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OF ALL THE GIN JOINTS IN THE UNIVERSE: One detective. Two suspects. A conspiracy big enough to kill them all.
In the far reaches of the galaxy in the 25th Century, Space Station 1964—known to the locals as “Norma”—is the last place a man can disappear without falling off the map entirely. That’s exactly why ex–Galactic Justice Inspector Samuel Archer Spade set up shop here. Cigarette in hand, fedora on head, he keeps to himself… until a woman in red walks into The Galaxy’s Edge and drops a problem in his lap.
She says she’s Sandra Dobbs, an antiquities dealer hounded by a persistent ex-associate. Spade’s high-tech lie detectors say otherwise—her real name is Natasha Carter, and she’s wanted for questioning about a missing statue that might just contain the legendary Hope Diamond.
Two days later, the man she’s running from walks in, swearing she stole it from him. Both tell convincing stories. Both are hiding something. And somewhere between their conflicting truths might lay a jewel worth a fortune… and more than one reason to get killed for.
In a galaxy where law is a matter of politics and survival depends on which lies you believe, Sam Spade is about to discover that chasing the truth might be the most dangerous case of his career.
For he is about to uncover a dirty little secret. Innocent people are being framed for crimes they didn’t commit by Galactic Justice itself, using the device that is supposed to uncover only the truth to do it. Worse still, the HALO is being used to program people into killers.
That’s a secret GalJus is willing to kill for and both Sam, and his client, are right at the top of their list.
SEADRAGON: As a child all Walter Koch wanted to be when he grew up was a Navy frogman. He never dreamed it would be quite like this. Now a 32-year-old Master Chief in the United States Navy, Koch has been tabbed to test out a new, state-of-the-art diving suit for Project Seadragon. The suit allows a diver to reach incredible depths without the need of cumbersome tanks and diving equipment.
A test dive to a wrecked ship four hundred meters below the waves ends in tragedy when an explosion rips the wreck apart, hurling Koch back toward the surface and killing the rest of his diving team. When he awakens, he discovers to his horror that he has been permanently sealed within the suit, it has been fused with his body, and no one knows how to separate the man from the suit.
As if his day hasn’t been bad enough, he is about to meet Brad Jefferies, head of the mysterious Epsilon Project who brings proof that the accident, and his current condition, was no accident at all.
Jefferies convinces Koch to come back to Epsilon with him, where they will actually try to find a way for him to escape his prison. Koch will enter a supernatural shadow world of Exotic Humans, created by the Epsilon Wave of the human mind.
And just when Koch’s world couldn’t get any stranger, he will discover an ancient city, Mu, that sank millennia ago at the same time as the city of Atlantis.
Not only are both cities alive and well at the bottom of the ocean floors of the Atlantic and the Pacific, but they are about to embark on yet another war. A war that threatens to engulf the entire world above the waves.
GALEN’S WAY: Millions of years in the future, humanity has been driven out of the Milky Way and now calls the Andromeda Galaxy home. Lost in their murky past are the tales of great knights that held the line against the invasion of a dark force until the rest of humanity could escape their doom. The last and greatest of these knights was Galen Underwood. Long after that heroic stand, a mercenary by the name of Galen Dwyn has been hired to rescue a kidnapped princess. Enticed by a healthy down payment and a chance to settle an old score, Galen accepts the job, only to find out it’s a lot more than he bargained for. Soon Galen finds himself weaving and dodging through a web of political intrigue as the very forces that chase him have set in motion plans that will throw the galactic alliance into civil war.
STARQUEST 4TH AGE
GALEN’S BLADE: The journey of Galen Dwyn continues in the second book of the Starquest 4th Age series. While Dwyn lies in stasis, recovering from his injuries in his stand against Harmool’s fleet, Rhea has assumed the title of Regent of Salacia while leading the search for her missing father, King Iodocus. She is also helping repair the damage done to the Alliance in her Uncle’s and Mother’s mad quest to launch a new Empire. A shocking assassination attempt is thwarted at the last second by Dwyn, who seems to be a changed man now that he has exited stasis to save his love. Dwyn must now mount a second rescue while finding a way to rally a rebellion against this threat to peace in the Hominids’ corner of the Andromeda Galaxy.
GALEN’S HEART: In the thrilling series finale of Starquest 4th Age, Harmool's Galactic Empire has taken hold and rules the hominid's corner of the Andromeda Galaxy with an iron fist and the fate of all within hangs in the balance. Galen Dwyn and the Princess Rhiannon have taken refuge, along with the rest of the resistance, on a world with an impenetrable defense surrounding it as they plan a counter-attack.
