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Paul Wood is a modern vagabond, a man who chooses to leave the comforts of San Francisco to spend months backpacking through some of the world's most challenging terrain: Cameroon, Indonesia, Nepal. While hiking in the Himalayas, Paul gets more of a rush than he bargained for when he finds the body of a murdered hiker, the victim mutilated in a way that Paul has witnessed once before, years ago and thousands of miles away. To quell a scandal, the police rule the death a suicide and close the case. But Paul can't let it go....

Paul Wood and his girlfriend, Talena, were just tourists in Sarajevo, a city still reeling from the aftermath of civil war. But an unexpected encounter makes them a desperate woman's only hope of escape. Now, to get her to safety, they must navigate through the minefield of warlords, criminals, and peacekeepers that is postwar Bosnia. Pursued by brutal gangsters and unable to leave the country legally, Paul agrees to do a job for a shadowy group of people – smugglers - in exchange for safe passage.

'Monumentally epic . . . a superb novel' LEE CHILD From the master of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world's greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge. A PRIESTESS WHO BELIEVES IN THE IMPOSSIBLE A MONUMENT THAT WILL DEFINE A CIVILIZATION In the high summer heat...

Down there, beyond the deepest caves, below the crust and the mantle, there is another world. An old woman locked away in a Russian asylum has a secret - knowledge of a 500-year-old manuscript written by a long-dead alchemist that will show a passage to the mythical centre of the Earth. She knows it’s real because 50 years ago, she and a team travelled there. And only she made it back. Today, caving specialist Mike Monroe leads a crew into the world’s deepest cave in the former Soviet Union.

The time will come, as all times must, when the world will shake, and fall to dust… 1237 BC: It is an age of panic. The great empires are in disarray – ravaged by endless drought, shaken by ferocious earthquakes and starved of precious tin. Some say the Gods have abandoned mankind. When...

Rosa De Angelo and Ellen McCarthy are about to become two of the newest victims of SEAS - Severe Environmental Allergy Syndrome. Haunted by dreams of orbs in the night, they wake up to news reports of UFO swarms and alien abductions by the thousands. Separated from their families, Rosa and Ellen are ushered into isolation tent cities established to prevent the public from having any further exposure to the growing number of SEAS victims.

1869. Tibet is closed to Europeans, an infuriating obstruction for the rap­idly expanding British Empire. In response, Britain begins training Indians―permitted to cross borders that white men may not―to undertake illicit, dangerous surveying expeditions into Tibet.Balram is one such...

Sam “Valkyrie” Ryan is reeling. Struggling with her brother’s recent decision to make their next assignment his last, the recon specialist fights to change his mind. But she has no time to process her emotions when they’re tasked to protect a pivotal reconciliation summit between the Altered and Humans from human-supremacist terrorists.

As the rain falls, the nightmare begins. Blake Hudson is an environment officer who lives in a converted lighthouse on the southwest coast of England. Sky McPherson is a pathologist, recently assigned to the area. Both of them share a past.

On the banks of the Missouri River, the town of Yellow Earth and the Three Nations reservation prepare for an invasion - the ground beneath their feet is loaded with readily frackable shale oil and the minions of corporate energy are rushing to extract it. Tribal Chairman Harleigh Kildeer welcomes Big Oil with open arms, while county sheriff Will Crowder has to deal with the overnight influx of roughnecks, truckers, drug dealers, and sex workers. 

What if you returned from a journey and your family was gone? What if someone else was living in your home, running what you used to manage - and trying to kill you? Wade Forester must stay in the shadows or be shot. His father has disappeared, and his sister won’t speak. Beautiful Patricia Laughlin is running the show. Few people gain her approval, though powerful landowner Bridger Calhoun has high hopes. Each in his/her corner, Wade must decide whether to risk his life for Patricia. Bridger must win Patricia’s heart, and Patricia must choose which killer to trust with her life.

What secrets does the inner earth contain? In this new suspenseful novel, we are introduced to game designer Kevin Ralston. He thinks that his game about wars involving Lemuria and Atlantis in the Earth's inner core are simply fantasies. However, when a mysterious organization attempts to recruit him - first with payments, then with threats - he begins to question whether there is more to all this than he ever suspected.

In a world ravaged by environmental disaster, retired hitman Zack must take on a dangerous mission to rescue his friend's son, or die trying....Young Tom has been kidnapped by the Kwanon, a ruthless group of extremists who plan to use him as a victim for human sacrifice. Seeing their captives as no more than objects, the Kwanon delight in inflicting pain on their victims. Outnumbered, outgunned, and facing both natural and unnatural dangers, Zack sets off on his mission towards the Kwanon's lair: A city known as Dracopolis. 

Beneath the surface of East Texas—beneath the land, beneath the deals, beneath the carefully constructed alliances—something far more dangerous is moving. When architect Daniel Thompson vanishes without a trace, what begins as a missing-person case quickly fractures into something deeper and far more complex. Captain Jack Hawk Hawkins, long removed from active duty, is drawn back into a world where jurisdiction blurs, loyalties shift, and the ground itself may be hiding the truth.

Nash Baxter is a liar. He's the famous skeptic who rides his motorcycle across the country debunking hauntings everywhere he goes. Yet he knows ghosts are real - suffering remnants of the departed, held fast to this world, and tormented by demons. Hell, it seems, exists all across the land, side-by-side with the living world. Nash has the power to see into that Hell and destroy the demons by a force of will. But sometimes demons fight back...When they do, they possess Nash and force him to commit murder.

"If I’m going to meet death, I’m going to do it with honor, Erika thought. Live together, die together: the words echoed in her mind." Captured by the Federal Forces, Erika’s will to survive is tested. Believing her family is dead, she clings to life under the torment of her captor, TJ Swenson. Her son Dexter attempts to enter the central region with his best friend, Johnny. Heartbroken by his wife’s capture, Vince’s focus centers on getting Erika back. In a race against time, the militia forces move in to retrieve the leaders of the resistance.