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Zero In by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThis could be the most important mission of Nameless’s life. Because it’s putting him on a collision course with his own past and the nation’s future.The target: a fortified redoubt in the golden hills of California, the hub of a new world order that’s unthinkably close at hand. The time has come for Nameless to face its designer: the nihilist mastermind behind the One Solution... -
Kaleidoscope by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNameless is wrestling with more violent visions of the future when his next mission comes with the assurance, This one will be easy. It’s a promise that leaves Nameless dangerously unprepared.It seems straightforward enough: Get a foot in the door by posing as a potential investor in a lucrative underground business—then bring the place down from the inside. There’s more here than meets the eye... -
Corkscrew by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA terrorist attack in the news leaves Nameless reeling from a disturbing vision. But it’s not a glimpse of the future. It’s a recovered memory that’s opening a window into his mysterious past.Uncharacteristically forthcoming—and unexpectedly personal—Nameless’s handlers have no choice but to emerge from the shadows. The indoctrinating factions of his visions are growing in number... -
The Lost Soul of the City by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA gun. A mission. No memories. Nameless is back to hunt down an architect of chaos in #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz’s return to a landscape of hard-won justice.In a forgotten Cold War bunker, a cold-blooded arms dealer counts his cash and watches from a distance as cities collapse into violence... -
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High Cotton by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis collection of Joe R. Lansdale stories represents the best of the “Lansdale” genre—a strange mixture of dark crime, even darker humor, and adventure tales. The stories are varied in setting and theme, but they are all pure Lansdale—eerie, amusing, and occasionally horrific. In “The Pit,” modern gladiators square off against one another using Roman methods...Categorized as:
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The Final Stand by James Hunt
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPrepare and survive. An EMP cripples the nation on the day Detective Mike Thorton was supposed to bury his father. Fighting a panic-stricken city, an unknown enemy, and his own grief, Mike must rescue his family before the city devours them all...Categorized as:
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The Dreaming Tree by Matthew Mather
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsEverybody wants to live forever, but some people shouldn't live at all ...After a near-fatal car crash, Royce Lowell-Vandeweghe wakes up to find he's one of the first patients to undergo a radical new procedure: a full-body transplant. Convalescing years later and suffering from waking nightmares, he answers the door at his Long Island home and meets Delta Devlin, a New York detective... -
City of the Dead by S.D. Perry, Timothy Stahl
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsLeon Kennedy, a rookie cop on a new assignment, and Claire Redfield, sister of the still-missing S.T.A.R.S. member Chris, arrive at Raccoon City to discover a necropolis. A botched attempt by the Umbrella Corporation to retrieve a devastating mutagenic weapon has resulted in a horrifying viral outbreak, transforming the city's population into the living dead. And all of them are hungry... -
Trackers by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe end of the world is just the beginning of the hunt.... Estes Park police chief Marcus Colton and tracker Sam "Raven" Spears have never liked one another, but when a young girl goes missing in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colton hires Spears to help find her. Their search ends after a night of devastating horror... -
The Unfamiliar Garden by Benjamin Percy
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe night the sky fell, Jack and Nora Abernathy’s daughter vanished in the woods. And Mia’s disappearance broke her parents’ already fragile marriage. Unable to solve her own daughter’s case, Nora lost herself in her work as a homicide detective...Categorized as:
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Ripper by Stefan Petrucha
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsYou thought you knew him. You were dead wrong.Carver Young dreams of becoming a detective, despite growing up in an orphanage with only crime novels to encourage him...Categorized as:
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Agent of Chaos by Kami Garcia
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHow did Fox Mulder become a believer? How did Dana Scully become a skeptic? The X-Files Origins has the answers.The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos explores the teen years of Fox Mulder, the beloved character depicted in the cult-favorite TV show The X-Files. His story is set in the spring of 1979, when serial murder, the occult, and government conspiracy were highlighted in the news... -
The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFrom the critically acclaimed author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon comes mind-bending speculative psychological suspense about a serial killer pursuing his victim across time and space, and the woman who is determined to stop him, even if it upends her own reality.I love you. In every world.Young real estate agent Madison May is shocked when a client at an open house says these words to her...Categorized as:
