Stopped by the police for a minor traffic violation, the situation escalates and he is pulled from his vehicle, handcuffed, and told he is under arrest. Several other police cars arrive and the questioning turns scary, but after it subsides, and Henry is about to move on, the officer is suddenly killed in his car and there is only one suspect: the very person he was about to arrest not ten minutes before. Henry! When a second friend turns up dead, Henry realizes he's being elaborately framed. But in a chilling twist, the stakes grow even darker, and he is unable to go to the police to clear his name.15 Seconds is a story of how even the best of lives can be destroyed in just an instant—and of an innocent man, framed for murder, who has to save the person he loves the most, and who cannot go the police to clear his name.

    Showcasing many of the organization’s bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre, here are twenty-five brand-new, never-before-published stories packed with murder, mystery, and mayhem.• A cunning criminal thinks he can use a child to take the rap for his crimes.• A hospital intern turned body snatcher• A priest who comes face-to-face with his wife’s murderer on death row• A Confederate soldier comes home to his love, but changed by more than just the war . . . he comes back wrong.• The discovery of a flying saucer in the ocean depths brings one man to the brink of a massive revelation.• A dying man’s last request proves to his ex-wife that he’s still rotten to the core.• A clandestine operative finds himself caught in a wicked game of confusion . . . but who is calling the shots? No matter what type of thriller you listen to, you’ll find something here that will entertain you . . . and perhaps a new writer you’ll cherish for years to come.

    Cussler has had 15 consecutive New York Times bestsellers, and has sold over 75 million copies of his books. In Dirk Pitt, Cussler has created a franchise character. Pitt is an agent of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, and he accomplishes feats that seem absolutely impossible, from tracking down the bones of the legendary Peking Man on a mysterious sunken Chinese ship (Flood Tide) to stopping an international conspiracy ready to go to the cold ocean depths to hide their secret (Cyclops). Non-stop action, incredible plots, and a super-hero like Dirk Pitt make Clive Cussler's novels fabulous entertainment!

     Help be a part of the solution: 20% of the proceeds from this special edition set of 6 full-length novels plus a bonus short will be donated to the National Center for Victims of Crime, providing resources, advocacy and training to help crime victims rebuild their lives. Over half a million words total and 600+ 5-star reviews for the individual novels! _________________ SNAKE SKIN (A Lucy Guardino FBI Thriller) - CJ Lyons A loving mom and wife, consummate professional, and kick-ass federal agent, Lucy Guardino is living the perfect life. Until she comes up against a predator more vicious and cunning than any she's tackled before. Now Lucy must choose between the life of the young victim she's fighting to save and that of her own daughter. _________________ POST (A Byron Tibor Thriller) - Sean Black Exhausted by combat and haunted by ghosts from his past, nothing will stop special forces veteran Byron Tibor from returning home to the woman he loves. Not even the American government hot on his tail. But nothing -- from the Hindu Kush to Manhattan, or the underbelly of the Las Vegas Strip to his very life -- is what it seems. _________________ THE BLOOD WHISPERER - Zoë Sharp After serving 5 years for involuntary manslaughter she can't remember, the only work ex-CSI Kelly Jacks can get is crime-scene cleaner. But old habits die hard, and her instincts tell her a routine suicide is anything but. Someone doesn't want her asking questions, and Kelly is soon on the run from police, Russian thugs, and gangsters. _________________ THE WORLD BENEATH (A Joe Tesla Novel) - Rebecca Cantrell Joe Tesla is a software millionaire trapped in the subway tunnels under New York City by his mental illness. There he uncovers FDR’s presidential train car and a conspiracy going back to World War II. But can he conquer his own inner demons to save the very world he fears to tread? (A 2014 International Thriller Writer's Award Nominee!) _________________ KISS HER GOODBYE (A Fourth Dimension Thriller) - Robert Gregory Browne In a ruthless act of revenge by a charismatic madman, ATF Agent Jack Donovan's daughter, Jessie, is kidnapped and buried alive, with barely enough oxygen to sustain her. Now the only man who can save her, the only man who knows where to find her has just been shot dead -- and the clock is ticking... _________________ THE DESTROYED (A Jonathan Quinn Novel) - Brett Battles Mila Voss is dead. Now those who paid for her elimination want to know why she just showed up on a hotel’s security camera in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Jonathan Quinn, one of the best cleaners in the business and the man tasked with the disposal of her body, should know -- but he doesn't seem to be in a sharing mood. _________________ "THE THIEF" (Short Story) - Gregg Hurwitz When a mentally challenged teen with a penchant for stealing is framed for murdering his mother, relying on his innate talent may be the only way to outwit the real killer.

    A thriller about a British undercover agent in a jail in South Africa awaiting the death penalty and the determination of his son, who was abandoned 25 years earlier, to set him free.

    When a famous plastic surgeon's decomposed body surfaces in Tampa Bay with a bullet in its head, Willa's "little sister" is caught in a high-stakes game of greedy lawyers, blackmail and deceit. Fiercely independent Carly becomes the number one suspect. When Carly asks Willa for due justice, Willa has everything to lose. But she risks it all to uncover the conspiracy and keep Carly alive. Willa Carson knows she's bullet proof, except when due justice rules from the grip of a gun. SURFACE TENSION is the first sea adventure in this four-book suspense series featuring Florida tug and salvage captain Seychelle Sullivan. Working as she does in a man's world, Seychelle has to work twice as hard just to compete. Some have even called her reckless. In her view, she's just doing her job, salvaging boats and people's lives. Years ago Seychelle Sullivan had the chance to save someone's life. But on that summer night in Florida, lost in a world of teenage resentment and loneliness, Seychelle was not able to feel any pain but her own. Today Seychelle captains her father’s forty-six-foot salvage boat out of Fort Lauderdale’s New River. But she’s never escaped that one moment when she could have made a difference and didn’t. She's never going to make that mistake again. ˃˃˃ Where Florida is Murder and Justice Rules! ˃˃˃ More than 75 combined 5-Star Reviews!! ˃˃˃ For fans of Lee Child, John Grisham, Clive Cussler and John D. MacDonald Double your reading pleasure! Scroll up and grab your copy today!

