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  • Deep State by L.T. Ryan

    Deep State by L.T. Ryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After meeting with Jack Noble, things have been silent. Until Bear Logan receives a cryptic message that sends him to Chicago for a meeting. But Noble isn't there, and neither is anyone else. Bear soon finds himself teamed up with a green reporter who claims to have inside information about a brewing conspiracy that could have long-reaching ramifications...
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    crime  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction
  • Swift and Silent: A Jesse McDermitt Novel by Wayne Stinnett

    Swift and Silent: A Jesse McDermitt Novel by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Things in the Middle Florida Keys aren’t as idyllic as they seem. If one looks closely, there’s a layer of dirt just below the surface. The butt-ugly kind of dirt that’s hard to get off...
  • The Law Partners by John Ellsworth

    The Law Partners by John Ellsworth

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ARRESTED FOR A MURDER YOU DIDN'T COMMIT? Michael Gresham is a criminal attorney who defends his clients with an iron will. They know that when he takes their case they are probably going to leave the courthouse a free man or free woman. But what happens when the defender becomes the defendant himself? A law partner will have to step up and do for him what he can't do for himself...
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    crime  pulp  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  financial  legal
  • Monsters by Matt Rogers

    Monsters by Matt Rogers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    MORE MONEY, MORE MURDER…Heidi Waters, CEO of billion-dollar startup Vitality+, is all the rage in Silicon Valley. Her company’s promises to roll out a neurochemical cure for caffeine-related anxiety are set to change the game, a godsend for anyone who’s ever got the jitters from upsizing their morning coffee order.There’s just one problem.There is no cure. The product doesn’t work...
  • Outlive the Darkness by Jack Hunt

    Outlive the Darkness by Jack Hunt

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The fight to be free is at hand.As the nation struggles in the grip of a powerless world, the seaport town of Eureka, California, scrambles to recover from betrayal. When the most dangerous from Humboldt Correctional Facility escape, questions of leadership arise, and a deadly decision places the Rikers and the Stricklands in the crosshair of a ruthless adversary...
  • Fish On!: A Jesse McDermitt Novel by Wayne Stinnett

    Fish On!: A Jesse McDermitt Novel by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jesse McDermitt is finally ready to retire. But life has other plans. While diving on a remote reef deep in the backcountry of the Florida Keys with his wife, son and two friends, he discovers of all things, a car.Not just any car, but a 1928 Duesenberg Model J, the most powerful and stylish automobile of its time...
  • Sorin by Brooke Sivendra

    Sorin by Brooke Sivendra

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A code. A cult. A kidnapping. James Thomas is playing a deadly game of chess, but not everyone will survive…. Maya Ashwood has been taken hostage, and her kidnapper wants two things in exchange: James Thomas and Mak Ashwood.James must create a plan that will enable him to both rescue Maya and keep Mak safe from the clutches of the man hunting him.The stakes have never been higher...
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    crime  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  suspense
  • Rising Tide by Wayne Stinnett

    Rising Tide by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a small homemade boat drifts under the Seven Mile Bridge, Jesse McDermitt doesn’t hesitate to jump in and pull the boat ashore on Pigeon Key with an injured boy aboard. The boy provides more questions than answers. He’s believed to be a Cuban refugee, yet when he regains consciousness, he speaks perfect English, but can’t even remember his name...
  • Levon's Night by Chuck Dixon

    Levon's Night by Chuck Dixon

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A gang of vicious criminals hunts the world over for a cache of hundreds of millions in stolen currency. Their search brings them to a snowbound community in the dead of a Maine winter. They came one night to torture, rob and kill. They picked the wrong night. Levon's Night..
  • Fallen Tide by Wayne Stinnett

    Fallen Tide by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Coral branches rarely wear a wristwatch. That was Jesse McDermitt’s first thought when he found a partially denuded human arm, teeming with crab, lobster, and fish life, during his morning ocean swim...
  • Redemption Trail (Yakima Henry) by Peter Brandvold

