Amos, the enforcer, wanted out.At forty-seven – and after twenty-nine years of following orders - he knew his time was limited.He had served his masters well, but age and sloppiness had made him expendable.But how to exit gracefully – and alive!"Unlike the living, the dead tell no tales." That was their motto. The way they did business.Was he smart enough to find away around this long established modus operandi?Or was he soon to be home for the wor...

A decade-old vengeance coursed through John Studebaker's veins.For more years than he could remember, he had been pursuing a ruthless, mysterious drug lord named the Silver Fox. The pursuit destroyed his career as a DEA agent and a Rivertown cop. It led to the death of his wife and daughter. A good friend. And it sent him to prison for two years for crimes he didn't commit, much of it spent in solitary confinement.When released, he set out to get his revenge on the drug lor...

This novel is a science fiction adventure with aliens and mutants and immigrants struggling for survival in East Africa, where deception, savagery and death are an inherent part of daily life, and where indigenous hatred and unimaginable horrors fuel anarchy and rebellion.The Mbili are the ruling class. The Ine the underclass. In a land populated by these grotesque mutants, one thing is clear. They will never live together in peace. It is not peace the Mbili seek. It is total domin...

A portrait of the harrowing despair and remarkable courage of a middle-class family tormented beyond endurance by a mindless act of violence.Chris Carter, at 24, a medical student, had it all. Good looks, intelligence, a winning personality, a loving family. His girlfriend, Louise, was his dream girl, and he had everything ahead of him, everything to live for....Until he was mugged after walking Louise home from his sister's birthday party—and his world and the world of all...

Can a post-hypnotic suggestion make Peggy Sue do things she doesn't want to do?When Rick and Peggy Sue go to the fair, they are more or less happily married. When they leave, Rick is facing significant jail time for rape.But who is really the bad guy? Rick or his friend, Patrick, who was dissed by Peggy Sue?

Walter decided to rob his company when his business was failing and his wife, Muriel, no longer loved him. His plan was simple: grab the bearer bonds and run—worry about the details later.Everything was fine until a Puerto Rican youth robbed him while he was making his escape.Then Walter had to figure out how to get the bonds back—and that meant he had to assume the robbery was not merely a coincidence. That Muriel or his partner, Joe, or Luis, the cleaning man, had to be i...

A reluctant extraterrestrial holds sway over war and peace when drawn into the Machiavellian politics of a warmongering White House. An FBI agent, his daughter and girlfriend must survive the murder and mayhem that ensue, and convince the ET to help them prevent a war with North Korea.

Mr. M gave the boy a difficult assignment. A public killing on the Fourth of July. In Vermont. Of a friend. Who he really cared for.This mission is of great political significance and the boy can't fail to complete it, because he will be assassinated if he does.Faced with this impossible choice, the boy procrastinates until circumstances make further delay impossible. Then he acts. As any boy of his age and experience would.But the results are not what he expected.

Time: 1975.Location: New York City.The murder of Roger’s musician friend, Gideon Whiting, turns Roger’s world up-side-down. His wife, Natalie, lies to him. His best friend, Ted, lies to him. His boss and U.S. Senate candidate, Charlie Holt, lies to him. And Lieutenant Tarrington, a homicide detective, is convinced Roger killed Gideon—but is Tarrington who he claims to be, or is he lying, too?Peggy Curtis, the blond bombshell who dropped into Roger’s life one snowy ni...

How devastating is a sinkhole?How tragic is it when it occurs in the bedroom of a small house?How much worse is it when the sinkhole begins talking to the young woman it has thrown out of bed about a child's murder?And how unwise is it for the young woman to climb down into that sinkhole?

Noah awoke in a casket.The casket was on display in a funeral parlor.He awoke several times more in the same casket and each time had a conversation with the funeral services practitioner, a strange man named Jeremy Black.During these exchanges, he became aware that his memory was seriously impaired.Each time, however, he learned a little bit more about his past through a reliving of the last desperate few days.He also learned that the recovery of his mem...

"High Noon" meets "Murder at 1600"Problems begin for the President's family when a skull is found buried at a Manhattan construction site once owned by the family. The skull, when facially reconstructed, bears an uncanny resemblance to Hitler. DNA analysis shows a familial relationship to the President of the United States. From that moment on, no one with knowledge of the skull is safe. Someone very important is determined to keep the 60-year old conspiracy buried, and that someone...