Elwood Vilmont, hypercompetitive businessman, and the CEO of Redhouse Consulting, has brought his senior managers to Layoko Lodge for a "team building" exercise. As a part of the agenda, the group plans to spend three days rafting the Chilko river, including running the famous White Mile.Vilmont's crew of misfits, however, seem to be able to do little but whine and complain. When their CEO is unexpectedly kidnapped, the senior managers of Redhouse waste no time in leveling accusati...

Geologist Julia McCoy is in her first job, and seems to be the most unlikely person ever to challenge management at Matrix Corporation's Ethiopian mining subsidiary. Despite the apparent risks during her site visit, she pushes EthioCupro's top two executives too far.The company has an unusual relationship with supplier Incentivize LLC, and McCoy suspects the managers are using it to rake off profits from the Ethiopian copper mine. How they are doing it, and the larger scheme, howev...

JC Martin, recently retired from the Navy, has taken a job with a socially responsible fashion company named Dam Yankee. His position with the firm, as the supplier auditor, is considered critical to the business as their reputation revolves around doing good works in the poorest nations of the world.Martin's first field assignment is to travel to Honduras and audit a firm there known as Moda Cortez, a shirt manufacturer. A successful audit is critical to Martin's boss, the ambitiou...

Mark Carson was once on a fast rise to the upper echelons of Global Guidance Corporation (GGC), until his wife's affairs and their subsequent divorce destroyed his self-confidence and sent him into a downward spiral. By rediscovering the joy of running, he has seemingly gotten his life back together. Then one warm Minnesota night, Max Wong, a reclusive senior engineer at GGC, shows up at Mark's front door shot in the neck. The wound prevents Max from speaking, but it doesn't stop him from ...

Corporate Politics. Every large organization is rife with them. Most employees find politics to be confusing, irritating, unfair, and something to be avoided at all costs. Many years in senior positions inside a variety of large corporations forced me to realize ignoring an organization's politics was essentially impossible. Ignoring politics makes you vulnerable. Ignoring politics can cost you your job. And don't even think about ascending the corporate ladder, where you'll be easily vict...

Vice President of Corporate Development at Andax Corporation, Joan Priest, is trusted by management to negotiate and close delicate deals that add significant growth and profits to the company.But Joan has a secret -- one that she fears will be revealed, turning her life upside down.Andax is in the midst of a succession race, structured with two "Co-CEOs," one of which will ultimately succeed retiring Oskar Christoffersen.While Joan is in Brazil, things go from bad to ...

Lisa Palmer has barely recovered from the sudden death of her husband when she is drawn into a new nightmare. On her way home from upstate New York, Lisa stops at a service centre minutes before an armoured car heist. Four men are executed before her eyes one, an off–duty FBI agent she tried to help. Now Lisa is the FBI's secret witness and the key to finding the fugitive killers.FBI agent Frank Morrow leads the investigation of the high–profile case. Hiding a very personal secret,...

A senseless slaughter leads Lucas Davenport down a twisted path in this thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the Minnesota town of Wayzata, an entire family has been killed—husband, wife, two kids, dogs. On the wall, in blood: “Were coming.” No apostrophe.There’s something about the scene that tugs at Lucas’s cop instincts—it looks an awful lot like...

Read this sensational mystery bestseller before you watch season two of the golden Globe nominated Netflix series, executive produced by Selena Gomez.There are 500 reasons why I love this book...' Jennifer Niven author of All the Bright PlacesYou can't stop the future. You can't rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.Clay Jensen returns home from school one day to fi...

Published as an ebook, a long short story from thriller master Lee Child about the teenage Reacher, now also available in No Middle Name: the Collected Jack Reacher Stories.July 1977. Jack Reacher is almost seventeen, and he stops in New York on his way from South Korea to visit his brother at West Point. The summer heat is suffocating, fires are raging in the Bronx, the city is bankrupt, and the mad gunman known as Son of Sam is still on the loose.

From the world's most celebrated author, Detective Michael Bennett and his family are ready to escape New York for a vacation in Maine—but a shocking scene deep in the woods reveals a dark world of drugs and murder.Haunted by guilt and shame, Michael Bennett is living with a father's worst nightmare. Reeling from a crisis that would destroy lesser families, the Bennetts escape New York for a much-needed vacation. But it turns out the brochures don't tell the full s...

*** THIS BOOK WAS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS PART OF AN ANTHOLOGY ***Lynn is tracking a dangerous, wounded animal, which turns out to be a big, sexy alien instead. And he’s the hottest guy she’s ever met.Coto’s trip to Earth takes a dangerous turn. He is attacked and injured. The only high point is the courageous woman who tends his wounds. Coto desires her and he will never let her go.