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Where sex and religion mix, nothing is ever simple... USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series When Silvie Martin moves to New York from Texas with her husband, Simon, and their one year-old daughter, Mary, she is filled with the joy and hope she derives from their shared faith. But no sooner have they moved into their new home, which backs on to their church, than her husband is brutally murdered before her very eyes. The only trouble is, the shock has completely erased her memory...Now, eighteen years later, Detectives Stone and Dehan have to piece together a crime where their prime witness remembers nothing, and the suspects are as bizarre as they are unlikely: Reverend Paul Truelove, bombastic and irresistible to women, Humberto, the mysterious, shambling freak who speaks a language only he understands, El Chato, the Mexican housebreaker, and even Sylvie herself...But Stone and Dehan know, where sex and religion mix, nothing is ever simple. And the deeper they investigate, the more convinced they are, there is something they are not seeing...

GET READY FOR THE CURTAIN CALL... USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series Detective John Stone is taking early retirement. He has informed the chief, Inspector John Newman; and his partner and wife, Carmen Dehan, is retiring with him. She is pregnant and both Stone and Dehan want a safe, secure environment for their future child. Their sights are set on New England, where Stone will write his memoirs. So the last thing either of them expects is a curtain call from one of Stone's old flames. Yet that is exactly what happens when actress Jane Morley, wife of Dan Santos, known collectively as America's Sweethearts, shows up and asks Stone to investigate a very particular cold case - the brutal murder of her friend and personal assistant, Kate Hagan ten years earlier. At the time Stone had refused to investigate because he had recently been personally involved with the actress. Now he can't refuse, but as the case unfolds and its dark shadows threaten to engulf his marriage and his future family, he will wish fervently that he could. But he know beyond doubt that all he can do is see it through to the bitter, twisted end.

...do you want to play a game? USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series There are a lot of things you really don't want to find when you're a homicide detective in the Bronx. High on the list is a new serial killer. Serial killers are real bad news because they kill without motive, so they are hard to trace and they can take years to catch. But even worse than a new serial killer, is a new kind of serial killer: one who murders with a motive, but a motive so unfathomable nobody can understand it; a motive that makes his choice of victims incomprehensible and unpredictable, a motive that leads to each victim being killed in a particularly cruel and unusual way. One thing - and one thing only - connects each of these awful crimes, and that's that each victim is made to die slowly, reflecting on the way they have lived, listening to some piece of ancient, sacred music. When the case finally reaches Detectives Stone and Dehan at the 43rd it is already six years old, and no closer to being solved than it was when the first victim died. To Stone it seems there is a sinister and intelligent hand at work - the hand of a fallen angel.

It was a hell of a trick... USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series Sue Benedict wasn't giving out treats, so she got the trick. It was a hell of a trick. She was raped and murdered in her apartment after attending a Halloween party with a bunch of art students. The killer did not use a condom or gloves, the CSI team got a perfect DNA profile and two perfect thumbprints from her throat, a witness saw her admit the killer to her apartment at two-thirty AM that night. It should have been a slam dunk. The only problem was, the DNA profile and the thumb prints didn't match anyone on CODIS or IAFIS, or anyone at the party. The killer, who made no effort to hide his identity, had vanished without a trace - just like the one witness who might actually have known what happened that night. And twelve years later the case is as cold as Sue Benedict, and the icy December wind coming in off the East River. So cold in fact that Detective Dehan of the NYPD thinks this may be the one case she and her partner, Detective Stone, will never crack. A hell of a trick.

It was a real Jack in the box. USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series Only this box was a UPS delivery to crime novelist Helena Magnusson, and the Jack was Jack Connors - her husband; or at least his head. The rest of him was probably in the East River somewhere. When Detectives Stone and Dehan of the 43rd Precinct reopen the case it isn't just cold - with no forensic evidence and no witnesses, it's nigh impossible to solve - and in an investigation that takes them from the Bronx, through Connecticut, right up to Malone on the Canadian border, the cold case team's list of suspects only seems to grow longer: Is it Connors' lover, the mysterious Penelope Peach? Or her jilted lover, ruthless South African arms dealer, Grant Shaw? Or is it Helena's creative writing student, Lenny dos Santos, now doing time for murder? Or is it none of them? But in this cold case, these questions are just the tip of the iceberg. Detective Dehan will discover that for her, the box holds a darker, more terrible revelation than she could possibly imagine...

