A deadly thrill ride featuring the "refreshingly amoral" Parker, "a thief who always gets away with the swag" (Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly).The hunter becomes prey, as a heist goes sour and Parker finds himself trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a bevy of local mobsters, in Slayground. There are no exits from Fun Island. Outnumbered and outgunned, Parker can't afford a single miscalculation. He's low on bullets and making it out alive is a long shot—but, as anyone who's crossed his path knows, no one is better at playing higher stakes with shorter odds.Praise for Richard Stark and Slayground"Energy and imagination light up virtually every page, as does some of the best hard-boiled prose ever to grace the noir genre." —Publishers Weekly"The caper novel, the story of a major criminal operation from the point of view of the participants, has no better practitioner than Richard Stark." —Anthony Boucher, The New York Times Book Review"Gritty and chillingly noir . . . [Stark] succeeds in demonstrating his total mastery of crime fiction." —Booklist"The Parker novels . . . are among the greatest hard-boiled writing of all time." —Financial Times

"Powered by relentless pacing and a story line abounding in subterfuge, treachery and subversion . . . [a] Ludlumesque page-turner." —Publishers WeeklyBestselling thriller writer Jack Higgins calls Tom Gabbay, "John le Carré with a witty ironic edge." In The Tehran Conviction, the acclaimed author of The Berlin Conspiracy and The Lisbon Crossing sends Agent Jack Teller to Iran during two equally volatile times in the nation's recent history: on the eve of a CIA-sponsored coup in1953, and in 1979, the year of the infamous Islamic revolution. Denver's Rocky Mountain News advises you to, "add [Gabbay's] name to the must-read list of thriller writers." Read The Tehran Conviction and see why."Told against the background of a real-life CIA coup, The Tehran Conviction mixes historical fact with vivid storytelling in ways that will delight readers of both." —Stephen Kinzer, New York Times–bestselling author of All the Shah's Men

The greatest moment in Roman history, from the perspective of the man who could have had it all. Julius Caesar is dead. Mark Antony, his second in command, is surely also in the sights of the assassins. But for Antony, where there is danger, there is opportunity. Can he seize the chance, and replace Caesar as Rome's undisputed ruler? The portents are good until a young man by the name of Octavian appears, claiming to be Caesar's heir The months and years that follow are a time of shifting alliances, betrayals and score settling. Above all, Antony must fulfil his vow to avenge Caesar and destroy his killers, Brutus and Cassius, while also stopping Rome from falling apart... Perfect for fans of S.J.A. Turney and Conn Iggulden.

Historian Cameron Thorne knows as much about the lost Templar treasure as anyone. Which makes him an ideal test subject in an macabre plot to download knowledge into a supercharged Artificial Intelligence model with an eye toward locating the treasure. Under hypnosis and truth serum, Cam has no choice but to cooperate. But he doesn't expect the model to link the missing treasure to obscure Biblical passages hinting at visitation by ancient aliens. Nor does he expect the model to attempt to destroy his life.Based on actual historical sources, and illustrated.Publishers Weekly says of the author, "BRODY DOES A TERRIFIC JOB OF WRAPPING HIS RESEARCH IN A FAST-PACED THRILL RIDE."This is a stand-alone novel with recurring characters. The books in this series can be read in any order.

The North Korean government is days away from realizing its nuclear ambitions and only the heroes of SEAL Team Six can stop it.Chief Warrant Officer Thomas Crocker of SEAL Team Six's Black Cell is in Las Vegas after conducting a training exercise in the desert with new members of the team. Lounging by the pool at Caesar's Palace, he witnesses an argument between hotel security guards and three Asian men in corporate attire that quickly turns physical. Giving chase, he soon corners the businessmen, who claim to be Chinese diplomats under the protection of diplomatic immunity. Except the men don't respond when the head of hotel security -- Crocker's old friend -- addresses them in Mandarin. That night, someone hacks into the Nevada Power Company system, and Las Vegas goes completely dark. The businessmen set their hotel suite on fire and escape amidst the chaos. At the same time, James Dawkins, a brilliant scientist with top-secret clearance, disappears from a conference in Geneva and wakes to find himself in a North Korean bunker with instructions to solve an engineering problem that will enable North Korea to launch nuclear attacks on its enemies worldwide. Chasing a trail of evidence that takes them from U.S. soil to international waters to China and North Korea, Crocker and the rest of SEAL Team Six find themselves in the middle of an international plot with dangerous geopolitical ramifications. The North Korean government will stop at nothing to realize its long-held nuclear ambitions -- but it'll have to get through some of America's most highly trained warriors first.