In the years leading up to the Second World War, the fiendish "Sonderstaffel," the Nazi Special Squadron, uses fringe science, the occult, and the supernatural to create super weapons and monster soldiers in Hitler's evil quest for world domination. To protect the nation and the world from these unnatural threats is a unique task force made up of highly- skilled military and civilian daredevils, code name: Intrepid.CNI Classified, Volume 2. Seven action-packed adventures from seven...

We know a healthy appetite for well-written short stories exists and we want to help make things better. Our goal with Down & Out: The Magazine is to be a little different than other magazines by standing on the shoulders of the giants that have come before us, or at least tiptoe along the arrows in the backs of the pioneers of modern magazine publishing.Each issue will feature a story based on a series character like this issue’s brand-new Moe Prager story by Reed Farrel Coleman. ...

BATTLING BOXING STORIES presents 15 of the most intense and hard-hitting stories about the puglisitic arts collected in one place and written by some of the best of today's new crop of exciting writers. The stories in this book highlight all types of boxers and all aspects of the sport, from amateur bouts and illegal street fights, to heavyweight championship events. These are wonderful stories with unforgettable characters who are full of passion and emotion, action and rage--heartfelt ta...

Unfolding Grace: The Evolution of Godliness stands apart as both personal and pastoral-offering a discipleship-focused resource that draws deeply from Scripture, spiritual formation, and lived experience. Rather than presenting a static "Christian living" guide, this book unfolds a dynamic, three-part spiritual growth model: Finding God, Knowing God, and Experiencing God. These "Evolutions" form the backbone of a practical, grace-driven path toward spiritual maturity. What makes this book ...

The case wasn't just cold -- it was ice-cold. But the murder of Miriam Walker had a pretty high profile in the middle of a tough re-election campaign, so the Cook County sheriff assembled a task force to get results... and put Sergeant Frank Leal on it. Leal is still getting over the death of his partner and some wounds of his own, both emotional and physical, so working as part of a team might be tough. It doesn't help that a lot of people don't really want the case solved, including Miri...

Private eye Ron Shade and news reporter Alex St. James nearly ran into each other in the final chapters of their respective adventures, A Final Judgment and Deadly Interest. Little did they know that their chance encounter would place them on a future collision course.Now, in Dead Ringer, their first adventure together, Shade is looking for Bob Bayless, a dead-and-buried executive who was recently spotted playing blackjack in Vegas, while Alex fights off the attentions of a creepy ...

How much do you owe a past love? Ever wonder about it? Private Detective Ron Shade does when he bumps into his former lover, Paula Kittermann, late one lonely December night in a hotel bar. Paula had once been a major factor in Shade s life, but that was a very long time ago. Against his better judgment, he lets her back in, but when she's gone, without so much as a goodbye kiss, leaving him once with only bittersweet memories of what might have been. Then Paula turns up dead, the apparent...

Things couldn't be worse for Sergeant Frank Leal. He's assigned a homicide at a seedy motel that suddenly develops into a heater. Leal's regular partner, Olivia Hart, is reassigned to the SWAT team. He's also saddled with a college intern tweeting his every move and Hart's replacement is a rubber-gun-squad candidate who has conversations with a hand-puppet named Oscar. Hart's secretly assigned to an internal affairs investigation to determine which members of the SWAT team are stealing the...

Set in the latter half of the fabulous 1940s, Pope's Last Case and Other Stories details the adventures of tough, hardboiled, ex-Private Eye Vince Pope and his lovely, rich, socialite wife, Laura. Vince, a veteran of WW II, has hung up his PI shingle in favor of a life of leisure, but old pals and new troubles keep interfering. Written as an homage to Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man, this collection of short stories deftly captures the mood and optimism of the country after the Second Worl...

Fourteen tales guaranteed to keep you riveted to your seat.A World War II rescue-extraction ventures into madness and the heart of darkness…A CIA operative desperately tries to escape from Cuba after Castro's takeover…An American hitman in Japan finds himself bringing a gun to a swordfight…A band of criminals planning a heist from a casino get an assist from a mermaid…A long simmering western tale of vengeance unfolds in the early days of the movie indus...

Lawyers … Chicago-based Private Detective Ron Shade has a cop's inherent distrust of them, even though it's been years since he was relieved of his badge. Still, when his old friend, Rick Walters, who happens to be a member of the bar, needs help doing the legwork for a wrongful death lawsuit, Shade reluctantly agrees. Then he finds out they'll be going up against the preeminent attorney in Cook County, Mason Gilbert, and his famous detective associate, Big John Flood. Both men are local l...

It hasn't exactly been a banner year for Chicago-based private detective Ron Shade. First, his main ladylove left for a new life in California. Then his faithful old Chevy turned over its second hundred thousand miles and died. Finally, Shade realized that his expensive downtown office was a luxury that he could no longer afford. In an attempt to bounce back and take control of this life, Shade buys a new Camaro Z-28, gets a high-powered ad in the yellow pages, and in the process of biddin...