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The Hollow City by Dan Wells
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMichael Shipman is paranoid schizophrenic; he suffers from hallucinations, delusions, and complex fantasies of persecution and horror. That’s bad enough...Categorized as:
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Terminus by Adam Baker
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe world has been overrun by a lethal infection. Humanity ravaged by a pathogen that leaves victims demented, mutated, locked half-way between life and death. Major cities have been bombed. Manhattan has been reduced to radioactive rubble. A rescue squad enters the subway tunnels beneath New York... -
The Shimmer: A Novel by Carsten Stroud
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHow do you hunt a killer who can go back in time and make sure you're never born?A police pursuit kicks Sergeant Jack Redding of the Florida Highway Patrol and his trainee, Julie Karras, into a shoot-out that ends with one girl dead and another in cuffs, and the driver of the SUV fleeing into the Intracoastal Waterway... -
The Man from Primrose Lane by James Renner
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA mind-bending, genre-twisting debut novel In West Akron, there lived a reclusive elderly man who always wore mittens, even in July. He had no friends and no family; all over town, he was known only as the Man from Primrose Lane. And on a summer day in 2008, someone murdered him.Four years later, David Neff is a broken man... -
They Came with the Snow by Christopher Coleman
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe fight for survival started with a blast.Then it started snowing in May and the grid failed.Then they came.Who are they? And what do they want?Find out in this addicting post-apocalyptic survival horror thriller that will leave you wanting more...Categorized as:
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Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom by Brian Olsen
Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsLibrarian's note: This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B00DLJDRU2Alan Lennox has been assigned yet another soul-crushing temp job, keeping him from his first loves – drinking, playing video games, and looking for a boyfriend. But Alan’s new job proves to be anything but boring when his co-workers start turning up dead... -
Neuropath by R. Scott Bakker
Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsTom's life is not what it once was. His marriage to the beautiful Nora is on the rocks and he now sees his two young children only on her say-so. His best friend Neil has moved to California to teach neurology. He has one success - a book on human psychology. Tom wiles away the time trying to teach bored grad students. But that all changes when Neil comes back into his life... -
A Man of Shadows by Jeff Noon
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe brilliant, mind-bending return to science fiction by one of its most acclaimed visionaries Below the neon skies of Dayzone – where the lights never go out, and night has been banished – lowly private eye John Nyquist takes on a teenage runaway case. His quest takes him from Dayzone into the permanent dark of Nocturna...Categorized as:
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The EC Archives: Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 by Al Feldstein, Steven Spielberg
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis beautifully bound hardcover reprints the first six complete issues (24 stories) of the comic book Shock SuspenStories, originally published in 1952. Includes stories by William Gaines & Al Feldstein, with art by Jack Kamen, Jack Davis, Joe Orlando, Graham Ingles, and Wally Wood... -
MPD Psycho, Volume 7 by Eiji Otsuka
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOur conflicted "multiple personality detective" Kazuhiko Amamiya, controlled by his murderous Shinji Nishizono personality, finds himself on a hijacked airplane, along with innocent Miwa and her schoolmates... -
MPD Psycho, Volume 8 by Eiji Otsuka
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDark Horse Manga's daring MPD-Psycho series is completely unabridged in all of its gory glory -- exactly as it appeared when it first ran in Japan! MPD-Psycho has earned praise for its complex, shocking story arcs and artist Sho-u Tajima's stark, arresting art style -- that draws comparison with artist Charles Burns's work... -
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MPD Psycho Volume 9 by Eiji Otsuka
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs the mysteries surrounding the devious Gakuso Society and the 'eyeball murderers' continue to unravel, multiple personality detective Kazuhiko Amamiya seems to have returned from the grave, taking control of the Nishizono clone! Or is this just a ploy for young Tetora to negotiate his release and go off on another killing spree? The thickest "MPD-Psycho" volume yet brings us over two hundred... -
MPD Psycho Volume 6 by Eiji Otsuka
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeveral months after surviving the "Ghost Condo Massacre," our favorite multiple personality detective - the man we've known as Kazuhiko Amamiya - has been missing, possibly under the control of his unhinged, murderous Shinji Nishizono personality... -
MPD Psycho Volume 5 by Eiji Otsuka
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter last volume's surprising betrayal and bloodbath, Amamiya - the multiple personality detective of the Isono Criminal Research Lab - faces a new threat in the form of the young "Lucy 7" deviants! In the midst of new murderous messes, bumbling Detective Sasayama finds himself in a criminal profiler contest fueled by the Japanese media...
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