    Redemption Trail (Yakima Henry) by Peter Brandvold

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lifelong loner Yakima Henry unexpectedly befriends Paul Cahill, an old prospector with roots in a once-wealthy Eastern family. When Cahill is mortally wounded by men stalking his and Yakima’s trail, Cahill asks Yakima to travel to northern Dakota Territory and deliver a letter and a belt stuffed with money to his estranged son...
  • The Templar Curse by Ernest Dempsey

    The Templar Curse by Ernest Dempsey

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Throughout the course of human warfare, no weapon has been as feared, as deadly, as the Ark of the Covenant. Legend claims that this mysterious, supernatural force, first carried into battle by the ancient Israelites, was so powerful that the Ark could lay waste to entire armies, entire cities in moments—thousands of years before the advent of nuclear bombs...
  • Steady As She Goes by Wayne Stinnett

    Steady As She Goes by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jesse McDermitt is starting a new chapter in his life. As captain of the research vessel Ambrosia, his stated mission is to study the oceans and seafloor, searching for rich oil deposits. His unstated mission is to locate and eradicate the enemies of society on behalf of Armstrong Research, a secretive organization funded by some of the wealthiest people on the planet...
  • All Ahead Full: A Jesse McDermitt Novel by Wayne Stinnett

    All Ahead Full: A Jesse McDermitt Novel by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jesse McDermitt discovers an environmental nightmare of deception and greed taking place in Central America. A cartel is branching into smuggling things other than drugs. And they’re doing it quite effectively.The Honduran rain forests and its inhabitants are at peril. The cartel needs hidden places to grow coca, used in the manufacture of cocaine...
  • Truth and Justice by Fern Michaels

    Truth and Justice by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fern Michaels is a national treasure, and her latest in the Sisterhood series finds the stalwart friends bringing justice—and hope—to families devastated by a greedy con artist.   The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and a quest for justice...
  • Fallen Angel by Wayne Stinnett

    Fallen Angel by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A rushed rescue mission doesn’t go as planned for retired Marine Jesse McDermitt and the crew of Gaspar's Revenge. The two kidnap victims are rescued, but they’d rather be taken back to the Jamaican drug runners who were hired to kill them than return home to laid-back Beaufort, South Carolina, and give the man who wants them dead the chance to hire someone more competent...
  • Carlos the Ant by John Ellsworth

    Carlos the Ant by John Ellsworth

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Carlos has a sick daughter and needs money. He's also an upstanding citizen who pays his taxes, puts in his forty hours, doesn't drink and carouse, and loves his wife. Still...he has nowhere else to turn. So Carlos gets money the old-fashioned way--he robs banks. The money comes pouring in but then a new man joins the crew and everything tumbles downhill...
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    crime  pulp  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  financial  legal
  • Serenity Engulfed by Craig A. Hart

    Serenity Engulfed by Craig A. Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Familiar enemies resurface in this blazing new thriller that finds Shelby racing against time to save the most important person in his life: his own child. When Shelby's daughter, Leslie, fails to show up at his cabin for her long-planned visit to northern Michigan, he's concerned, but makes excuses. When her car is found abandoned by the side of a tree-lined highway, he fears the worst...
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    crime  male-mc  pulp  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Levon's Hunt by Chuck Dixon

    Levon's Hunt by Chuck Dixon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A DARK AND TWISTED VIGILANTE JUSTICE SERIES THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN.Levon Cade uncovers more of the conspiracy that cost him the life of a beloved family member. All he wants is to be left alone to raise his daughters, but he can’t walk away from finding the men responsible for the death of his young cousin...
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    crime  male-mc  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  heist  justice
  • Cobra's Karma by Naomi Porter

    Cobra's Karma by Naomi Porter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new Knight's Legion MC chapter is heading your way!They say karma is a bitch. I grew up around the notorious Knight's Legion MC in North Dakota.They taught me two things.One: Their family and club come first.Two: Never betray a Knight.Seven years ago, Cobra and I hurt each other in the worst way.We’re horrible people.Some say we’re made for each other.Maybe we were, but not anymore...
  • Hustler's Hope by Naomi Porter

