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Momentos antes de ser ejecutado, el hombre que mató a la hija de Hub Walker hace una inquietante acusación: que el verdadero asesino fue un amigo cercano de Walker, un importante contratista de defensa estadounidense. Walker—famoso veterano de la Guerra de Vietnam y piloto heroico—busca contratar a alguien dispuesto a investigar información que refute la acusación y ayude a restaurar el buen nombre de su amigo. Entra en escena Cordell Logan: instructor civil de vuelo, aspirante a budista y asesino militar retirado.

Un hombre desnudo cae del cielo nocturno y se estrella a través del techo de una casa rodante, y casi mata a la pareja de ancianos que se encontraba dentro. La víctima es pronto identificada como Pete Hostetler, un ejecutivo muy respetado de una empresa de fabricación de juguetes con sede en California. Pero los detectives están desconcertados, y no hay pistas. ¿Cayó accidentalmente de un avión o lo empujaron?

Motive. Means. Opportunity. Without proof of all three, the guilty can walk free. But even with an alibi, the innocent can still be condemned. For six award-winning, bestselling authors of psychological suspense, truth and lies weave together in a tangle of conflicting loyalties, hidden crimes, and dark secrets. Pull one thread, and there’s no telling what will unravel.

En 1956, un avión bimotor con una carga misteriosa despega de un pequeño aeropuerto en las afueras de Los Ángeles y vuela directamente hacia una furiosa tormenta, para no ser visto nunca más. Sesenta y tantos años después, Cordell Logan, un asesino militar retirado y aspirante a budista, divisa restos mientras él y su exesposa, Savannah, sobrevuelan las montañas de Sierra Nevada en California. El avión desaparecido hace tanto tiempo finalmente ha sido encontrado.

Establecido en la soleada Rancho Bonita de California, Cordell Logan es un instructor de vuelo y aspirante a budista con un pasado turbio cuyo intento de llevar una vida más tranquila se hace añicos cuando su ex esposa Savannah aparece sin previo aviso en su puerta. El nuevo esposo de ella, Arlo Echevarria—el hombre por el que dejó a Logan—ha sido asesinado en Los Ángeles.

It’s been over forty years since they were released from the “Hanoi Hilton"—a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam—and three American soldiers and ex-prisoners finally return to Vietnam. As part of an effort by the US government to settle a major trade agreement, these three men have agreed to make peace with one of their most brutal former captors—a guard they dubbed “Mr. Wonderful.” But when Mr. Wonderful is murdered, the three former POWs are the primary suspects and the multi-billion dollar deal threatens to unravel.

Han pasado más de cuarenta años desde que fueron liberados del “Hilton de Hanói”—un campo de prisioneros de guerra en Vietnam—y tres soldados estadounidenses y ex prisioneros finalmente regresan a Vietnam. Como parte de un esfuerzo del gobierno de EE. UU. para establecer un importante acuerdo comercial, estos tres hombres han aceptado hacer las paces con uno de sus antiguos captores más brutales—un guardia al que apodaron «Sr. Maravilla».

Cuando un ex analista de la CIA se precipita por un acantilado en su Porsche clásico, parece un desafortunado accidente. Cuando un segundo y luego un tercero aparecen muertos en circunstancias inusuales, las sospechas de la CIA se confirman: estos hombres fueron asesinados. Los tres analistas estuvieron asignados al mismo proyecto ultrasecreto: una revisión interna de la participación de la CIA en el asesinato del presidente John F. Kennedy.

En una sofocante noche de verano, un cazador internacional de caza mayor y su hermosa esposa son asesinados a tiros—a larga distancia—mientras nadan desnudos en su residencia frente al mar en Rancho Bonita, California. La policía está convencida de que el perpetrador es un activista por los derechos de los animales muy franco, que resulta tener tanto entrenamiento militar como antecedentes penales. La evidencia parece abrumadora. Pero entonces comienzan a circular rumores de que podría haber más de una persona con los medios y el motivo para cometer el asesinato.