The scene is brutal as it is precise... USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series When Karl and Christen Redfern were brutally murdered in their apartment in the Bronx, a lot of things were never explained, like why he was stabbed only twice, with clinical precision, but she was stabbed twenty times in the heart, in a crazed frenzy; like what happened to their Chevy Impala, and why Christen's sister, Ingrid, had never reported it missing. But the biggest mystery of all was perhaps where Karl and Christen's daughter Amy had disappeared to, along with her boyfriend, Charlie, on the very night of her parents' murder. These were the questions Detective Carmen Dehan of the 43rd Precinct had been asking herself for the past six years. But when she persuaded her partner, Detective John Stone, to take this as their next cold case, he was anything but prepared for the passion with which she would then pursue that investigation - an investigation that would take them from the Bronx to Iowa, and then Arizona and the Mexican border, an investigation with layers of dark secrets that would ultimately bring them face to face with Sinaloa's most ruthless Sicario, and test their relationship to the very limit.

A passion that led to hot-blooded murder... USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series All married couples should have interests outside the marriage. It's a truism, a maxim, a golden rule. It's also a recipe for disaster, if that interest turns to passion, not for what your doing, but who you're doing it with. Detective John Stone had a marriage made in heaven. His wife was young, beautiful and smart, and she was his partner in the Cold Cases unit at the 43rd. They were tight, close, and practically telepathic. At least, that was what he'd always thought - until she got an interest outside their marriage, and that interest became a passion. It was a passion for a youth club, a passion to help young kids escape the gangs and the crime of the Bronx. It was a passion that was keeping her away from home late into the night, week after week - a passion she shared with Sergeant Tony Sanchez of the 45th. A passion that had a hot coal burning in John Stone's belly, as he dined alone at home for the third month in a row. A passion that led to hot-blooded murder, with Dehan set squarely in the frame.

It should have been a slam-dunk...but they were missing one little thing... USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series Detective John Stone of the NYPD heads up the 43rd's cold case unit, in the Bronx. In a place like the Bronx you get a lot of cold cases. So Stone has one golden rule for investigating a case: it must have some remote chance of being solved. So what made him choose the Al' Chester case, the sixty year-old schizophrenic murdered on his birthday, twelve years earlier, alone in his apartment - a case where there was zero forensic evidence? The fact was, it should have been a slam-dunk. They had the time of death - ten thirty on the Friday night; cause of death - a single stab wound to the heart; motive - half a million bucks; prime suspect - a gang member seen on the night of the murder trying to break into the victim's house...only one thing was missing. Proof. The complete absence of any forensic evidence meant that somebody would be getting away with murder, unless Stone and Dehan could uncover the truth. But in this apparently insoluble case, the truth might turn out to be a lot darker than they expected.

Statistically people don't get murdered on Christmas day... USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series Lilith Jones was a statistical anomaly. Her mother found her face down on the frozen sidewalk, by the light of the single streetlamp on Pugsley Avenue, with her neighbor's scissors stuck in her back. The scissors belonged to her neighbor, and so did all the fingerprints on them. Her neighbor, Pat Perkins, hated Lilith. She hated her because her own husband, her brother and her daughter all loved Lilith. Lilith was charming, beautiful, smart and adorable. Now she was dead, too. But Pat, who was unlovable, ugly and stupid, had vanished without a trace, taking her Toyota RAV4 with her. BOLOs were issued nation wide, her financials were checked and rechecked, her phone was tapped, but it was like she had vanished off the face f the Earth. When Stone and Dehan take the case, it's a mystery, but the deeper they dig the more impenetrable it becomes, until they find Pat's lover, Bobby Hansen. Then the terrible truth begins to emerge...