As ancient prophecies unravel and long-buried secrets surface, Dwyn must navigate treacherous betrayals, harness ancient technologies, and confront his own destiny to save all he holds dear. Packed with pulse-pounding action, intricate world-building, and emotional depth, Galen's Heart is the Starquest 4th Age finale that delivers an epic conclusion that will leave readers breathless. Join the quest—will courage and hope prevail, or will the stars fall forever?
ESCAPING INFINITY: Lost on a dark desert highway, Pete Childress just wanted a good night’s sleep. Now he must find a way back out of a hotel with no exits and where tomorrow never comes. Worse yet, the fate of a ruined world, and the future of all humanity, hangs in the balance
MAELSTROM: Steve Collins was just trying to save the world from the next killer asteroid. He wound up killing over seven billion people instead. A century later, he’s now the only hope to save the surviving one million humans left alive in the entire universe.
WHEN THE GODS FELL: The first mission to Mars discovers our origin stories were wrong. Earth’s gods, led by Zeus, Odin, Ra, and Lucifer, waged a terrible war on the Red Planet millions of years ago; but the final battle still looms, and Earth will be the final battlefield.
THE LAST LONELY TRAIL: U.S. Marshal. David Crockett Hall and Texas Ranger, John Barclay Armstrong have set out chasing men, each for their own reasons. When their paths converge in Kansas, they discover the men they were following separately have now joined together and are heading for a giant payday somewhere, but where the two lawmen don’t know.
This story is about camaraderie, friendship, hardship and an unerring desire to complete their jobs at any and all costs. Set against the background of the late 1870’s, the story takes us across the mid-west, southwest and into Colorado, unfolding a tale of two strangers becoming friends.
RESERVATIONS: DEATH STALKS THE RES! Who – or what – is killing members of the Navajo tribe? RESERVATIONS, the first book of the Jack Del Rio political mystery/thriller series, is set near Gallup, New Mexico, where the Navajo, Hopi and Zuni reservations lie adjacent.
Three tribal leaders have been murdered – murdered in a fashion that suggests the deeds were carried out by COYOTE, a legendary supernatural evil trickster feared by many Native Americans. The tribal president contacts an old friend in the FBI for assistance in solving the crimes and preventing more murders. Star agent, Jack Del Rio, is dispatched to New Mexico where he finds a situation tangled in political intrigue.
Jack must work his way through those issues on his way to solving the mystery. Sparks fly as Navajo police officer Lucy Chee is assigned to assist him in his quest. Question is can Del Rio and Chee solve the mystery and find the killer before he strikes again? Because the killer is on the hunt and he has his sights on Del Rio himself.
DEL RIO MYSTERY/THRILLER SERIES
BETRAYALS: In the second book of the series, Betrayals, FBI Special Agent Jack Del Rio is still recovering from the dramatic conclusion of the events on the Navajo Nation and quickly finds himself as the only man in America who can stop the strings of assassinations and conspiracies that threaten to topple the entire government administration and bring the United States under the thumb of evil dictatorship.
Unable to trust even his closest friends and allies in the Bureau, Jack must first survive multiple attempts on his own life then sort out the evildoers who have wormed their way into top positions and do this in time to save the President of the United States – who may just be one of the conspirers himself. It’s a race to the finish with the free world hanging in the balance and Del Rio soon finds that no one can be trusted not to betray everything he holds dear.
ENDGAMES: In the thrilling conclusion to the Jack Del Rio series, Endgames, the former FBI Special Agent has fallen off the grid and is content to let the rest of the world believe him dead. He has taken the name John Rivers and lives a secluded life on the Navajo Reservation.
But the shades of his past are not yet done with him yet. Surviving elements of his enemies from London and Washington D.C. want to see him actually filling out a grave and are coming for him. Compounding matters, a newspaper reporter from Phoenix is also on his trail and a former flame is coming from England and is bringing news that will change everything for Del Rio.
A pair of deadly ambushes just outside his new home proves to be the last straw and Del Rio returns to the fight with a vengeance. By the time he is done he will dispatch enemies on U.S. and foreign soil and be named an international terrorist. But even as the world turns against him, Del Rio uncovers one last gasp effort by the conspiracy he has fought for so many years to overthrow the U.S. government. As his final battle draws to a close, Del Rio makes his final moves in an endgame no one will see coming.