Philip Marlow and Lew Archer would recognize a kindred spirit in Jimmy Gage, reporter for "SLAP" magazine, troublemaker by trade and inclination, and the hero of Robert Ferrigno s sinuous new crime novel. While taking part in a Hollywood scavenger hunt, Jimmy meets Garret Walsh, a bad-boy movie maker in the truest sense: He s just been released from prison after serving seven years for the murder of a teenaged girl. But Walsh claims he was framed and is writing a screenplay to prove it. He wants Jimmy to help him peddle it, sight unseen.
The next time Jimmy sees the director, he s...

When a psychopathic drug dealer forces Val to witness a cop's murder Val knows he is in deep trouble. The cop was his best friend and, like Val, one of the good guys. So Val, survival instincts on full alert, heads for California and a new identity.

Danny DiMedici's ex-wife Laura is missing, there's a corpse in her blood-splattered beach house, and Danny is the prime suspect. Desperate to get to Laura before the cops, Danny returns to the underworld he had known as a drug-dealer, a world of sex and drugs, casual violence and sudden death.

WHO WILL DOMINATE THE FINAL BATTLE FOR AMERICA--A FEARLESS SHADOW WARRIOR OR AN ISLAMIC MASTERMIND?
2045: The Islamic Republic and the Bible Belt--the warring nations that arose after the apocalyptic and economic collapse of the United States--are rife with intellectual and social decay, and to the south, the Aztlan Empire threatens encroachment. For genetically enhanced soldier Rakkim Epps, reuniting the factions and regaining America's former global standing rests on the discovery of a sacred relic lost in the contaminated ruins of Washington, D.C. In this deadly wasteland of diseased...

What would happen to America if the extremists won?
SEATTLE, 2040. The Space Needle lies crumpled. Veiled women hurry through the streets. Alcohol is outlawed, replaced by Jihad Cola, and mosques dot the skyline. New York and Washington, D.C., are nuclear wastelands. At the edges of the empire, Islamic and Christian forces fight for control, and rebels plot to regain free will.
Courageous rebel Sarah Dougan is a beautiful historian who uncovers information that will destabilize the nation. When she disappears, the security chief of the Islamic Republic of America calls upon Rakkim...