Welcome to the City Barber Shop where the coffee’s always on and the discussions are always open and lively. Here, you’ll meet some real interesting people and perhaps learn some things you didn’t know about the Apollo 11 moon landing, the government, the hereafter, and a host of other topics. So pour yourself a cup, grab a chair, and sit a spell. And if your hair needs trimming, Coot will fix you up right. Based on a series of popular stage plays by the author, The Barber Shop Dialogues t...

When a frantic woman bursts into police headquarters one day claiming her ex-husband has taken their seven-year-old son with plans to harm him, Wichita Falls detectives Horace Brown and partner Randy Miller set out to find the two before it’s too late. They are successful in locating the child’s father but he is alone, and his tale of the boy’s whereabouts sounds like something straight out of a popular sci-fi movie. Brown and Miller soon discover the path to the truth is a crooked trail t...

Eighty-year-old Newell Franklin lives a quiet, somewhat regimented life in his small wooden house on Elm Street in Archer City, Texas. Each morning he awakes at 6:00 a.m., showers, has his coffee and eggs, and then goes about the business of building doghouses and birdhouses—which he gives away. If the Texas Rangers are playing ball that day, he’ll watch or listen on the radio. Some days he goes fishing. His is a simple life. But that all changes when a young woman and her daughter move in...

From cyber-spy to cyber-warriors—they're the new defenders of world peace. First in the technothriller series from the New York Times–bestselling author.In Stephen Coonts' Deep Black, cowritten with Jim DeFelice, a spy plane gathering data on a new Russian weapon is blown out of the sky by a mysterious MiG. Is it an accident or the start of the next world war? One U.S. agency has what it takes to find out—the National Security Agency and its covert operatio...

A covert team of military specialists must prevent an Al Qaeda terrorist attack in this thriller from a New York Times –bestselling author.The world's most effective anti-terrorist force has the tools to monitor every move the enemy makes. They've planted a listening device inside a terrorist's skull, and activated a video spy drone disguised as a bird. But knowing is only half the battle . . .Multi-lingual, nerve...

“Riveting. . . a testament to a misconceived war, and to the ease with which ordinary men, under certain conditions, can transform into monsters.”—New York Times Book ReviewThis is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division’s fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment—a unit known as “the Black Heart Brigade.” Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq’s so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south of Baghdad, the Black Hearts found...

A covert mission in Peru is derailed by a renegade general's devastating threat in the New York Times–bestselling author's acclaimed technothriller series.Ex-Marine sniper Charlie Dean and his top-secret NSA team have their orders: Infiltrate the highest stratum of Peruvian political power to stop a general from acing an election. All Dean has to do is find a way inside an impenetrable bank vault protected by armed guards round the clock—it's all in a day's...

An attempt on the president's life sends an ex-Marine to face an old enemy in Vietnam in the New York Times–bestselling author's technothriller.A Secret Service agent is dead, an apparent suicide. A presidential candidate narrowly escapes an assassin's bullet. And Desk Three, a convert branch of the NSA, is searching for a chilling connection deep inside The Republic of Vietnam.Once, Charlie Dean was a Marine sniper in Quang Nam Province. Today he's ...

A spy plane gathering data on a new Russian weapon is blown out of the sky by a mysterious MiG. Is it an accident or the start of the next world war? One U.S. agency has what it takes to find out - the National Security agency and its covert operations team: Deep Black.Working for the NSA, ex-Marine sniper Charlie Dean is dispatched to Russia, hooking up with former Delta Force trooper Lia DeFrancesca to find out what happened to the plane. A Deep Black team stumbles across an even...

A missing A-bomb and a terrorist threat ignite a global crisis in the New York Times–bestselling author's technothriller.In a secluded headquarters on the other side of the globe, terrorists plan to set-off an underwater explosion of such hellish force that it could shift the very foundation of the earth's surface. Envisioning world-wide disaster, the terrorists call it God's Revenge.A nuclear warhead has gone missing. Small in size, it packs up to t...

Terrorists unleash the ultimate weapon—a devastating virus—in this pulse-pounding technothriller from the New York Times–bestselling author.In Stephen Coonts's Deep Black: Biowar, cowritten with Jim DeFelice, Dr. James Kegan, a world-renowned scientist specializing in germ warfare, has vanished from his upstate New York home. But this is no ordinary missing-persons case. Kegan has left behind an unidentified dead man with a .22 caliber hole in his skull—and...

The best book by far about the Iraq war' GuardianIraq, 2005. A platoon of young soldiers from a U.S. regiment known as ‘the Black Heart Brigade’ is deployed to a lawless and hyperviolent area south of Baghdad. As the unstopping violence destroys their morale, the soldiers descend into brutality, substance abuse and madness – with horrific results.Black Hearts is a timeless story of how warfare can reduce men to animals. Told with insight and compassion, bu...