal is privy to most of the secrets in her hometown of Alvin, but there are always surprises to be had. Like the day she agrees to take her daughter, Caroline, to see a psychic for a reading. The psychic hones in on Leah instead, hinting at a string of gruesome killings and insisting that s...

In Big Buck, Texas, those who profit from war are about to face a bloody battle of their own . . .From America's bestselling Western authors comes this violent saga of the frontier legend known as the Town Tamer: the man who appears when all justice has fled . . .Feed the beast—or dieOn the West Texas border a behemoth is bellowing smoke, fire, and death. This monster is the infamous Abaddon Cannon Foundry, whose weapons of war have...

Prison-for-profit scheme thrusts insurance investigator into his disturbing past—and extreme dangerJay Porter, the newest employee at NorthEastern Insurance in New Hampshire, is investigating a motor vehicle accident claim when he learns the teenager behind the wheel was arrested for minor drug possession and sentenced to a hardcore behavioral modification center.At the county courthouse, Jay meets Nicki, a young college intern, who tips him off to a possible...

When the real enemy is closer than you think...Lucky Dey is at it again. This time, the on-again/off-again Los Angeles County Sheriff's detective is more willful and acerbic than he's ever been before. Awaiting his official reinstatement, Lucky accepts a one-time gig to track down the missing teenage daughter of a Midwestern millionaire.Driven to find the girl, Lucky tangles with Tinseltown's dark underbelly to locate the millionaire's daughter. Winding his way through an L...

If Max slows down, he dies. If he runs out of gas, he dies. If a tire goes flat, he dies.The only chance Max has of seeing tomorrow is riding like hell today.Maxwell Craig hopes a ride on a new motorcycle over La Route de la Trace—a serpentine highway that cuts through the lush rainforest gardens of Martinique—will ease his grief after harrowing recent events, so he can finally find some peace. But when a bright red SUV charges up ...

A deadly voyage into a world of pirates & smugglers awaits a veteran and his daughter in this adventure tale for fans of Clive Cussler & Alistair MacLean.Unjustly blamed for a failed escape attempt from a North Vietnamese prison, James Culdee, a career U.S. Navy non-commissioned officer who has served his country with distinction for twenty years, is suddenly and unfairly forced into a disgraceful retirement. Devastated, Culdee retreats into alcoholism until he is ...

The bloodiest crime in Texas history, and only one man has the guts to solve it.Bank robbery. Jailbreak. Massacre. Alone, each would send good folks reeling. But when all three occur in the same night in the same small South Texas town leaving no eyewitnesses behind, it could be the end of the world.Saddler County Sheriff Dell Hoffman is charged with bringing the perpetrators of these horrific crimes to justice, but even the toughest and most cunni...