"The Murder Artist"
As a television news correspondent, Alex Callahan has seen more than his share of blood and death, and he knows what it means to be afraid. What he’s never known is the stark terror that grabs him on a tranquil summer afternoon when he ceases to be an observer of the dark side, and instead becomes enmeshed in it.
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| Writing as 'John Case,' Jim and Carolyn Hougan are best-selling authors. |
Separated from his wife and son, and struggling not to become a stranger to his six-year-old twin sons, Alex is logging some all-too-rare quality time with the boys when they vanish without a trace amid the hurly burly of a countryside Renaissance Fair.
Then the phone call. The slow steady breathing,and the familiar plaintive voice---“Daddy?”
When at last tell-tale signs reveal a hidden pattern of ghoulish and bizarre abductions, Alex quits his job, vowing to use his investigative skills to rescue his children from the shadowy figure dubbed ‘The Piper.’
Whoever this elusive stranger is, the profile that slowly emerges suggests a twisted soul bent on fulfilling an unspeakably dark dream. Not just a killer, Alex realizes, but a murder artist---with Alex’s boys scheduled to star in the artful spectacle of their own deaths.
"The Eighth Day"
For Danny Cray, a struggling artist and part-time private investigator, the offer is too good to be true. A wealthy, enigmatic lawyer, Jude Belzer, would like to retain Danny for a little damage control.
His client, an elusive billionaire named Zerevan Zebek, is the target of a vicious campaign in the Italian press that threatens to destroy his reputation. Belzer wants Danny to find out who is responsible –-- and he will pay handsomely.
Danny’s only lead is the meager estate of a recently deceased professor of religious studies, a man so deeply terrified that he buried himself alive in the basement of his isolated farmhouse.
And the moreDanny probes, the more apparent it becomes that nothing is what it seems. From the powerful world of Washington to the grandeur of Rome, from the mysteries of Istanbul to the high-stakes drama of SiliconValley, Danny is embroiled in a conspiracy as dark as the far side of the Moon.
"Super chilling tale of the Spanish Flu's revival (which killed 20- to 30-million people in 1918... Mind-blowing Arctic amazement and an unholy crew offanatics combine lethally to destroy the reader's sleep, as do the really smart (hero and heroine)... Far more more realistic than Stephen King's superflu in The Stand." Kirkus Reviews.
Whoever this elusive stranger is, the profile that slowly emerges suggests a twisted soul bent on fulfilling an unspeakably dark dream. Not just a killer, Alex realizes, but a murder artist---with Alex’s boys scheduled to star in the artful spectacle of their own deaths.
For Danny Cray, a struggling artist and part-time private investigator, the offer is too good to be true. A wealthy, enigmatic lawyer, Jude Belzer, would like to retain Danny for a little damage control.
His client, an elusive billionaire named Zerevan Zebek, is the target of a vicious campaign in the Italian press that threatens to destroy his reputation. Belzer wants Danny to find out who is responsible –-- and he will pay handsomely.
Danny’s only lead is the meager estate of a recently deceased professor of religious studies, a man so deeply terrified that he buried himself alive in the basement of his isolated farmhouse.
And the moreDanny probes, the more apparent it becomes that nothing is what it seems. From the powerful world of Washington to the grandeur of Rome, from the mysteries of Istanbul to the high-stakes drama of SiliconValley, Danny is embroiled in a conspiracy as dark as the far side of the Moon.
"The First Horseman"
An icebreaker forges through frozen waters to a remote island in the Arctic, carrying a scientific team that hopes to unearth the bodies of miners killed by the 1918 Spanish flu. Reporter Frank Daly has the story of a lifetime. But his plan to join the scientists on their historic mission is ruined by a ferocious storm. When he meets up with the ship upon its return to port in Norway, it is clear tht something has gone terribly wrong.
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"Eerie suspense... Thrusts readers into the thick of a rapid-fire plot... Keep[s] you turning the pages and praying that this is only fiction." -www.amazon.com
"Highly recommended...(a) page-turning scientific thriller...unnerving and compelling." Library
"Ghost Dancer"
International terrorism, arcane scientific breakthroughs, Ayn Rand, and Native American mysticism collide in Ghost Dancer by John Case.
When a brilliant scientist with a justifiable grudge against the United States uncovers the secrets to create a potential doomsday device from the notebooks of legendary Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla, his mission is crystal clear: "to stop the motor of the world."
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Jack Wilson has been an outsider from the day he was born. The orphaned offspring of a Caucasian and Native American, Jack was literally found on a Nevada doorstep. Named after the Northern Paiute spiritual leader who founded the Ghost Dance movement, Wilson grew up to be a virtuoso mathematician.
But when he tried to patent a groundbreaking invention, the U.S. government not only claimed eminent domain but also set him up and threw him in jail for conspiracy to commit murder.
Now free -- and allied with an al-Qaeda offshoot -- Wilson has traveled to Slovenia and, after much research, uncovered secrets from Tesla's notebooks to create a harmonic resonance device with enough power to destroy entire cities.
Now, with an operational doomsday device in his hands, the vengeance-obsessed ex-con sets his sights on America. With the U.S. government too busy -- or too inept -- to properly monitor Wilson, the only person that can stop him is an Irish-American photojournalist who has no idea just how dangerous he is…
