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A distressed young woman falls under the spell of a homicidal maniac and becomes his partner in murder in this disturbing psychological thriller.Pondering suicide sitting on a Malibu dock one night after running away from home, doe-eyed young Mina Deerling meets smooth-talking Gage Catton, who is trying to load his wife's body wrapped in a blanket onto his boat. When Catton finds out to his shock that his wife is still alive in the blanket, he talks the distraught Mina into helping him finish her off with his knife. Together they put out to sea and, miles from shore, toss his wife's body overboard with an anchor bound to it.Mina learns that Catton faked his death a year ago and was trying to collect his half of the life insurance payout from his wife when he discovered she had double-crossed him and absconded with all of the money for herself.Now Catton wants that money, and he'll do anything to get it, including using Mina to help him achieve his goal in a psychopathic relationship that forces Mina to confront the horrors that lurk in the darkest corners of her mind in a nerve-racking voyage of self-discovery.Bryan Cassiday writes thrillers and horror fiction. His story "Boxed" was published in Shadows and Teeth Volume Two, which won both the International Book Award for adult horror fiction anthology 2017 and the Florida Association of Publishers and Authors President's Award gold medal for adult horror fiction anthology 2017.

Virulent pockets of plague, first reported in China, break out worldwide and spread with mind-boggling speed. CIA black ops agent Chad Halverson flies to Los Angeles to visit his brother after receiving a call that his brother has been hospitalized after a car accident. Halverson's Boeing 737 crash-lands in an eerie Los Angeles shrouded with an impenetrable haze of smog. But that is only the tip of the iceberg of Halverson's nightmare. Lurking in this mist are legions of plague-infected living dead who are driven by an all-consuming lust for human flesh. Halverson's reunion with his brother must take second place to his own struggle to stay alive.As civilization crumbles into chaos, it will take all the skills and wits Halverson and his fellow passengers possess for their hunted party to survive in a world overrun with hordes of flesh-craving zombies. Which will pose a bigger threat to Halverson and his ever-dwindling band--their own bickering as they try to organize and defend themselves, their enemies the living dead, or the new "civilization" of men that is superseding the old?

Comes a Chopper is a collection of Bryan Cassiday's new spine-tingling tales from the dark side. A gambler who can't sleep finds he has blood-curdling supernatural powers . . . A woman is kidnaped. As if that's not enough, now the kidnapers want her sister . . . A mortician can't forget the horrifying mistake he once made . . . An actor who fears a homicidal maniac is stalking him finds a terrifying impostor instead . . . A cell phone doesn't take calls. It gives orders to kill . . . A hit man seeks a way out of his profession only to descend into a satanic nightmare . . . A salesman is hypnotized before he turns into a zombie--with mortifying results. These are but a few of the heart-stopping stories in Comes a Chopper.

Haunted by self-loathing, Ethan Carr leaves the Los Angeles Police Department after he accidentally shoots to death an innocent boy on one of his assignments. Years later, he sets up shop as a private investigator and is hired by Richard Herbert to protect him from being assassinated for twenty-four hours until he meets his son. Herbert is on the lam from his employer US Cyber Command at the National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Maryland.He tells Carr he wants to reveal top secret intel to the media about a computer program Cybercom has invented that can infect and disable permanently any computer in the world. He is convinced the Equation Group, a shadowy arm of the NSA, is going to have him killed before he can reveal his intel to the media.Carr is reluctant to take on Herbert as a client, believing the US government might consider Herbert a traitor for publicizing top secret national security information. Carr decides to take the case because he doesn't believe the government has the right to assassinate its own citizens on American soil, which Herbert claims that they are about to do to him and that they have done to others.Carr's battle to keep himself and Herbert alive in a web of lies, cabals, and assassination plots that emanate from the highest seats of power becomes a battle for his tortured conscience, which is not only consumed with guilt from his erstwhile job but racked by qualms about his decision to protect Herbert, who could be a traitor to his country.

Wallowing in guilt for shooting an innocent boy with a ricocheting bullet when he used to work as an LAPD cop, PI Ethan Carr is hired by a distraught amnesiac who wants to find out who he is.An assailant firebombs Carr's Mini Cooper, and in the trunk cops discover a corpse--which is a dead ringer for the amnesiac.Several hours later the amnesiac is gunned down, and, to Carr's shock, another amnesiac, who is also a dead ringer, steps into Carr's office and wants to hire him to find out who he is.

Struggling horror novelist Bart Dillinger doesn't accept the official police report that says his girlfriend actress Jackie Merced committed suicide by shooting herself while driving off a cliff. He hires PI Ethan Carr to find out how she really died. Carr discovers secrets Dillinger didn't know about her which reveal she was more complicated than even he knew. Carr also discovers she belonged to a clandestine club of masked members in Hollywood who like to play games. These members include politicians and other movers and shakers. And the games they like to play are deadly.

"A bracing page-turner with an unconventional hero."--Kirkus Reviews"LA Noir meets International Espionage in this high-octane, edge-of-your-seat gem. Highly recommended for Michael Connelly fans."--BestThrillers.comPraise for Bryan Cassiday's Thrillers"A fast-paced detective novel, enhanced by exceptional characters and a striking ending."-Kirkus Reviews"From the very start, Bryan Cassiday spins what appears to be a typical Southern Californian private investigation novel in Bolt, but quickly takes off in a direction that speaks to our current troubled times. Well-plotted and crisply written, with great characterization, this is one to look for."-Brendan DuBois, coauthor with James Patterson of the New York Times best seller The Cornwalls Are Gone"A deftly crafted roller coaster of a ride for the reader, Bryan Cassiday's novel, Bolt, is a truly riveting read from cover to cover."-Midwest Book Review A Los Angeles private detective tracks a missing person to Las Vegas and becomes entangled in an international conspiracy to oust the president of the United States.Brunette bombshell Araceli hires Scott Brody PI to find her missing brother Damian, whose life is endangered in the neon-lit playground of Vegas. To save Damian, Brody must contend with Mafia leg breakers, feds, a murderous deep state cabal, CIA spooks, and a sicario hit team. Everybody, it seems, wants a piece of Damian, and they'll kill anyone who gets in their way.