Excerpted from Heresy Magazine, this is the tale of Jackie Eighthstreet's beginnings.

From acclaimed thriller author David Morrell comes this tense, timely tale about counter-terrorism. An interrogator finds himself in a remote bunker and in an even more remote region of the human soul as he confronts the most hardened enemy he has ever faced and the most difficult choice he has ever been forced to make.This e-story includes an introduction in which David Morrell, author of the classic spy thriller, The Brotherhood of the Rose, discusses his espionage train...

From the author of the wickedly funny action-thriller, CHOP SUEY, comes a psychological thriller that shows you how bad your day can get, when your perfect plan is perfectly wrong for you and perfectly right for someone else.For Blade and Angel, everyday is about their next high. Tired of the daily jobs needed to support their habit, Blade hatches a scheme for a bank heist. It's the perfect plan.Suddenly things go terribly wrong. Their plan crumbles and now they're forced t...

Tony Schmidt joins the Central Hotline in sunny Bonita Beach, California to improve his listening skills. Shahla Lawton joins the Hotline to fulfill a volunteering requirement for her high school. Neither one expects to get mixed up in a murder investigation.But that is before Shahla's best friend, Joy, also a listener, is murdered. Tony and Shahla discover that they are able to uncover information that the police can't. Information about the "inappropriate" callers who haunt the H...

Crime expert Linda Fairstein reveals the sinister ways that rapists select and attack their victims, and what you need to know to protect yourselfFrom the man who haunted midtown Manhattan's high-rise office buildings, to the stalker in the wooded suburbs near Nashville, serial rapists often have one chilling trait in common: They operate in "comfort zones." Sometimes they find their own comfort zones, such as the stairwell of a familiar office building. Other time...

Crime expert Linda Fairstein reveals the surprising locations where women are most vulnerable to attacks, and what they can do to stay safeLeaving work, riding in a taxi, even sitting in the comfort of one's own home, these places are linked by one harrowing feature: They are where women often feel most at ease, and they are among the most common locations where abductions of and attacks against women occur. In The Five Most Dangerous Places for Women, Lin...

Dirty Work? In a manner of speaking, perhaps, but certainly not along the lines of de Sade or Henry Miller."Dirty" maybe because within this remarkable volume of short stories (a follow-up to her award-winning collection Patterns) author Pat Cadigan unflinchingly explores the implications of technology on modern and near-future societies, humorously challenges our perceptions of reality, and chillingly strips away our civilized facades to confront the bestial nature of our souls.

Whether you are reading your favorite author or getting to know a new author nothing is more important than reading order. You will spoil the story and your own enjoyment if you read a series in the wrong order and you will miss the development of an author’s writing if you read their books in a helter-skelter fashion.With our original reading list you get the perfect tool to enjoy James Brendan Patterson’s books the way they where meant to be enjoyed.You can also use the r...

The small African nation of Scambia is in danger and it doesn't even know it. International syndicates want to create a lawless safe haven for well-heeled criminals and Scambia fits the bill perfectly. But they have a problem: the president of Scambia is a dedicated servant of his country. But the vice-president isn't. All that's needed is financial backing, good timing and a little honour among thieves, and this fragile democratic nation will fall. What the criminals won't count on is Rem...

Meet Don Pendleton's Ashton Ford..Psychic Detective, a Renaissance man with special supernatural powers. In EYE TO EYE, both America's and Russia's most brilliant astronomers and space scientists have mysteriously vanished. The CIA, KGB, and Ashton Ford are frantically searching for answers under the shadow of the world's largest telescope, while a lady scientist's life is in peril.

Digital Series. Episode 11:When Peter Warren opened the door and saw a pizza delivery man standing on his porch, he thought that it was a mix-up; he hadn’t ordered a pizza that evening. Then, instead of a pizza, the man pulled a taser out of the insulated transport box. The last thing Warren saw were drill bits, needles, and surgical instruments ...Over the period of few months, several people fell victim to a sadistic crime using this or similar methods. Oddly, they weren’t...

Informed by conversations with Britain's leading philosophers, theologians and scientists, including Professor Richard Dawkins, Rev Dr Giles Fraser, Professor John Gray, Baroness Julia Neuberger, Archbishop Rowan Williams and Tariq Ramadan, On Religion is a considered exploration of the complex issues of faith and religion, presented through a moving, theatrical story.On Religion is part of a groundbreaking series of theatre essays, which use theatre as a way of exploring the funda...