Bluetick Revenge by Mark Cohen

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"Karlynn Slade is ready to tell U.S. Marshals everything she knows about the Sons of Satan, the most dangerous biker gang in Colorado. She already left her boyfriend, Thaddeus Bugg, the gang's leader. And she pocketed three hundred thousand dollars from the Sons before she left. But Karlynn needs one more thing before she starts talking: Prince, the purebred bluetick coonhound she shared with Bugg." "Private eye Pepper Keane has never dognapped before, but there's something about stealing from the Sons of Satan that appeals to his sense of humor. So when Karlynn's lawyer hires him to snatch Prince, the former Marine JAG packs some roast beef along with his Glock and goes. Before he knows it, he's also agreeing to babysit Karlynn, black leather boots and all, until the feds can set her up in the Witness Protection Program. Everything seems cozy until Bugg asks Pepper to find his "wife."" "The money is good (hard cash), and Pepper can't think of a better way to know the enemy and keep him away from his client, so Pepper accepts. Then the wrong someone sees Pepper and Karlynn together - and Bugg's woman disappears." As Pepper says, "this has got to rank right up there with the worst days of my life. We got the skinheads after us. We've got the Sons of Satan after us. The feds think we helped a critical witness disappear. We've been shot at and we've shot at people. I had to hitchhike in the snow. I spent twenty thousand dollars in drug money that isn't even mine on a new truck. And I just invited Uncle Ray to my house for the holidays. It's hard to imagine how it could get much worse."

Lucky You by Carl Hiaasen

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Grange, Florida, is famous for its miracles—the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the stigmata man. And now it has JoLayne Lucks, unlikely winner of the state lottery.

Unfortunately, JoLayne's winning ticket isn't the only one. The other belongs to Bodean Gazzer and his raunchy sidekick, Chub, who believe they're entitled to the whole $28 million jackpot. And they need it quickly, to start their own underground militia before NATO troops invade America.

But JoLayne Lucks has her own plans for the Lotto money—an Eden-like forest in Grange must be saved from strip-malling. When Bode and Chub brutally assault her and steal her ticket, JoLayne vows to track them down, take it back—and get revenge.

The only one who can help is Tom Krome, a big-city investigative journalist now bitterly consigned to writing frothy features for a midsized central Florida newspaper. With a persuasive nudge from JoLayne, Krome is about to become part of a story that's bigger and more bizarre than anything he's ever covered.

Chasing two heavily armed psychopaths down the coast of Florida is reckless enough, but Tom's got other problems—the murderous attention of a jealous judge; an actress wife who turns fugitive to avoid divorce court; an editor who speaks in tongues; and Tom's own growing fondness for the future millionairess with whom he's risking his neck.

The pursuit takes them from the surreal streets of Grange to a buzzard-infested island deep in Florida Bay, where they finally catch up with the fledgling militia—Chub, Bode Gazzer, a newly recruited convenience-store clerk and their baffled hostage, a Hooterswaitress.

The climax explodes with the hilarious mayhem that is Carl Hiaasen's hallmark. Lucky You is his funniest, most deliriously gripping novel yet.

The Devil's Banker by Christopher Reich

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The explosion that shatters the smart Parisian apartment reverberates around the globe. In an instant, a suspected terrorist is dead and half a million dollars has vanished. Within days, the CIA is certain it has found a connection between the dead man and a planned terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Determined to avert another 9/11, they have assembled an elite counterterrorist task force, code name: Blood Money. Its mission: to follow the money trail. Its secret weapon: forensic accountant Adam Chapel. A man who trusts numbers more than people, Chapel has his own reasons for wanting to get the job done - four of his colleagues were killed in the Paris blast. Now Chapel is thrust back into the line of fire when he teams up with British intelligence agent Sarah Churchill. The two are assigned to hunt down a shadowy mastermind who is moving vast sums of money from country to country, from bank to bank, leaving no tracks - as he prepares for an Armageddon of his own devising.
As Chapel follows a disappearing money trail from Paris to Munich to the deserts of Saudi Arabia, Sarah uses her elite training to stalk the "shadow" and his elusive network. Meanwhile, their quarry is auditing their every move, laying a twisting trail of false clues and shocking surprises. With the clock ticking down, soon Chapel and Sarah have only days, hours, minutes to avert disaster as a master terrorist plots to unleash the first strike in a brilliantly orchestrated conspiracy - with an almost unimaginable goal.

