In the dark of the parking lot I couldn't possibly have seen his eyes, but in my memory or my imagination I saw them as dark pits of rage and madness. He came up swinging, or so I thought. I never felt the knife, it slid across my body so easy it felt like nothing more than a regular punch.When a motel stakeout turns into a gun battle, Special Agent Gavin Holder stumbles across a vast and deadly gang-related conspiracy, including a secret stockpile of stol...

I checked my gun to make sure I had a full clip, chambered a round, and ran downstairs. When I put a gun in this guy's face and maybe knocked out a tooth or two, he would sure as hell tell me where Jackie was.But he was gone when I got down there, no trace of his presence left behind. Just as if I had imagined the whole thing. I stood on the street with a gun in my hand, and looked around in all directions. She was lost, the people who took her from me were lost, and I was more los...

I was once an FBI agent, a man with a respected career, an officially certified Good Guy. Now I was hiding in a drenching rainstorm outside of a scared man's house after my very public firing and repudiation. I could quite easily die in the next few minutes, or be forced to take the life of an innocent man. That was my life now.So be it. We all make choices. Most of my choices are bad ones, and that no longer bothers me.Gavin Holder, rogue FBI agent turned lawbreaker, is no...

From the world’s #1 bestselling author, on Thanksgiving Day, a mysterious attacker strikes New York's parade—and it's up to Michael Bennett to hunt them down.Michael Bennett, be grateful you're alive.Someone attacked the Thanksgiving Day Parade directly in front of Michael Bennett and his family. The television news called it "holiday terror"—Michael Bennett calls it personal. The hunt is on ...BookShots—original, lightning-fast stories by J...

NOW A MAX ORIGINAL SERIES. A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist who "pulls the curtain back on ... [an] element of Japanese society that few Westerners ever see" (San Francisco Examiner).Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion,...

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel of the Year: bestselling author Walter Mosley "is back with a whole new character to love...As gorgeous a novel as anything he's ever written" (Washington Post).Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators until he was framed for sexual assault by unknown enemies within the force. A decade has passed since his release from Rikers, and he now runs a private detective agency with the help of his teenage ...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Walk in My Combat Boots: true-life stories from the men and women who protect and serve our homes, families and communities.ProtectThese men and women are our eyes. Our ears. Our protectors. Those who wear a badge, doing their best to help people.ServeThese cops serve their communities. They serve their country. They’re in the business of sa...

Sons of Anarchy meets The Departed in this fast-paced, high-wire act memoir from former ATF agent Ken Croke, the first federal agent in history to go undercover and successfully infiltrate the infamous—and infamously violent—Pagan Motorcycle Club, a white supremacist biker gang.Longtime ATF agent Ken Croke had earned the right to coast to the end of a storied career, having routinely gone undercover to apprehend white supremacists, gun runners, an...

A Mystery Suspense Crime ThrillerAlexis Fields thought that moving across state lines would be nothing more than a change of scenery and the start of a new career. But when a shadowy figure murders four men in the dilapidated house next door--her life quickly spirals into a living hell that becomes more terrifying by the hour.The City of Lake Park has never seen such murderous evil and is now on edge. Soon, it is learned that a group of rogue and brazen cop...

They met before. Their encounter nearly cost Devereaux--code name November--his life. Now, amid a perilously uncertain global thaw, they meet again: America's November Man, an agent without faith, and a defunct East Germany's Double Eagle, an agent without a country.For Double Eagle, the confrontation is the means to a totalitarian countercoup inside a reunified Germany. For November, it is the only way to halt the devastating blackmail of Rita Macklin, his one love.Once more...

A Rising Knight: Volume 2, Issue 8When you spend most of you time fighting a war you’re not sure you can win, the little things that take you out of your head become important. They keep you from going insane. In order to protect that, you might do something stupid to keep that safe. This is a profoundly stupid act.ExcerptBreaking news: Georgia LaVere, star of the Marvel Woman film franchise, had been taken hostage on the set of Spin Control. LaVere had been filming ...

In this humorous, action-packed crime thriller, a strip club bouncer working for a coalition of mob bosses must steal $4 million in diamonds—twice.Ex-black-ops-specialist-turned-strip-club-bouncer Joe Brody has a new qualification to add to his resume: an alliance of New York City's mob bosses has deemed him its "sheriff." In the straight world, when you "see something" you "say something" to the law. In the bent world, they call Joe.Still reeling from a pa...