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Emmet Lang is a very unique type of outlaw. A veteran of the Civil War, he returned home to find his family murdered and the family farm destroyed. Bitter and disillusioned, he wandered the south and west and struck upon an ideal way to make a living, to steal from criminals.

Jarron Rourke, The Apostle returns in the fourth installment of the series, titled Paradise. When the daughter of a powerful US Senator is kidnapped from Miami International Airport, the Senator turns to his old friend, Federal Prosecutor Bennington. The Senator’s daughter and her friend were on a Christmas break from college and seemingly vanished in plain sight. Bennington assigns the detail to Rourke, his top investigator. Teamed with his partner and girlfriend, Jane Diaz, Rourke dives into the investigation with little hope and sheer grit.. The trail in Miami, leads them to a sex ...

Take one slightly insane and extremely violent mobster named Joey Grant. Joey’s goal in life is to one day command his own crime family and he will stop at nothing to achieve that goal. Add Robert Grant, Joey’s older and more subdued brother. Also a member of the crime family, Robert is a dreamer and dreams about the one thing he doesn’t have, love. Stir in Gisela, a beautiful and seductive barmaid who works at the Grant’s nightclub who Robert falls in love with, but who Joey suspects is a gold-digger after Robert’s money. Toss in a Federal Task Force investigating the crime ...

The Youngblood brothers, Jack and Emmet, are called back into service by Judge Isaac Parker in an all new historical western adventure. Sally Chisum, niece of the late John Chisum of New Mexico, sells one thousand head of cattle to the Indian reservation in Fort Smith. Nine drovers off the reservation agree to drive the herd from New Mexico to Arkansas. At the midpoint, just south of the Red River, the nine drovers are attacked and killed and the herd is stolen. Judge Parker assigns Marshal Jack Youngblood and his brother, Emmet, the daunting task of tracking down the men responsible for ...

LT and Candy return in another action-packed adventure as he takes on the most deadly case of his career. Hired by a distraught father to find his missing daughter, LT quickly finds himself immersed in a game of cat and mouse with the world’s most famous television chef Pablo Venable. Venable, traveling on a cruise ship is the last person to see the missing girl alive and although cleared by the FBI of any wrongdoing, he is more than just an innocent bystander. Much, much more. As LT closes in on Venable, the charming television cooking show host proves to be a dangerous adversary and ...

John Tibbets, the homeless antihero from Walking Homeless, returns with a vengeance. Still plagued with amnesia, Tibbets awakens in the desert canyons of New Mexico after killing a half dozen drug lords and several FBI agents for reasons he can’t remember. Without memory to guide him, his instincts and training kick in and he goes into hiding, once again faced with the dilemma of uncovering his identity. Meanwhile, the violence in New Mexico draws FBI Special Agent Richard Cone and Ben Freeman, Tibbets’ former partner and member of a government black-ops agency that officially doesn’t...

Rourke is a gifted investigator. He is also a gifted killer, having worked for his Irish Mafia brother as a street enforcer. After his brother is arrested, Rourke goes down with him and spends four years in prison before he is given a second chance at life as a free man. Recruited by the Justice Department to act as an investigator, Rourke’s freedom depends upon his willingness to investigate crimes for the Federal Prosecutor. In exchange for his talents, Rourke is allowed to keep his Central Park West condo and whatever money he had squirreled away in various banks, a considerable amount...

Lee Gavin and his band of ne’er-do-wells return with a new caper in Dodos. When the egg of the extinct Dodo bird is uncovered on a remote island the scientific word goes mad for the discovery. So mad in fact that two competing teams of scientists claim the prize as their own. Enter Gavin and his faithful band of thieves when one group of scientists hires him to steal the egg from the other. It’s a simple job, right? Not in the world of Lee Gavin where nothing ever goes according to plan.

The exploits of an inept and hard luck band of New York City criminals. Led by master thief Lee Gavin and his trusty sidekick Ian Nelson, the group sets out to steal the set of nine 1894S dimes, the most valuable dimes in the world worth fifteen million dollars. With Murphy’s Law in full effect, one catastrophe after another befalls the group as the dimes always seem just inches from their grasp, providing close encounters and side splitting laughs along the way.

