John Pirhalla
1) Black Tide
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2022
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A character-driven science fiction/horror blend, KC Jones' Black Tide is Stephen King's The Mist meets A Quiet Place.
A BRAM STOKER AWARD FINALIST!
It was just another day at the beach. Then the world ended.
Mike and Beth were strangers before the night of the meteor shower. Chance made them neighbors, a bottle of champagne brought them together, and a shared need for human connection sparked
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Mickey7 volume 2
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2023
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Edward Ashton's Antimatter Blues is the thrilling follow up to Mickey7 in which an expendable heads out to explore new terrain for human habitation.
Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and much to his own surprise, Mickey Barnes is still alive—that last part thanks almost entirely to the fact that Commander Marshall believes that the colony's creeper neighbors
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When a soldier has survived so many "impossible" missions, the word almost loses its meaning.Until that soldier gets a mission brief so brutal the description makes them hesitate …Bring it. Nothing is going to stop Joe. He has taken on every mission they've sent his way to date and come out on top.Having reestablished his cred and made a proper name for himself, Joe has earned some trust from the Vale council, which comes with both perks and downsides.When...
4) The Circle
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"The shrine. How does it operate? Do you just pray to it or do you have to bring it something or what?"
In this unsettling novella by Bentley Little, many strange occurrences unsettle the inhabitants of William Tell Circle:
For Helen, a knock on the door brings an unexpected visitor along with lavish gifts, and it seems all her wishes have been granted...but at what cost?
For young Frank and his friends, a fabled neighborhood shrine may answer...
5) The Policy
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After his divorce, Hunt Jackson decides to start over in Tucson, where an old buddy fixes him up with his wife's friend, Beth. The attraction is immediate, and they're married a few months later. But Hunt's happiness is marred by his bizarre encounter with an insurance agent whose insistence that Hunt increase his coverage sounds, incredibly, like a threat. The agent - tall, gaunt, oddly dressed in an old-fashioned suit and fedora - is himself a menacing...
6) Gauntlet
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Agent Farrell and his team have Joshua backed into a corner.
At the NSMZ base, a Maelstrom permie rig and a team of scientists await Joshua's arrival.
Silently observing from the sidelines is Peter Yee of the Siuping Clan, a powerful crime boss to whom Joshua owes a favor.
Caught between two formidable entities who want to exploit his talents for their own purpose, Joshua has one option: join the Siuping Clan as an enforcer. Instead, Yee surprises...
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Two Egyptian amulets. One ancient mystery. Harry Fox was born for this.
Harry Fox's destiny is calling. The truth behind his father's amulet is at hand, yet Harry faces an impossible choice. Follow a trail laid out by Mark Antony and Cleopatra, or abandon the chase to save the life of his closest friend. A man who saved Harry's life. A man who needs him more than ever.
Only Harry Fox can stop their shared enemy from destroying everything he knows...
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The Joe Johnson Thriller Series: Fast-paced spy conspiracy thrillers featuring former CIA war crimes investigator Joe Johnson.
The first three full-length thrillers in this internationally best-selling series come together in this great value box set.
The Last Nazi:
The buried contents of a Nazi train. An aging SS mass-murderer - with one last unexpected sting in his tail. And the war secrets of a US presidential hopeful's Jewish family, hidden...
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A Viking king. A fallen empire. Only one man can stop it from happening again.
Harry Fox just wants to know the truth. About his father's amulet. About his mother's death. But two Viking drinking horns with an incredible secret are about to change his plans.
When the horns go missing from a dig site, Harry Fox is pulled against his will into a deadly chase to unearth a lost path left by history's most fearsome warriors - Vikings. At stake? The fate...
10) Gloria
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Considering she had just attended her mother's funeral, Gloria Jaymes never expected to see the woman again, but then her dead mom shows up at her house.Gloria's mom is... different. She's younger than when she died, dressed in clothes from the 1980s. And nobody else in Gloria's family seems to recognize her.As Gloria tries to figure out the reason for her mother's reappearance and the odd behaviors the woman begins to exhibit other bizarre events...
