When is it better to be dead than missing?A woman’s plea to find her missing husband sends Special Agent Kurt Hunter down a road he doesn’t want to go.For all its pristine beauty, Biscayne National Park can be deadly for those lost and unprepared. Open water and inhospitable islands are the most obvious obstacles in a life or death battle, but there is something even more dangerous than nature—man.The search leads to the mangrove-lined shores of the barrier islands, where smugglers and pirates have lurked for centuries. With the clock ticking on finding the man alive, Kurt and his team take to the backwaters of Biscayne Bay to find him.Backwater Squall is filled with all the colorful characters, tropical locations, Florida history, and marine action that readers have come to expect in the Kurt Hunter Mystery series.

The New York Times–bestselling author introduces a cutting-edge new hero out to stop ecological terrorists in this international techno-thriller. When a Texas oil refinery is destroyed by a "backpack" nuclear device, it's just one of many attacks on a multinational energy company. These acts of destruction are being perpetrated across the globe by a single group determined to stop the plundering of natural resources. To stop them before the strike again, the authorities call in military tech wiz Jason Richter and his top-secret counterterrorism unit Task Force TALON. To snare his opponents, Richter knows he must beat them at their own game: unconventional hit-and-run attacks that are brutal enough to strike fear into the heart of the most dedicated terrorist. Richter must also lead the way through a series of unexpected turns that uncover a mole operating within the upper echelons of government. If Richter fails, it won't be just the lives of his team that are lost, but America itself.

One bullet puts the plan in motion…"The best political thriller I have read in a long, long time?right up there with the very best of David Baldacci."—Michael Palmer, New York Times-bestselling author of Oath of Office An assassin's bullet changes the course of the presidential election—not by killing Democratic candidate Teddy Lodge but by killing his wife. Riding a wave of popular sympathy, Lodge surges forward as the man to beat for incumbent President Morgan Taylor.  Meanwhile, Secret Service Agent Scott Roarke is ordered by President Taylor to investigate the assassination, which unravels a deadly Soviet plot that has incubated for decades. But it's not just the Russians that Agent Roarke must contend with. Another nation has a sleeper agent—poised to forever alter American policy in the Middle East… "Grossman had done lots of research on everything from political infighting to clandestine military operations…holds reader interest right up to the inevitable conclusion."—Publishers Weekly

A U.S. Civil War veteran hoping to forget his dark past must choose between wealth & power or saving a town from a corrupt lawman in this western.Mason Hawke emerged from war a scarred man, a man unable to return to a life of power and privilege. His only way out is to start his life anew, concealing his past from those he encounters. But things don't always go according to plan, which Mason finds out when he stops in a town where he knows the local sheriff, a man who has the town under his thumb. All Mason wants to do is settle down and pretend the past never happened. But now he must decide whether to live the easy life, forgetting his past, or to risk sacrificing himself, and help the town break free of the tyrannical lawman, at the risk of exposing something he'd wanted to keep buried.

Not if... But when...A wounded, widowed, former Marine. A volcano triggered by the 9.0 earthquake they always said would happen. How long until society—the just, the criminals, everyone in between—realize that government just became inoperable for months... or years...?Phil Walker was already nearing his rope’s end. After losing his wife to cancer and his leg to a tragic incident, he spends his days wondering how to improve his relationship with his adult kids and running his local gun club. But when the largest unfathomable disasters in recorded history slam the Pacific Northwest like an apocalyptic hammer, he is thrust into a role he has never prepared for.Worried not just for his small family but for his larger collection of friends and community, he establishes an impromptu refugee camp at the gun range. Shelter, food, water, security—what was once almost a given, is now in critically short supply. While Phil struggles to keep his group organized, his kids face their own challenges in the new, dark and desperate world—and those with no morals see those same challenges as opportunities...The ports and highways are broken. Relief organizations can’t even begin to mount an impactful response. How long until Phil and his allies must become the new beacons of hope and order in the chaotic world?Tahoma’s Hammer is the realistic, frightening first book in the Cascadia Fallen trilogy.Cascadia Fallen Trilogy:Book 1 Tahoma’s HammerBook 2 Order DivestedBook 3 Spiritus Americae

From cyber-spy to cyber-warriors—they're the new defenders of world peace. First in the technothriller series from the New York Times–bestselling author. In Stephen Coonts'Deep Black, cowritten with Jim DeFelice, a spy plane gathering data on a new Russian weapon is blown out of the sky by a mysterious MiG. Is it an accident or the start of the next world war? One U.S. agency has what it takes to find out—the National Security Agency and its covert operations team: Deep Black. Working for the NSA, ex-Marine sniper Charlie Dean is dispatched to Russia, hooking up with former Delta Force trooper Lia DeFrancesca to find out what happened to the plane. The Deep Black team stumbles across an even more alarming secret—a plot to assassinate the Russian president and overthrow the democratic government by force. The coup could have dire consequences for Russia and the world. With no clearance from the government it's called on to protect, the National Security Agency goes to war. But before Lia and Dean can unravel the conspiracy, they learn that one of the spy plane's passengers—an NSA techie—survived the crash. Critical information could fall into enemy hands. And that enemy is playing to the death. Praise for Stephen Coonts "Coonts knows how to write and build suspense . . . this is the mark of a natural storyteller." —The New York Times Book Review "[Coonts] is a natural storyteller [with] a rare gift." —USA Today "The master of the techno thriller." —Publishers Weekly