Stories by @bloodshot05

Hard Target

Gideon Davis has settled into the quiet life of an academic and is weeks away from being married when he discovers evidence of an impending terrorist attack on U.S. soil. He brings his suspicions to his ex-girlfriend, FBI Agent Nancy Clement, but her bosses are leery of the meth-head informant affiliated with a white supremacist group. Both Gideon & Nancy become increasingly convinced that a serious plot exists, & they, along with Gideon's brother Tillman, race against time to stop the attack.

Gideon's War

Gideon Davis, is called on by family friend & government bigwig, Earl Parker to chaperone a rogue agent from Southeast Asia to D.C. The agent, Tillman Davis, has promised to turn himself in, but only to his brother, Gideon. Although the 2 brothers have been estranged for years, Gideon cannot fathom how his brother could have turned into a terrorist. But when the plan for Tillman’s surrender goes awry and Earl Parker is taken hostage, Gideon has to make his way to the Obelisk—the multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art oil rig that has been seized by Tillman himself. Only with the help of oil rig manager Kate Murphy can Gideon launch a one-man rescue.

Dead of Night

Since the tragic death of her partner, bestselling crime author Serena Winters hasn’t written a word. With deadlines looming, she packs up her grief and escapes from New York City to a secluded clifftop house in small-town California, hoping the change of scenery will cure her writer’s block. But as news of her arrival spreads, Serena finds herself facing strange accusations that she’s here to cash in on the house’s history. When she uncovers the chilling story of a young family who mysteriously vanished from the very same house thirty years earlier, she can’t help asking more questions. Someone in the local community doesn’t want the past dug up, though.

The Drowning Game

Nadia & Cass Brenner are heirs to an empire that builds superyachts for the rich. But the sisters’ entrée into the Asian market is cut short when Cass falls from a 40th-floor hotel window. A detective rules suicide. Nadia’s suspicious. Especially when she discovers Cass’s involvement in dangerously illicit activities. Pulled into the same web of betrayal & secrets that trapped her sister, Nadia is on the most perilous mission of her life. Because uncovering the truth behind her sister’s death could tear the Brenner family apart. Nadia must hold on to the one thing that can keep her safe. It’s the Brenner family Trust no one.

Denied Access

With CIA’s Moscow Station now paralyzed by catastrophic intelligence failures, the CIA seek help from Mitch Rapp, a newly minted assassin in the Orion program. But Rapp has problems of his own when his Swiss girlfriend’s granddad receives a box containing the head of a former Cold War comrade along with a note promising that Greta’s head will be next. Rapp finds himself in a war between the American & Russian intelligence services. To protect the woman he loves & save the CIA from destruction, Rapp must be willing to risk everything.

We Are All Guilty Here

Welcome to North Falls; a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think. Until the night of the fireworks. When 2 teenage girls vanish. For Officer Emmy Clifton, it’s personal. She turned away when her best friend's daughter needed help; & now she must bring her home. But as Emmy combs through the puzzle the girls left behind, she realizes she never really knew them. Nobody did. Every teenage girl has secrets. But who would kill for them?

In Too Deep

Reacher wakes up, alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a bed in a makeshift hospital room. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there. The last thing he can recall is the car he had hitched a ride in getting run off the road. The driver was killed. The people who staged the attack assume Reacher was the driver's accomplice & patch up his wounds as they plan to make him talk. A plan that will backfire spectacularly.

Desolation Code

When Kurt Austin & Joe Zavala investigate a mass stranding of aquatic life, they uncover a much deeper mystery. Someone soon steals NUMAs findings, forcing a high-speed chase. A cryptic text of odd phrases & numbers look like NUMA codes. But who could be tantalizing the crew with such specific knowledge of their tech? Are they being helped by an old friend, or lured into a trap by a traitor who knows a little too much about NUMAs inner workings?

The Waiting

Renée Ballard & the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit get a DNA connection between a recently arrested man & a serial rapist & murderer who went quiet 20 years ago. The arrested man is only 23, so the genetic link must be his father who was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a 5-year reign of terror in the city of angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets & legal hurdles. Meanwhile, Ballard’s badge, gun, & ID are stolen, a theft she can’t report without giving her enemies ammunition they need to end her career. She works the burglary alone, but her solo mission leads her into greater danger than she anticipates. She has no choice but to go outside the department & that leads her to the door of Harry Bosch. Finally, Ballard takes on a new volunteer on the cold case unit. Bosch’s daughter Maddie wants to supplement her work as a patrol officer on the night beat by investigating cases with Ballard.

