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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.

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.

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?

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».

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

When one retired CIA analyst plunges off a cliff in his vintage Porsche, it’s an unfortunate accident. When a second and then a third turn up dead under unusual circumstances, the CIA’s suspicions are confirmed: these men were murdered. All three analysts were once assigned to the same top-secret project: an internal review of the CIA’s own involvement in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Flying out of California’s sunny Rancho Bonita, Cordell Logan is a flight instructor and aspiring Buddhist whose attempt at a quiet(er) life is shattered when his ex-wife Savannah arrives on his doorstep. Her new husband—and Logan’s former comrade-in-arms—Arlo Echevarria, has been murdered and she needs his help.

One sweltering summer night, a notorious, international big-game hunter and his beautiful wife are shot dead—at long range—while swimming naked at their seaside estate in Rancho Bonita, California. The police are convinced the perpetrator is an outspoken animal-rights activist—who happens to have both military experience and a criminal record. The evidence seems overwhelming, but soon rumors start to surface that indicate there may be more than one person with the means and motive for murder.

Back in 1956, a cargo plane left a small airport outside Los Angeles and flew straight into a raging storm, never to be seen again. Sixty some years later, retired military assassin and would-be Buddhist Cordell Logan catches sight of something as he and his fiancé Savannah are flying over the Sierra Nevada Mountains. That tiny plane and its mysterious cargo have finally been found.

Moments before he is executed, the man who killed Hub Walker’s daughter makes a troubling allegation: that the real murderer was Walker’s close friend, an important US defense contractor. Walker—famed Vietnam War veteran and hero-pilot—is looking to hire someone willing to hunt down information that will refute the claim and help restore his friend’s good name. Enter Cordell Logan: civilian flight instructor, would-be Buddhist, and retired military assassin.

It is the year 1537. The great winged lion stares over a Venice where magic thrives. The rich Venetian Republic is a bastion of independence and tolerance. Perhaps for that reason, it is also corrupt, and rotten with intrigue. But for the young brothers, Marco and Benito Valdosta, vagabond and thief, Venice is simply home. They have no idea that they stand at the center of the city's coming struggle for its very life. They know nothing of the powerful forces moving in the background. They have barely heard of Chernobog, demon lord of the north, who is shifting his pawns to attack.