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An ancient Persian relic. A message etched in stone. A deadly quest across the globe to reveal the forbidden truth.
Recovering ancient relics for the Italian mob can be deadly. When Harry Fox narrowly outwits a thieving artifacts dealer to escape with his life, he quickly discovers he came away with more than he bargained for. The stone tablet with a strange tale etched on it tells of lost knowledge from the cradle of civilization - the ancient Persian...
12) Jim Lord
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One chance to be a hero.
Jim Lord always knew he wanted to be a cop. But getting stuck working as a school resource officer after a tour in Iraq isn't what he pictured for his life. Still, he manages to find a sense of purpose, as well as love, at Portage High... until a moment of cowardice strips it all away.
Undone emotionally and professionally, Jim spirals into a drunken depression before a friend pulls him back from the brink. Determined to usher...
13) The Summoning
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Darkness is descending on the small town of Rio Verde, Arizona. An evil older than time is rising from the desert, waiting for night to fall and a reign of terror to begin... Brad Woods has performed a lot of autopsies, but never one like this. The body is purged of all blood. Fear has made Sue Wing run from the darkened school and into night, a fear so powerful she can only name it using the Cantonese myths of her grandmother: Cup-hu-girngsi... the...
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The intergalactic barbarian has started establishing himself in this new future.But with a growing reputation comes the need to accomplish more complex feats.The Komran are happy to oblige, though they may not know it.They have taken a valuable Vale-sanctioned mine, trapping all the residents within and forcing them to work night and day. Curiously, the hostage-takers are not searching for the ore within.Fearful that a large-scale assault could end...
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Ex-Cold War spies bite back... The darkest secrets of a Russian oligarch-a legacy from Stalin. A hidden batch of the CIA's Stinger missiles. And the insatiable Afghan thirst for revenge.
Ex-CIA war crimes investigator Joe Johnson is sucked into an inquiry which delves into the deadly world of Soviet and US undercover operations in Afghanistan during the 1980s-and mysterious connections to current US and Russian politics.
Johnson and his ex-MI6 colleague...
16) Second Nature
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From the author of Losing Earth, a deeply reported and beautifully told exploration of how we live in a post-natural world.
We live in a world in which scientists are actively trying to bring back prehistoric beasts, in which our most essential and complex ecosystems demand monumental engineering projects to survive, in which immortal jellyfish threaten to fill and overrun the oceans, in which iconic companies that have long been at the cultural...
17) The Walking
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It begins in a small Southwestern town. Then it spreads. Across the country a series of strange deaths have overtaken the living. And a stranger compulsion has overtaken the dead. In a travesty of life, they drift with bizarre purpose toward an unknown destination. The walkers have become an obsession for investigator Miles Huerdeen. His father is one of them. Now, lured into the shadow of the restless dead, Miles is a step closer to a secret as old...
18) The Bank
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"We know who you are! Can your current bank say that? We pride ourselves on providing unparalled service to all of our customers. We're looking forward to banking with YOU!" In the small town of Montgomery, Arizona, Kyle Decker's book shop is barely breaking even. When a bank opens in the empty storefront next door, he hopes the new establishment will bring in more foot traffic. Trouble is, nobody has ever heard of The First People's Bank, and the...
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In 1801, a British officer discovered a clue to one of the most coveted relics in history, a weapon so powerful it could mean deaths for hundreds of thousands of people. Sean Wyatt just wants bullets to stop flying his way. He did his time as a government agent and as an artifact recovery specialist for the IAA. Now he just wants some peace and quiet, but when he rescues a friend from being executed in the mountains of Tennessee, Sean and his sidekick,...
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An elite Reichswehr unit is crisscrossing India in the spring of 1922 on the hunt for a rumored treasure that would be enough to fund and ultimately reignite the war-starved German army. Join freshly-minted intelligence officer Richard Halliburton as he staves off assassins at sea, battles ferocious beasts in the jungle, braves the dangerous Khyber Pass, and explores an ancient Indian castle in search of a vast fortune, all while trying to stay one...