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Gregg Kaplan's partner has vanished without a word. He is inexplicably kept in the dark by his employer, the CIA, and ordered to stand down or face the consequences. Refusing to follow orders, Kaplan strikes out on his own in search of Isabella Hunt, the woman with whom he is in love. Following a tip that led him across the country to a small town in Wyoming, he finds himself in trouble once again when two of the town's bullies assault a young Native American woman. This time it lands him behind bars.

Scott Miller vanishes from his hotel in Brazil. No ransom demand. No witnesses. Just gone. While everyone else sees a cold trail, Danny sees what they missed. He's tracked terrorists across war zones, hunted killers through cities, survived impossible odds—and now he's bringing every brutal skill he has into the jungles of Colombia.

Calculus, a Russian intelligence officer, approaches the FBI claiming he knows of several Americans who are supplying information to Russia. But when Calculus is recalled to Moscow, the Bureau suspects the worst. The race is on to track down the informants, and Steve Vail is the ideal candidate for this kind of stealth mission. But it soon becomes clear that this mission won’t be easy. In fact, it could be downright deadly….

Written by a professional illusionist - based out of Branson, Missouri - this is a realistic account of a magician, Chance Powers, using his knowledge of theatrical illusion to expose fraud, outwit criminals, rescue friends, escape violence, and take down the boss of a New York City crime family. The adventures of Chance and his gorgeous assistant, Stephanie Reynolds, and robust stage manager, Narvel White, stay within the realm of possibility. The amazing things they do really could happen. The techniques they use are based on things the author has personally experienced.

Mayhem pursues J.C., an aging and washed-up pool player, who steals cash from an unprofessional, sexually deviant hitman named Black Berry. He wants it back. The money, however, belongs to Juan Hernandez and the Mexican Cartel. They want it back. With Black Berry hot on their heels, J.C. and his thirteen-year-old pool playing prodigy son, Kid, head for the small town of Upland, Arizona.

With nothing left to lose, and little in his pocket, Sonny chucks it all and drives his aging van 1500 miles to the lower reaches of the Florida Keys. All he wants is to get over his recent losses and simplify his hectic life, and that's exactly what he thinks he's doing when he settles on a paradisiacal speck of an island known as Wrecker's Key. While surrounded by the warm aquamarine waters of two tropical oceans, he not only falls in love with the key but also establishes a close bond with the free-spirited locals who call it home.

The Second Chance is a suspenseful tale of kidnapping, corporate espionage, and forgotten love that takes the listener from the red dirt roads of Alabama to the silver mines of Mexico.

A deadly mine cave-in at Real de Catorce, Mexico, changes Patricia Morelos' life forever. The disaster she faces as owner of the mine is overshadowed by personal tragedy. Her only child, 17-year-old Max, is kidnapped when he goes to help the victims.

Hired by billionaire Lou Atlas to search for answers about his dead nephew on St. Barths, the swankiest island in the Caribbean, Buck Reilly's dream trip goes sideways when his former business partner, fresh out of jail, returns with a vengeance. Buck is quickly eyeballs deep in complications - a race for hidden gold, the beautiful granddaughter of one of St. Barths' most famous swashbucklers, perversely ruthless treasure hunters, an alluring maritime historian, and demons from his past.

How far could society fall without data? Account balances, property lines, government ID records - if it all vanished, if everyone’s scorecard reset to zero, how might the world look? The Blind Mice are going to show us. Molly McGill is fighting it. Her teenage son has come downstairs in a T-shirt from these “hacktivists” dominating the news. Her daughter’s bus is canceled - too many stoplights out - and school is in the opposite direction of the temp job she’s supposed to be starting this morning.