    Hustler's Hope by Naomi Porter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What they say is true, only abstinence is a sure thing.It was only three unforgettable encounters.Still, what the biker doesn't know won't hurt him.A sinful dirty talker, who calls me Nurse Naughty, isn’t daddy material.Or is he?When the truth comes out in the emergency room, Hustler claims me on the spot.He won’t take “not in this lifetime” for an answer...
  • Danger Rising by Katie Reus

    Danger Rising by Katie Reus

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s going after what’s hers.When Lana’s mom died, she was heartbroken. And when her mom’s business partner stole a priceless family heirloom, she vowed to get it back. The former thief has no problem taking what’s hers—except this time she ends up stealing more than she bargained for...
  • Holding Out For Forever by Vera Quinn, Monica Langley Holloway

    Holding Out For Forever by Vera Quinn, Monica Langley Holloway

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You can never go back... I thought I would never love again. I put the BlackPath MC and our families first. I have old enemies, mixed with new rivalries, that put everything at risk. Then I met her. One stolen kiss is all it took. I told her she would never be mine. Nine months later, and we have a permanent bond. Everything else doesn't matter...
  • Bloodlands by Mark Dawson

    Bloodlands by Mark Dawson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The cold of Siberia meets the chill of betrayal.In a world where loyalty is fleeting and alliances are temporary, John Milton is on a mission that will bring him face-to-face with enemies old and new. When his friend, Alex Hicks, finds himself pursued by mysterious adversaries, the two men are thrust back into the web of international espionage...
  • COASTAL CONSPIRACY: Coastal Adventure Series Number 1 by Don Rich

    COASTAL CONSPIRACY: Coastal Adventure Series Number 1 by Don Rich

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Michael "Murph" Murphy and his girlfriend, Lindsay Davis, weren't looking to get into real estate investing, but they knew not to pass up a great deal when they saw one. Mallard Cove Marina was ripe for the picking, and it fell right in their laps. But a mysterious bomber saw it as a great deal, too. He wants to kill their deal, and them along with it...
  • Fallen Honor by Wayne Stinnett

    Fallen Honor by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Key West’s sultry summer heat isn't for the faint of heart. But Michal Grabowski is running from a Pittsburgh cocaine dealer intent on killing him in a slow and painful manner, and Key West is the end of the road. Retired Marine Jesse McDermitt enjoys the summer heat and quiet solitude of his tiny island home in the back country...
  • Cold Blooded by Bernard Lee DeLeo

    Cold Blooded by Bernard Lee DeLeo

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Nick McCarty decides after ten years of black ops assassinations it's time for a change. Against the wishes of his shadow government bosses he has inexplicably managed to become a bestselling author with a string of novels about an assassin named Diego. The novels have made him world famous and provided a cover for his overseas sanctions...
  • Battling Troy by Winter Travers

    Battling Troy by Winter Travers

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A one night stand, that was all it was supposed to be. At least that's what Marley thought. After a blundered kidnapping, Troy and Marley are constantly thrown together, fighting an attraction they both don't want, but can't be denied...
  • Sakharov the Bear by John Ellsworth

    Sakharov the Bear by John Ellsworth

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JOHN ELLSWORTH A Legal Thriller - in a Russian Courtroom Drama Two CIA field operators obtain a bill of lading from an arms supplier in Moscow. Tracing the origin and destination of the weapons there is reason to believe a massive arms shipment has come into the U.S. through the Port of Long Beach...
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    crime  pulp  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  financial  legal
  • Man Overboard: A Jesse McDermitt Novel by Wayne Stinnett

    Man Overboard: A Jesse McDermitt Novel by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jesse McDermitt has returned to the Florida Keys. But things in the islands are different now. The locals are worried, but nobody can explain why. A sense of foreboding hangs in the humid July air.One of the locals, an investment banker, is waiting tables at the Rusty Anchor Bar and Grill. He seems a shell of the man he used to be, a hollow man whose fortune and wife are gone...
  • Shangri-La by Christopher Cartwright

