Thrillers

Enrique Tavish owes Rosa Martinez a life.

Months after fifteen-year-old Rosa helped save his abducted daughter, Enrique learns that Rosa has been sold into sexual slavery by her brother. Driven by gratitude, guilt, and an attraction he won’t admit, the high school principal slips secretly away to search the brothels of Nogales, unsure whether he can bring Rosa home, or even find her at all.

Rosa refuses to remain a victim, but she has no intention of becoming Enrique’s grateful rescue. Fierce and calculating, she pulls him deeper into a violent struggle involving traffickers, gang loyalties, frightened children, and enemies who do not consider escape the end of an account.

As Enrique risks his marriage, career, and life to protect her, he must confront the possibility that his heroism and his hunger come from the same dangerous place. Because the more Rosa claims the right to decide who she will become, the harder it is for him to deny what others can already see.

She’s a Lot Like You is a relentless borderland crime novel about moral debt, desire, and the terrible difference between saving someone and believing you have the right to decide what their freedom should look like.

Former Navy SEAL Jack Landis may have taken on more than he can handle. While investigating a relatively simple slaughter of animals in Iraq, what he finds is an empty field with large pools of blood surrounded by mysterious scorch marks. It doesn’t take him long to conclude that the scorches could have been made by extremely powerful laser weapons. The resources it would take to build and deploy weaponry like that far exceeds what the Iraqis could muster. So the question becomes, who fired these weapons?

Back in Washington, CIA Deputy Director Richard North is outraged when he is passed over for the top job, a job that he had earned. Lou Pendleton is a buffoon and political lackey and won’t be hard to disgrace. But North quickly finds that Pendleton isn’t as easy to knock off the top spot as he had thought. When scandal doesn’t work, North turns to more extreme measures, putting the United States and thousands of lives in harm’s way.

Pendleton asks Jack to take on the responsibility for tracking down North and stopping him. This leads Landis to Russia and the Middle East, where he must rely on his training, instincts, and a network of allies, some more reliable than others, to navigate the labyrinth of clues to stop North from precipitating World War III.

Carrie Young’s life is one hot mess. The posh political aide is having an affair with her boss, a Congressman who is taking bribes from a major corporation. When a hit man kills the Congressman and sets Carrie up to die in an apparent murder/suicide, she is rescued by Spider Walsh, a soft-spoken janitor. The two strangers go on the run, pursued by an elite network of professional assassins, skilled men and women who do dirty work for the rich and powerful.

 With both the police and the ruthless group of mercenaries on their trail, Carrie and Spider venture deep into LA’s gang territory, where she must trust her mysterious protector and his friends to keep her alive. Their enemies will stop at nothing to keep Carrie from revealing vital secrets to the authorities. As they begin to fight back, Carrie learns that Spider is not just a janitor after all. In fact, he is a very dangerous man, with a few dark secrets of his own.

 “All the Devils is a wild and fast-paced thriller pitting brave and quick-witted heroes against a frightening array of vivid adversaries.” —Thomas Perry, author of Big Fish and The Informant