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While on a visit to the United States, Pope Pius XIII is kidnapped by a terrorist cell calling itself the Soldiers of Islam. If the United States and its allies do not meet their demands, they will execute the pope. So when FBI Specialist Shari Cohen is called to duty to track down the terrorist cell responsible, she learns that she is not alone. Deep behind the Vatican walls a secret order dispatches a clandestine op group of elite commandos known as the Vatican Knights. Their mission: bring the pope back alive. As Cohen and the Knights work in tandem they uncover a White House conspiracy involving high-ranking members on Capitol Hill. When she begins to get too close to the truth about the pope's kidnapping, she becomes the target of indigenous forces trying to keep the conspiracy safe. However, in order to get to her they must go through the Vatican Knights.

A series of short stories following Jesus's final week on Earth, from the raising of Lazarus to the empty tomb.

"How would you like to leave everything behind and start over on a new world? Make that mental leap and resolve to accept that everyone you knew on Earth would be dead by the time you arrived? You're excited for this new chance and the opportunity to help shape the new world. After eighty-eight years in cryosleep, you arrive to discover that faster transit was engineered a year after you left and an entire colony has already existed for thirty years--and they have no need or want for you. And the grandson you never knew runs the colony and hates you. This is Michael Lawton's story"--Back cover.

R.S. Belcher’s weird west world series is set in the damned and unnatural frontier town of Golgotha, a Nevada cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural secrets. This Golgotha series discounted ebundle includes: The Six-Gun Tarot, The Shotgun Arcana, The Queen of Swords “Wild, gritty, insanely inventive and a hell of a lot of fun!” --Jonathan Maberry, on The Six-Gun Tarot The Six-Gun Tarot The sheriff bears the mark of the noose around his neck; some say he is a dead man whose time has not yet come. His half-human deputy is kin to coyotes. The mayor guards a hoard of mythical treasures. A banker’s wife belongs to a secret order of assassins. And a shady saloon owner, whose fingers are in everyone’s business, may know more about the town’s true origins than he’s letting on. Some think the worst has come and gone, but the nightmarish trials of Golgotha have only just begun. The Shotgun Arcana Golgotha in 1870 is a haven for the blessed and the damned, including a fallen angel, a mad scientist, a pirate queen, and a deputy who is kin to coyotes. The town has come through many nightmarish trials. Now an army of 32 outlaws, lunatics, serial killers, and cannibals are converging on the town, drawn by a grisly relic that dates back to the Donner Party . . . and the dawn of humanity. The Queen of Swords Maude Stapleton, late of Golgotha, Nevada, is a respectable widow raising a daughter on her own. Few know that Maude belongs to an ancient order of assassins, the Daughters of Lilith, and is as well the great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Anne Bonney, the legendary female pirate. Leaving Golgotha in search of her daughter Constance, who has been taken from her, Maude travels to Charleston, South Carolina, only to find herself caught in the middle of a secret war between the Daughters of Lilith and their ancestral enemies, the monstrous Sons of Typhon Tor books by R. S. Belcher Nightwise The Brotherhood of the Wheel The Night Dahlia King of the Road At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Now, available for the first time together in a single volume: a digital-only, value-priced omnibus edition of the "Diogenes Trilogy": Brimstone, Dance of Death, and The Book of the Dead--featuring Pendergast's mysterious brother--by #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child. BRIMSTONE: A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate. There is a hoofprint scorched into the floor, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air. When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates the gruesome crime, he discovers that thirty years ago four men conjured something unspeakable. Has the devil come to claim his due? DANCE OF DEATH: Two brothers. One, top FBI Agent, Aloysius Pendergast. The other, Diogenes, a brilliant and twisted criminal. An undying hatred between them. Now, a perfect crime. And the ultimate challenge: Stop me if you can. BOOK OF THE DEAD: A talented FBI agent, rotting away in a high security prison for a murder he did not commit. His psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime. A young woman with an extraordinary past, on the edge of a violent breakdown. An ancient Egyptian tomb about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala, an enigmatic curse released. Memento Mori.