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The Ryzhkov Vendetta

About The Ryzhkov Vendetta:

Alexander Leonidovich Ryzhkov, a Russian oligarch and former general in the Russian Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU), runs a covert operation in the Middle East. Ryzhkov supplies Saudi terrorists with four Russian-made nuclear suitcase bombs and a list of two US cities to target. A CIA operation thwarts the planned attack and kills many Russian operatives, including his brother Sergei Ryzhkov. The oligarch is out for revenge.
Ryzhkov approaches a former CIA station chief and offers him money in exchange for the CIA operatives’ names. Armed with this intelligence, he launched his vendetta, targeting the former CIA operatives Mark Ericksen, now CEO of EyeD4 Systems, his fiancé Kate McDonald, a banking consultant, and Lars Wahlberg, COO of EyeD4 Systems.
Can Ericksen and his former operatives avoid the assassins’ poisoning efforts and turn around the deadly game of hunter and prey?

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The Ericksen Connection

About The Ericksen Connection:

The Ericksen Connection is a spy thriller about betrayal, PTSD, corruption, conspiracy, terrorism, and murder. Mark Ericksen, the former Navy SEAL Team Six operator and executive vice president of EyeD4 Systems, a biometrics defense contractor based in Wilsonville, Oregon, was all about duty, honor, and country. He resigned from his commission in 2002 and worked for three defense contractors over the next several years, maintaining his top-secret security clearance while hiding his PTSD.
In 2009, the CIA received actionable intelligence about a Saudi terrorist mastermind aided by Russian arms dealers who needed a classified biometrics encryption communications system from EyeD4 Systems to direct his sleeper cell operatives in launching a horrific nuclear attack on American cities.
When America urgently needs his services again, the CIA tasks him with Operation Avenging Eagles to sabotage the plot. Can Ericksen avoid discovery and thwart the nuclear attack before a network of terrorists achieves their plans?
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What Happened in Vienna, Jack?

About What Happened in Vienna, Jack?:

Former British spy Jack Price is holding onto a dangerous secret that connects an armed robbery, a wartime Jewish survivor, a Catholic priest’s murder, a Nama tribe massacre, and the remains of Hitler’s personal secretary. With others seeking the truth, Jack is willing to risk everything to keep it hidden. But as the past comes back to haunt him, the lies and secrets threaten to unravel in a deadly game of cat and mouse. The truth must be uncovered, but at what cost?

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Blaze In, Blaze Out by Joseph Lewis

Blaze In, Blaze Out by Joseph Lewis

Thriller-Crime-Fiction Book of the Year for 2022 by BestThrillers!

Working with a joint multi-law enforcement task force, Detective Pat O’Connor infiltrated a Ukrainian crime family headed by Dmitry Andruko. O’Connor and his control, Detective Paul Eiselmann were the linchpins in the guilty verdict.

The two detectives thought it was over, but it was only the beginning.

Eiselmann planned for a quiet weekend with his family at home. O’Connor planned on attending a high school soccer game and then head to Northern Wisconsin for a fishing trip with another cop, Detective Jamie Graff and four teenage, adopted brothers: George Tokay, Brian Evans, Brett McGovern, and Michael Two Feathers.

But Andruko is ruthless and vindictive. Revenge knows no boundaries. From his prison cell, he hires two contract killers to kill both O’Connor and Eiselmann and anyone else in the way. The killers can be anyone. The killers could be anywhere, and the killers could strike at any time.

The quiet weekend and the short vacation turn into a deadly nightmare as O’Connor’s and Eiselmann’s lives and the lives of the four boys are in peril.

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Second Chance Killer

About Second Chance Killer:

Damon Faulkner is trapped in a nightmare he can’t escape.

A lifelong struggle with sleepwalking lands him in the middle of a murder investigation – and he’s the main suspect. Despite having no memory of the crime, Damon fights for his life against a drunken detective determined to close his one-hundredth career case.

As Damon awaits trial, he discovers unsettling secrets about Jekyll Island’s past and realizes he may have been set up. He must stay awake to clear his name before it’s too late. But can he prove his innocence and reveal the truth about his sleepwalking? Damon discovers that when it comes to redemption, he can’t turn back time, but he can turn back to faith in Christ in a thrilling, suspenseful quest to clear his name.

Prepare yourself for a gripping journey that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final revelation.

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Squeeze Plays

About Squeeze Plays:

A contemporary tale about money and power and its corrupting influences. Set principally in New York and London, it finds a bank chief executive and a tabloid publisher at odds over a loan the bank has given the publisher. Enter a cunning Russian oligarch eager to expand his influence in New York; he makes the publisher an offer he can’t refuse. An investigative reporter, acting on a tip, then probes this financing and delivers a front-page expose that puts the main characters in a negative light. Along the way, there is financial and sexual blackmail, lively dialogue and description, and an-often satirical take on the lives of the well-heeled and well-connected.

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Never Ignore Monica by Jim Lively


About Featured Book: Never Ignore Monica by Jim Lively

What if you suddenly discover that people who are a major part of your life may have never existed?

