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His name is Mobius, and he is death.He has left a trail of corpses stretching from Denver to Los Angeles. Now fate has handed him a new kind of weapon, the deadly nerve gas VX, which can multiply the body count by a factor of hundreds.For FBI Special Agent Tess McCallum, it's a race against the clock to find Mobius before he stops the city's beating heart. But Mobius is closer than she knows ... and Tess herself may be his next victim."Unrelentingly suspenseful, this psychological chiller is only for those with a high terror threshold."-Publishers WeeklyMichael Prescott is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of more than 20 thrillers.

They call him the Rain Man. When the skies over Los Angeles darken with storm clouds, he goes to work - stealing victims, chaining them in the city's underground storm tunnels, and letting them drown.It's up to FBI Special Agent Tess McCallum to stop him - but to do so, she'll need the help of maverick security operative Abby Sinclair, who works outside the law. Together they may catch a killer ... if they don't kill each other first.Michael Prescott is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of more than 20 thrillers.

Dr. Robin Cameron explores the dark places of the mind, hoping to reform hardened criminals. For her, no one is beyond redemption. Still, she may have met her match in Justin Gray, a conscienceless serial killer with a taste for young girls. Girls like Robin's teenage daughter Megan - who, unknown to her mom, is venturing into some dark places of her own."Packed with psychological complexity, truly demented characters and nonstop, unexpected plot twists ...This dark, compulsive read messes with your mind and makes you love it."-Publishers WeeklyMichael Prescott is the New York Times and USA today best-selling author of more than 20 thrillers.

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes RIPTIDE, a dark, unsettling descent into old crimes and new madness. Jennifer Silence reads between the lines. A psycholinguistic analyst, she studies documents written by murderers, teasing out hidden clues. But nothing in her life has prepared her for the document that is now in her hands. A leather-bound diary from a crumbling crypt. The diary of Jack the Ripper. If it is genuine, it suggests a troubling connection between Jennifer's family and history's most infamous serial killer. A connection that may explain her father's suicide ... and her brother's mental illness. A connection that may implicate her brother in a new rash of killings, and prove that the Ripper's spirit still prowls dark streets and alleys, taking lives ... And the next victim may be Jennifer herself. RIPTIDE is the newest thriller from Michael Prescott, whose novels have been hailed as "brilliant ... chilling ... unrelentingly suspenseful" (Publishers Weekly), "harrowing ... intense" (Jeffery Deaver), "irresistible, un-put-downable" (Crescent Blues), and "stunning ... far above the usual offerings for the genre" (New Mystery Reader).

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes CHASING OMEGA, a 30,000 word paranormal thriller."Do you believe in life after death?" It's a question Daniel Brand finds himself answering after he picks up a mysterious woman on the side of an Arizona highway long after midnight. The issue isn't merely philosophical. His passenger, Claire Holland, is a psychic medium on the run from a secret conspiracy holding the key to the truth about life, death ... and what comes after. CHASING OMEGA is a fast-paced, twist-and-turn story of pursuit and betrayal, seasoned with cosmological speculation and spiritual exploration, from one of America's most widely read ebook writers.

New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of COLD AROUND THE HEART, FINAL SINS, and other thrillers, presents a collection of seventeen stories that run the gamut from mystery and suspense to horror, fantasy, and science-fiction. Many have never been published before. The stories include "Stalkerama," an Abby Sinclair adventure; "Rite of Passage," about a young boy who suspects his father of a terrible crime; "Long Goat," a tale of voodoo in Los Angeles; "Voivode," a search for the real Dracula; and the title story, "Steel Trap," about forbidden love in the red-light district of a future Singapore.

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Michael Prescott delivers a haunting story of fate, obsession, and murder in COMES THE DARK. Erica Garrison has long suspected her brother Robert of a terrible crime, but she has never sought proof, afraid of what she might find - until today. Now, in the secret underground caverns below the rural town of Barrow, Pennsylvania, she searches for the site of the childhood games she and Robert played - games that may have sparked a homicidal fascination that grips him to this day. And all the while her brother, and her past, are inexorably closing in ... "A harrowing thriller of the first order. Prescott's] character are flesh-and-blood real, the atmosphere's intense, and the plot races along unceasingly." - Jeffery Deaver

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and SHATTER, comes a relentless and explosive thriller. The people of Tuskett, California, sense something wrong with the man who comes striding out of the Mojave, the man with icy blue eyes. Something unnatural, like a prayer recited backward or a cross hung upside down. Something evil. Then darkness falls, draping the sleepy desert town like a burial shroud, and in the night shadows the man called Kane goes to work. And his work is death ... A motion picture adaptation of KANE is currently in development with Canadian production company Unstable Ground.

