When killers come to call, again.Purdy Kendricks, a Texas lawman, is drawn back to the border when an old acquaintance is murdered by a Mexican drug cartel in retribution for the killing of a cartel sicario.Realizing he may have inadvertently caused his friend's death, Purdy frantically tries to protect others who had killed the sicario, including an indigenous Mexican village elder, now dying of cancer, who has other plans.As law ...

“At three in the morning, something wakes me up. At least I think it’s three in the morning. My iPhone is dead. The house is warm. No hum of the A/C running. I flip on the light switch…nothing. What the hell? I quickly glance out the window. No porch lights. No street lights.”When Dalton Kirby realizes his town of Elmhurst, and much of the United States, has been hit by an electromagnetic pulse, source unknown, outcome not promising, he doesn’t worry too much. Not at first, anyway....

When Killers Come To CallIn a remote Texas border region, Kickapoo County Deputy Purdy Kendricks has plenty lining up to do him in: booze, brutal cartels, the DEA, the unforgiving terrain, a past that needs confronting and a family that needs protecting. Not to mention a couple of scores to settle.When Purdy’s old friends and honorary “family” members, the elderly Vasquez couple are murdered in cold blood on their remote ranch, everything gets personal for ...

Ancient church rituals meet cutting-edge crime-solving in this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas.Seconds after partaking of wine during a Catholic funeral mass, Father Miguel Flores is dead on the altar. Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas confirms that the consecrated wine contained enough potassium cyanide to kill a rhino. And though the East Harlem neighborhood is a long way from the stone mansion she...

An original short story by Joseph Finder, internationally bestselling author of Buried Secrets and Vanished. "Plan B" finds private spy Nick Heller in Barcelona, Spain on a rescue mission. The target: a walled compound with state-of-the art-security. The object: a teenage girl, held against her will. The plan: get in and rescue the girl and then get out -- without tripping an alarm or alerting the army of guards. But even the best designed plans can go wrong. Which is why Nick Heller alway...

When a woman starts investigating her wealthy ex-husband’s shady dealings she collides with an ex-cop out for revenge.When pampered former cheerleader Feenie Malone takes a job writing fluff pieces for her South Texas paper, she has no idea she’s about to stumble into a juicy news story that could launch her career—if it doesn’t get her killed first. Almost as soon as she breaks out her press pass, she crosses paths with Marco Juarez, the macho PI obsessed with sol...

"Jones crosses into the noir badlands of No Country for Old Men—bloody and throwing sparks but cool as a killer angel—and by sundown he owns the joint." —Will Christopher Baer, author of Kiss Me, JudasSmuggler Dodd Raines just got the job of a lifetime. He'll finally earn enough money to secure a decent future for his young daughter and start over on the right side of the law. There's just one catch: his cargo is made up of moon rocks—with mass-cas...

“Reavis Z. Wortham is the real thing: a literary voice that’s delivered with a warm and knowing Texas twang.”—C.J. BoxBorder patrol agents are being ambushed along the Big Bend region of West Texas, a notorious drug corridor running east and west across the Lone Star State. They’re not the only targets. A film production depicting human trafficking in the area has been attacked by a brutal drug cartel.Into this lawless frontier steps Texas Ranger Sonny Hawk...

Cuba — where it all began.Getting captured and shot by Cuban intelligence in Nicaragua isn't slowing John Carpenter down. The black operative and his partner Marcela have been in more close calls than they can count, but this time is different. This time they are striking back. They have finally met their handler, Mike Morrandon, who has emerged from the shadows and they're ready to settle the score.Mike Morrandon is on the run from his own employers at the C...

A DEA agent uncovers an international conspiracy when she follows a tip from a Mexican drug lord in this "intelligent, propulsive thriller" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Diane "Hardball" Harbaugh doesn't flinch easily. A former prosecutor, she's now a DEA agent known for getting suspects to confess—in tears. But she's thrown for a loop when a Mexican drug lord offers her explosive information about the international black market. After heading south ...

Clinton McKinzie writes powerhouse thrillers that are like nothing you’ve ever read— novels that crackle with raw emotion and brilliantly explore the nature of risk: the risk that lovers take, adventurers seek, and men and women live with on both sides of the law. In an unforgettable new novel, set against the breathtaking Rocky Mountain landscape he has made his own, the acclaimed author of Trial by Ice and Fire brings back Special Agent Antonio Burns and his renegade brother, Roberto—two...

C.W. Sughrue has been gut-shot and left to die and is, for the first time in his life, actually scared—which makes him angry. Milo Milodragovitch has been robbed of his three-million dollar inheritance by a pipsqueak banker and a butch lady poet; he’s not scared at all, just pissed. In a spiffy suit and a red Cadillac, Milo trails his thieves to the Mexican border, where the community consists of “three kinds of drug smugglers, six different breeds of law dogs, and every kind of criminal e...