Stairway of the Gods takes readers on a magical journey to the Philippines and the heartland of its people in the Cordillera Mountains. Warren's tale of skullduggery unfolds on the slopes of the Banaue rice terraces when Paul and Joan Webster are trapped in the village after an earthquake. Paul is hospitalized and Joan is left alone to protect one of the most important discoveries of the Twentieth century-a treasure of gold and precious artifacts hidden in a cave during World War II-that some would kill for.

Jamie Edmondson is friends with nearly everybody, as long as they don't disagree with his strident views on the environment. When he leads an expedition up the California coast to the discovery of a new race of humans who live under the sea, things change. That's when he meets some really bad people who don't like humans that aren't human. We call them Neptunes, and this race of telepaths threatens everything we humans stand for. When Jamie falls for a beautiful young Neptune, he discovers that when you're underwater, no one can count your tears.

It's wedding bells for Megan Deschamps and Chris Girolami. She's a Grammy-nominated jazz singer; he's a Microsoft millionaire. They're about start a fairy-tale life together by exchanging marriage vows on a fabulous yacht in Hong Kong harbor. Until someone drops by and really spoils the party. When the Hong Kong triads go after Megan and Chris, Hong Kong comes to life in Vic Warren's latest novel. The Hitchcock-style thriller is Warren's third book.

The first two books in the series The Inspector Kwong Mysteries. The Quartz is the first in a new series called The Inspector Kwong Mysteries, based on characters from Warren's novel, Hong Kong Blues. The Quartz is not a whodunnit. It tracks the action in Hong Kong and Beijing of both Chief Inspector Lawrence Kwong and the villain, Vice Premier Xiao Mingyu, the fourth most powerful man in the People's Republic of China. Twists and turns along the way bring them face to face with each other. The McGuffin of the piece, the Qin Quartz, is a treasure from the tomb of Emperor Qin, the first...

"After this, what kind of songs do you think they'll be singing about her over their beers, mate? She's legend." In a way, that sums up my newest book, "Girl on a Dolphin." It's Book Two of The Neptune Chronicles, and it takes you deeper into their underwater world. "Daddy, daddy People on dolphins There are people on dolphins out there " Jamie and Mercy have been living on a tiny island for five years, and their daughter, Saffron, just ran in to tell them that she saw Neptunes riding on dolphins. They have to travel to both sides of the globe to forestall what people are calling "The...

Jamie Edmondson is friends with nearly everybody, as long as they don't disagree with his strident views on the environment. When he leads an expedition up the California coast to the discovery of a new race of humans who live under the sea, things change. That's when he meets some really bad people who don't like humans that aren't human. We call them Neptunes, and this race of telepaths threatens everything we humans stand for. When Jamie falls for a beautiful young Neptune, he discovers that when you're underwater, no one can count your tears.

Kwong and Matson end up in hot water with Chief Luk before he sends them both on vacation to save them and his budget. Deciding to visit some of Kwong's old friends in San Francisco, they encounter Kwong's one great love and nasty murder. Matson discovers Stone Arrogant Bastard Ale, and the two of them deal with the City by the Bay's twists and turns in the third instalment of The Inspector Kwong Mysteries. At turns light and violent, The Fog leaves you impatient for more. Published here for the first time, The Gift and The Shot are two shorter works somewhere between short stories and...