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This is how your life ends: Not with a whimper, but a scream! When Jude becomes the accidental witness to a bizarre “kill game” in which the killer, video game designer, and master of disguise, Hector “the Black Dragon” Lennox, insists on recording the screams of his victims prior to shooting them dead, the ex-cop’s life is turned upside down. When Lennox is arrested by the L.G.P.D. and Jude is asked to act as the state’s “star witness”, he has no choice but to fight his demon-fear and take on the role.

From Stranded in the Heart of Darkness... "Red-shirted man speaks once more. In turn, I gaze at the interpreter, await his translation. “You have fought and killed many men?” he hesitantly asks. I shake my head. “No,” I say, taken aback. “I have never killed anyone.” “In the voodoo culture,” the translator goes on, “men who are able to wear such a band are considered to be powerful fighters.” Now gesturing towards the red-shirted man. “This man here envies you for your power.” _________________ In 2009, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Vincent Zandri ...

At 38, Ava “Spike” Harrison has been a major player in the local construction industry. She’s also had to rebuild her family business from the bottom up thanks to bad luck and bad fines. So it’s easy to see why OSHA, breathing down her neck on her latest job at Albany’s PS 20, has the contractor on edge. She’s used to putting out fires, but this is about to be a full-on explosion - 300 students at risk for exposure to deadly asbestos, and the asbestos removal contractor, Jimmy Farrell, is nowhere to be found.

Money Can't Buy You Love, and it Sure as Hell Can't Save Your Life! When PI Jack Marconi is approached by a handsome, wealthy couple to find their daughter now that she's gone missing moments after being stood up at the altar during her lavish white wedding, the veteran gumshoe is feeling apprehensive about taking on the case. After all, the missing girl is probably just hanging with her friends and crying her eyes out. But when the father of the would-be bride is found killed inside his expensive Mercedes, suddenly Jack smells a rat. From NY Times bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award ...

IT'S MARCH 2020. CAN COVID-19 TRULY BE THE DEATH OF DICK MOONLIGHT? PI Dick Moonlight only wants to grab a quick beer and maybe a conversation with a good-looking lady. But now that the COVID-19 pandemic has shut down the world, he's got nowhere to go to have a couple drinks and wish his troubles away. So instead, he ends up at the supermarket to grab a few supplies, including toilet paper. But there is only one package of what's become "paper gold" left, and that's where the trouble begins. It turns out that two twin Russian brothers who are also Russian gangsters, also want that same ...

LOOKING FOR A BINGEABLE BOXED SET FILLED WITH GRIPPING THRILLERS? Hopeless romantic PI Dick Moonlight goes on the trail of a rabble rousing bestselling author and ends up neck deep in a whole lot of life, death, and love trouble. Renaissance Man, adventurer, and lover, Chase Baker, is hired to search for an archaeology professor who's flown the coop to volatile post-revolutionary Egypt, but at the same time, finds himself on the trail of the most important archaeological prize in the history of man: the mortal remains of Jesus Christ. Dick Moonlight PI is hired to watch over a historical ...

WHEN WE DIE WE DON'T GO TO HEAVEN OR HELL. WE GO TO THE METAVERSE! Writer Casey Smith is dead. He was decapitated after the getaway car he was driving immediately after a bank robbery smashed into the back of a semi. And yet, Casey Smith is very much alive inside the Metaverse. But what he also discovers upon waking up in the Old West town of Deadwood in 1889, is that he is a wanted man for the crimes he committed while alive in the mid-21st century. Bank robbery and 2nd-degree murder. Who's hot on his trail? None other than Wyatt Earp himself! From New York Times and USA Bestselling ...

As a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, Nick Angel has seen a lot. But now he sees almost nothing after being struck with PTSD-related blindness resulting from the trauma of his last tour. In an attempt to put the past behind him, he travels to Venice, Italy, with his fiancée, Grace, to recover, reconnect, and rekindle their love. Despite his physical and emotional setbacks, Nick senses something dangerously amiss in Venice, and his hunch proves right when Grace is abducted right in front of him.

Does the Ark of the Covenant, or what’s also known as the Ark of God, truly exist? Adventurer, writer, and treasure hunter, Chase Baker is about to find out, the hard way. Adventurer, Chase Baker is back in the thick of it. This time, he along with his sexy and adventuring archaeologist partner, Dr. Sarah Gibson, are entrusted by both a wealthy financier and an old English, Paris based Biblical scholar to unearth perhaps the greatest archaeological treasure of all time: The Ark of the Covenant. Or what’s also known as the Ark of God.

