Chief Warrant Officer Dave Riley and his team of Green Berets are summoned to perform "damage control" at a laboratory in Tennessee where top-secret research is made possible through funds granted by the Pentagon's "Black Budget." The scenario:...
The largest uncut diamond in the world, the Minstrel's Rough, is little more than legend. Brought into the Pepperkamp family in 1548, it has been handed down to one keeper in each generation. Juliana Fall has inherited its splendor from her...
Gentle Reader: You’ve probably never been suspected of embezzling a bank of two hundred thousand bucks, or of murdering a D.A., and I sure hope you never have been. I was suspected of having done both. That was six years ago, in Lyncastle, a small...
This anthology was edited by Michael Connelly. His essay is called "Once Upon a Midnight Dreary."
A collection of stories by thriller master Edgar Allan Poe with essays by beloved and bestselling writers, to commemorate the 200th...
A man mysteriously dies in North Korea's capital on a quiet Saturday morning. A few days later, the region is on the brink of war, and the CIA must launch an operation to uncover North Korea's closest-held secret. The man was a spy who, after a...
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The apparent suicide of his policeman brother sets Denver crime reporter Jack McEvoy on edge. Surprise at the circumstances of his brother's death prompts Jack to look into a whole series of police suicides and puts him on the...
A bitter war rages in Afghanistan during the 80's. Growing desperate, the Soviet Union creates an exotic chemical weapon. They test their creation in a massive cave complex, in Khost, Afghanistan. Unknown to the Soviets, the chemical works in...
Alan McQueen is on the trail of the world's most dangerous terrorist discovers that Sabaya is not in fact dead. Instead he's teamed up with a rogue CIA veteran and is armed with a cache of stolen VX nerve agent he's threatening to deploy in a...