In recent weeks, three young women have been brutally assaulted and murdered in the city of Philadelphia. Lt. William Fogarty, a time-toughened cop, hardened by personal tragedy, is shocked by the brutality of the crimes. His only lead comes from medical examiner Josef Tanaka. Half Japanese and half American, Tanaka, a skilled practitioner of the martial arts, claims to recognize the method used in the attacks: a karate strike known as nukite, or spear hand. Fogarty has nowhere else to tur...

The foreground of this book has largely to do with the answering of vital questions that have sprung from the suffering souls of men and women with whom the author has been sympathetically associated. Considerable attention has been given to the natural sequence of these questions in order that the answers might form a more or less orderly line of discussion. While the method of answering a particular set of questions does not permit of a strictly logical treatment of the themes, yet in th...

One of the world’s top pick-up artists, Richard La Ruina went from having no women to being a true master of seduction. Now he shows you how to do the same. So move over Mystery, and tell Neil Strauss that The Rules of the Game are about to be rewritten. This complete pickup artist guide has every element of the winning pickup right here, from discovering confidence to exuding charm, learning conversation starters to mastering body language, to much more. And as you move from dayd...

"Never Again," Richard La Plante promised after he and his new wife completed building their family home in East Hampton, New York.But he did not keep his promise. Instead, he bought twenty acres of raw land on a mountaintop located three and half thousand miles away, in a small town that he had only visited by internet... And the nightmare began. A house in New York to sell, a massive loan to pay off for the newly purchased land, dishonest builders, some of the most stringent buil...

Richard La Plante's acclaimed Fogarty-Tanaka thriller series in one boxed set—includes Mantis, Leopard, Steroid Blues, and Mind Kill

Richard La Plante’s engrossing fantasy-fiction saga Tegné: Soul Warrior continues with Book Two, Tegné: The Killing Blow. In the first volume, Tegné, Warlord of Zendow, has successfully faced the test of the heart and slain the Beast—his lover Neeka. Yet, now, Neeka’s spirit has returned to torment Tegné, plaguing him with visions of a post-cataclysmic land of glass and steel and an ominous presence—“The Warrior.”Fans of the first volume will definitely want to co...

I felt the need to not only illustrate some biblical events as if they occurred in the present day instead of ancient times but also in the larger sense provoke some food for thought and forum for discussion.. Christianity is an ongoing process and as such a continuation of Christ's mission on earth till His Second Coming. My humble intention here is to provide a series of insights both serious and light and even both relevant and ambiguous for the viewer and reader. Enjoy and be Glad.Undo...

Mastery of the martial arts is a hallmark of the works of Richard La Plante. His heroes have carried readers into the heart of the warrior's craft—but never more so than in Tegne: Soul Warrior. As the boy grows to manhood, he becomes a fighting machine, but though he can defeat his teachers in battle, his greatest tests are yet to come. His father hunts him still; worse, the essence of Evil, in the form of a beautiful temptress, seeks to seduce him from the side of good—or, failin...

From his first breath, people know that John Reed is special. Gifted with an uncanny awareness and ability to communicate, he also possess the power to heal. Before long, a local priest heralds the infant as a new messiah, inadvertently drawing the attention of Neo Tech, part of a clandestine organization whose dark web extends from major multinational corporations to the vaults of the Vatican.Neo Tech believes that John Reed is neither holy, nor even human, but the first alien-hum...

A near-fatal mistake during the attempted bust by the cops leaves a bullet lodged in the right temporal lobe of Charlie’s brain. Operating to remove it would likely kill Charlie. Living with it will change him forever.Two men linked forever by a tangle of lies and twisted loyalties. Two men who could not be more dissimilar—or more the same. When they meet again, for one it will be the Last Day.

Author Richard La Plante had always wanted to ride cross-country to Sturgis, South Dakota—to the famous motorcycle rally that has become the mecca for the American biker. But at the age of 53, still bruised from a divorce, newly remarried, and a father for the first time, he thought the trip would remain an armchair fantasy. Then came the summer of 1999. Pressured by work, another baby on the way, and being temporarily homeless, he made a decision: Escape—out of the armchair and into the s...

Combining the Eastern exoticism of Rising Sun with the gripping serial-killer intensity of The Silence of the Lambs, Leopard is the terrifying sequel to Richard La Plante’s acclaimed first thriller Mantis.Medical examiner Josef Tanaka returns to his native Japan for the first time in fifteen years to learn that his brother has been savagely murdered. To find the killer, he must rediscover his Japanese heritage—and plunge into the mysterious world...