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of COLD AROUND THE HEART and BLOOD IN THE WATER, comes SHADOW DANCE, a chilling tale of nightmarish suspense. Little Timothy Cutter has a secret. He knows the truth behind his parents' inexplicable deaths. He knows about the runa: ageless, bodiless, a shadow thing that invades a human host and steals its victim's soul with a kiss ... Robert Thorn, too, has a secret. Twelve years ago he unleashed the runa on the world. Ever since, he has been stalking it across two continents, following a trail of corpses that cast no shadows. He has sworn to stop the runa ... and Timothy is the key. Only one thing stands in Thorn's way-Dr. Rachel Weiss, the therapist assigned to help the traumatized boy. In the concrete canyons and shadowed hilltops of Los Angeles, Timothy, Rachel, and Thorn find themselves locked in a deadly dance, as mankind's oldest enemy inexorably closes in ... Out of print for two decades, SHADOW DANCE is now available, newly revised, in this special e-book edition.

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes this exciting novel of relentless psychological suspense. John Cray has a secret. For twelve years he has stalked and kidnapped women, setting them loose in the mountains of eastern Arizona, hunting them like animals, and taking their lives. He has left no clues. He is suspected by no one. Or so he thinks. But now he has a problem. Somebody -- a woman whose name he doesn't know -- is stalking him. She follows him when he makes his nightly rounds in Tucson. She watches him on busy streetcorners and in shadowy restaurants. She seems to know his secret. But if so, why hasn't she gone to the police? Cray plans to turn the tables on his mysterious pursuer. He will become the predator, and she -- the prey. Once she's in his power, she will tell him who she is and what she's after. And then she will die. But even Cray isn't prepared to confront the truth when he discovers it -- or to deal with the shattering implications of a past he had thought long buried and an obsessive madness he cannot control ... "Stealing Faces is truly thrilling as well as chilling: I could not put this book down. Reading the first few chapters of this tale is like reading the climax for most thrillers and the excitement just keeps building. Michael Prescott knows how to keep readers' eyes glued to his pages.... I was completely hooked. Actually, more than completely hooked, I thought the lightning-paced thrills were going to give me a heart attack " - Judith Flavell, The Mystery Reader

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes SHATTER - a complex mystery thriller that "deftly weaves inventive characters and believable situations." (Publishers Weekly) They call him the Rag Doll Man. In the guise of a police officer, he prowls the streets of Los Angeles and the run-down suburb of Corona Beach, seeking victims among the forgotten girls who sell their bodies for a fistful of cash. LAPD detective Donna Wildman, trained in criminal profiling, is loaned out to Corona Beach to bring in the killer. But when the trail of clues twists toward the station house itself, Donna begins to fear that the Rag Doll Man may be one of her own colleagues - one who is watching her every move.

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes a terrifying story of obsession and murder.On a bad night in L.A., shy and timid Wendy Alden survives a terrifying encounter with a serial killer nicknamed the Gryphon. But the Gryphon isn't through with Wendy. His insane obsession drives him to strike at her again and again. And again ...

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of COLD AROUND THE HEART and BLOOD IN THE WATER, comes MANSTOPPER, a novel of ultimate horror. Four highly trained attack dogs are caged inside a truck traveling down a lonely stretch of New Jersey highway ... but not for long. When the truck crashes, the animals break loose. Bred to kill, they waste no time before claiming their first victim ... and then another ... and another .. As the death toll mounts, one man steps up to capture or destroy the feral animals - Karl Masterson, the man who bred and trained them, and who knows them better than anyone else. But even Masterson may be no match for the most cunning of all the dogs, the Doberman named Razor. Violent, bloody, and unrelentingly intense, MANSTOPPER was praised by Stephen King as "one of the best paperback originals of the year." Out of print for more than two decades, MANSTOPPER is again available in this special ebook edition.