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Author: L.F. Falconer
Title: Exit Strategy
Psychological thriller
Released, 2013
http://www.amazon.com/Exit-Strategy-L...
www.lffalconer.com

It's less than 3000 miles to hell...
Jonas Dumar has a problem. Having little faith that his lawyer can get him acquitted of the murder charge he faces, Jonas takes to the sea under an assumed identity to seek asylum with an old college chum in the Shetland Islands. Hoping to ease the loneliness of the voyage, he takes on board Gabe and Izzy, a young couple trying to work their way back to Spain. Only when he's out on the open sea does Jonas begin to suspect his passengers are not what they appear to be.

But then again, neither is Jonas Dumar.

Recommended for mature readers, Exit Strategy is a wild excursion into a realm of the fantastic as Jonas Dumar comes to realize some secrets are better left unknown. A man really can learn more about himself than he ever wants to know.

The Anonymous Make History

Today, the United States faces unprecedented levels of gun violence. Massacres are taking place in communities on a regular basis. In schools, lockdown drills are now as commonplace as fire drills. Politicians on Capitol Hill, impotent in the face of one of the most influential lobbying powers, have failed to pass gun legislation since 1994.

Mac Ambrose, a twenty-year, international veteran of the CIA, is recruited by her closest friends to run a domestic operation: bring down the gun lobby by any means necessary so the Senate can pass a new assault weapons ban. In four weeks.

​From the hearing rooms of Capitol Hill, to the rolling hills of Kentucky and the wealthy suburbs of New Orleans, Mac flawlessly sets the traps of a multi-pronged strategy to ensnare a lawmaker, a lobbyist and a gun manufacturer. From a safe house in Philadelphia, she rediscovers relationships forsaken in the name of national security.

Nadine Doolittle
The River Bride

Thriller-Suspense/Mystery
Released: July 2014
Websites: http://www.amazon.com/author/nadinedo...
Nadine Doolittle

Summary: Book 3 of a standalone series set in Quebec, Canada

Seven years ago, the Bremer family's au pair was found brutally slain in an abandoned trailer. Tried and convicted for the girl's murder, Trey Bremer has always asserted his innocence. The truth of what really happened to Teresa Musgrave that day begins to unravel when an anonymous note arrives at the Stollerton Record. On the hunt for the big story that could save her career, Alvina Moon is caught up in a disturbing crime and the victim's beautiful, troubled artist husband.

Roger Weston

THE RECRUITER: A CHUCK BRANDT THRILLER



Action-Thriller
February 25, 2012
amazon.com/author/rogerweston
RogerWeston.blogspot.com
@Roger_Weston

Nobody in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama knew who Chuck Brandt really was. All they knew was that he rented apartments to immigrants. What they didn’t know was that he was a recruiter of spies, that he was a legendary ex-assassin trying to start over and live honestly. His employer, a top secret government intelligence agency knew the truth. They should have known better than to target him. They should have left him alone.

Making amends for his horrible past...betrayed by his employer...torn from the woman he loves...spy recruiter Chuck Brandt is down, but not out. Now he will have to recruit the only man alive that can help him - the man he used to be.

Underground Murmurs

Author: Tim Jopling
Book Title: Underground Murmurs
Genre: Thriller
Release Date: July 2014

Websites:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Underground-M...
www.timjopling.com
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tim-Jopling/e...

Summary: UNDERGROUND MURMURS - Akira & Deane Thriller Series Book 1:

Nothing is ever what it seems...
Don't turn your back on anyone or anything...

Akira is a dangerous man, a man who has lost everything and has nothing to lose. Fuelled by the death of his beloved wife Madeline and desperate to seek revenge on those who took her from him, Akira is on a mission, a mission to rid the world of the corrupt West and everything it stands for and he has one man set in his sights.

Thomas Deane, a fiercely loyal MI6 agent and one half of an elite partnership he is everything Akira despises - a patriotic man devoted to the service of his country, no matter what the cost.

Assisted by the brave S.U.C.O. agents (Special Undercover Covert Operations) the elite MI6 team, are completely unaware of what lies ahead. Will they succeed in bringing Akira out of the shadows?

Author: Simon Law
Official Site: http://www.amazon.com/Damaged-simon-l...
Title: The Damaged
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Release Date: 27-10-15
Blurb:

The storm of '87 had been the greatest, most ferocious storm to have hit Britain in centuries. The suffering that ensued was plentiful, but none more so than that of little Matthew Mason, whose parents were brutally murdered in the midst of the storm by a homeless man desperate to find shelter. After 25 years of torment, Matthew is released from a mental institute under the watchful eye and care of Tammy Atkins, a care worker with a secret history of alcohol abuse and self-harm. As Matthew struggles to adapt to his new found liberty, he finds himself continuously plagued by the demons of his past. Haunted by strange and ghastly images and urges, Matthew sets himself upon a path of vengeance; determined to seek out his parents' killer and put his demons to rest once and for all. 'The Damaged' is a disturbing psychological thriller, delving deep into the darkest depths of the human psyche.

Author: Neil Russell
Title: City of War
Genre: Thriller
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Website: http://neil-russell.com
Summary: His enemies are the most dangerous people in the world…So are his friends.

The sole heir to a media empire, Rail Black is larger than life, richer than almost anyone and living in opulent seclusion in Beverly Hills. His "curse" is a need for excitement coupled with an oversized sense of justice, which impelled him into Delta Force. Now he helps people without options—and billionaires play by different rules.

Caught in gridlock on the world's busiest freeway, Rail comes to the rescue of a naked woman escaping from a van. But Kimberly York is no ordinary victim, and Rail has invited violence into his life . . . again—as a sudden, shocking murder pulls him into a decades-old international conspiracy of greed, rare treasures, and human depravity.


Author: Neil Russell
Title: Wildcase
Genre: Thriller
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Website: http://neil-russell.com
Summary: In Victorville, CA, a sleepy town halfway between the glamour of Hollywood and the grit of Vegas, an LAPD detective turned novelist and his wife are brutally murdered. The couple were close friends of Rail Black, a billionaire and former member of Delta Force, and when Rail gets contradictory answers about the investigation, he gets involved.

Very shortly, Rail finds himself braced by Francesca Huston, head of the FBI’s Wildcase Unit—the codename given to crimes so random and bizarre they defy classification. Mystified as to why a cop-killing has attracted the Feds, Rail begins digging deeper.

Suddenly he finds himself on a deadly pursuit that runs from the secret mission of a WWII aircraft carrier, through the Chinatowns of San Francisco and Las Vegas, to Hong Kong, and finally to the South Pacific islands of Tonga and New Guinea.



Author: Neil Russell
Title: Beverly Hills Is Burning: A Rail Black Novel
Genre: Thriller
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Website: http://neil-russell.com/books.html
Summary: In Hollywood, an ex-con movie producer, fresh out of San Quentin, is lucky if he can get a valet to take his car at The Ivy. Teddy Chessman got his own studio.

Why? Because Teddy controlled the most important motion picture property to hit town since agents were invented. And attached to this expected critical and financial bonanza is the biggest female action star in the world, Valentine Jones.

Then Teddy got himself murdered. Along with his entire board of directors.

And now, the guy who loaned him the money to buy the joint—Rail Black, a former Delta Force operator with a private fortune, and who tries to stay as far from show business as possible—is forced to take possession of the thing he wants least.

And the murders are just beginning.