Meet Simon Steed, a brilliant but reclusive attorney. Throughout his adolescence, he discovered that he possessed special powers. When provoked, these powers could wreak havoc on unsuspecting targets. While attending college, Simon met a beautiful young classmate, named Monica. He was instantly smitten with her. No sooner than she entered his life, than she disappeared. Simon was heartbroken and crushed when different media outlets reported her as a suicide victim. But the facts did not add up. The picture of the suicide victim was not of Monica but her sinister roommate. Where is Monica?

After graduating near the top of his class in law school, Simon interviewed with every major law firm in Dallas. Despite his stellar academic credentials, there was something about him that deterred any firm from offering him employment. Simon had no choice but to begin his law career as a struggling sole practitioner. To make ends meet, he took court appointed cases in the various criminal courts in Dallas County. Several of his clients committed violent acts after meeting with him. One day, he was appointed to represent a young, troubled woman named Carol. That is when Simon’s life changed forever.

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A Touch of Torment by Gary Ponzo

A Touch of Torment by Gary Ponzo

The FBI and Mafia join forces against a Chechen mobster who crossed the wrong people.
Get this thriller by award-winning author Gary Ponzo for the one time promo price of .99 cents.
You’ll want to fly through the pages to get to the end, but don’t. The ride is worth the wait.
“Gary Ponzo is America’s premier thriller writer,” Stephen Carpenter. Creator of NBC’s hit series, Grimm.

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The Ryzhkov Vendetta

About The Ryzhkov Vendetta:

Alexander Leonidovich Ryzhkov, a Russian oligarch and former general in the Russian Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU), runs a covert operation in the Middle East. Ryzhkov supplies Saudi terrorists with four Russian-made nuclear suitcase bombs and a list of two US cities to target. A CIA operation thwarts the planned attack and kills many Russian operatives, including his brother Sergei Ryzhkov. The oligarch is out for revenge.
Ryzhkov approaches a former CIA station chief and offers him money in exchange for the CIA operatives’ names. Armed with this intelligence, he launched his vendetta, targeting the former CIA operatives Mark Ericksen, now CEO of EyeD4 Systems, his fiancé Kate McDonald, a banking consultant, and Lars Wahlberg, COO of EyeD4 Systems.
Can Ericksen and his former operatives avoid the assassins’ poisoning efforts and turn around the deadly game of hunter and prey?

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The Ericksen Connection

About The Ericksen Connection:

The Ericksen Connection is a spy thriller about betrayal, PTSD, corruption, conspiracy, terrorism, and murder. Mark Ericksen, the former Navy SEAL Team-Six operator and executive vice-president of EyeD4 Systems, a biometrics defense contractor based in Wilsonville, Oregon, was all about duty, honor, and country. He resigned from his commission in 2002 and worked for three defense contractors over the next several years, maintaining his top-secret security clearance while hiding his PTSD.

In 2009, the CIA received actionable intelligence about a Saudi terrorist mastermind aided by Russian arms dealers who needed a classified biometrics encryption communications system from EyeD4 Systems to direct his sleeper cell operatives in launching a horrific nuclear attack on American cities.

When America urgently needs his services again, the CIA tasks him with Operation Avenging Eagles to sabotage the plot. Can Ericksen avoid discovery and thwart the nuclear attack before a network of terrorists achieves their plans?

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Hostile Witness

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A prominent judge is brutally murdered, his sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Hannah Sheraton, is accused, and only Josie Bates will defend her. Adrift and shamed after using a technicality to get a case dismissed only to have her client murder again, Josie is determined to make amends by championing Hannah. As she peels back the layers of money, prestige, and power surrounding the case Josie realizes that together she and Hannah are strong…or dead.

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Capitol Crimes: Is That a Knife in Your Back? by Scott Paradis


About Featured Book: Capitol Crimes: Is That a Knife in Your Back? by Scott Paradis

“Capitol Crimes” reimagines contemporary American politics as a fantasy – that is, with a dose of integrity.

The murder of a dangerously ambitious politician unites three efforts to challenge the secretive and corrupt forces dominating American politics.
– A cynical FBI agent discovers a centuries-long financial conspiracy.
– A principled outsider defies institutionalized corruption.
– Idealistic political operatives attempt to take the White House and remake the political playing field.
The political intrigue begs the question:
Can truth withstand the onslaught wrought by the contemporary gospel of fear and hate?

“An engaging murder mystery with profound political insights.”

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Double Fantasy by Martin Tracey

Double Fantasy by Martin Tracey

When an old friend calls out the blue, Private Investigator Judd Stone finds himself presented with an offer he finds hard to resist: a boozy weekend in Liverpool in exchange for ‘playing’ guitar at an 80s tribute festival!
Yet, things take a wrong turn when tragedy leads to a clash with gangsters and fleeing the city with an unlikely bunch of allies suddenly becomes the only option.
But when an unexpected window to the occult opens, what evil still lies ahead?
Surrounded by a ferocious storm and the haunting legends of the Northern English countryside, ex-football hooligan Judd finds himself in a deadly game of two halves that will leave him wishing he’d stuck to his day job.
Double Fantasy is the fourth action-packed offering in the popular Judd Stone series but as always works as a standalone too. If you like fast-paced thrillers with a compelling anti-hero at its core, ruthless characters and a backdrop of great music bursting through its pages then this book is for you.

