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The Joe Tesla Box Set: Books 1-3

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Get all three thrillers in the award-winning Joe Tesla series for a special low price! Here's what readers say about the first thriller, The World Beneath (over 200 5-star reviews on Amazon): "Cantrell has ventured into deep, dark places...a taut and dangerous struggle." — The Edge "The Tesla series is an excellent, original, and addictive series...Cantrell is firmly ensconced as one of my go to Thriller writers now." — Parmenion Books "Cantrell's THE WORLD BENEATH simply blew me exciting, visceral, inventive, illuminating...a shocking thriller that shines a light on the beauty and horror hidden just out of sight beneath the world's greatest city." -- James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Labyrinth "Prepare to stay up all night... this is one of 'those' books!" -- Mamabear Cherei THE WORLD Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Cantrell drops you into a vast, dark 100 miles of living, breathing, tunnels that is the New York City underground. This subterranean labyrinth inhales three million bustling commuters every day. And every day, it breathes them all out again... except for one. Software millionaire Joe Tesla is set to ring the bell on Wall Street the morning his company goes public. On what should be the brightest day in his life, he is instead struck with severe agoraphobia. The sudden dread of the outside is so debilitating, he can't leave his hotel at Grand Central Terminal, except to go underground. Bad luck for Joe, because in the tunnels lurk corpses and murderers, an underground Victorian mansion and a mysterious bricked-up 1940s presidential train car. Joe and his service dog, Edison, find themselves pursued by villains and police alike, their only salvation now is to unearth the mystery that started it all, a deadly, contagious madness on the brink of escaping The World Beneath. THE TESLA In New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Cantrell's sequel to the award-winning The World Beneath, software genius, Joe Tesla, confronts an equally brilliant and far more powerful foe. Still crippled by agoraphobia and confined to the tunnels under New York City, Joe is haunted by the fact that he cannot even attend his father's funeral. His father’s death brings threats to the safety of Joe's underground guilt over the broken relationship that can never be healed, a mysterious box of papers inherited from eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla, and a ruthless enemy determined to steal those papers no matter the cost. Mystified by why his inheritance is so valuable, Joe and his service dog, Edison, follow clues left a century ago by Joe's famous ancestor to reveal the power of his family legacy. While Joe must rely on his considerable talents as a hacker, he must also reach out to friends. But whom can he trust as he battles to save his beloved city from . . . The Tesla Legacy? THE CHEMISTRY OF Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me...or can they? In the third thrilling installment of this award winning series from New York Times bestseller Rebecca Cantrell, tortured genius Joe Tesla is on the trail of a sadistic serial killer who charms his victims into the bowels of the Manhattan subway system--and who holds the keys to Joe's crippling condition. Can Joe stop the murderous rampage of this silver-tongued killer, or will he become the next victim? Ready to follow Joe Tesla and his service dog, Edison, into the darkness? Grab your copy of The Joe Tesla Box Set and get three full-length Joe Tesla thrillers (more than 800 pages!) in one volume at a special price!

756 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 14, 2015

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Rebecca Cantrell

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A few years ago Rebecca Cantrell quit her job, sold her house, and moved to Hawaii to write a novel because, at seven, she decided that she would be a writer. Now she writes the award-winning Hannah Vogel mystery series set in Berlin in the 1930s. “A Trace of Smoke,” "A Night of Long Knives," "A Game of Lies," and "A City of Broken Glass." She also co-writes the Order of Sanguines series with James Rollins, starting with the upcoming book 1: "The Blood Gospel." And she writes the iMonster series as Bekka Black, including "iDrakula" and "iFrankenstein."

A faded pink triangle pasted on the wall of Dachau Concentration Camp and time in Berlin, Germany in the 1980s inspired “A Trace of Smoke.” Fluent in German, she received her high school diploma from the John F. Kennedy Schule in Berlin and studied at the Freie Universität in Berlin and the Georg August Universität in Göttingen.

When she visited Berlin in the summer of 2006, she was astounded to discover that many locations in her novel have been rebuilt and reopened in the last few years, including the gay bar El Dorado and the Mosse House publishing house.

Her short story “Coffee” will appear in the “Missing” anthology in February 2009.

Her screenplay “The Humanitarian” was a finalist at Shriekfest 2008: The Los Angeles Horror/Sci-fi Film Festival. Her screenplay “A Taste For Blood” was a finalist at the Shriekfest 2007: The Los Angeles Horror/Sci-fi Film Festival.

As of this writing, she lives in Berlin with her Ironman husband and son.

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November 24, 2022
Im a BIG FAN of this series, and this author, and its just super to have the three books together in this set.....Ive also read them separately :-) highly recommended!
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April 5, 2025
book 3. Poor Joe Tesla not Tesla, he certainly gets beat up a lot. Some answers to a long puzzle for the fellow, but i won't spoil it.
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April 6, 2025
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book series. Very original. Excellent character development and great storytelling.
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February 8, 2017
I read the trilogy on Kindle. I would say the first is the best of the lot; the idea of a guy confined below the streets of NYC due to agoraphobia is intriguing, and the description of the tunnels--their types and extent--is unique, as is the idea of a lost Presidential railroad car somewhere below Grand Central Station.

After a time--books 2 and 3--the concept becomes a bit worn, and the dangerous situations the author dreams up increasingly far-fetched. I don't think I would read a fourth volume if offered.
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November 8, 2016
Love this character

I love these Joe Tesla novels. I just recently found the series on Amazon Kindle. The tunnel under NYC have always been fascinating to me and the idea of a complete house (if only fictional) is intriguing. Joe is a complex character and gives insight to those with agoraphobia. I love all three books and look forward to Joe and Edison's adventures. By the way, Edison is a great dog.
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