He’s a fish out of water, but he still has a bite. When disaster forces Stefan Mendoza out of retirement, the only work the world's deadliest assassin can find is for a rotten corporate executive. The job: Locate an invaluable secret prototype stolen by the couriers hired to transport it. But the grotesque murders preceding the theft are the real mystery, and as the hunt for the thieves expands into a broader and nastier conspiracy, the bodies continue to pile up. This omnibus collects Split Image, Hard Burn, and Null Point, the books of the Human Deception Trilogy. Don't miss out on this twisty, hard-hitting deep dive into the dark underbelly of intrigue and crime.

When the Earth burned, the lucky ones died. Major Gabby Alonso was as broken as her world, but she wouldn't let that stop her. Through determination and strength, she rose to lead a team of specialized soldiers and scientists. They trained to reclaim the Earth from ruin three centuries after entering suspended animation. But something went wrong, and Alonso woke to a world that was nothing like she expected. It's not just a climate disaster trying to kill her but the artificial intelligence meant to assist her. Now Alonso must find a way out of the Cheyenne Mountain facility designed to protect her team from the world outside before it turns into her tomb. Grab this collection of books four through six in the world of Burning Sands.

Bounty hunters, detectives, mercenaries—people with a particular set of skills. Four people with secrets to keep, each drawn to the fringes of human space. Three tales of mystery and suspense. A bounty hunter arrives on a mining colony, desperate for work, which she finds. But is she ready for what awaits her deep underground? A mercenary takes an assignment on a frontier colony world where a small group of religious zealots threaten to undo the fragile balance with the colonial government. Is she there to rescue the man who hired her team, or is there some other game at play? A private detective on the run finds himself caught up in the machinations of a research firm on the edge of collapse and the criminal underworld. And there’s more—a hidden threat that could undo everything the detective has worked so hard to accomplish. Grab this collection today, and launch yourself into the world of the Lancers.

The Metacorporate War is over. Now comes the hard part. After the death of the Elite Response Force's popular leader, Lonny Meyers assumes command of the United Nation's most powerful military force. So many threats to peace and stability remain that there's no time to search for a new commander. It's sink or swim, with the lives of his soldiers always at risk. Whether hunting for the most dangerous man in human space, fighting illegal armies, or battling a post-singularity AI, there's never a moment's rest for the ERF. If you like small-unit operations in space and on alien worlds, artificial intelligence and robots, and diabolical human traitors, this series is for you. For high-octane military science fiction, grab your copy of the Elite Response Force series. This omnibus collects all five of the ERF novels: Turning Point, Valley of Death, Jungle Dark, Chariot Bright, and Dawn Fire.

He agreed to one last job, and that job is going to kill him. When Riyun Molliro prevents a superior officer from committing a war crime, it destroys his career. With opportunities in the Outer Sphere drying up for his mercenary team, things look hopeless. Then comes the call he’s been desperate for, an opportunity that could turn everything around and salvage the group that has become like family to him. The job: locate a powerful executive’s missing daughter. It should be simple enough, but the search opens doors better left closed. Pick up this collection of all six books in the high-octane, dimension-hopping science fiction thriller series, and take a wild ride through the Infinite Realms.

"Stephen King has inspired millions of readers with his writing for more than four decades now, and this special volume of essays gathers together some of his high-profile fans to discuss why they love reading Stephen King. Many of these fans are acclaimed authors of fiction in their own right. Some of them have written insightful books about Stephen King's work, exploring how King's natural storytelling gift has allowed him to create stories that reach people in every language around the world. A few of them have even written, produced, and directed movie adaptations of King's most acclaimed works. Inside this book you will join Clive Barker, Stewart O'Nan, Richard Chizmar, Frank Darabont, Stephen Spignesi, Justin Brooks, Tony Magistrale, Michael R. Collings, Rocky Wood, Robin Furth, Kevin Quigley, Hans-Åke Lilja, Billy Chizmar, Jack Ketchum, Bev Vincent, Mick Garris, and Jay Franco as they discuss their love of reading Stephen King."--Page 4 of cover.

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another's pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? By confronting pain—real and imagined, her own and others'—Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. She draws from her own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in an exploration that extends far beyond her life, spanning wide-ranging territory—from poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarceration—in its search for a kind of sight shaped by humility and grace.