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The natives call the astroengineering contraption built around the black hole the Skythrone. Within it lies Eternity, an afterlife of sorts where chosen Ascendants travel after their death to gain immortality. Yet unlike the heaven and hell of Earth, it is absolutely real, and sometimes, guests who call themselves the emissaries of Eternity come down from there. But are they guests or are they masters?

When ex-Navy SEAL Nick Foley travels to China to find purpose and escape the demons of his past, he instead stumbles into a conspiracy his Special Forces training never prepared him for. A mysterious and deadly outbreak ravages a remote area of western China, and Nick finds himself the lead suspect in a bioterrorism investigation being conducted by China's elite Snow Leopard counter-terrorism unit.

When the ark began emergency jettisoning the colonists, I got unlucky three times. The first occurred when the runic defenses of the Kel shot down my capsule above a forbidden Circle. The second was when it crashed next to the White Devil's tomb. And the third time, when I climbed into a wounded noxwolf's lair and discovered Starblood. Other Ascendants would call it good fortune, but I'll put it this way: had I left it alone, I might have remained a normal person.

Former Navy SEAL Nick Foley reluctantly agrees to help investigate when American CIA operative Peter Yu goes missing in China. But when Yu's mutilated body washes up on a beach near Hong Kong along with dozens of other victims, the case takes a macabre turn. Suddenly Nick finds himself embroiled in another bioterrorism investigation being conducted by China's elite Snow Leopard counterterrorism unit and the Chinese CDC, this time involving illegally harvested organs for an unknown and nefarious end.

The Earth freehold has received a new Ascendant, pilot, and warrior, yet the colony is still in danger, as its enemies haven't abandoned their sinister plans. Everything will be decided at the big moot under the luminous Ygg-Tree, the gathering of the people of our Circle. Another threat is looming—the one twinkling in the night sky, controlling the relativistic jets of the accretion disk, and overseeing the change of Signs in the celestial calendar. The lords of Eternity must not learn who shares my body with me. But who is he, really?

Turns out, I'm not on Earth. Not on another planet, either. Everything is much worse. We ended up in an inhabited Circle of an ancient Dyson sphere that replaced the Solar System six galactic turns ago. There is no moon and no stars, and giant Ygg-Trees play the role of the sun. How can this be? Nobody knows. The locals call this place Unity, and it's governed by strict laws. Here, there are ordinary people and Ascendants capable of performing miracles with the aid of Slates and Runes. There are Watchers and the legacy of the ancient Kel civilization, celestial islands and mysterious Domains.

Eternity consumed the local sun three galactic turns ago. In its place is an accretion disk, people cast two shadows, and life can only exist in Circles formed by gigantic light-bearing Trees. Beyond them are icy chill and Darkness, and on the border between them, Shadow, the land of everlasting sunset. It is the domain of strange creatures and unusual plants that have never seen light, a place teeming with Worms whose only purpose is to devour every living thing, while the few sentients only care about putting you into slave's shackles.

A rogue author, disillusioned with the perception of an unhealthy alliance between a book publishing company and a government intelligence agency seeks to dismantle and destroy the company. Top level private investigator Bruce Highland employs his experience, knowledge and instinct to bring him to justice in a fast paced, action packed thriller.

A U.S. Army Ranger named Alex Dahl is wrongly accused and convicted of murdering his commanding officer by court martial. He manages to escape the throes of military incarceration and likely death, and is thrust in to the dark underworld of private contract intelligence under a new identity, Rex Muse. Rex is employed by Simon Bowe, who runs a private agency that outsources intelligence, espionage, and security services to the major intelligence agencies and high level corporate entities. His first major assignment finds him entangled with an airborne terrorist plot that has the potential to...

A former CIA field agent is a suspect in a series of execution style murders of high level Agency officials, but the trail goes dark. Former intelligence contractor Sig Austin is brought in to flush him out, in a covert, international manhunt.

Political discourse with a midwest twist

A tragic shooting occurs in Alexandria, Virginia, yielding three fatalities, including a United States senator. A senior intelligence officer fears the worst - that the crime may have been organized by his own subordinate agent. Bruce Highland is quietly and discreetly pulled in to track down the rogue agent James Malone and sort out a tangled web of lies and deception, which traces back to a private military contractor in Afghanistan.

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A secret government research facility with a dubious reputation and speckled past becomes the focus in the investigation of a missing researcher who disappeared in the course of a terrible accident nearly four decades ago. Ace private investigator Bruce Highland is brought in to find his whereabouts, and uncovers a tangled web of corruption, deceit and lies.

Special Agent Bruce Highland with Army Intelligence performs a routine investigation into the apparent murder and disappearance of a government employee assigned to a classified project at the hands of a serial killer. Twenty five years later, the serial killer resurfaces thousands of miles away, and ace private investigator Bruce Highland helps authorities in an effort to find and stop the killer, only to become entangled in a classified government program in the process.

A rogue, dishonored Army soldier bequeaths a deadly gift to his son upon his death in a military stockade - a portable tactical nuclear launcher. The seeds do not fall far from the tree. This is the saga of ace detective Bruce Highland's understudy, Rodd Mace, as he tracks a deranged psychopath, Connor Sharpe, in an attempt to stop him before he can secure the weapon and use it for extortion and revenge in a major urban area.

Gauthier's List (Third Edition) - A man, Leonard Gauthier, was a member of a secret CIA research project tasked with the development of a machine that can program the brain like a computer. The program was terminated. With the advent of advanced electronic and computer technology which became available years later, Gauthier privately resumed the development of the machine and produced a working portable unit that could be used to positively control people against their will. Corrupted by the power he then possessed, Gauthier turned in to a delusional psychopathic serial killer using the ...

A scientist, Dr. Wiljam Koenig, working on a CIA funded primate research project, disappears from his research facility along with his animals. Ace private investigator, Bruce Highland, is called in to find him. In the course of the investigation, Highland discovers a bizarre, diabolical twist in the nature of his research.

Former military intelligence officer Bruce Highland is haunted by a ghost from his past. He was accused of complicity in an espionage ring, and a murder during his assignment in Cold War era West Germany. A local army CID unit is handed the cold case thirty years later. Bruce fights to clear his name and to bring the real criminals to justice.

As a Cold War era military intelligence agent investigating a double homicide, and the disappearance of a nuclear weapon from a major Army munitions depot in Germany, Bruce Highland manages to lose the main suspect. Years later, the main suspect, and the weapon, resurfaces, leading up to an extortion plot to hold a major metropolitan area in the United States hostage in exchange for money. Bruce Highland returns, as a private contractor to the government, to track down the terrorists, in a desperate effort to prevent them from using it to kill hundreds of thousands of people. Delve inside ...