Eight men. Two women. Some are ugly. Some are pretty. All are condemned to death and awaiting their fate at the hands of a third world government. Each is swept up from their respective hell holes and offered the ultimate prize - their lives. An on-line reality show promises the condemned a suitcase full of cash and their freedom. The only proviso: survive - by killing off all of the other players.Caught up in this mad 'game' is Jack Conrad (STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN) an American age...

What if You Had the Power to Stop Time?Seventeen-year-old Zak Gibbs knows how to work the system. With a little creativity, an old, thrown-out typewriter can become a "Crash Proof Word Processor" and get him $25 closer to driving his dream car. But when notices a watch in a junk box from his physicist father's workbench, he has no idea what a real treasure he's found.At the push the timepiece sends him into "hypertime," a state of super-fast movement that makes everyone els...

The first of seven brand new 39 Clues stories, leading up to one explosive reveal.Time is running out for Grace Cahill as she struggles to make the most important choice of her life: a decision that will shape the future of the Cahill family . . . and the world at large. After spending centuries lurking the shadows, the Cahills' enemy - the Vespers - are planning an attack, and sending Amy and Dan on a dangerous hunt for The 39 Clues might be the only way to stop them.

For years the Department of Military Sciences has fought to stop terrorists from using radical bioweapons—designer plagues, weaponized pathogens, genetically modified viruses, and even the zombie plague that first brought Ledger into the DMS. These terrible weapons have been locked away in the world's most secure facility. Until now. Joe Ledger and Echo Team are scrambled when a highly elite team of killers breaks the unbreakable security and steals the world's most dangerous weapons. With...

A USA TODAY BESTSELLING SERIESBOOK TWO In JACK REACHER'S SPECIAL INVESTIGATORSWhen former MP Dave O'Donnell learns that a former colleague has been savagely murdered, he launches his own investigation. Soon, he uncovers a deadly conspiracy and other members of Jack Reacher's team join forces to find the killers.It's a white-knuckle thrill ride that will keep you guessing until the last shocking twist."Ames i...

The fifth of seven brand new 39 Clues stories, leading up to one explosive reveal.Amy Cahill knows her family needs to be prepared for the next Vesper attack, so she organizes a training weekend at the brand new Cahill command center. However, Dan and the others would rather goof off than hone their secret agent skills. Can Amy channel her inner leader and bring everyone in line? Or will a surprise appearance by a Vesper assassin prove that she's in over her head?

John Garrett is a cop aching to redeem himself for the mistake he made that destroyed two innocent lives and his own. He works alone to pursue the murderer he was escorting to trial, after their plane crashes in the unforgiving Rocky Mountains of the Pacific Northwest. This 5,800-word story by Rick Mofina is one of three gripping tales in his crime anthology, THREE TO THE HEART.Rick Mofina is a former crime reporter and the award-winning author of several notable thrillers....

Philip Horkman is a happy man, the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for a local kids’ soccer league. Jeffrey Peckerman is the proud and loving father of a star athlete in the girls’ ten-and-under soccer league, and he’s not exactly happy with the ref.The two of them are about to collide in a swiftly escalating series of events that will send them running for their lives, pursued by the police, soldiers, subversives, bears, revolut...

Mike's usual strategy was to gently stir the pot and wait for patterns to emerge, but this case was boiling over from the day Willimina showed up at his office. Freelance investigator Mike Ironwood doesn't hesitate for a moment when a lovely stranger asks him to help her get to the bottom of suspicious happenings on her family cattle ranch. The case is intriguing, and Willimina even more so. Six days in, the case has turned up two dead bodies, an alphabet soup of secretive federal investig...

Don't Touch That Dial!In the cutthroat world of evening news, where "if it bleeds it leads" is the industry's lifeblood, the dead-last BCN network is hemorrhaging viewers. On the chopping block is million-dollar anchor Kitty Coughlin, who is one ratings point away from early termination. But when a group of armed men hijack her plane and stage a spectacular near-miss of one of America's most famous landmarks, Kitty's eyewitness account helps BCN achieve a remarkable...

A post-9/11 re-imagining of Six Days of the Condor, the basis for the classic film starring .Robert Redford.Four decades after Six Days of the Condor revolutionized the thriller, James Grady reimagines his classic tale for the post-9/11 world. In this chilling short story, a CIA researcher named Condor is caught in the grip of a conspiracy that he can barely understand. When he finds something strange linked to a covert operation in Afghan...

In these three Hawker adventures, the New York Times–bestselling author of the Doc Ford and Hannah Smith novels "raises the bar of the action thriller" ( The Miami Herald).Chicago cop James Hawker had a choice: Follow orders to stand down or take out a murderous terrorist. Hawker pulled the trigger **—**but not before the terrorist killed two children. Now exiled from his career, Hawker won't stop fighting for justice.Deadly in New Yor...