Originally published in Conor Friedersdorf's Culture 11 Magazine, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Vincent Zandri's BREAKDOWN recounts the story of a teenage boy who suffers his first nervous breakdown due to a genetic condition known as Severe and Recurring Non-Psychotic Depression. Suggested reading for parents of children who suffer from depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and other emotional and psychologically debilitating diseases. Praise for Vincent Zandri: "Sensational...Masterful...Brilliant." --New York Post "The action never wanes." --Fort Lauderdale Sun-...

THRILLS. SPILLS. ROMANCE ON THE RAILS! IN THIS EPISODE OF THE NEW PULP THRILLER SERIES:: Sam Savage has been busted by his superiors over his Mile High Club romantic airborne escapades. Now, he's being forced to work the Amtrak rail line for an indefinite amount of time. But Sam's not riding the rails to take up space. Turns out, the government has received specific intel about a radical Muslim terrorist who plans on doing a whole lot of damage to a whole lot of innocent passengers. And only Sam Shepard can stop him. Problem is, Sam's train is a runaway For readers of Mark Dawson, Boyd ...

Ike Singer is a demolitions expert, or master blaster. He is second to none at his craft, knows every type of explosive known to man, and is the one everyone turns to when they need a safe, controlled explosion. Despite being at the very top of his profession, a personal mistake that led to catastrophe nearly brought Ike's life to ruin. He has spent every day since atoning for that sin and trying to piece his family back together. And after a great deal of work and soul-searching, Ike believes he has finally moved on.

Featuring a brand new introduction by the author on how he willingly gave up his birthright as the heir apparent to a multi-million dollar commercial construction firm in order to pursue his writing passion, Pieces of Mind contains essays on topics as diverse as lost love, sex, divorce, coping with a child's severe depression, experiencing Carnival in Venice, to sharing a first beer with your teenage son. But every word is delivered under the umbrella of a full-time fiction writer and freelance journalist trying to make sense of the lush world that surrounds him.

Richard 'Dick' Moonlight is back!

In the best-selling Moonlight Falls (RJBuckley, 2009), he barely survived his own suicide attempt, not to mention numerous attempts on his life from a gang of Russian thugs operating an illegal organ harvesting operation out of a Saratoga Springs restaurant. Now the former Albany Police Department detective is forced to go through life (or in some cases, near-death) with a piece of .22 caliber bullet lodged in his brain.

When a defeated looking man shows up at Moonlight’s riverfront loft in the middle of the night seeking the P.I.’s services, he does something quite unexpected. He kills himself with a gunshot to the head. After the APD Chief Homicide Detective Nick Miller arrives on the scene, it’s discovered the now dead man was married to a cheating woman who goes by the unlikely name of Virginia Gamble.

Adventurer Chase Baker is back in action. He, along with the beautiful daughter of a Hasidic Jew who owns a New York City pawn shop, fly to Europe to uncover a stash of Nazi gold estimated to be worth over $1.5 billion dollars.

When Dick Moonlight PI is instructed by Homicide Detective Nick Miller at the Albany Police Department to investigate the double homicide of a pair of married lawyers up in Saratoga Springs during the thoroughbred racing season, he finds himself in the middle of a killing spree that just might get him and his sidekick, Fat Elvis, killed too.

Sculptor and single mom Rose Conley is haunted by her tragic past and anxious about her uncertain future. She needs to get away from it all. On sabbatical from the college where she teaches art, she and her daughter rent a house for three months in the Adirondack lakeside community of Paradox.

No matter how you spin it - from a self-driving car that abducts its passengers, to a newly released ex-con who is being hunted by father/daughter hoods for the 300 grand he owes them, to a suburban couple startled awake in the middle of the night after two Antifa hoods break into their home intent on doing some real damage - these stories are relentless. Gear up for an adrenaline-fueled ride to the dark side and back, where the bad guy isn't always bad and the good guys will stab you in the back.

In the series called “stunning” and “just beautiful”, The Handyman has become an almost cult classic since it was first introduced to fans of steamy romance and mystery two years ago. For those who love E L James, Stephenie Meyer, and Sylvia Day comes a sizzler of a story from New York Times and USA Today best-selling, Thriller Award-winning author Vincent Zandri.