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Alex Colton is a young, idealistic recent college graduate, received an incredible career opportunity at boutique asset management firm Carrington Capital Partners. After the death of the chief executive officer, the leading CEO candidate creates a toxic security threatening to upend and possibly bankrupt the whole financial system. Through the help of the deceased CEO’s family and the company receptionist Lynda, Alex battles through corporate and political intrigue, along with learning secrets about himself and how he is personally and professionally linked to the ongoing saga regarding him, his family, and his place with his employer.

A submarine. A secret mission. And a serial killer.

A killer lurks beneath the waves of the western Pacific Ocean. 

The USS Encinitas, the first attack submarine crewed by both men and women, stalks the Crescent Moon, a renegade Iranian sub armed with nuclear-tipped missiles. But another predator hides aboard the American sub, a murderer who has already left a trail of dead women behind on shore.

While the crew of the Encinitas plays a deadly game of hide-and-seek with the Crescent Moon, NCIS investigator Linus Schag must discover the killer’s identity before his – or her – blood lust leads to the submarine’s total destruction.

2017 Best Mystery/Suspense Novel (Best Independent Book Awards)2018 Clue Award for Best Thriller (Chaticleer International Book Awards)Meet William Butcher, aka The Butcher, former Navy SEAL, now a disgraced ex-NCIS agent.Those who stole $9 billion in cash from Iraq want him dead.The cops want him for murder.Butcher's only hope is his former NCIS colleague and closest friend, Linus Schag.Together Schag and Butcher tear away the veil of conspiracy, uncovering a criminal enterprise reaching into the highest levels of government.Ripped from today's headlines, this sequel to Martin Roy Hill's highly praised The Killing Depths takes the reader from the California mountains to the coastal waters o...

He warned her. People die in lonely and empty places. But she didn't listen.Peter Brandt is a war-scarred news service reporter who has seen more than he can bear to remember. Returning to the States, he discovers his former wife, TV reporter Robin Anderson, brutally murdered and the local cops doing nothing to find her killer. Driven by guilt and regret over his failed marriage, Peter sets out with an old friend, retired cop Matt Banyon, to find Robin's killer. Following clues she left behind, Peter and Matt unearth a shadowy world of sex, drugs, political corruption, and a wealthy Cuban freedom fighter with a suspicious past. Peter and Matt soon become the hunted, and Peter must finally fa...

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."  Samuel Johnson Iraq, 1991: Operation Desert Storm. In a terrible friendly fire incident, a U.S. helicopter massacres a small convoy of American MPs. Among the dead: a mysterious American civilian engineer discovered by the soldiers behind enemy lines.San Diego, CA, 1993: A freelance journalist is hired to write a story about a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the dead engineer's widow against the government and the defense contractor he worked for. The problem: the government insists the lawsuit does not exist, and the contractor claims the engineer did not work for them. Worse, someone is willing to kill to keep it that way.Peter Bra...

“If this is Paradise, how bad could Hell be?”

A sandstorm uncovers a long buried secret in the Iraqi desert, an ancient Sumerian temple dating back at least 6,000 years to the beginning of civilization. An American army patrol sent to investigate the ruins is trapped inside the temple’s eroded walls, first by an insurgent ambush then by another, even more powerful sandstorm. When an enemy mortar shell blasts an opening into a hidden burial chamber, Captain Adam Cadman and his soldiers take refuge deep in the ruins. What they find hidden inside threatens to destroy every belief about the beginnings of mankind—as well as modern civilization as we know it.
 

They call it simply "the object."It sits at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, waiting.Waiting . . . for what?An American research ship disappears in the Arctic's Chukchi Sea only to reappear a few days later. When a special U.S. Coast Guard unit boards the vessel, they find it deserted, its power grid wrecked, two bombs waiting to explode, and an even darker secret hidden below her decks.A few miles across the international maritime boundary, a massive Russian oil platform harbors its own secret. Below the behemoth lies a mysterious energy source so powerful it threatens to topple the balance of world power in favor of Moscow.The Russians will to kill to protect it. The Americans will kill to ...