    It's for murder.Mega rich restaurant owner Jack Barnes and his second wife Zee are very much in love. However, their plans for Valentine's Day are about to be torn apart by the most violent murder.Who is the strange figure plotting this sick crime? Who hates Jack that much? There are plenty of suspects living in Jack's fancy block of flats. Is it them, or could it be the work of an outsider with a twisted mind? One thing's for sure, the police have got their work cut out solving this bloody mess.

    For the second time in a year, a beautiful teenage girl has disappeared off the streets of Duluth, Minnesota—gone without a trace, like a bitter gust off Lake Superior. The two victims couldn’t be more different.  First it was Kerry McGrath, bubbly, sweet sixteen.  And now Rachel Deese, strange, sexually charged, a wild child.  The media hounds Stride to catch a serial killer, and as the search carries him from the icy stillness of the northern woods to the erotic heat of Las Vegas, he must decide which facts are real and which are illusions.  And Stride finds his own life changed forever by the secrets he uncovers.  Secrets that stretch across time in a web of lies, death, and illicit desire.  Secrets that are chillingly…immoral.

    She looked down into the ravine, and once more her lungs filled with fear. A body lay silent and unmoving in the bushes.When Ruth Turner walks into the Sheriff’s office in Jefferson County’s Port Townsend claiming her sister Ida Wheaton has been missing for over a month, Detective Megan Carpenter’s instincts tell her that she needs to do more than just file a report.Racing over to Ida’s secluded farmhouse in the hills above Snow Creek, Megan finds Ida’s teenage children alone and frightened. She can’t help but notice there’s no TV. No video games. Nothing of the outside world. Something about the Wheaton family doesn’t add up and triggers a painful childhood memory for Megan – when one day, in a flash, both her parents were gone.Then the body of a woman is discovered in an abandoned pickup truck close to the Wheatons’ home and Megan’s convinced the cases are connected.If she has any chance of catching the killer, Megan must first unravel the secrets of the isolated Snow Creek community. But Megan has dark secrets of her own…Hidden in the back of her closet is a box of tapes containing every single recording of her therapy sessions over thirteen years ago. Can she finally confront the past she’s spent years trying to block out? And will reliving her own painful story help her solve the complex case unravelling in the hills above Snow Creek before another innocent life is lost?From the Number One, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Amazon Chart bestselling author comes an absolutely heart-stopping and completely unputdownable crime series, introducing Detective Megan Carpenter.

    Desperate to get to Laura before the cops, Danny returns to the underworld he had known as a drug-dealer, a world of fast sex and hard drugs, casual violence and sudden death. Danny walks the knife-edge between law and order and dark dealings, but as the line begins to blur he must decide, once and for all, where he stands.

    Businesses went under by the hundreds, debt and foreclosures boomed, and breadlines grew in many American cities. In the midst of this misery, some folks explored unscrupulous ways to make money. Angel-faced John Partlow and carnival huckster Ginger LaFrance are among the worst of this lot. Joining together they leave their small time confidence scams behind to attempt an elaborate kidnapping-for-ransom scheme in New Orleans.In a different part of town, Curtis Mayhew, a young black man who works as a redcap for the Union Railroad Station, has a reputation for mending quarrels and misunderstandings among his friends. What those friends don't know is that Curtis has a special talent for listening... and he can sometimes hear things that aren't spoken aloud.One day, Curtis Mayhew's special talent allows him to overhear a child's cry for help (THIS MAN IN THE CAR HE'S GOT A GUN), which draws him into the dangerous world of Partlow and LaFrance.This gritty depression-era crime thriller is a complex tale enriched by powerfully observed social commentary and hints of the supernatural, and it represents Robert McCammon writing at the very top of his game.

    Funny, sad, but always shocking, each tale carries a twist that will haunt readers for days after they turn the final page . . .This 25,000 word collection, available exclusively in this ebook edition, includes:12 Bolingbroke Avenue (First published in 1998)Number Thirteen (First published in 2010)Just Two Clicks (First published in 2004)Dead on the Hour (First published in 2006)Virtually Alive (First published in 1997)Meet Me at the Crematorium (First published in 2009)Venice Aphrodisiac (First published in 2011)Time Rich (First published in 2013)Christmas is for the Kids (First published in 1993)

    Those who control them, control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: Net Force.When the director of Net Force is assassinated, Deputy Director Alex Michaels is thrust into one of the most powerful and dangerous positions in the world. At the same time, cyber-terrorists sabotage mainframe computers across the country, causing famine, chaos, and death.Now Michaels and his team must find out who is responsible—and what they have to gain. But there is another problem. If they assassinated one Net Force director, what will stop them from assassinating another?A powerful examination of America's defense and intelligence systems of the future, Tom Clancy's Net Force is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, inspiring this novel as well as the explosive ABC Television miniseries.

    Wrap up your holiday shopping with this boxed set, which includes the author's first novel, A Time To Kill. Set includes 1 mass market paperback edition each of: The PartnerThe Street LawyerA Time To Kill