Playfair's Axiom

Playfair's Axiom

James Axler

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Comics / Thriller

A legendary warrior of nuke-spawned America, Ryan Cawdor understands the hard-and-fast rule of Deathlands. Where there is life, death is only a matter of time. Still, staying alive is the dubious luxury of being quick, hard and willing to abide by a code of honor long abandoned to the wreckage of this postapocalyptic hell zone: truth and fair play.St. Louis is a concrete jungle of fetid heat, acid rains and cutthroats. With J. B. Dix gravely wounded, Ryan and his group become captive guests of a local barony. Freedom lies in the success of a deal: recapture a runaway teen, daughter of the ailing baron. But the dangerous power behind the throne rests with a self-proclaimed holy man. His gruesome manipulation of life and death are about to put the group in a race for their own salvation.
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Dave vs. the Monsters 1: Emergence

Dave vs. the Monsters 1: Emergence

John Birmingham

Science Fiction / Fantasy / Thriller

For fans of Jim Butcher and Kevin Hearne comes an action-packed new urban fantasy series featuring a tough, bleakly funny, down-on-his luck oil rig worker with an unlikely destiny as a monster-slayer and savior of the planet. "Monsters," said Vince Martinelli. "There are monsters on the rig, Dave." Dave Hooper has a hangover from hell, a horrible ex-wife, and the fangs of the IRS deep in his side. The last thing he needs is an explosion at work. A real explosion. On his off-shore oil rig. But this is no accident, and despite the news reports, Dave knows that terrorists aren't to blame. He knows because he killed one of the things responsible. When he wakes up in a hospital bed guarded by Navy SEALs, he realizes this is more than just a bad acid trip. Yeah, Dave's had a few. This trip is way weirder. Killing a seven-foot-tall, tattooed demon has transformed the overweight, balding safety manager into something else entirely. A foul-mouthed, beer-loving monster slayer, and humanity's least worthy Champion.
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Goodbye Forever

Goodbye Forever

Bonnie Hearn Hill

Thriller / Contemporary / Suspense

Crime blogger and radio host Kit Doyle goes undercover – and into danger - in the second of this intriguing crime series.17-year-old Jessica is missing. There are no clues as to why she disappeared – apart from the note she left behind: I love you. Goodbye forever. It turns out that Jessica is not the first teenager to have gone missing, nor the first to have left exactly the same note.With a personal family connection to the missing girl, crime blogger and radio host Kit Doyle is determined to find out what happened to her. To do so, she must go undercover as a teenage runaway herself. Out on the streets, Kit is about to enter a violent, unpredictable world where life is held cheap – and into the clutches of a dangerous psychopath ...
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Impulse

Impulse

Catherine Coulter

Suspense / Thriller / Romance

SIZZLING CONTEMPORARY SUSPENSE from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.When a journalist learns that her real father is a powerful arms dealer, she travels to his private Caribbean island?where her attraction to a resort manager spirals out of control.
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Turning Point

Turning Point

Jason M. Hough

Science Fiction / Fantasy / Thriller

The story, set just after Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, is about a tracker named Gorlan Seba who lived peacefully on the edge of the galaxy until the Galactic Empire sought to hire him to track down a group of escaped Rebels.The story ties in with the novel Aftermath: Life Debt by Chuck Wendig.
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Becoming Zodiak

Becoming Zodiak

Craig Jones

Horror / Mystery / Thriller

He has the looks, the skills and even the name, but is that enough to win...Becoming Zodiak?Zodiak. An unmatched, unbeatable team composed of twelve elite fighters. Their purpose? To rid the streets of crime and corruption, and to fend against a kind of wickedness that runs much deeper than any ordinary crime could. And they were unmatched, they were unbeatable. Until they weren't.After the events of what should have been just another mission, Zodiak finds itself one member short—one member too few. The team is scrambling to fill their empty seat, to find a new number twelve, and this desperation brings about one of the largest media events the world has ever seen: a competition.From thousands of applicants all across the globe, only five will be chosen to compete to fight alongside the world's most powerful human weapons.
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The Infiltrator

The Infiltrator

Brad Taylor

Thriller / Fiction / Mystery

Retired Special Forces officer Brad Taylor's thrilling new short story features Israeli operatives, Aaron and Shoshana, as the two wed at Jerusalem's Western Wall amid a backdrop of turmoil and a new plot to attack the city's holiest site.Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill are used to traveling all over the world for counterterrorist missions, but this time they're in the Old City of Jerusalem under happier circumstances. Their friends Aaron and Shoshana, former operatives with Israeli Mossad, are getting married and they've chosen to tie the knot at the Western Wall of the Temple Mount. The holiest site in Judaism and the third holiest in Islam, the Temple Mount is a fault line between Jews and Muslims, the flash point for eons of strife—and it will still prove to be true today. Unbeknownst to them, a cell of Palestinian terrorists has planned an attack against innocent tourists to incite the Arab world to demand that Israel retreat from the...
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