Stories by @bloodshot05

Blood on the Tracks

A young woman is found brutally murdered, & the main suspect is the victim’s fiancé, a scarred Iraq War vet known as the Burned Man. But railroad police Special Agent Sydney Rose Parnell, can't shake the feeling that larger forces are behind this apparent crime of passion. In the depths of an icy winter, Parnell and her K9 partner, Clyde, descend into the underground world of a savage gang of rail riders. There, they uncover a wide-reaching conspiracy & a series of shocking crimes. Crimes that threaten everything Parnell holds dear.

The Dark Hours

Working a graveyard shift, LAPD Detective Renée Ballard seeks shelter at the end of the countdown to wait out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air. As reports start to roll in, Ballard is called to a scene where an auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet. It doesn't take long for Ballard to determine that the bullet could not have fallen from the sky. Ballard’s investigation leads her to look into another unsolved murder, a case at 1 time worked by Detective Harry Bosch. Ballard is also on the hunt for a team of serial rapists, known only as the Midnight Men.

The Dark Room

Ex–crime reporter Leonard Blaylock spends his days, developing forgotten & discarded rolls of film. Then Leonard finds something no one would ever want to see captured on film; the murder of a young woman. But that’s impossible, because the woman is already dead. Leonard was there when it happened 5 years earlier. He has never been able to shake his guilt from that terrible night. It cost Leonard everything: his career, his fiancée, his future. But if the woman didn’t really die, then what actually happened?

Oath of Loyalty

President Anthony Cook is convinced that Mitch Rapp poses a mortal threat to him, so a truce is called between the 2 men: Rapp agrees to leave the country & stay in plain sight for as long as Cook is in the White House. In exchange, the administration agrees not to make any moves against him. This fragile détente holds until Cook’s security adviser convinces him that Rapp has no intention of honoring their agreement. So they leak the true identity of his partner, Claudia Gould. As Rapp races to neutralize the enemies he discovers a new assassin, known only as Legion, is after Claudia.

Enemy at the Gates

Mitch Rapp has worked for a number of presidents over his career, but Anthony Cook is unlike any he’s encountered before. Cunning & autocratic, he feels no loyalty to America’s institutions & is distrustful of the influence Rapp & CIA director Irene Kennedy have in Washington. When Kennedy discovers evidence of a mole scouring the Agency’s database for sensitive information on Nicholas Ward, the world’s 1st trillionaire, she convinces Rapp to take a job protecting him. In doing so, he finds himself walking an impossible tightrope: Keep the man alive, but also use him as bait.

The Lightning Rod

While working on a body before his funeral, mortician "Zig" Zigarowski discovers something he was never meant to see. That telling detail leads him to Dover Air Force Base, where he uncovers Mint's involvement in a top-secret military unit & his connection to military artist & Sergeant First Class Nola Brown. 2 years ago, Nola saved Zig's life, so he knows better than most that she's as volatile & dangerous as a bolt of lightning.

The Devil's Sea

Dirk Pitt & his best friend, Al Giordino, are ordered to recover a failed hypersonic missile from Luzon Strait. Only someone else is after it, too; a rogue Chinese military team that makes their own earthshattering discovery, hijacking a ship capable of stirring the waters of the deep into a veritable Devil’s Sea.

Girl, Forgotten

1982. Emily Vaughn goes to her high school prom. But by the end of the night, she will be dead. Nearly 40 years later, Andrea Oliver, newly qualified as a US Marshal, receives her first assignment: to go to Longbill Beach to protect a judge receiving death threats. But Andrea's real focus isn't the judge, it's Emily Vaughn. Nobody was ever convicted, her friends closed ranks, her family shut themselves off in their grief, the town moved on, so the killer is still out there. But now Andrea has a chance to find out what really happened.

Falling

You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight.

Total Power

When Mitch Rapp captures ISIS's top technology expert, he reveals that he was on his way to meet a man who claims to have the ability to bring down America's power grid. Rapp is determined to eliminate this shadowy figure, but the CIA's trap fails. The agency is still trying to determine what went wrong when ISIS operatives help this cyber terrorist do what he said he could - plunge the country into darkness. With no concept of how this unprecedented act was accomplished, the task of getting the power back on could take months. Perhaps even years.

Better off Dead

On a deserted Arizona road, where a Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around, nothing is as it seems. Minutes later Reacher is heading into the nearby border town, next to him is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent, who is trying to find her twin brother. He might have got mixed up with some dangerous people. Their leader has burrowed his influence deep into the town. There are people in this hostile, empty place who would rather die than reveal their secrets. But then, if Reacher is coming after you, you might be better off dead.

The Saboteurs

Detective Isaac Bell thwarts an assassination attempt of a United States Senator. This heroic rescue is just the start of the mystery for Bell, who suspects that the would-be assassins have a much larger & more dangerous agenda; one involving the nearly constructed Panama Canal. While the Senator supports the building of the canal, there are many, including a local Panamanian insurgency known as the Red Vipers, who never want to see the its completion.

Black Ice

Leaving his favorite Oslo café, Scot Harvath watches as a ghost climbs out of a taxi, a man he killed years ago, halfway around the world. How is he still alive? And what is he doing in Norway? In a race against time that will take him high above the Arctic Circle, Harvath will be tested in ways he has never imagined & pushed to a limit few human beings could ever endure.

Lethal Agent

A toxic presidential election is underway in an America already weakened by internal divisions. During which, ISIS kidnaps a French microbiologist & forces him to begin making anthrax. Slickly produced videos showing his progress & threatening an imminent attack are posted to the Internet. ISIS tries to smuggle the bioweapon across the border, but it’s really just a diversion. The terrorist organization needs to keep Mitch Rapp distracted long enough to weaponize a deadly virus. If they succeed, they’ll trigger a pandemic that could rewrite the world order.

Red War

When Russian president Maxim Krupin discovers that he has inoperable brain cancer, he’s determined to cling to power. Soon, his illness becomes serious enough to require a dramatic diversion against those who wish to take his power; war with the West. CIA director Irene Kennedy understands that the US is facing an opponent who has nothing to lose. The only way to avoid a confrontation that could leave millions dead is to send Mitch Rapp to Russia under impossibly dangerous orders. With the Kremlin’s entire security apparatus hunting him, he must find and kill a man many have deemed the most powerful in the world.

Enemy of the State

Mitch Rapp returns, as a Saudi prince is discovered using his fortunes to fund ISIS, re-opening secrets about the Saudi government's involvement in 9/11--secrets which the United States tried to bury.

Order to Kill

In an effort to keep Pakistani nukes from falling into the hands of terrorists, Mitch Rapp struggles to prevent the loss of these lethal weapons, particularly because Russia is also interested in the nukes, though not for the same reason as Rapp. To cover his tracks, Russia's President sends his top operative to confront Rapp in Pakistan.

The Survivor

Top secret data has been stolen from the CIA, and the only man who knows its hiding place is dead. CIA operative Mitch Rapp must race to find the classified information.

Sea Hawke

There's an unholy alliance of nations who are plotting to attack Western democracies. The intelligence leader of MI6 plans to use Hawke to drive a knife into the heart of this conspiracy. From an island base off Cuba to a secret jungle lair deep in the Amazon, Hawke will bring hell to those that threaten freedom & democracy.

Lonely Hearts

Christine Ryan is desperate to find her childhood friend Veronica Lowe. Veronica disappeared more than fifteen years ago, not long after having a child with a Death Row inmate, notorious serial killer Travis Dean Ford. When Ford’s widow, Jordana, is murdered in the same way as his victims, Christine fears Veronica and her daughter will be next. If they’re even still alive…