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"An action-packed terrorist thriller, following veterans returning from Iraq. It ventures into the murky world of private security companies. Another absolute cracker from best-selling thriller writer Conrad Jones. The best new British author for years. Stephen Leather describes Soft Target as a 'corker'." ( Guardian Reviews)

A deranged husband and wife are committing horrible acts of torture and murder. They record their terrible crimes, and sell them as snuff videos to twisted people around the world. After hearing this horrific tale you'll think twice before running or answering an ad.

The plot begins with a sustained attack on security service personnel on both sides of the Atlantic. A synchronized three-prong attack with radioactive dispersal devices, or dirty bombs, against New York, Liverpool, and of course the holy city of Jerusalem. The nefarious Yasser Ahmed returns to haunt Tank; if you enjoyed listening to parts one and two, then this is a MUST-listen!

The final volume of the Hell Trilogy takes you on a writhing serpentine theme park type adventure. You become captive to a world of violence, the horrors of a drug addict's cravings and some highly innovative interrogation techniques Dick Cheney would applaud. It ends in justice - real justice - for those who genetically believe feral emotions running amuck are vengeance free.

It's Vietnam, 1969. After a Vietcong ambush, Navy SEAL Mel Stone recovers from a prolonged coma in a Montagnard village with no memory and an aging process that ended at age 22. Decades latter as his memory returns bit-by-bit, he realizes he has developed a miraculous medical condition. What some consider a blessing becomes a living hell when powerful men hunt him across four continents to tear the secret from Mel, dead or alive.

History is important to the understanding of life; it is hoped the reader will enjoy this study of a long-time family, their love for country, and accepting failure and defeat with victory. John-Jehu was said to be a successful businessman, early 1800s, and, since he was fluent in the Cherokee language, he had been in the employ of the Judge Advocate for the Cherokee before 1830. This really lines up with all we have learned of his life, and we hail him as a fine American, a patriot, with all the values that made this a great nation, that is, a voice for the weak, a love of justice, and human progress.

Conrad Jones has done it again with his Alec Ramsay books. Crime thriller writing that will have you chewing your fingers as you listen!

All Adam and Eve Gaunt wanted was to get out of the house for the weekend. Having limited funds, what better place to go than a flea market? How could they have known that at Legiondell, they would walk through a door taking them into a new life of vampirism, cannibalism, sex, and murder?

Conrad Jones has done it again with his Alec Ramsay books - crime thriller writing that will have you chewing your fingers as you listen! Soft Target is the first book in a series of thrillers that follow the hunt for a nefarious killer. The book begins in famous US tourist destinations where suicide bombers cause carnage before attacking the United Kingdom.

When Walter Thomas accepted the invitation of his friend Brett Fisher to attend the services at a small oneness Pentecostal church he did not know what he was getting into. Something in the atmosphere of the cult-like church tapped into the darkest recesses of his soul, and he found himself changing and becoming enmeshed in events that ultimately led to a series of gruesome murders. In this fact-based fictionalized novel, Thomas Weston knocks the props out from under the false oneness Pentecostal religion, exposing the deception and hypocrisy.

He likes hands. He likes their comfortable shape and weight and size. He likes the portability of the hands once they are severed from the rest of the ponderous body. He might carry them in his coat pocket, carry them to where he works, to the cafe, the park. But really, The Handyman isn't a selfish sort, the hands are for someone else, someone without proper hands of their own. And besides, the "donors" never felt any pain, they barely even bled. The Handyman had worked out every detail.

Handsome Jon Braw enjoys casually defrauding the women he hooks up with on Internet dating sites. His life changes the day he meets his match in Victoria, a female hustler hiding a deadly fetish. Jon gets sucked into her whirlwind of cunning, sex, murder and insanity, and it nearly destroys him. You'll be on the edge of your seat as author Thomas Weston guides you through calculated trysts and demented perversions to the surprise ending.

His family was brutally slaughtered by deranged thugs. Now former actor Ryne Lanark is channeling his explosive rage and extraordinary talents in a bold new direction - as a Chicago city cop.

After his family is brutally murdered by deranged thugs, Ryne Lanark decides to channel his violent rage constructively. He leaves his acting career behind, and signs on as a Chicago city cop. Using his mastery of disguise and calculating perseverance, Lanark winds his way through the seamy netherworld of drug dealers and killers. A tortured loner, a relentless crusader, Lt. Lanark is the ultimate equalizer.

When his entire family was brutally slaughtered, actor Ryne Lanark left the stage to become a cop, swearing revenge on the sadistic scum responsible. Using his mastery of disguise to head up Chicago P.D.'S elite DECOY squad, the relentless crusader has embarked of his own personal war of retribution. A tortured loner, a ruthless executioner, Ryne Lanark is on the streets - overstepping the boundaries of the law to mete out his own explosive brand of urban justice.

In the heart of New Orleans, Louisiana, Giuseppe ''Gary'' Antonini is a Sicilian immigrant who seeks to avenge the murder of his Cajun lover, Angelique Bouchard, at the hands of Father Maurice Rougeau, a former mob boss who has now resurfaced in Gary's life years later as a Born Again televangelist. The question is, will he finally be able to overcome the demons of his past and seek closure for the murdered love he almost married?

This ranks as one of the best books available about the Vietnam War from an ordinary soldier's point of view. A must read book. The author has captured the essence of that experience and that time in our history!

The Drone Incident centers on two men - miles apart geographically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally - whose lives collide in a dramatic confrontation. It is fast-paced tale of courage versus human frailty.

The theoretical history of the Knights Templar Order after their 1307 betrayal by the Catholic Church and the great arrest campaign led by Phillip the 4th of France. History gives us few details of what happened in those months and years that followed the arrests and eventual burning of their last public grandmaster. This book begins where their end was marked in history.