Chimera Island. For more than a century, the tiny atoll has been the subject of legend and rumors. Mysterious sightings. Strange deaths. Unexplained disappearances. A transport plane sent to Chimera to evacuate frightened scientists from a climate research station on the island disappears, along with a Chinese spy ship prowling nearby waters. The U.S. Coast Guard sends its most secret team to investigate, Deployable Specialized Force-P—the P is said to stand for phenomenon.DSF-Papa, led by Lieutenant Commander Douglas Munro Gates, discovers there is more to the legend of Chimera Island than rumors and folklore. The climate research station is wrecked. Strange creatures skulk thro...

A collection short stories about national service by author Martin Roy Hill. In the title story, "Duty," a Cold War soldier faces the prospect of starting WWIII. In "Something Far Away," a former Coastguardsman must face his ghosts from the past. A Navy investigator faces a different kind of ghost aboard a nuclear aircraft carrier in "Destroyer Turns." "Brandenberg's Diaries" tells the story of a retired spy's last mission during Glasnost. A group of soldiers faces the curse of war over several generations in "The Stragglers." And in "The Use of Innocence," a Vietnam vet contemplates a younger generation eager for another war.

When Emilia Ashley stepped off of the passenger ship that had brought her back to Philadelphia from a London finishing school, she had no idea that her entire world was going to be turned upside down. Her mother, a renowned madam of a Philadelphia brothel and the wealthy Mister Sinclaire were killed in an accident while traveling together. Emily stands to inherit a fortune, but there are stipulations to her inheritance that must be met within a year’s time or she will get nothing.Dillon Sinclaire can’t possibly allow Emily to get her hands on one of his father’s most profitable investments. He hires a Pinkerton detective to track her down in order to expose her as the daughter of a mad...

An idyllic journey through Australia becomes a nightmare when she discovers terrifying secrets about the man she is with, others he was with have since vanished. She must escape from him in the middle of nowhere. She gets away and goes back to England. His body is found and she is charged with murder. She will not say what happened on that day!

This comprehensive science fiction narrative chronicles the transformative journey of Jim Ignatius Wilson, an ordinary mechanic who becomes symbiotically linked with microscopic alien lifeforms called Syman through an encounter with the reptilian alien Rogand. This fusion grants Jim extraordinary physical and mental abilities, catalysing technological breakthroughs that reshape society and extend into interstellar adventures. The story weaves themes of alien contact, human enhancement, ethical dilemmas, and global survival within a richly detailed futuristic setting.

BOOK ONE OF THE SEEKERS FOR TRUTH TRILOGY. Presenting the Universe as you have never seen it before! Meet Paul Peterson, a man whose life is a spiritual odyssey, even at its lowest ebb. As we first meet Mr. Peterson, he is in the midst of a personal crisis of humorous dimensions, being dragged reluctantly towards an oversized couch by a wine-emboldened, faded beauty named Allison Pratt. As a former member of The Seekers For Truth, a school of spiritual self development, Peterson holds a mystical view of the universe through which he examines the chain of events that have brought him to this absurdly humorous personal crisis. A crisis no doubt brought about by Peterson’s estrangement from t...

BOOK TWO OF THE SEEKERS FOR TRUTH TRILOGY. Where to start with Souljourner? Let’s start with the author… Paul Steven Stone is either a madman or a genius – probably both – and he’s written one of the most gripping and enjoyable books we’ve ever come across. It begins with a quote from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, “We are not human beings on a spiritual journey, we are spiritual beings on a human journey.”– and that my friends sets the tone for everything that’s to come .David Rockwood Worthington is in prison serving a life sentence for the murder of his 3rd wife and his incarceration is not going smoothly. He’s being terrorized by rival gangs who insist he owes them eac...

Rarely does a novel come along that so captures the heart and spirit of a human experience that it becomes synonymous with the experience itself. Such a novel, we believe, is “The Snow That Never Fell,” a poignant, sometimes hilarious, tale of Paul Peterson’s struggle to surmount the myriad challenges of divorce and single fatherhood, plus a childhood scarred by his own father’s loveless neglect. Challenges that come to a head on a fateful day when Peterson brings his son Mickey to participate in a Cub Scout Father-Son Pinewood Derby.Written with humor, insight, and tonnages of heart, “The Snow That Never Fell” is a captivating story of a man whose need to be a “good” father ...