Swift, savage L.A. noir. To small-time skip tracer Henry Spain, a routine background investigation looks like easy money. Instead he becomes a pawn in the struggle for a dying political boss's shadowy legacy. The Doomsday Book is a magnet for gambler...
The year is 1919. The Great War is over, and a million soldiers have been released into a recession-wracked economy that cannot possibly absorb them. Russia has fallen to the communists, and the IWW threatens the same in America. Labor violence rips ...
John Congo is a troubled gambler fleeing a dark past. He risks his life's winnings to reach for respectability, only to discover that he has bought into a billion dollar corporate swindle on the suckers' side of the table. He is a small player and hi...
Teenage twins Lynx and Laurel Raven are on a mission. After being told by their grandmother that a family heirloom is missing, the twins head to their uncle’s house on the Gulf of Finland for a two-week stay, hoping to fi nd the valuable stone t...
Off-shore oil platforms controlled by vulnerable software and sitting atop millions of gallons of pressurized fire and pollution have caught the eye of an immensely wealthy zealot determined to return the world to ninth century despotism.
Three...
“Do not let yourself be tempted to pursue the Romanov diamonds. They corrupt all who venture close to them.” A struggling academic is lured into a perilous quest to find a book lost for ten centuries. The last words of a revolutionary lost in th...
THE LOST CONTINENT OF ATLANTIS Often dismissed as myth, Atlantis was a real place. It was an island rather than a continent. Contrary to legend it existed within the scope of written history. It was destroyed in a release of subterranean energy t...
In any city there have always been places where it is best
not to go. Dark streets where cold wind carries paper
trash along the sidewalk like tumbleweed and hostile eyes
watch you pass without seeming to look. Brighter places
war...