Trust No One (Vista Security)
Nominated for the RWA® Golden Heart® Award
"Layne has star power in spades." ~Diane Morasco RT Book Reviews for The Good Daughter
When reality is a web of lies and the truth endangers all you hold dear . . .Trust No One.
Drafted into the nebulous underworld of a secret agent right out of college, MJ Thornberg survived betrayal and attempted murder at the hands of her trusted partner. Instead of returning to the deadly realm of espionage, she chose to retire to a small Texas town and work as a mechanic while raising her soon-to-be-adopted baby daughter.
Ben Walker is a man with his own secrets. An agent with MJ's former employer, Vista Security, Ben is clawing his way out of a downward spiral from a job gone wrong when Vista sends him after MJ, with orders to use the threat of halting her baby's adoption to ensure her cooperation.
Furious and trusting no one, MJ intends on working the job solo until a sniper's bullet alters her plans. With no choice but to work with Ben, MJ must confront ghosts from her past, discover truths of her present, and trust that the future she deserves is in her hands to create.
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[Was on the list yesterday too.]
Pandora's Succession
For fans of Barry Eisler, Robert Ludlum, and Clive Cussler.
CIA operative, Ridley Fox, never stopped hunting his fiancée's killers--a weapons consortium called The Arms of Ares. When an informant leads him to an old bunker outside of Groznyy, Chechnya, Fox is captured, beaten, and left for dead. When the informant rescues him, Fox learns that his capture was no coincidence: someone had set him up--possibly another government agent. Fox barely escapes after learning that Ares has acquired a hyperdeadly microbe--called Pandora--that is believed to have wiped out ancient civilizations. The trail leads Fox to Tokyo where he discovers that people within the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Japanese Intelligence want Pandora for themselves. The only person Fox can trust is a woman from his past who he nearly got killed.
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On the Edge of Humanity (A Vampire SEAL Novel)
Sixteen-year-old Jo Mason is lost in a world where traipsing from one foster home to another is normal. She hates her life, she hates school and on most days, she hates living. If it weren’t for her twin brother Sam, she might already be dead.
Her normal world shifts one hundred and eighty degrees when she discovers her own blood tastes like candy and her eyes change colors like a mood ring. On top of that, her eyesight seems to be failing when she spies an otherworldly man, sporting bloodstained canines, who is trying to strangle a cop. The developments are shrouded when Sam goes missing between Anger Management class and History class.
She’s called to the principal’s office to meet Lieutenant Webb London, a Navy SEAL who is part of a secret team of natural-born vampires. His mission is to protect the twins from an evil cartel, but he’s too late. With Jo now under his protection, his team searches for Sam.
However, finding and rescuing Sam from the evil cartel may be the easy part. Jo learns she carries a dormant vampire gene that, if activated, could save him. As her normal world fades even more, pushing her closer to the edge of humanity, Jo must decide if her human life is more important than her twin brother.
With time as her enemy, she struggles to make a life-changing decision for both her and Sam.
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[Well, it has a unique twist on vampires and SEALS. Was on the list yesterday too.]
JET
Code name: Jet
Twenty-eight-year-old Jet was once the Mossad's most lethal operative before faking her own death and burying that identity forever. But the past doesn't give up on its secrets easily.
When her new life on a tranquil island is shattered by a brutal attack, Jet must return to a clandestine existence of savagery and deception to save herself and those she loves. A gritty, unflinching roller-coaster of high-stakes twists and shocking turns, JET features a new breed of protagonist that breaks the mold.
Fans of Lisbeth Salander, SALT, and the Bourne trilogy will find themselves carried along at Lamborghini speed to a conclusion as surprising as the story's heroine is unconventional.
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[Been on the free list for a long while now.]
GUNS: The Real Shake
“It's hard to take on your heroes. There's a certain feeling of betrayal that goes with the undertaking; even if you succeed in besting them, the end-result is not what one might call exhilarating...”
And so begins Guns: The Real Shake, the new Kindle release by David Hearn available exclusively through Amazon. Hearn, a self-admitted lifelong fan of King's work, nevertheless takes the undisputed master of horror Stephen King head-on in a duel of gunslinging proportions...no bullets needed here, though—just the facts will do.
In January of this year, King released his essay "Guns" as an Amazon Kindle Single. As with virtually all of King's works, it rose quickly to the top of the bestseller chart. But how much of King's emotional plea on the current gun debate is based on “truth”, and how much of it is typical, fantastical King fiction?
Hearn explores the underlying basis of King's impassioned argument, where he counters that it's nothing new, what King is saying, but simply more of the same anti-gun activist rhetoric that we've been hearing all along. Guns: The Real Shake, however, is not only a direct, unflinching reply to King's essay; it also explores some of the deeper issues and concerns of the nation's current gun control debate, tackles myths and misconceptions on such issues as gun violence and the NRA, and last—but certainly not least—Guns: The Real Shake examines some of the very scary—albeit very real—implications as to some of our current politicians, judges and legislators, their personal agendas, and how their actions might very well hold chilling consequences for our future Second Amendment freedoms.
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Failures of Leadership: History's Worst Rulers and How Their People Suffered For It
Bad leaders never learn from their mistakes. Better leaders learn from their mistakes. But the best leaders learn from the mistakes of others, so they do not make them themselves.
This exciting new book from historian and entrepreneur Frederick Parker looks at the 20 worst failures of leadership in history and the consequences it meant for those under their rule. Through these entertaining historical snapshots, you will learn about their failures so that you can avoid similar pitfalls on your path to success. This book is useful for business executives, managers, and any other type of organizational leader.
You will learn about...
- Emperor Caligula letting Rome fall into civil war for spending more time inviting his horse to dinner and appointing him senator then tending to the matters of the state
- Sultan Ibrahim I almost bankrupting the Ottoman Empire with his plans to decorate the palace in expensive furs
- Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward, an organizational disaster in which he ordered that all harvested crops go to the cities before the villages, resulting in tens of millions of peasants starving
Stories from the lives of these three historical figures and 17 others fill this book. Learn about how they failed their people so spectacularly and what we can learn from their negative examples about successful leadership.
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