Published in The New York Times (June 6, 2009).
Child's contribution to the Times' Summer Thrills fiction series starts with a girl who catches Jack Reacher's eye at a Greenwich Village bar in the wee hours. She's no older than nineteen, Russian,...
You know it's going to be a rough summer when you spend Father's Day visiting your dad in the local lockup.
Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor - which has made taking a dip...
An unexpected meeting and a simple landscaping job swiftly pull Miguel into a dangerous new world...
This story originally appeared in Thriller: An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories edited by Don...
Caught in a web of dangerous intrigue, Dr. Kiril Andreyev plans his desperate escape from Soviet tyranny to freedom in the West.
But when his friend’s escape attempt ends in flames, Kiril finds his life threatened by a ruthless KGB...
Terror conspiracy involving advanced nuclear weapons sends international security agencies on a breathtaking manhunt.
A breach of security leads to the removal of highly sensitive information by a renegade American citizen from the Los Alamos...
Earthquake aftershocks trap Mayor Patrick O'Shea and his assistant Briana Bliss in an elevator. But emergency services are stretched to the limit with 911 calls. The mayor and Briana wait. And passions flare…
Briana Bliss planned to use her job...
Colter Shaw is a career “reward-seeker,” making his living traveling the country and locating missing persons, collecting reward money in return. So it is not unusual when a wealthy entrepreneur hires him to track down his wife, an enigmatic...
War hero John Puller is known to be the top investigator in the US Army’s CID. So when a family with military connections is brutally murdered in a remote area of West Virginia, Puller is called to investigate, and soon suspects the case has wider...