    Shangri-La by Christopher Cartwright

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An ancient order concealed in shadow. A hidden battle that’s raged for millennia. A secret meeting of unimaginable significance. Shangri-La. For generations, few people have known whether that mythical paradise was real, or just a legend...
  • Protection by Kelly Fox

    Protection by Kelly Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I wait for the signal at crosswalks. I pay my taxes on time. And, despite my association with a certain Mafia family, I run a clean business providing security for Manhattan's wealthy elite.I don't break the law.Dr. Madhuban Laghari—Mads—is my newest protectee and my biggest problem. He fights his security protocols at every turn and makes me question all of my carefully crafted rules...
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    male-mc  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction
  • Tarzan: The Complete Adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs by Edgar Rice Burroughs

    Tarzan: The Complete Adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs by Edgar Rice Burroughs

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tarzan is the quintessential feral child, an archetypal wild boy lost in the jungle and raised by great apes. Created by author Edgar Rice Burroughs, the ape man character of Lord Greystoke continues to enthrall and captivate readers and audiences, the world over...
  • Jack Slater: A Long Year In Outlaw Country by Johnny Gunn

    Jack Slater: A Long Year In Outlaw Country by Johnny Gunn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Nevada ranch is hard enough to operate without bloodthirsty outlaws roaming through the territory, ranch hands dying from those attacks, and now a pregnant wife. Jack Slater, once an orphan boy on a train trip west, is facing A Long Year in Outlaw Country. “This is the 1880s, we’re supposed to be civilized,” Slater says following an attack that killed one of his best hands...
  • Dead Still by Barbara Ebel

    Dead Still by Barbara Ebel

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Annabel Tilson is a medical student finally liberated from the two-year confinement of lecture halls and gross anatomy. The first clinical rotation of her junior year is surgery where she has high hopes of mastering the basis of patient care like her famous neurosurgeon father...
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    crime  male-mc  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  legal  medical
  • Weapons by Matt Rogers

    Weapons by Matt Rogers

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    AN ARMY OF TWO FOR THE AGES... Jason King and Will Slater, the two most lethal operatives in government history, are out on their own. They’ve been through their personal journeys into hell, but they unite in New York City as brothers in arms. So begins a vigilante crusade against the city’s morally bankrupt inhabitants. But their private war doesn’t last long..
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    crime  male-mc  pulp  action-adventure  adult  book  espionage  fiction
  • The Happy Widow by David Crosby

    The Happy Widow by David Crosby

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Married and murdered—Wham, bam, scam you, ma'am...In his sixth hard boiled action thriller, reporter Will Harper attempts to balance the beginnings of new love with a treacherous fraud investigation. While trying to unmask scammers who target vulnerable elderly Floridians, Will risks angering homicidal con artists who will stop at nothing to extort their hapless victims...
  • The Norse Directive by Ernest Dempsey

    The Norse Directive by Ernest Dempsey

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Hold. On. Tight. Get two of Ernest Dempsey's introductory action adventure thrillers free plus a guide to the top 16 hidden mysteries on the planet FREE for a limited time. Look inside for details. In 1801, a British officer discovered a clue to one of the most coveted relics in history...
  • Palm Beach Pretenders by Tom Turner

    Palm Beach Pretenders by Tom Turner

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Mar-a-Lago…aka the winter White House. You’d think it would be the last place on earth where a double homicide would take place, right? Think again. And the line-up of suspects? Well, there’s the former porn king of Florida, throwing wild parties with hidden cameras everywhere. The billionaire with all his dirty little secrets. The gambling addict who’s in way, way over his head...
  • Rogue Wave by Christopher Cartwright

    Rogue Wave by Christopher Cartwright

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The offer – $20 billion split between four leading scientists on alternative energies to purchase and then squash their research lines, which include the recent discovery of a powerful new energy source capable of replacing mankind’s reliance on fossil fuels. There’s no doubt their discovery is worth ten times that much...
  • Complete Stories of Robert Bloch: Final Reckonings  (Complete Stories of Robert Bloch, Volume 1) by Robert Bloch

