Jake Oliver is a rookie cop who discovers he has a knack for solving crimes but his superiors won't hear of it. Nor will they look at any of the evidence he has found that was overlooked by the crime scene people.The "Cleaner" at the scene has done a thorough job of disposing of all evidence but...
Exit 9 is the second book in the Project Eden series and yet another fantastic read from Brett continuing with his fast paced action keeping you gripped to the very last page.I literally burnt through both book one and this one as I couldn't put them down..,..Im loving this series.Turning digital...
This is the first novel I've read by Brett Battles. It will not be the last! Numerous authors have gotten tied up between the berries and cherries in their Fruit of the Looms trying to explain time travel paradoxes. Brett takes a loftier view. He doesn't spend a lot of time explaining the paradox...
Meet Jonathan Quinn: a freelance operative with a take-no-prisoners style and the heart of a loner. His job? Professional “cleaner.” Nothing too violent, just disposing of bodies, doing a little cleanup if necessary. But in Brett Battles’s electrifying debut novel, Quinn’s latest assignment will ...
The item being offered was a Caucasian female in her mid-twenties. A list of her physical traits was included, as were several photographs and the name she was currently using: Danielle Chad.The reserve opening bid price was $1.5 million. Because the identities of most interested parties were unk...
Even then, there were dozens of people about. It was New York after all, where the night people replaced the day people, keeping the city in constant motion. Escalators took him up several floors to the main lobby level. As he stepped off, his phone began to vibrate. He wasn’t surprised by the na...
GET UP now!Joel pushed himself up and looked around. The voice—he couldn’t tell if it was male or female—had come from somewhere in the room. But he was alone.Get up! Get up! Get up!He had no idea how it was possible, but the voice seemed to be coming from all sides of his bed. On your feet and g...
THE PEOPLE WHO HAD wanted Iris, the people who had tried to trap her in New York, the people who she was now one hundred percent positive killed her family had come within seconds of trapping her in her parents' house. She had thought for a moment that one of them, the man whose picture she'd see...
NATE SAID, as he raced out of the basement cell Mila had been in. He and Orlando had already checked the main floor and were now doing a thorough search of the area below ground. Orlando popped out of the cell she’d been going through and shook her head.“This place wasn’t built with any other way...
To say the job he’d just been on hadn’t gone according to plan would have been doing the colossal disaster an injustice. Lives had been lost, unnecessary ones, a list that could have very easily included his own name. That he got away uninjured was due purely to luck, and had nothing to do with h...
Logan found out the suited guy’s name was Baker, and he was an LAPD detective. He’d kept Logan waiting in a windowless room at the station for nearly an hour before he finally showed up, and started asking his questions. “I wasn’t running away from anything.”The man raised an eyebrow. “Really? Se...
She had, however, taken the supervisor’s chair in the Resistance base’s comm room.As she scanned the room, Aiden, one of the comm operators, caught her eye. “Yes?”“Just got off with Berlin,” he said. “The main building of NB098 is on fire and it looks like the base is undergoing a full evacuation...
“Things in our world are different, Johnny. You’ve got to worry about yourself, no one else.” It was a refrain Durrie had often preached. “There’s no room for anyone else. Others make things messy.” Once again, his old mentor’s message was clear. It was the same sermon Quinn had been hearing in h...
The analyst had left town in a hurry, but Gloria found it hard to believe he’d have gone without properly securing his place. Unsure what they would find, she and two of her men proceeded inside with extreme caution. They did a thorough check of the main floor first and found that the front door ...
“Yeah, I know,” Jonathan Quinn said. “Did you see him? I mean, where the hell was he?” “Doesn’t matter.” “Damn. Came out of nowhere.” The man sucked in a wet breath. “What’s your name?” Quinn asked. Even in his current condition, the man hesitated, then said, “Eric.” “You can call me Jonathan,” Q...
ALAN HAD asked.“I don’t have all the details,” Callie had told him. “Only that we were right. Sara is in trouble. But it’s more than just her. The people who are after her want Emily, too.”“Emily? Why would they want Emily?”Callie hadn’t had the answer for that, either. “I have a cabin in Big Bea...
Back on the street with no umbrella, they were both getting soaked, but if it bothered Liz, she didn’t say anything. She just held on to his hand and followed as close behind him as she could.He kept them moving in a westward direction, changing streets at random and always checking to make sure ...
Hangovers and catfights and bell rings and beer and dancing and half-worn bikinis and bar fines and pool and everything and anything that was Angeles—it was all part of the cycle that never ended. Get on or get off, because there was no in between.Isabel adapted quickly to her new role as waitres...
Norman DanielsJune 23, 1946, 2:15 am.The calm of late winter and early spring has truly ended. I was so sure I’d gotten a handle on everything, and that we wouldn’t see a resurgence of the psychotic episodes experienced in December and January.Unfortunately the vivid dreams, and the episodes of f...
“Maybe we can ask Dr. Karp when we see him.”“He did this to you?”“Not him directly. One of his colleagues.”“Now we’re back to the conspiracy theory,” he said.“Yeah, except this one isn’t a theory. It’s conspiracy reality.”Once Ash had realized his kids were still alive, the only thing he’d concen...
It took them forty-five minutes to get the BMW, Officer Davies’ Charger, and the sedan Durrie had been driving all together there. The car Larson had obtained before meeting up with Durrie at the observation point, they abandoned. It, like the vehicle Larson had left in the impound yard’s visitor...
It was more like a windowless office where the desk had been replaced by a cot. Anytime he needed to use the head, he had to wait until one of the guards checked on him, and then he was escorted down the hall.The guards weren’t NCIS, either. They also weren’t members of the contracted federal pol...
Rick said, his eyes narrowed to slits. “All you want to do is take what’s ours.”The teenager was sitting on the bed of the motel room he and Ginny had been put in after the previous evening’s events. Matt was surprised they hadn’t tried to get away. Of course, if they had, they would have found o...
Whatever. I’ve stopped caring. I’m not a bad guy, but you’re not going to believe that. People like you never do. You hear about what I do. You see how I live. You think, sleaze or deviant or something like that. Maybe you’re right. Maybe I’m all those things. I certainly don’t think God’s waitin...
CRYSTAL SAID, handing a headset to Ash. She then donned the second set and clicked CONNECT.The line rang only once before it was answered. “Nyla.”“It’s Crystal. I have Captain Ash here.”“Afternoon, Nyla.” Ash had met her in passing, but had never really talked to her.“Hello, Captain,” she said. “...