Oh ye civilized of Earth: Send forth your outcasts, your primitive throwbacks, your religious fundamentalists, your sexual separatists - and heck, you can even toss in your totalitarian crackpots in the bargain. Pack them all in sealed habitats, rocket them into space, and pronounce good riddance to those lunatics, oddballs, and losers! But if you happen to be an alien explorer stranded on that ship and looking to find a way home, well then, your one chance lies in seeking out the true iconoclasts in a sea of nutcase societies.

An alien pyramid has appeared on Earth, squatting in the middle of Chicago. It is growing, destroying the city as it does, and nothing seems able to stop it, not even the might of the US military. Somehow, the alien device is snatching people and for unknown reasons transporting them into worlds of mythology. Dr. Lukacs is one of the victims. Granted, he's an expert on mythology. But myths are not something he'd thought to encounter personally. Or wanted to!

Lyonesse: a world formed by magic, where a dark power struggle is underway between an ancient sorceress with her shadow army and the human subjects of Lyonesse's power-mad wizard. The only spark of hope is a prophecy that tells of a Defender who will one day come and set things to right. Young Meb doesn't think she's obligated to be the prophesied Defender of Lyonesse, but she is adept at the universe-folding skill of Planomancy and has been trained by a world-walking troubleshooter of the multiverse, the great Dragon Fionn himself.

Tasmarin is a place of dragons, a plane cut off from all other worlds, where dragons can be dragons and humans can be dinner. It's a place of islands, forests, mountains, and wild oceans, filled with magical denizens. Fionn - the black dragon - calmly tells anyone who will listen that he's going to destroy the place. Of course he's a joker, a troublemaker, and a dragon of no fixed abode. No one ever believes him. He's dead serious.

Chip Connolly was a conscripted grunt in trouble. Here he was, stuck behind enemy lines with a bunch of cyber-uplifted rats and bats. Rats with human speech, but with rat values. Rats that knew what was worth fighting for: sex, food, and strong drink. True, they were holed up on a ruined wine-farm with enough brandy to swim in. Trouble was, there wasn't much food. And with shrew-metabolism the rats had to eat. He was next on the menu. The bats were no help: they were crazy revolutionaries planning to throw off the yoke of human enslavement with high explosive.

Captain Pausert just can’t catch a break! First, he became the mortal enemy of his fiancée, his home planet, the Empire - and even the Worm World, the darkest threat to mankind in all of space. All because he helped rescue three slave children from their masters. Of course, these three young women were the universally feared Witches of Karres - but how was he to know that?! And after he defeated the Worm World (with the help of the witches, of course), the Empress herself had sent him on a secret mission to stop a nanite plague that was raging across the galaxy.

In the sequel to Rats, Bats and Vats, the team of mentally gifted bats and rats, accompanied by their human leader, sets out to persuade an incompetent military bureaucracy that they are about to be invaded by a powerful alien conspiracy, joining forces with Fluff, the pet of one of the colony's ruling class, to save the world.

A mysterious pyramid appears in Chicago, oozing fantastic creatures and sucking humans into our own mythological past. It's an alien invasion from within! When a special forces team sent to capture an AWOL official gets into deep trouble with a certain one-eyed Norse god, redoubtable comparative mythologist Jerry Lukacs must rescue them, strike a deal with the droll and dangerous Loki, and risk bringing on Ragnarok itself to once again save human myth from alien domination.

Orkise is loose. The snake-god of plague has been awakened by Lucia del Maino, the bastard daughter of the recently overthrown duke of Milan, Phillipo Visconti. With the venomous magic of Orkise at her command, Lucia plots to marry and then murder the usurper who now rules Milan, the condottiere Carlo Sforza - known to friend and foe alike as the Wolf of the North.

Prince Manfred and his mentor and bodyguard, the deadly warrior Erik, survived dangers and enemies both natural and supernatural, and if they thought that their new mission was going to be anything but more of the same, they soon gave up on that hope.

If he’d known he was getting stuck with a pair of psi-wielding super-beings, even straitlaced do-gooder Captain Pausert might have thought twice about rescuing his two young “witch” charges from slavery on a dark planet. But what’s done is done - and with galactic peace once again threatened in the mysterious and pirate-ridden Chaladoor region, only a dangerous mission backward in time can save the present and - maybe - get stalwart-but-obtuse Pausert to see one of these young “witches” as more than just a friend.