Resurrection Walk

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back. After getting a wrongfully convicted man out of prison, he is inundated with pleas from incarcerated people claiming innocence. He enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, to weed through the letters. Bosch pulls a needle from the haystack: a woman in prison for killing her husband, but who still maintains her innocence. Bosch reviews the case and sees elements that don’t add up. Now Haller has an uphill battle in court, a David fighting Goliaths to vindicate his client.

Shadow of Doubt

A high-level Russian defector, a walking vault of secrets that could shatter the West, seeks asylum in Norway. Across the continent, in the heart of Paris, a lone French agent stumbles upon a conspiracy so explosive it could ignite a global firestorm. As alarm bells ring in Washington, the CIA’s most lethal weapon, Scot Harvath, is forced to choose between his conscience and his country.

Ghost Soldier

Cabrillo & the Oregon crew are tasked with investigating from Afghanistan to Kuala Lumpur to track a mysterious arms dealer, known only as the Vendor. Cabrillo goes undercover to find the Vendor’s base, but his adversary isn’t just an arms smuggler. He’s an arms maker, and Cabrillo just walked into a lethal military game designed to test the Vendor’s cutting-edge AI arsenal. The Vendor also has high-speed drones headed for a pivotal military site, & if the Oregon crew can’t stop him from releasing a deadly neurotoxin, the globe will erupt in conflict.

The Heist

In 1914, Isaac Bell attends a private meeting on Woodrow Wilson's presidential yacht, as Wilson addresses the newly launched regional Federal Reserve banks. Just after Wilson introduces a plan for new currency notes, the yacht comes under attack. The attack on the yacht is only the 1st of Bell's problems. He soon learns of a heist planned for the new federal printing and engraving building in D.C., where the new currency has been printed.

The Corsican Shadow

Dirk Pitt is on a diving expedition in the English Channel when he discovers a cache of uncut diamonds on a shipwreck. When the diamonds are stolen, Pitt & the NUMA agency find themselves up against a murderous cabal that soon reveals far more destructive plans than mere theft. Vital water treatment facilities around the globe are being targeted—placing the world’s population in grave peril. Only Dirk Pitt & his children, Summer & Dirk Jr., can locate the treasure that will preserve the soul of a nation...& save the world from catastrophe.

Condor's Fury

On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin & Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Going to help, they locate a damaged vessel & a incapacitated captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified & disoriented, almost brainwashed by "baffling lights" that circled the ship. Soon, they’re confronting Cuban mercenaries who plan to use modern airships, & a cutting-edge weapon to hijack a nuclear submarine, culminating in a life-or-death showdown in the skies.

Worst Case Scenario

When a pilot suffers a heart attack at 35,000 feet, a commercial airliner filled with passengers crashes into a nuclear power plant in the small town of Waketa, Minnesota, which becomes ground zero for a catastrophic national crisis with global implications. The International Nuclear Event Scale tracks nuclear disasters. It has 7 levels. Level 7 is a Major Accident, with only two on record: Fukushima & Chernobyl. There has never been a Level 8. Until now.

The Final Act

It’s been 20 years since Madison James had any success in Hollywood. Now she’s disappeared & her purse is found discarded in a Los Angeles park. The news spreads like wildfire & the struggling actress’s disappearance quickly becomes a national obsession. Detectives Sarah Delaney & Rob Moreno of the LAPD Missing Persons Unit take the case & Delaney & Moreno soon find themselves mired in Hollywood’s dark underbelly. As revelations from the past emerge, can the police find Madison before she becomes more than just missing?

Capture or Kill

2011. On a remote mountaintop overlooking the remains of the Iranian nuclear weapons programme, Azad Ashani watches a demonstration of a capability meant to upend America’s war in the Middle East. Ashani, Irene Kennedy’s back channel to the Iranian government, recognizes the demonstration’s true significance & the nation-ending conflict it will provoke. In Washington, DC, CIA director Irene Kennedy briefs the president that the operational window to kill or capture Osama bin Laden is rapidly closing. But before he’ll authorize a commando raid on Pakistani soil, the president demands irrefutable proof of bin Laden’s presence.

This is Why We Lied

GBI investigator Will Trent & medical examiner Sara Linton, go to McAlpine Lodge to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it’s perfect until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night. Mercy McAlpine, the manager of the Lodge, is dead. With a vicious storm raging & the one access road to the property washed out, the murderer must be someone on the mountain. But as Will & Sara investigate the McAlpine family & the other guests, they realize that everyone here is lying….Lying about their past. Lying to their family. Lying to themselves. Trapped on the resort, they must untangle a decades-old web of secrets to discover what happened to Mercy.

The Secret

1992. Eight respectable, people have been found dead across the US. These deaths look like accidents & don't appear to be connected. Until 1 body falls from a hospital window & generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who promptly calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher is assigned as the Army's representative. His mission is to uncover the truth. The question is: will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way . . . or his way?