Jarron Rourke, The Apostle, is called back to action by the Federal Prosecutor after an innocent verdict is handed down by a grand jury of accused mobster Tony Roscoe. Arrested for murdering his wife, the grand jury set him free due to lack of evidence. A week later, a grand jury member is murdered, shot in the back of the head with a .32 caliber revolver. A week later, another jury member is killed in identical fashion. After the seventh jury member is killed, Federal Prosecutor Bennington calls in Rourke. Rourke, a onetime member of the Irish Mafia, was freed from prison by Bennington and...

From Edgar and Nero Award Nominee Al Lamanda. John Bekker is called back to action when his close friend Sheriff Jane Morgan seeks his help with a perplexing mystery. Norman Felton, a resident of Midnight Island, drove his car to the mainland county high school and, in an out-of-control rage, beat an exchange student nearly to death with a baseball bat before being shot by sheriff's deputies. Felton's fourteen-year-old daughter Amanda is missing, and with each passing day the odds of finding her grow slimmer. Bekker works around the clock ferreting out details until slowly the puzzle comes ...

Federal Warrant Office John Dixon, known simply as Dix, is one dangerous man. When he leaves Washington with a stack of warrants, one thing is certain. You will either return in irons, or draped over the saddle. A loner at heart, Dix’s plans and life changes dramatically when he meets and falls in love with a local saloon girl named Trixie. After they marry, Dix plans to work one more year to earn enough money to buy land and start a ranch. Their plans fall apart when an old friend of Trixie’s, a fellow saloon girl plots to rob them at the home they share with Dix’s friend, a federal ...

When Navy Seal and Scuba diver John Drew is wrongfully accused of murder and sent to Pelican Bay Prison, his life couldn’t get any worse. It does. Known for having the only prisoner SCUBA diving program in the world, Drew refuses to participate in the program until the heavy rains come and threaten to flood the entire valley, putting his wife and baby in mortal danger. A dive team of prisoners is assembled to make repairs to the Caustic Dam before it breeches and floods the valley. Drew volunteers to lead the team. The team has other ideas and, lead by Drew’s arch-rival Nick Cintron, ...

In Walking Homeless: The Final Chapter, amnesia victim John Tibbets is living in Canada, far and away from his past troubles. When he meets a woman and they decide to return to America, his past comes back to haunt him and once again, Tibbets finds himself being chased by a secret government organization that will stop at nothing to apprehend him.

When Barbary Coast breaks his leg at the Kentucky Derby, the number one racehorse in the world can’t be saved. Coast’s groom and vet Sarah Fisher, plan to save the horse, but they can’t do it alone. Since artificial insemination is not allowed in thoroughbred racing, forty samples of the horse’s semen is extracted by the groom who uses it as payment to his childhood friend, Brooklyn mobster Jack Verducci in exchange for his help. Jack, the groom and Sarah successfully smuggle Coast from his stable, but once Jack’s Brooklyn mob gets wind of the forty specimens valued at eighty ...

A New Mexico County sheriff, John Beckett and his wife Shelly celebrate their wedding anniversary by taking a cruise aboard a luxury cruise liner and get far more than they bargained for when the ship is hijacked by international terrorists’ hell bent on nuking American cities. With the ship adrift in the Gulf of Mexico, the terrorists contact the President with their demands. All prisoners in GITMO are to be released or the passengers die. In true Die Hard, roller-coaster fashion, the sheriff sets out to stop the terrorists from launching nuclear weapons even if it means sinking the ...

A dying mob boss skips over his son and leaves his fortune to his daughter, a Catholic Nun assigned to Central Africa. After his death, the nun, Jenna Costello, flies to New York City to hear the terms of her father’s will. To her shock and the church’s dismay, Jenna’s father has cut his son Vincent out of the will and left his entire estate to Jenna, who plans to use the fortune to build a church and hospital in Africa. Outraged at being cutoff, Vincent has his mob lawyers hire a retired CIA mole to plan the accidental death of Jenna so he can claim his father’s fortune. The mole ...