Code Name: Gentkill by Paul Lindsay

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There's a sadistic serial killer on the loose in Detroit, and he's targeted shocking victims: FBI agents. As the Bureau desperately tries to identify this murderer, a horrifying extortion scheme begins when a sophisticated bomber demands five million dollars to call off his attacks on a children's hospital. How these horrific crimes intersect is the thrilling story of Code Name: Gentkill, Paul Lindsay's new page-turning triumph. A former highly decorated FBI agent himself, Lindsay knows his territory. His debut novel, Witness to the Truth, a bestseller and critical smash, took readers inside the FBI's innermost workings: the breakthroughs, the detective work, the foolish bureaucrats, and, yes, the courage to do right at any price. Bringing back the hero of Witness to the Truth, Mike Devlin, the Bureau's toughest, most smart-ass, and most frequently reprimanded special agent, Lindsay brings a savvy authenticity to Code Name: Gentkill that carries excitement to each page, breathtaking reality to every scene. With the verisimilitude of Joseph Wambaugh and the wit of Elmore Leonard, Paul Lindsay has produced another triumph of suspense.

Infernal by F. Paul Wilson

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"The ninth Repairman Jack novel begins with a tragedy that throws Jack together with his brother, Tom, a judge from Philadelphia. They've never been close, and Jack, the career criminal, soon finds that he adheres to a higher ethical standard than his brother the judge." "Determined to get to know his brother better, Tom convinces Jack to go on a wild treasure hunt with him. Armed only with a map pointing the way to a desolate wreck off the coast of Bermuda, the brothers come across something much stranger, and much more dangerous, than mere treasure. Part organic, part man-made, the object is known as the Lilitongue of Gefreda. Ancient lore claims that it is a means "to elude all enemies and leave them helpless."" "Why does Tom want such a thing?" "But there's another, bigger question: If the Lilitongue lives up to the legend, where does it take you? No one seems to know." Matters take a bizarre and ominous turn when the Lilitongue is accidentally activated.

Troubleshooter by Gregg Hurwitz

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"This book features deputy U.S. Marshal Tim Rackley - a lawman driven by honor, morality, and a thirst for justice." "The leader of one of the country's most violent biker gangs, Den Laurey should have been behind bars. But thanks to a daring escape on an L.A. freeway, several deputy marshals are dead and Laurey is riding free. Rackley, back on the Service's warrant squad, is in hot pursuit of the outlaw and his ruthless gang - with a media whirlwind and the entire Los Angeles law-enforcement community driving him." Just when Laurey is within his grasp, circumstances force Rackley to let him go - with devastating results. A few miles up the road, a sheriff's deputy is attacked: Tim's pregnant wife, Dray. Driven by guilt, Tim vows to hunt Laurey down - a search that will lead him into a dark world of deception and lies, a world of criminals and undercover cops, drugs and mutilation. And the key to the violent puzzle lies in the discarded corpses of women - women for whom Tim must seek justice when no one else will. With the stakes rising, Tim must unravel a horrifying secret and confront a deadly terror that reaches from the back alleys of Mexico to the poppy fields of Afghanistan ... and threatens to explode on the dark streets of L.A.

IN THE LAKE OF THE MOON by Lindsey

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The assault began innocuously enough. Four envelopes delivered through the U.S. mail, four mysterious photos, and then a picture that would draw Houston detective Stuarty Haydon into a nightmare world of grisly death and dark obsession. For the fifth photograph was of Hayden himself . . . with a carefully drawn bullet exploding through the back of his head. Series:
Stuart Haydon Series