Mommy's Boy had not killed for five years... USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series Mommy's Boy had not killed for five years. Detective Alvarez of the 43rd in the Bronx had lined up his suspects, but each of them had a more or less credible alibi and he was nowhere close to solving the case. Then the killings had stopped and the case went cold... Then, five years later, he killed again. And this time the chief wants him caught and dealt with-for good. So he calls in Stone and Dehan. This is one cold case which is hot and live. Because the clock is ticking and time is running out for the next girl who is going to be butchered. But as they start to review Alvarez' suspects, in particular Nelson Vargas of the Chupacabras gang, and the charismatic leader of the Church of Final Days, James Campbell, they begin to realize that Alvarez had overlooked one crucial possibility. A possibility that was going to cost lives... And then Dehan made a discovery. A discovery that would change everything, forever...

NEVER HAS SO MUCH BEEN AT STAKE, NEVER HAS THE PRIZE OF ABSOLUTE POWER BEEN MORE SEDUCTIVE... Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 5-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series The world population is hurtling toward nine billion; some say more than the planet can support. Two titanic blocks rule that population - East and West - bound together in a global economy - and a secret, war to the death. Never has so much been at stake, never has the prize of absolute power been more seductive. And never have the leaders of these titanic blocks been quite so insane. Insane enough to invoke the Son of Hell, to bring the war out of the shadows and fire down from Heaven; and count the dead not in dozens but millions. But in a war where the warriors are not men but robots and drones, how can you know your enemy? When Mason and Gallin are sent into Ukraine to meet an undercover agent from Moscow, they cannot imagine the maze of deceit, terror and madness they have entered. In a mission that will take them from DC to Kiev, Brussels and ultimately Lithuania and Kaliningrad, Mason and Gallin will be fighting the ultimate war to save humanity from itself... From the Son of Hell. Fans of Bond, Rapp, Harvath, and The Gray Man will love Alex Mason. A man who is a law until himself. Who will stop at nothing to protect freedom and innocence. Archer and Banner are at their best in their debut co-authored series full of espionage, intrigue, politics, and death. If that sounds appealing, give Mason a try. You won't be disappointed.

THAT SUITS HARRY JUST FINE...A ROGUE KILLER IS EXACTLY WHAT HE IS... USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series Harry Bauer was a professional killer. After eight years in the SAS he was the best in the business. That business was Cobra, a shadow agency that took out the trash that was beyond the reach of the law, those guilty of crimes against humanity. Now Harry has resigned. He purpose is to find peace.But when his former head of operation, Colonel Jane Harris, is gunned down and left fighting for her life under heavy guard at the hospital, Harry know he has one more shipment on trash to take out. His former boss, Brigadier 'Buddy' Byrd tells him to stay out of it - he also tells him their mark had been Russian Mafia selling next generation chemical weapons through Russian contacts at the United Nations.The Brigadier can't protect him, Cobra cannot protect him. If Harry goes after them he will do so as a rogue killer.That suits Harry just fine. A rogue killer is exactly what he is.

WE ARE ON THE BRINK OF AN EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT...Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 5-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series There is a time bomb ticking down toward a global extinction event. The bomb has a name, and everybody knows where it is. In fact, people pay to go and see it, and have picnics around it. It's called the Yellowstone Caldera, and when it next blows it will probably take out mankind.There is another time bomb ticking, maybe on a much shorter fuse, and it is also leading up to an extinction event for humankind. This one will be an explosion of intelligence - artificial intelligence - that threatens to turn and look at its creator, and find him wanting.When Alex Mason is sent by ODIN to investigate the death of anarchic genius Peter Justin at his cabin near the Yellowstone Caldera, what he finds is the ultimate nightmare. The two time bombs have linked and the countdown is on.The biggest IQs at the Rat Lab and Gordon Alistair Avionics, the giants of the military-industrial complex, are saying it's too late. Global AI is now a fact and its plans at the Caldera can't be stopped. Mason knows he has to prove them wrong. Either that, or...Game over.

