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Praise for Patrick Quinlan: "A shocking, violent read, jam-packed with action and a cast of incredible characters" -- Independent Weekly (Australia) "A superb debut. A great crime novel. Brilliant is the word" -- Independent on Sunday "Packed with adrenalin, violence and an all-too-credible set of New York characters" -- The Times "Tightly plotted, confidently written and very hip" -- Observer * * * What if you could be immortal? And what if the price was to give up everything first, including your very life? Susan Jones is about to find out. A robotics scientist out of MIT, Susan is one of...

Just three weeks after my 21st birthday, on the evening of October 4, 1994, I was abducted from the streets of my hometown in Southern Russia while on my way home. They drugged me and drove to another country, where they held me captive in a tiny room at first, and then under a house in a pit. A few weeks after my kidnapping, a brutal civil war broke out. Through eight horrifying months of captivity, witnessing atrocities, surviving bombings and sexual violence, I fought desperately to stay alive, stay sane, and not to lose the one thing that kept me going: my hope.

“Readers may be bearing early witness to the arrival of a major talent.” --Kirkus Reviews Jessica “Jessie” James isn’t like other girls her age. Eleven years old, Jessie has a gift that sets her apart. She can read people’s minds simply by touching their skin with her bare hands. And dark visions come to her in her sleep. Now, she is plagued by the image of a five-year-old girl trapped behind a cinderblock wall in the basement of an abandoned school. Inside the wall, the little girl is there, alive and yet not alive. A man comes. When Jessie touches him, she learns his secrets. ...

“Rich in characters lovingly drawn and mercilessly executed.” – The Times of London (re The Falling Man) Book #2 in the Demons Among Us series. Victor Strake is not who he seems to be. Big and strong, handsome and charming, he’s a man with a long past and many, many secrets. Victor Strake is a demon. Strake’s been coming to this world for centuries, to murder, to cause mayhem, and to feed on human flesh. Now, he’s going home. To open the doorway between worlds, he’ll have to wait until the night of no moon, and then spill the blood of an innocent at the threshold. Darrence ...