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The Little Woods by A.G. Mock

The Little Woods by A.G. Mock

An unimaginable evil is about to be unleashed.
And it all starts with a game in the woods…

By the time Ian sees the rope around his friend’s neck, it’s too late. Terrified and alone, he hides as a harmless children’s game plunges into deadly, unthinkable nightmare.

Eighteen years later, the screams of that summer have finally begun to fade. But when an impossible encounter triggers nerve-shredding flashbacks and a crippling but all-too-familiar fear, Ian is drawn back to the one place he vowed never to return.

The one place where the screams still echo…

Set in the 1970s & 1990s, if you enjoy dark retro thrillers like The Outsider, Black Phone or The Conjuring, you’ll love A.G. Mock’s award-winning descent into the depths of supernatural terror.

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THE F-WORD REALITY SHOW by Chris Westlake

THE F-WORD REALITY SHOW by Chris Westlake

Fifty seemingly random individuals are offered the opportunity to appear in THE F-WORD REALITY SHOW, to be aired to millions of viewers across the world. Transported to a giant glass hall in the middle of nowhere, guards patrol the hall and cameras watch their every move. There is nowhere to hide.

As the days pass and the events unfold, the contestants discover that nothing is as it seems. The choice is brutally straightforward… the contestants must kill, or be killed. The winning contestant will be the only one left alive.

The F-Word Reality Show is a compelling thriller that will leave you wondering whether the cameras watching your every move are your best friend, or your worst enemy.

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Echo from a Bayou

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Murder. Treasure. A supernatural twist. John Bastian is plunged into a dangerous journey to uncover the truth about his past life as Jack Bachman after a freak skiing accident unlocks hidden memories. With unshakable visions of a violent ax attack, a cursed treasure, and a vibrant redheaded woman, John searches to find answers and hunt down the man who murdered him in his past life. Faced with danger at every turn and with a hurricane fast approaching, John must fight for his survival and the safety of those he loves. In a desperate bid to uncover the truth, he risks everything and confronts his past head-on. With threats haunting him at every turn, will he find redemption, or will he be consumed by his quest for revenge?

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Unleashed : A Post-Apocalyptic Thriller by Dirk Patton

Unleashed : A Post-Apocalyptic Thriller by Dirk Patton

America is savagely attacked with biochemical weapons, throwing the country into an apocalyptic hell. John Chase, far from home, rescues a young woman and they begin an odyssey across the continent to reunite with his wife as society disintegrates into savagery and millions of people become raging infected.

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The Ericksen Connection

About The Ericksen Connection:

The Ericksen Connection is a spy thriller about betrayal, PTSD, corruption, conspiracy, terrorism, and murder. Mark Ericksen, the former Navy SEAL Team-Six operator and executive vice-president of EyeD4 Systems, a biometrics defense contractor based in Wilsonville, Oregon, was all about duty, honor, and country. He resigned from his commission in 2002 and worked for three defense contractors over the next several years, maintaining his top-secret security clearance while hiding his PTSD.

In 2009, the CIA received actionable intelligence about a Saudi terrorist mastermind aided by Russian arms dealers who needed a classified biometrics encryption communications system from EyeD4 Systems to direct his sleeper cell operatives in launching a horrific nuclear attack on American cities.

When America urgently needs his services again, the CIA tasks him with Operation Avenging Eagles to sabotage the plot. Can Ericksen avoid discovery and thwart the nuclear attack before a network of terrorists achieves their plans?

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The Syrian Sunset

About The Syrian Sunset:

A SWEEPING NOVEL OF INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE ABOUT THE SYRIAN CIVIL WAR, THE FAILURE OF THE WEST TO SAVE THE SYRIAN PEOPLE, AND HOW THAT INACTION AGAINST THE RUSSIAN INCURSION EMBOLDENED VLADIMIR PUTIN TO ATTACK UKRAINE

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Activated: Out of the Night by N. Gregory Harden

Activated: Out of the Night by N. Gregory Harden

“Spencer Smith (a.k.a. “Bishop”) is the most accomplished operative for a covert operations organization known as “”The Agency””. Months after calling it quits, Bishop is abruptly activated for a mission that demands his particular skill set.

While the mission begins like a typical kill or capture operation, things change quickly, revealing a powerful competing organization with a grudge to settle with the Agency. As Bishop and his team work to complete the mission, they discover the Agency may have darker secrets than they let on. A power struggle between the two groups is brewing, and Bishop isn’t interested in being sacrificed as a pawn in either side’s gambit to gain the advantage.

In this riveting tale of espionage, treachery and betrayal, it seems that no matter the outcome, Bishop will not be getting a break just yet.”

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