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A SMIPLE KILL... USA TODAY & Amazon 2-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is back with a brand new gripping thriller series It was a simple kill.It should have been a simple killJan van Hoek was a mercenary and a very bad man. He had organized the massacre of three villages in the Republic of Cabinda-Itumba, on the west coast of Africa, and had received a medal from President Cosmo Manuel for his bravery in participating personally in the massacres. Over three-thousand people had died, men, women, children. Now he was in New York.For Harry Bauer it was a simple kill. He had the intel. He was home, alone. Turn up, execute the job, go home leaving the world a slightly better place.But somebody hadn't done their homework, and when Harry turned up, Jan was with a woman, a woman who picked up her purse and walked away, having seen Harry's face; a woman who turned out to be Jan's daughter, who turned out to work for Afro-American Petrochemicals in New York.A woman who was as beautiful as she was dangerous.Maybe Harry should have remembered from the start, there is no such thing as a simple kill...

He's a dinosaur...she's got a bad attitude. The Captain wants them gone, so she gives them the Cold Cases files. The one's nobody gives a damn about... USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best in this mystifying crime series Detective John Stone of the NYPD has the best arrest record in the 43rd precinct. But he's a dinosaur who belongs to another age. Detective Carmen Dehan has such a bad attitude that nobody at the precinct can stomach her. Captain Jennifer Cuevas wants them both out of the way and thinks they make a perfect pair. So she gives them the Cold Cases file - the cases nobody gives a damn about. She has no idea just how hot a cold case can get. Ten years back Nelson Hernandez and his four cousins were playing poker in a dive at Hunts Point. Somebody came in, blew them away and beheaded and castrated Nelson, leaving his head and his balls on the table. There was no shortage of suspects, the Jersey Mob, the Triads from Manhattan, or the 43rds own bent cop, Mick Harragan. But nobody was ever charged, and the night of the murder Mick Harragan went missing with Nelson's wife, Maria. Now Stone and Dehan plan to find him - whatever the consequences...

When your only training is as a first class killer, it can be hard to find a job on Main Street. Unless you work for Cobra, the secret agency that takes out the worst of the world's trash. So when Harry Bauer left the Regiment, the toughest special ops outfit on the planet, Cobra offered him a job, taking out the trash. Bauer had grown up fighting for survival on the streets of the Bronx. He knew everything there was to know about hard reality, and he didn't buy into fantasies or conspiracy theories. Until, that is, one came knocking on his door... There was nothing unreal about the job: a simple hit at Manhattan's Mandarin Oriental Hotel, on two of China's highest ranking biochemists, and two of the world's most evil men. But when Cobra High Command asks Bauer to find out why Zhao Li and Yang Dizhou are in New York in the first place, things turn dark. In a mission that will take him from New York to Casablanca, Algeria and Bangkok, Bauer will realize the hard way that sometimes conspiracy theories are real...

What do you do when the only skill you ever learned was how to kill, when you're among the best of the best, but they tell you you can't do that anymore? What do you do when they send you home from Afghanistan and tell you to get a job, like everybody else? But you're not like everybody else. After eight years as a trooper in the SAS, fighting the secret, untold wars in the deserts and the jungles of the world, Harry Bauer has been kicked out for attempting to assassinate Mohammed Ben Amini, the Butcher of Al-Landy. He's been sent home, to New York, where he was raised an orphan 'til he was old enough to split and join the special forces. Now he's back, and unemployed; until Russian Mafia boss Peter Rusanov offers him a job wiping out the Albanian Mafia. It's a job he figures could make him rich, until Colonel Jane Harris shows up, takes him for a ride to Pleasantville, and tells him about Cobra... Then all hell breaks loose.

One thing Harry Bauer knew for certain: He was not a man who could ever fall in love and make a home. Until it happened. And then he knew something else. He had to give up his job as an assassin for Cobra. He could not lie to that woman, he could not bring danger into her life. But then a hit squad came after him, and Cobra made him an offer he could not refuse. One last job, the Einstaat Brief, and they would keep her safe. One last job: A job that would take him to Andorra, high in the Pyrenees, to a secret conference of 130 of the world's most powerful men and women, cloistered in a luxury hotel to discuss the future of the world. Among them, Stephen Plant, Andrew Ashkenazi and William Hughes; IT billionaires, believers in 'strong Ai'. Each one of them must die. Because their plans for humanity cannot be allowed to succeed. There was just one problem. It had to be done then, right then, with no planning and no intel. And only Harry Bauer could do that...