    Complete Stories of Robert Bloch: Final Reckonings (Complete Stories of Robert Bloch, Volume 1) by Robert Bloch

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Best known as the author of "Psycho", Robert Bloch is world-renowned for his stories of horror, mystery, fantasy, and science fiction. Many of the 25 stories in this first volume of "The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch" have been unavailable for decades. The stories are in his classic style of gripping suspense, science fiction and fantasy...
  • Bad Things by Tamara Thorne

    Bad Things by Tamara Thorne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The house has been in his family for generations. But it really belongs to them…The Piper clan emigrated from Scotland and founded the town of Santo Verde, California. The Gothic Victorian estate built there has housed the family for generations, and has also become home to an ancient evil forever linked to the Piper name…As a boy, Rick Piper discovered he had “the sight...
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    crime  pulp  action-adventure  adult  book  drama  fiction  horror
  • Chasing Risk by Brandt Legg

    Chasing Risk by Brandt Legg

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They know what you like, who your friends are.They know where you go, what you think.They know the risk you pose . . . And you know nothing.A fugitive billionaire and a former spy stumble onto an ominous program where everything about our modern lives is dissected, processed, and packaged, not to sell us things, but to sell us ideas, to control us, to make sure we don’t shatter the illusion...
  • Caribbean Gold by David Leadbeater

    Caribbean Gold by David Leadbeater

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The third thrilling archaeological adventure with Alicia Myles from No.1 bestselling Amazon author, David Leadbeater. Full of intense action and rich pirate history, Alicia Myles and the Gold Team follow four-hundred-year-old clues in their search for the long-lost treasure hoard of the fabled pirate, Captain Henry Morgan...
  • Buff's Reign by Naomi Porter

    Buff's Reign by Naomi Porter

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They say you can never go home again. I honestly can’t. My greatest regret is leaving my only love, Jonah Knight, for bigger and better things.Now I’m a college dropout, too proud to hear I told you so.Out of the blue, the cocky enforcer struts back into my life.Things take an unexpected turn when he sees me showing off my assets while serving up drinks in a biker bar...
  • Mahu Blood by Neil S. Plakcy

    Mahu Blood by Neil S. Plakcy

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two-time Lambda Literary Award finalist Neil Plakcy returns to the Hawaiian Islands with a new mystery about blood ties in a state torn by ethnic tension. Openly gay Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa'aka must investigate a series of murders that threaten his own family as well as the citizens he struggles to protect...
  • The Idiots' Club by Tony Moyle

    The Idiots' Club by Tony Moyle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Four middle-aged losers. Five ridiculous dares. One prize.Eric Gideon has always found it impossible to say ‘no’ to a challenge. Traverse the alps on a pogo stick? Absolutely. Blag your way into a Royal wedding? No problem. Swim the English Channel wearing handcuffs? Hold my beer...
  • The Shadow File by A.C. Fuller

    The Shadow File by A.C. Fuller

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    America's intelligence security is in the hands of a million private contractors. Now one woman may bring down their entire system.Four months ago, Alex Vane lost his friend James Stacy, killed by private security contractors working for the intelligence-industrial complex. Though Alex exposed the killers, most of the system survived, including the amoral torturer known only as Amand...
  • No Plan B by Lee Child, Andrew Child

    No Plan B by Lee Child, Andrew Child

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child. The plan: It's coming Fall 2022. No Plan B. In Gerrardsville, Colorado, two witnesses to the same tragedy give two different accounts. One guy sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus in what authorities will call a suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher...
  • The Amazon Code by Nick Thacker

    The Amazon Code by Nick Thacker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Deep within the Amazon rainforest, a secret lurks. A secret that could change the world....A secret worth killing for.When her company discovers a remarkable hidden message in the dreaming brains of her subjects, Dr. Amanda Meron unknowingly invites disaster unto her company. The clues seem to be pointing her to one of the remote places on the planet:The Amazon Rainforest...
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