Map of Bones by James Rollins

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"The crime is inhumanly cruel with horrific consequences both unthinkable and inevitable. During a service at a cathedral in Cologne, Germany, a band of armed intruders dressed in monks' robes unleash a nightmare of blood and terror, ruthlessly gunning down worshippers and clergy alike. The killers haven't come for the church's gold and valuable artwork, but for a priceless treasure secreted within: the preserved bones of the Three Magi who once came to pay homage to a newborn savior. As they flee the carnage they have wrought, they carry a prize that could reshape the world." "The Vatican is in turmoil, and Lieutenant Rachel Verona of Rome's carabinieri is assigned to lead the investigation. But no ordinary police organization alone can deal with the bizarre theft and massacre, and SIGMA Force - an elite covert arm of the U.S. Defense Department - is called in under the command of Grayson Pierce. New to SIGMA, Pierce assembles a crack team of scientific and Special Forces operatives to unravel the mystery of the stolen bones, and together they set out on a twisting trail through a labyrinth of clues and dark revelations that carry them to the sites of the Seven Wonders of the World - and to the doorstep of the mystical and terrifying Dragon Court." An ancient, secret fraternity of alchemists and assassins, the master-adepts of the Dragon Court have plans for the sacred remains that will alter the future of humankind in devastating ways that only the maddest of zealots could desire - and they will let nothing and no one stand in their way. Suddenly Pierce, Verona, and the SIGMA team are the hunted as well as the hunters, forced to use every skill they possess to survive as they follow the bones to the ultimate confrontation between darkness and light - in a lost place of history where science and religion will unite to unleash a horror not seen since the beginning of time.
Truly escapist fare ... reminiscent of Indiana Jones...Too contrived action sequences at times

Killer Swell by Jeff Shelby

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"Noah Braddock isn't your typical angst-ridden, liquor-swilling, grizzled PI. In fact, he's fairly young - just shy of thirty - and overall, baby, life is good. His job as a PI gives him plenty of time to surf and makes him enough money to keep his beachfront apartment and a six-pack of beer in the fridge." "His life gets a lot more complicated however when Marilyn Crier, the mother of his high school girlfriend, Kate, calls him out of the blue and tells him that Kate is missing - and she wants Noah to find her." Noah's more than a touch surprised that Marilyn wants to hire him - after all, when he was in high school, she'd made it clear that her daughter should be dating someone more suitable, not a surfer from the wrong side of the tracks. Although he's reluctant to get involved, he can't say no, not when Kate might be in danger. The more he investigates her disappearance, though, the more he realizes that Kate wasn't the person he remembered - and that to learn the truth, he must first confront the dark corners of his own past.

Marker by Robin Cook
Curious medical examiner follows a trail of suspicious deaths at a prominent Manhattan hospital uncovering a conspiracy by a healthcare provider to kill subscribers predisposed to serious illness due to mutated genes.

Dead at Daybreak by Deon Meyer

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"An antiques dealer in Cape Town is found dead, killed execution-style with a single shot to the back of the head. The contents of his safe are missing, suggesting robbery, but the weapon used in the killing is an M16 - a gun that's generally the choice of mercenaries, not burglars." "Zet van Heerden is a former police officer with connections to the world of soldiers and mercenary fighters from South Africa's battles for independence. And when he's called in to find out more about the victim, he quickly learns that this man in his fifties has no traces of a life earlier than 1983. Who was Johannes Jacobus Smit, and how did he invent a new life for himself out of nothing? What are the secrets that might have gotten him killed?" Van Heerden's probe stirs a fast and violent response, and before he has any idea what he's involved in, there's a seven-day countdown for his own survival. He has stumbled into the minefield of Africa's secret forces, a world where true loyalties are buried deep and treachery and violence are the only certainties. He must trust the instincts developed in his own frightening past to help him learn the truth - and use that truth to save his own life.

Perfect Killer by Lewis Perdue

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"When neurosurgeon Brad Stone is contacted by a woman from his past, he is confronted by a baffling mystery: Why would a black civil-rights lawyer want to save a convicted white racist murderer on death row?" "For over seventy years, Project Enduring Valor has sought the Holy Grail of combat medicine: a drug that would turn ordinary soldiers into ruthlessly efficient killers. Now, after decades of secret trial and error, Project Enduring Valor is ready to be implemented on a massive scale - despite devastating side effects." Before he knows it, Brad Stone finds himself being hunted by the Project's director, a retired war hero turned presidential candidate. In order to take back his life, and expose the truth, Stone must penetrate the very heart of the conspiracy before a sociopathic "killing machine" permanently damaged by the drug becomes president of the United States.